it is actually less than two-and-a-half years since the miscarriage of justice that
resulted in Justine Moritz's execution. That Victor, who on that occasion condemned
the entire criminal magistracy of Geneva (I:7:14), should now repair to one of them
to justify his own murderous pursuit of his Creature underscores the intellectual
distance he has traversed in the intervening months, as well as the extremity of his
current mental state.