(urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

[Tony Ellis]

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>How did Mary Shelly pick them out?

I'm not sure if that was a rhetorical question or not, but anyway:

Mary Shelley, famously, was inspired to write Frankenstein by a
*dream* she had. At a villa on Lake (hint hint) Geneva. Dr Talos isn't
saying events in his time influence events in ours, he's saying they
influence our dreams.

> What makes the ripples from the Frankenstein stone stand out from all
> the rest?

They don't, necessarily. Maybe we're all having dreams inspired by
Urthian events, all the time. It's just that in this case the dream
was recorded and that record  - somewhat miraculously - survived long
enough for one of its instigators to identify it.