I had money with me
This is not, perhaps, so innocuous a statement as it at first
appears. Why should such a statement matter to this narrative,
except by way of reminding us that the Creature, besides being a
vegetarian, exists wholly outside the economy that links Victor
with other human beings? This is a telling reminder of the
isolation of his uniqueness, of how on a literal level all of
humankind implicitly conspire to exclude him from their
interchange.
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