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  • Alone - The Beginning

    ALONESeptember 5, 2021, 10:40AMWashington Square Park, New YorkI stood under the shade of a withered tree. Nondescript and grey, it was slumped to one side as if some invisible person ...

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For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noise way beneath. The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein