Tangentially Pynchon, sorta. From New Yorker review of Frankenstein reissues. 200-year anniversary.

[Mark Kohut]

In that spirit, M.I.T. Press has just published an edition of the original
text “annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds,” and
prepared by the leaders of the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project, at
Arizona State University, with funding from the National Science
Foundation; they offer the book as a catechism for designers of robots and
inventors of artificial intelligences. “Remorse extinguished every hope,”
Victor says, in Volume II, Chapter 1, by which time the creature has begun
murdering everyone Victor loves. “I had been the author of unalterable
evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created
should perpetrate some new wickedness.” The M.I.T. edition appends, here, a
footnote: “The remorse Victor expresses is reminiscent of J. Robert
Oppenheimer’s sentiments when he witnessed the unspeakable power of the
atomic bomb. . . . Scientists’ responsibility must be engaged before their
creations are unleashed.”
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