Talk:Frankenstein's monster

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Frankenstein's monster

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Too bad AutoFormat doesn't auto-tag things like this with rfd. --Connel MacKenzie 23:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hmmm. I just saw an attributive use of this in the last week or two, in the sense of a man-made creation gone awry. I'll see if I can figure out where. --EncycloPetey 00:12, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
And how would AF know? The format is fine ;-) Robert Ullmann 13:32, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
Strong keep because:
Harold Joseph Laski, Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (1968) p. 109:
  • They created a Frankenstein's monster which they did not imagine could grow out of their control.
Roger Horrocks, Jo Campling, Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture (1995) p. 141:
  • He is like a Frankenstein's monster in reverse: everything that is pretty is combined together to produce a perfect androgyne.
Euan George Nisbet, Living Earth: A Short History of Life and Its Home (1991) p. 84:
  • Like the English language, the eukaryote cell is a chimera, a Frankenstein's monster, assembled from bits and pieces of genetic information...
Norman R. Augustine, Augustine's Laws (1977) p. 68:
  • Somehow, the law does not always seem to serve those who created it, becoming at times a Frankenstein's monster of sorts.
bd2412 T 14:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Struck. Attributive citations added to the entry. --EncycloPetey 07:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply