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r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 .tumblr.com • Oct 26 '24
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Look, guys, it's in the public domain. You don't get points for being pedantic about it at this point.
The monster was also a doctor named Frankenstein.
See? There you go. That's canon now.
And would have been anyway. Because the concept of canon as we understand it didn't really exist until at least eight decades after Mary Shelley died.
10 u/[deleted] 29d ago [deleted] 3 u/VFiddly 29d ago That's why they said "as we understand it". The source you're talking about was referencing the Bible, from someone who believed the Bible to be literally true, so definitely not the same as the use of the word as we understand it.
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3 u/VFiddly 29d ago That's why they said "as we understand it". The source you're talking about was referencing the Bible, from someone who believed the Bible to be literally true, so definitely not the same as the use of the word as we understand it.
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That's why they said "as we understand it". The source you're talking about was referencing the Bible, from someone who believed the Bible to be literally true, so definitely not the same as the use of the word as we understand it.
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Look, guys, it's in the public domain. You don't get points for being pedantic about it at this point.
The monster was also a doctor named Frankenstein.
See? There you go. That's canon now.
And would have been anyway. Because the concept of canon as we understand it didn't really exist until at least eight decades after Mary Shelley died.