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Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives Indicative either of Victor's own deliberate reinterpretation of the Creature as
his double in rewording the "inscriptions" left for him, or of the symbiotic way in
which the Creature through the experience of revenge now sounds like a second self
of Victor's, this phrase recalls the masculinist bravado Victor twice indulges in
his impotent rage before the power of the Creature (see II:2:6 and III:3:16).