Title: Frankenstein's Mother
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1. chelydra wrote:
 ...Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)...helped define the form of the science-fiction novel. Brian Aldiss has argued that Frankenstein was the first work of science fiction. -Wikipedia
2. hjjr wrote:
 she's lovely. your rendering has a Modigliani quality
3. AFSOUTH wrote:
 Outstanding!
4. chelydra wrote:
 thanks! BTW, Frankenstein (started and set aside several times over the years) was the book I grabbed to have in the hospital, to finally finish it...
5. chelydra wrote:
 I'd begun it again a week or so earlier and was determined to keep on to the end this time. A few days later, with ghastly scars, my heart having been pulled out, scraped clean, and put back with a piece of cow attached...
6. chelydra wrote:
 ...and then finding out I no longer had a natural pulse strong enough to keep me alive more than a few minutes or so...
7. chelydra wrote:
 So these doctor and nurses were the parents giving me life for the rest of my life. I could see why his monster called Dr Frankenstein 'Father". And why he avoided mirrors after the first accidental glance at one.
8. chelydra wrote:
 It really is a great book, with same kind of craziness and intensity and flaws you find in Wuthering Heights or Moby Dick. Those writers held nothing back!
9. chelydra wrote:
 The duller bits were inserted by Mary's husband, who thought it would benefit from some philosophizing. But even Percy's parts are pretty good and give us a break from the unbearably painful plot.
10. chelydra wrote:
 But, though a timeless near-masterpiece, Frankenstein is badly in need of an update—the future is no longer about individual's being physically redefined by science and medicine and recycled organs. That's the present.
11. chelydra wrote:
 Within a year or two, if all goes according to plan, there will government-sponsored chipping programs for all citizens and then for the whole human race. Not just info to be scanned and read (without its carriers even knowing what it says!)..
12. chelydra wrote:
 Do you really think this is to make us safer in future epidemics? They'll be transmitting our locations as well as serving as a (locked) file cabinet for our info.
13. chelydra wrote:
 And do you really think that an implanted devoice that transmits can't be a receiver sending lord knows what messages or sensations inout or nervous systems (including brain and emotions).
14. chelydra wrote:
 a covert (stealth) autocorrection made nonsense of that next-to-last line — "inout or" should be "into our".
15. chelydra wrote:
 Maybe the late great Philip K. Dick already has it covered?Maybe the late great Kurt Vonnegut had it too?
16. chelydra wrote:
 "... the revelation that humanity had been secretly manipulated for millennia for an inane purpose... protagonists struggling against forces they can never overcome and often can't comprehend. ... [they] [or maybe we] can do no more than try to make the b
17. chelydra wrote:
 ..best of it.' —extracted from Wikipedia article on The Sirens of Titan (by KV)
18. chelydra wrote:
 The next few years will probably be our last best opportunity to fight for a different kind of future. Mary Shelley and her mom would have understood that if they were among us.
19. chelydra wrote:
 Percy would have understood too, but probably not so well.
20. Vals wrote:
 She's a striking beauty.
21. mum23 wrote:
 Cool playback too!
22. AudwickyWitDaSticky wrote:
 it is very visually pleasing
23. marg wrote:
 This is absolutely delicious, Chel :)
24. clorophilla wrote:
 so true
25. The_Jacob_H wrote:
 Fantastic work! The detail is absurd!



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