Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas Flamel were both widely knowledgeable wizards, so Brian naturally had no reason to pass up this precious opportunity to speak face-to-face. While sampling the biscuits, he also remembered to bring up the problems he had recently encountered with his "Brian Egg growth plan."
"We can't expect a seed to absorb too many nutrients, but a sufficiently mature plant will always seize the right moment to thirst for rain-since having the Brian Egg absorb nutrients isn't working, why not try letting your duplicate actively absorb some memories while he's conscious?" Nicolas Flamel soon offered a suggestion.
"Because those jumbled memories trigger an intense magical reaction with the Brian Egg inside Brian's Clone," Brian said with a sigh. Nicolas's suggestion had sounded very feasible, but in practice, it wasn't.
On his third day of staring at the Brian Egg, Brian had thought of the very method Nicolas had just suggested (a veteran Alchemist indeed-five minutes had matched his three days). He had tried following that line of thought, subsequently producing a Three-Headed Brian and a Six-Handed Brian. Those two special Brians shared one neck and the brain used for thinking, and when they spoke in unison, they looked positively like legendary figures out of some myth.
Brian described the scene. A timid Kneazle biscuit on the table covered its ears in fright, so Brian considerately popped it into his mouth and ate it (grapefruit-flavored):
"I actually tried a third time, but I stopped the experiment when my third duplicate's eyes started approaching a spider's in number-sometimes I even think Frankenstein might actually have been some wizard's personal experience. It's a science fiction novel, very famous among Muggles."
The attitude expressed by the author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was that humanity ought to fear the natural world