Avoiding the Fate of Victor Frankenstein

I am mindful of the fate of Victor Frankenstein. There is danger in seeking the reanimation of a man’s all too frail flesh. Sometimes the result can be more destructive than one might have ever imagined. The natural dissolution of memory and a loss of narrative allows many things to drop from our personal and collective consciousness.

This can be a good thing.

It is well known that a restful night’s sleep is a curative after the worries and cares of the day. It can be wholesome to wake without the immediate memory of our past sorrow and pain. Yet, it can also doom us to repeat the same scabrous problems that fester just beneath the surface of our lives. Such ‘infections’ endanger the immunity of an otherwise healthy corporate body.

Am I being too florid? Cornel has been accused of this. So, I am in good company? Or, am I? Was Cornel Lumiere a good man? In what sense might we say he was good? Some of the things that he did were not good in the eyes of some people. Other people only have good to say of him. Both types are what Australians refer to as ‘one eyed’. They can only see things from one perspective.

In this digital biography, I will try to be somewhat more ‘objective’. Not entirely. I have a grudging like and respect for the man. However, he was a complex person; he was many sided. Should you be on the wrong side of his agenda, you might get short shrift. But, must a person be all things to all people? Perhaps not.

But, what if you projected this image out into the world? Can you be held responsible when you fail? And, what of the potential biographer? Does he or she not have a responsibility to provide sufficient evidence to understand the complexities of the person? Should they also not recount the complexities of the times?

In a sense, Frankenstein’s monster had a moral case against his creator. The monster had been abandoned with disgust by Victor without a hearing. So, I must give Cornel Lumiere the benefit of doubt while giving you sufficient information to draw your own conclusions.