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Tag Archives: Frankenstein
Finding Elvis Shakespeare in Edinburgh
I’ve been in Scotland for the last 8 days. I haven’t had a ton of free time, but there was kind of an unexpected afternoon off so I decided to go out into the streets of Edinburgh and seek out … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Scotland, Shakespeare
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“Have you thought of a story? I was asked each morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative.” — Mary Shelley
As legend has it: In May of 1916, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his not-wife Mary Shelley went to Geneva. Along for the ride (for months and years) was Claire Clairmont, Mary’s stepsister. Shelley had a fantasy of living in … Continue reading
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Tagged Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
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May 2022 Viewing Diary
This was the month of watching only the first two episodes of various television series. I just couldn’t keep going – not because they’re bad, but because … I have other things I have to do and/or watch. Robert De … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Pacino, Brad Pitt, comedy, Diane Keaton, documentary, drama, Dustin Hoffman, Elvis Presley, England, Frankenstein, Germany, Jack Black, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Mary Shelley, Michael Mann, Owen Wilson, Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, romantic comedy, Sanaa Lathan, Sandra Bullock, Shelley Winters, Steve Martin, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Scott, women directors
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“Frankenstein’s radical suggestion is that it doesn’t take God to heal the rift. It takes the loyalty and love of another person.”
I was riveted and moved by this analysis of Frankenstein as a treatise on loneliness – not to mention intrigued by the new edition (which I must get). The new edition includes Percy Shelley’s edits (and I agree with Thomas … Continue reading
Cashel on Frankenstein:
“I read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and every other WORD was ‘melancholy’. The melancholy sky, the melancholy smile … EVERYTHING was ‘melancholy’! And it was 200 pages before he built the monster!” So, Mary, could you dial down the melancholy, please? … Continue reading
The Books: “Frankenstein” (Mary Shelley)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’s physician Dr. John Polidori sat around one rainy summer night in 1816- they were neighbors in Switzerland – and … Continue reading
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “My custom is to undress and sit on the rocks, reading Herodotus…”
Oh, is it, Percy? Is that your custom? I mean, HONESTLY. …and the nights are for ever serene, and we see a star in the east at sunset–I think it is Jupiter–almost as fine as Venus was last summer; but … Continue reading
Mary Shelley: “What terrified me will terrify others.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’s physician Dr. John Polidori sat around one rainy summer night in 1816- they were neighbors in Switzerland – I mean, damn, I want to be at one of … Continue reading
“this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature”
From Frankenstein (which I read over this past week – being pretty much unable to put it down): I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in … Continue reading