Oh man, I still have my paperback copy of Frankenstein, the original by Mary Shelly, and there is a foreword in it by Mary Shelly itself. I had to read it for an English class I took in university, and the foreword by Marry Shelly is a very interesting, fascinating, and somewhat creepy experience.
This is someone who's been dead for over 200 years old, IIRC, and she's talking about the one thing she found creepy that became the basis for her book. It's also touching because we're reading it now, it's still viable and available and the themes and lessons of it still work. It's timeless.
It reminds me of the 4th season of Doctor Who, where the Doctor gives Catherine Tate a copy of a mystery novel from the author they just met, and it's in its fifth million edition. There's something really magical about that.
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Date: 2011-02-26 07:55 pm (UTC)This is someone who's been dead for over 200 years old, IIRC, and she's talking about the one thing she found creepy that became the basis for her book. It's also touching because we're reading it now, it's still viable and available and the themes and lessons of it still work. It's timeless.
It reminds me of the 4th season of Doctor Who, where the Doctor gives Catherine Tate a copy of a mystery novel from the author they just met, and it's in its fifth million edition. There's something really magical about that.