Well, Bill, if you know any movie producers, let them know, send them my way. The question that's truly begged--or gone lapsed--is how come, unlike Switzerland with all its "Heidi" villages--there's no "Frankenstein's Laboratory" B&B on some small Orkney skar? How come no dives into Scapa Flow to search for the basket and Frankenstein's surgery tools, etc.? I mean, just think of the commercial, touristic, capitalist opportunities yon Orcadians have let slip! The next question is once Frankenstein dumped the basket, glug, glug, glug (and that's the last mention in Mary Shelley's story of the Female Creature), and sailed away from that spot, he falls asleep and is blown by a northeasterly storm to the coast of Ireland, how is that possible? Where in Ireland could he have landed. Maybe the wind was right, but the currents, so far as I can tell (alas I've never been but hope to some day), run towards the north. And, hey!, watch whom you're impugning there: my grandmother was a Skene. And there's a long story there I won't go into at this time. Lisbeth Jardine [and that's Portuguese Jardim, not Scottish (French bounders!) Jardine]. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Irvine" <wji@shaw.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > sounds good to me > begs the question: "should i wait for the movie?" ;-) > one asks: "did she mean the mainland of Scotland" > definitely Mainland Orkney > ask an orcadian about Scotland (South) and the answer will be: > "There's nay good south!" > > bill > canadian orcadian, cyyj > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lisbeth Jardine <lisjardine@msn.com> > Date: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 pm > Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > >> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, >> Washington, U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da >> Fuca from Victoria, B.C. >> >> My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've >> written and hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called >> The Female Creature. It's about the 2nd, the female creature, >> Victor Frankenstein, on one of the smallest and most remote of >> Orkney skars--some "five miles from the mainland" Mary Shelley >> wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which of Orkney's she >> may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact with me; >> the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the >> Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then >> fearing that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore >> her apart, put the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my >> addition), put the basket into his skiff, sailed out into the >> North Sea, dropped the basket overboard, and sailed away from that >> spot. At any rate, to write the story of what happens after that, >> I've had to do a fair amount of research on the Orkney Islands. >> And the Creature, at t! >> he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. >> >> Lisbeth Jardine >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with >> the word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >