• he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice

    The diction will be echoed in Victor's account of the Creature's departure from their
    encounter in Volume 2, when he is "quickly lost . . . among the undulations of the
    sea of ice" (II:9:18) and again in the final phrase of the novel where he will be
    "lost in darkness and distance" (III:WC:48).