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| | Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1 |
 | | Thomas Edison, of course, was the brilliant inventor and self-promoter who, with his associates, developed and created, in 1879, carbonized cotton thread as a filament for conducting electricity; this eventually led to the development of the electronic vacuum tube, and was directly responsible for electric lamps and lighting. |
 | | Hyde, the story can be seen as an allegory of evolution, with Hyde being monkey-like, and therefore a step down the moral and evolutionary ladder from Jekyll. |
 | | "We live in troubled times, where fretful dreams settle upon the Empire's brow." It is interesting that Bond says this, in light of the fact that 1897, the previous year, was Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, an event of great, even overwe'ening, self-celebration on the part of the British. |
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