Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "Saya mengumpulkan alat-alat kehidupan di...

"Saya mengumpulkan alat-alat kehidupan di sekitar saya, sehingga saya bisa menanamkan percikan menjadi benda mati yang terbentang di kaki saya. Sudah jam satu pagi; hujan turun deras ke panel-panel, dan lilinku hampir habis, ketika, oleh kilau cahaya yang setengah padam, aku melihat mata kuning kusam makhluk itu terbuka; napasnya terengah-engah, dan gerakan kejang menggetarkan anggota tubuhnya."

--- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Versi Bahasa Inggris

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.