Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Tony Ellis · 04 Jun 2010, 12:31 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:31:07 +0100
Subject: (urth)  Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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Jeff Wilson wrote:
>How did Mary Shelly pick them out?

I'm not sure if that was a rhetorical question or not, but anyway:

Mary Shelley, famously, was inspired to write Frankenstein by a
*dream* she had. At a villa on Lake (hint hint) Geneva. Dr Talos isn't
saying events in his time influence events in ours, he's saying they
influence our dreams.

> What makes the ripples from the Frankenstein stone stand out from all
> the rest?

They don't, necessarily. Maybe we're all having dreams inspired by
Urthian events, all the time. It's just that in this case the dream
was recorded and that record  - somewhat miraculously - survived long
enough for one of its instigators to identify it.

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