Frankenstein's original

[desperance]

Apparently, for one day only, the Bodleian is putting on show the original MS of Frankenstein. Mary's handwritten draft, I gather, with Percy's, ah, emendations.

Not many of you, alas, will be able to slip over to Oxford at this little notice; besides, there's likely to be a crush. But Brian Aldiss and the guy who's just edited the new Bodleian edition talked about it a little, particularly about Percy's editing (which really made me want to read Mary's original, but hey...), on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Go here for today's running order, and it's in the schedule at 8.19; you should be able to play just that feature. Also, scroll back an hour earlier and there's Terry Pratchett talking about Alzheimer's...

esmeraldus_neo, I'm thinking of you...

Comments

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Seemed to be a rather good plug for Aldiss (and given the way the book turns out, surely it's noit that much of a plug for modern science, although Victor of course looks back to some of the dodgier ancients, surely)

There was also rather too much of James Whale's versions - masterpieces in their own right but hardly closer to Shelley's intentions.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Bugger ... if I was any kind of an sf scholar, I'd have got in the car and driven to Oxford tis morning, specially. Instead, Ive spent the morning working on a proof of another unnecessary sequel to a rather different sort of sf novel. Sigh.

Scholarship or Mammon ... it depresses me how easily I make that choice.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

But I blame the cats for pressurising you into it!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*nods wisely*

Cats are big on Mammon. Not so much with the scholarship, except that it gives them papers and books to sleep on. Mammon brings fudz.