Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Nature of Epiphany | Odd Salon EPIPHANY 1/7 (Introduction)
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 20/09/2019

"I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world."

One night about 200 years ago, a group of friends sat up telling each other ghost stories, sparking the idea in a young writer for the story that would define her career. Mary Shelley was just 18 when she wrote "Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus" inspired in a moment of midnight epiphany. 

Salon Curator Miles Traer ~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Nature of Epiphany (Introduction)

Odd Salon EPIPHANY: Six tales of acute realizations and revelations, profound insights, inspiration, and life altering discoveries

Recorded live 9/10/2019 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Miles Traer
Camera: John Adams
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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