In those days I was more than ever intent upon exploring the secrets of nature, and I gave myself up to the study of the source where life began. Bysshe and I would argue into the night over the respective merits of the Italians Galvani and Volta. He favoured the animal electricity of Signor Galvani, while I was deeply excited by the success of the voltaic plates.
"Do you not see," I told him one winter evening, "that the electrical battery is a new engine of immense promise?"
"My dear Victor, Galvani has proved that there is electricity in the world around us. Nature is electricity itself. By the simple expedient of a metallic thread, he has brought life back into a frog. Why could he not achieve the same with the human frame?"
"I have not thought of it." I went over to the window, and looked out at the snow falling onto the quad.
Bysshe was lying on the sofa, and I heard him murmuring to himself some lines of poetry:
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