Thursday, May 20, 2010

Parrington's Report: Day Two, Villa Diodati

Day Two: Geneva continued


Just as I thought the humans had finally began showing signs of acquiescing with my master plan for finding the monster, a.k.a Frankie Jr., I was once again shoved into a backpack and forced to endure museum after museum of artifacts totally unrelated to our mission.

The day began well. I managed to convince the humans to make the trek to Cologny, bordering Geneva, to the Villa Diodati. Lord Byron rented the villa in 1816 and invited Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont to visit in the summer. In what is commonly referred to as “the haunted weekend,” the four, along with Byron’s physician John Polidori, cast a wager as to who could tell the most horrific gothic tale. Inspired by this bet, M. Shelley conceived the idea of a man, unnaturally born and made of the dead, and over the course of the next year gave birth to Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus.






In order to create a working psychological profile for a missing person, which is absolutely necessary for accurate predictions of where a person may flee, and why, I believe you must begin at the beginning. The humans “graciously” agreed to travel to this villa, where I spent the morning perched on Byron's Stone, in Byron's Field, staring out over lake Geneva and asking myself, “If I were a huge diabolical monster that cannot die because I am born of the dead, where would I flee?”


Just as I was really getting into the character and psychologically becoming Frankie Jr., the humans got bored, shoved me back in the backpack, and didn’t take me out until dinner. As such, I am forced to allow the girl human to continue our day two report.

Disgruntled,

Parrington

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Y'all really packed a lot into one day! When you get back, I'm going to lend you my copy of "Unwritten" - a graphic novel by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. It's about historic fiction and it takes place at the Villa Diodati :)

So cool guys!

- Jeff & Amanda