If they can change the outside of the book, what's stopping them from changing what's inside the book? That's right, absolutely nothing.

www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/a...

Thanks, I'll try logging out, or checking on other devices. Thanks for sharing the book club feed though ✌🏻

Thanks, I'll try joining in. #HotFrankSummer was so much fun, I'd like to recreate that magic again.

From the archives: www.vox.com/the-goods/21...

Yes, Victor was creating a man. Given that experiment goes successfully, would he have continued and tried to reanimate his mother? What do you think? Or am I reading too much into this lol 😆

I (and the author of the piece I linked) agree with you, in that Blade Runner 2049 is not feminist - a lot of the critiques of the movie were about how the women in the movie were nothing more than objects.

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But could there be a *slight* possibility that Victor shared this motive, in creating the monster?

I'd like to know what you think #HotFrankSummer

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She further writes that Jared Leto's character "is consumed by rage that women can do something he cannot".

Surely, Victor did not share these feelings in any way. Even if he did have any motives behind "creating life", I think we can all agree it might have been to "resurrect" his mother.

I had the same reaction towards the end, when the monster converses with Robert. Despite the injustices it has suffered, it has still experienced the beauty nature has to offer, and when it dies, the memories of those will vanish with it, and the monster is aware of this fact, and states it as such.

Indeed! Right at the start, the phrase "my more than sister" had alarm bells ringing in my head.

I know exactly how you feel! Got cocky on day two because it was all plain sailing then. Fast forward to today, and I'm doing two days worth of reading on Saturday. 🤣

I had to read that sentence twice because I missed the word 'elemental', and thought it was a huge red flag. But then I saw the word I'd missed, and it *still* wasn't clear. How would creating a passage around the pole improve our lot?

It could have to do with Walton's "classist" behaviour, as @sapindaceae.bsky.social put it. He feels the sailors are beneath him, and not worth considering friends. He goes on

"... I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen."

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Indeed! Walton goes on about having a purpose in life - his being the exploration of the pole/discovering the sea passage/learning how Earth's magnetism works. His need to explore/discover/make a mark on history seems to be based on being a "manly" man - quite on par for the time. #HotFrankSummer

This is a very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing! Him sharing that he was second-in-command gave off a "toot your own horn" vibe. I'd be interested to know if you felt his need to explore/discover bordered on hubris, and if class played a part in it?