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 > >