"people go very fast down here". It's the story of motoring in the UK and I hate it. People in cars are bullies, my house has been hit by four cars over the years, people have over 20 points on their licence here and still drive "oh I need it for my job" well if you drive that badly then you deserve to lose your job. This country and the world has been ruined by the motor car and the attitude of motorists. And yes I have a car.
If you read the book she wrote, there is no mention of electricity in there. People have grafted this on after because of schlock horror movies. She mentions elixir of life more than once, perhaps here "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet" was the inference for electricity, source project gutenberg.
spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet" was the inference for electricity, source project gutenberg.