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Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth
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Piecing together the inspirations and evolution of Mary Shelley’s famous monster
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ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,