My book-length manuscript titled “Minds of Europe” is a series of poorly scribed palimpsests, a footbridge to the early 20th Century, a séance of sorts to channel poets, and thinkers, a series of reenactments of what Paul Valery called collectively “the mind of Europe:” “Every mind of any scope was a crossroads for all shades of opinion; every thinker was an international exposition of thought. There were the works of the mind in which the wealth of contrasts and contradictory tendencies was like the insane displays of light in the capitals of those days: eyes were fatigued, scorched....” Nietzsche, Freud, and Eliot all had something to say about the idea, enough to make it a core concept to Modernism. The manuscript is broken into two chapters. The second chapter begins with Eliot’s remark that “For our society, the improvement of ethics might require the decay of aesthetics.” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein transcends the manuscript and reminds the reader. An introductory essay was accepted for presentation at the International Conference for New Directions in the Humanities in Budapest, June, 2013, where I will be reading from the poems as well.