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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again. Eagles, ‘Take It Easy’
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Primeras palabras
Lake Geneva, 1816
Reality is water-soluble.
What we could see, the rocks, the shore, the trees, the boats on the lake, had lost their usual definition and blurred into the long grey of a week’s rain.
Lago Lemán, 1816
La realidad es soluble en el agua.
Lo que alcanzábamos a ver, las rocas, la orilla, los árboles, las barcas en el lago, había perdido su definición habitual y se había desdibujado en el gris eterno de una semana de lluvia.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Is Donald Trump getting his brain frozen? asks Ron. Max explains that the brain has to be fully functioning at clinical death.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead... but waiting to return to life. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself"--
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