The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn’t that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he’s exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn’t.
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