"I have reached their acme" (Shelley, 146).
Acme is defined as "the highest point or stage". Victor Frankenstein believes that nothing else can happen to him to make the situation worse then it already is. He has reached the darkest, most miserable point in his life.
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and later, acme becomes synonymous with the looney tunes and Wile E. Coyote -- a trouble inventor
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