RE: Familiar images make false impressions

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 19:01:12 BST

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: Familiar images make false impressions
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    Could Rousseau's rosy portrayal of nature help provide a background meme for
    Mary Shelley?

    - Lawrence

    > >Certainly the
    > >Frankenstein story has been through so many incarnations that
    > the original
    > >story is probably the least familiar to people.
    >
    > Yes, however.... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley _did_ want to impress people
    > with the inherent misguidedness of taking away too much from nature, and
    > it does seem like the core of her argument is not lost, even in the
    > cartoon versions using Karloff copies.
    >
    > A great deal of the anti-science bias in this day and age relates to this
    > perceived evil of tinkering with nature, even while people groom their
    > poodles....
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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