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Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alamaine Ratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > Huxley's hatcheries
> > > By MICHAEL R. ALIX
> > > TMNS Technology Editor
> > >
> > > Aldous Huxley ...did write at least one science fiction book,
> > > Brave New World (1932). That was almost seventy years ago, when
> > > bio-engineering was just a glint in a scientist's eye. Today,
> > > the hatcheries of Brave New World are closer to reality.
> > > While we endure the growth of the Internet, we look to its
> > > generational cousin as a work of horror, Frankenstein's hobby
> > > revisited, and wonder where it will lead.
>
> As usual, fear-mongers invoke FRANKENSTEIN without having read
> the bloody book - or maybe they're just anxious to misappropriate
> a metaphor once again. Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN was NOT about
> the arrogance and misapplication of science; Victor Frankenstein
> was NOT a mad scientist/doctor and did NOT use science to raise
> the dead. Rather, Victor was a failed former medical student who
> abandoned science when it didn't fulfill his spiritual quest, and
> turned to MAGIC to animate the dead. His 'creature', his virtual
> son, then so disgusted him that he ran off. The book is about
> abandonment, about refusal to take personal responsibility for
> one's actions. When you hear a speaker link FRANKENSTEIN with
> alleged misdeeds of science, prepare yourself for a twisty ride
> along the Luddite path - more distortions are sure to follow.
>
Shelly's *Frankenstein* was essentially a reworking of the story of the Golem,
intertwined with some of the Christian Kabbalah and ceremonial magic. It does
have a certain kinship to Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" with its dark vision of the
Industrial Revolution. (Think of a blast furnace...) But the Romantics were
not particularly interested in science, even to condemn it; their interest was
indeed in the spiritual quest, by whatever means came to hand...
Bob
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