Twain made attempts to remove the jingle from his mind, these attempts were futile however as the jingle prohibits him from sleeping, and those around him began to become annoyed and afraid of his unstoppable ramblings of the jingle.

It seems Twain has contracted a serious Earworm.

As Twain’s day continues the jingle’s catchy tune begins to overtake his mind more and more. The prose embedded in his brain not only leaves him unable to think clearly to write, but he also walked to the matching cadence of the jingle. The jingle refuses to release it’s grasp on Twain’s mind.

The jingle first infects Twain’s mind when he’s at the breakfast table in the morning. His mind was quickly overtaken by how catchy the jingle was. It has such an affect on his mind that he ends up not being able to remember if he actually ate anything or not.

The jingle cited by Twain here was thought up by a group of other writers who came to notice the sign at the tram station they were waiting at was poetic:

A Blue Trip Slip for an 8-cents fare.
A Buff Trip Slip for a 6-cents fare.
A Pink Trip Slip for a 3-cents fare.
For Coupon and Transfer, punch the Tickets.

The writers then turned this four line directional prose into the jingle seen and used throughout A Literary Nightmare, Twain’s inspiration for this short story came to him when he came across the poem and how it became infectiously stuck in his head for several straight days.

The chorus of the jingle was also the inspiration for the name of the Progressive Bluegrass band, Punch Brothers.

Have you ever been to a bar to watch a band play? Does the crowd not get more excited and animated the longer they play? That’s due to the number of drinks the audience has had. Alcohol has that effect.

Victor’s creation has made note of the nature of the humans he has began watching. He notes their emotions and how certain meetings and reactions make them feel. He notes that when the landlord visits them they are often put into turmoil, for they are poor. While the old man acts as a comforter for his children, and Felix is plagued by an unseen sorrow.

The monster’s ability to register emotions before he even can speak is reflective of how newborns can sense and react to emotions from birth.

This portion of the prose greatly helps portray the mindset of Frankenstein’s monster. It was brought back in to the world with the mind of a newborn, despite his fully grown and developed stature. He experiences the processes of learning to speak and talk just as any baby or small child would.