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Never heard that about Mary Shelley.
Lots of speculation about where she got the idea, but not that one.

"What great knockers ! !!"

In a recent reading of Frankenstein , Mellor demonstrates a link between events, dates, and names in the novel and those in Mary Shelley 's life. Mellor argues that the novel is born out of a "doubled fear, the fear of a woman that she may not be able to bear a healthy normal child and the fear of a putative author that she may not be able to write.... the book is her created self as well as her child." Dated 11 December 17--to 12 September 17--, the letters that form the narration of the novel--from Walton to his sister Margaret Walton Saville (whose initials are those of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley )--are written during a period similar in duration to Mary Shelley 's third pregnancy, during which she wrote Frankenstein. Mellor discovered that the day and date on which Walton first sees the creature, Monday, 31 July, had coincided in 1797, the year in which Mary Shelley was born. This fact and other internal evidence led Mellor to conclude that the novel ends on 12 September 1797, two days after Mary Wollstonecraft's death: " Mary Shelley thus symbolically fused her book's beginning and ending with her own--Victor Frankenstein's death, the Monster's promised suicide, and her mother's death from puerperal fever can all be seen as the consequence of the same creation, the birth of Mary Godwin the author."



Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (New York & London: Methuen, 1988).

Coffee Dude, Valium please!! No actually just jasmine tea will work! I am going to stay here for the next hour so that I don't pull my hair out one piece at a time. My nails are chewed to nothing and I have a buzzing in my head. All the members of my family are watching a hockey game and there has not been one second of silence in the last hour. I am not allowed to go sit by myself because I would be rude and that is not good. Can't be a bad girl! NoNoNo! For a brief moment this morning when my favourite brother and I went to Chapter's bookstore I thought this weekend may be tolerable. How am I going to sit through a wedding reception?? There are days I wish I still had some of the habits I had when I was younger. At least they made socializing somewhat tolerable.

And how are all of the other patrons doing today? It seems to be slow posting lately. I hope this means that all is well and everyone is busy.

hi, blessedmon, everyone. Thought I'd share something amusing for a change. I tried to call the Post Office this afternoon. Noticing that they would be closing in a few minutes, I hastily dialed the number and waited. This woman's voice came on, and she seemed to be having trouble speaking, as well as gasping and going Oh! Oh! I wondered why the Post Office had this sort of greeting on their automated line, and then she started to speak, and I realized that I had dialed the wrong number - I had reached one of those sex lines!

hello Blessed Mom!
honey, my heart goes out to ya'! A hocky game AND a wedding! could you be any luckier?
it's all right, dear, just breathe. Think of me, I was lost in Lowes just a few hours ago. I started to sweat, and shake and was holding my hand over my mouth so I wouldn't start gibbering and I latched on t o this guy named Charles. Charles wanted to know where I wanted to go and I screwed up my courage and told him of my idea on how to hang a 2X2 (in) from the porch ceiling. After we figured out what the hell I was talking about ( I had thought ahead and had sketched a pic of the U shape and the thing I was hanging and he said "if you promise to stand right here and don't move, I will go and find them and bring them back." and I agreed, stood right next to the lightbulbs and even chose a couple to put at my new bathroom vanity and back he comes (abot 15 minutes, but I had faith) with EXACTLY what I needed. Then he turned me lose in the screw aisle to find what to attach it with.

I had had enough by then and found the first check out and was outta there! Now I have to go to someother place to get a screw.

Now that I know I am AS, I give myself a LOT of slack in doing things like that. I do it slow and take my time, now, whereas before, I would rag myself horribly for not 'getting it together' and doing it quickly and planning and on and on and on. . .

hang in there, sweetie, we are pulling for ya'!

Merle

I think I need either some coffee or some chamomile tea.

I'm afraid I got a bit snappy with someone over in another thread in this very forum (the "after work" one - the thread title escapes me because I'm upset). She's trying to justify not telling her son that he's an Aspie because she doesn't want to "label" him - as if nobody's going to notice that he's different if she just doesn't tell them! Bit of a button press for me, I fear, and I think I may have gotten a bit hotter under the collar than is good for a discussion...

Blessed, all I can do to help you is offer you a patented Aspie non-hug, and maybe an iPod and some soothing music...

Saw it and in the rant mood I'm in was all I could do not to jump in. Wasn't any need for another "lifes" story. You did just fine.

Snark!! *poof*

I threw my two cents in.

Blessed, breathe deep. Experience the panic and release.

Sins, you are a better woman than I. I get physically ill in places like Lowes and Home Depot. I can't take the smells.


Hartz, that was a funny story!

Thanks everyone! It is 10:00 pm here and I am sitting back in my brother's living room. All of the other adults are still at the wedding reception and I am here with the kids. I can send their butts up to bed and then I will have qquuiieett!!
Merle, I hope you have luck with finding the screws. I find that knowing about the AS, which I am now fairly certain that I do have even though I have learned social behaviours, that I don't feel the pressure to try as hard either. My relatives all looked at me like I was crazy, but I really didn't care. That was new for me.

I have to share this awesome thing that happened with my dad. My 2 AS sons are just like my dad and his brother. I had pinpointed the AS trail to his side of the family but hadn't said anything to him because I thought he would be very offended. His family was not well educated and don't understand things like AS. His sister said to me last weekend that she had always thought that T2 was so smart and now to find out he is slow. I could have slapped her right then and there.
Anyway, I found out on Thursday that the son of my only female cousin on my dad's side has Tourette's Syndrome which we all know is on the spectrum. I was telling my dad and his awful sister about how this is genetic so it made sense that this boy would have it. Here is the amazing part..... my father piped up and told his sister that of course it is genetic, and my boys got it from him. He said "That is what I have." He had listened to me talk about T2 and S and myself and gone, "Ah ha, that is why I have struggled all these years!" I am still in shock. This journey has been absolutely amazing and enlightening. It has lifted a weight off of the shoulders of so many people in my family. We will be forever changed!

And it brought me here, where all of you are and that is a gift in itself!!

I'm glad you found some peace and quiet the staff of life,eh?

Merle, Chuck is right. You are a sweetie and so is he and you both make me smile!!

So...where is SeriousGirl???

I don't think anyone has heard.

I had been thinking it might be a matter of getting hooked up to the net again. Still could be, some areas are tough to get it up promptly. Now I'm starting to get concerned. However, having said that if lawyers are involved, that could just be major tired. I'm going to believe that one for a while. Didn't get her sons email or anything, anybody have it?