🎧 Ready to venture into the eerie realms of gothic literature? 🕯️ This week, we explore the haunting life and legacy of Mary Shelley, the mastermind behind Frankenstein! Discover the dark inspirations and chilling experiences that shaped her iconic tale of creation and monstrosity. Tune in for a spine-tingling journey through the shadowy corridors of her mind! 💀📖 #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #GothicHorror #PodcastEpisode #CreepyTales #LiteraryLegends #DarkRomantics #HistoryPodcast #HauntingStories #LiteraryGenius
🎧 Ready to venture into the eerie realms of gothic literature? 🕯️ This week, we explore the haunting life and legacy of Mary Shelley, the mastermind behind Frankenstein! Discover the dark inspirations and chilling experiences that shaped her iconic tale of creation and monstrosity. Tune in for a spine-tingling journey through the shadowy corridors of her mind! 💀📖
#MaryShelley #Frankenstein #GothicHorror #PodcastEpisode #CreepyTales #LiteraryLegends #DarkRomantics #HistoryPodcast #HauntingStories #LiteraryGenius
Hi Friends! Our transcripts aren't perfect, but I wanted to make sure you had something - if you'd like an edited transcript, I'd be happy to prioritize one for you - please email doomedtofailpod@gmail.com - Thanks! - Taylor
Taylor from Doom to fail we're a podcast that brings you history and True Crimes most notorious disasters and epic fails
and we are re-releasing our first 26 episodes they were two stories per episode but we're making them into
smaller bite-sized pieces well still going to be like 30 minutes um of one story at a time and we're almost done
re-releasing so you can almost hear every story on its own today let's do episode 23 part one the story of Mary
and Percy Shelly um you know Mary Shelly because she wrote Frank Stein and um fun fact that we learned later is she wrote
it during the year without a summer which is after the um eruption of a volcano in 1815 I think and then 1816 it
was really really gloomy in Geneva and that's when she started writing um her scary stories with her husband and Lord
Byron and some friends so fun spooky story um Percy Shelly died very very
young and um Mary shell would travel all over Europe um writing and uh kind of
fighting with her family and all sorts of things so a super interesting life super glad that we have her work still
passed down to us if you have any questions or anything feel free to reach out to us at Doom toil pod gmail.com and
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country after this there was the kids baseball game or softball game that she
t-ball y the last t-ball game of the season uh and then she has a piano
recyle to get to and then a lot of wine to hopefully drink later tonight when
the kids are asleep 100% yeah it's also my it's it's my birthday weekend do you know my birthday's on Monday no Facebook
didn't tell me I'll tell you I'll tell you like on the day okay that's not helpful um what do you have planned
besides all this stuff that you're doing with the kids I know exactly I was going to ask if I could um take a nap tomorrow
like most of the day solid present solid gift that you're giving yourself love it
I was I was trying to game plan out our Halloween activities CU we got to sort
of think about this like now and I was going to message you and Jay and ask if there's any interest in going to
Halloween horn Nights in Orlando this year I just made a Florida face I know
but the one in the one in Orlando is so much better than the one in La I know um I'll think about it yeah I'll message
I'll message Jay about it too it sounds fun it sounds fun but it's like part of me is like they got a wedding like the next month like were they really going
to want to like travel you know on like one weekend that they don't have to so TBD but yeah we can go ahead and kick
things off and Taylor you know I had a night last night I don't remember who goes first with the I think I do you go
first okay yeah so I need to tell you a drink and I don't have a drink so we're going to have to brainstorm this together in real time together what did
you drink class night uh I had bourbon but I only have like one glass of bourbon and then I
drank red wine what would happen if you mix red wine with bourbon would that be good um had cocktails that have like a
splash of wine in them but there's not like a mixing them together I feel like
someone would have done that if it was if it was good I did I was thinking about yesterday I don't this because of
I don't know why I was at sushi restaurant someone was doing saki bombs and that reminded me of you I we've never done a Saki Bomb but I was like I
don't know I just was thinking maybe because of the the um that one thing with the Guinness and the sambuka on top
that is a weird synchronicity because I was looking at a place called Texas saki bar to go to this weekend because it
looks kind of fun and kind of cool nice fine do shaki I'll do shaki yeah great yeah that's right s in the fridge
perfect wow you're really prepared yeah well at the restaurant we have like your second bottle I think little bottles of
Saki is half off and then I just like take it home okay yeah that's fun that's fun so yeah I'll do saki for my drink
which has nothing to do with the location or the events I'm going to be discussing but that'll be my drink cool
love it so for my drink we're drinking abson and have you ever had abson oh yeah I don't know why I bothered ask not
because it was a drink that was drunk during this time because my story is in like the SE the late 1700s and absinth
actually came to France around 1840 so they didn't drink absinth in the story but we're drinking it because it's green
we have you had absinth yes okay it's fun it's like a ritual it's like a fun
thing to make like yeah yeah yeah I like licoricey things too so yeah so actually I think it tastes terrible but I think
it's fun that have because you like have the cube the sugar cube it and like yeah
it's just it's just fun it's like a fun little ritual yeah I've been drinking mcow which is like tastes terrible but
also I like it it's weird yeah I had met mecal Margarita was like mcow is fine on
you don't you don't need sugar mcow it makes it worse yeah totally um anyway
we're drinking green absence because we're talking about the mother of the monster and her free loving poet of a
husband Mary and Percy Shelly yes nice yeah so I my main source was a book the
book Mary Shelly by Miranda Seymour um it took me like a month to listen to it but I listened to the whole thing and it
was very good and then you know Wikipedia and chat GPT and all of that but I want to lay out our red flags I
don't think you're going to miss them but here's what they are they loped when she was 16 but he was already married
and his wife was pregnant and he also he also wanted her to sleep with all of his
friends and he wanted to sleep with her friends and he definitely slept with her sister so um wow that's that's an
accomplished man yeah yeah no not not not great so yeah so those are the Red
Flags we'll we'll get into them as we go um so so much of this story is taken
from Mary's letters and journals and Percy's letters and Claire her sister's letters so you have to kind of take
their writing and know that it's edited so you could like literally burn things and no one would ever see it again you
know it's like a real disposable time so it's really like what they wanted us to know and also I think I've said this
before but imagine if someone wrote your life story off of your journals and emails you could isolate times in your
life and make a great [ __ ] story so I want to so I was thinking like for example my senior year of high school
was wild I had a punk rock boyfriend who was a drummer then I had some like friends that like we like potentially
like hooked up it was weird then I went on a date with a dude in a boy band and we didn't hit it off so it introduced me to another boy band member and we dat it
for a while then I went to Germany and met a guitar player who was who I very recently found a picture of him and I
looked up up on Instagram and within 5 minutes sending him a message he sent me back a picture of us from then which was super cute and then also b i a b in
Germany I was camping with my friends in the woods and like this dude was just like in the woods and his name was Dennis and he was like I have the same
dreams as you and it was like I don't know I was an idiot but it was like but we were like super excited and I was like this is crazy and then I and then I
went home and my boy band boyfriend was still there and then also then I went to college I'm just like Jesus Christ you
can make any of that into an hour and a half long movie and I think it'd be really good yeah you accomplished that you liked a lot of boy band people huh
yeah what your thing I mean when is it not anyone's thing yeah I I I did buy a
guitar at one point and I learned how to play Oasis wonder wall for like 3
minutes andt and I was like this is the way you get girls and it didn't work
I've already warned Florence I'm like Florence the first boy that picked up a guitar and sings browney Girl to you
you're in trouble yep there you go trouble yeah so anyway there's fun so this is just like experts from her life
but I feel like it tells the whole story but also just like you could tell a full story out of like any time in your life
you could write a full story about our time at Nation Builder you know oh yeah and like end it and end in a death you
know like that kind of cool we could have made that a good story anyway so I
also oh recently threw away all my journals from high school cuz they were like is really stupid but also like
could they have been a Gothic romance and then I wrote they weren't because it was the 90s so it was not a Gothic
romance so anyway Mary Wilston craft Godwin Shelly was born on August 30th
1797 in London her mother Mary Wilston craft died 11 days after she was born
and you know how she died this is so gross she didn't sepsis yeah I mean I
don't know exactly what seis says but she di have an infection that she got because because the doctor's hands were dirty so gross so gross so horrifying
gross and awful so um so Mary never met her mother her mother was actually a famous writer on her own so her mother
Mary Mary Wilston craft was considered one of the founding voices of modern feminism she wrote about women's
education marriage and Status she wanted more of like a free love situation so do
whatever you want which was a lot for the 1700s um she also was you know she
had a baby out of out of wedlock she was kind of like you know just doing whatever she wanted to do and also just
get to put in like time frames this is the late 1700s so we're in like cath from the great time Mutiny on the Bounty
time Oscar wild kind of ends up in the story much later he's the neighbor of Mary's and Percy's son so like where we
are in history so some of the notable works of Mary's mother Mary um she wrote
a Vindication of the rights of women which said that women should have the same rights as men which were still fighting that fight and that was in
1792 and Taylor is your version of feminism considered not okay
anymore what's my version of feminism know when you told me how like you like to wear makeup and pretty dresses and
these other women were like you're not a good feminist CU you should like shave your head and wear flannel or something I forgot what it was but it was like
like I like it they're being real [ __ ] um my version of f feminism is do whatever the [ __ ] you want and be able
to have opportunity but is that considered okay still I don't know okay it's so hard to keep up with what is
okay now I know I have no idea sorry to detail yeah no good question I'm not
sure but Mary Wilson craft contined to influence future generations of feminists and this is what Mary shell
was kind of like living up to so you don't know your mother but you have these books that she wrote that were published you have her journals you have
her letters so like who do you think your mother was and and how do you live up to that so that's a big part of of Mary Shell's story um her father was
William Godwin he was a little bit of a bumble butt so he was a philosopher a novelist a political theorist he wrote
books about uh political Justice he owned a bookstore in London and he was literally always in debt like he never
made enough money to keep his family um secure he was always like chasing the next pound or whatever like he just was
never never secure he was an eccentric who like really was like into these like kind of like liberal political ideas
Aaron Burr you know who Aaron Burr is yeah yeah he shot um Hamilton yeah Hamilton so after all that happened he
kind of like escaped to Europe and he stayed with with them for a while so yeah which is weird so he like there's
like some famous people that kind of come in and out of her life in a weird way I didn't write this down but later like much later like one of her
girlfriends like hooks up with Lafayette when he's old so like talked about him before so like that you know that
happens so William Godwin her uh Mary shelle's father married a woman named
Mary Jane Claremont later after his wife died so the household was William and Mary Jane the parents Fanny emlay was
Mary W Wilson Craft's illegitimate daughter with an American businessman that she met before Godwin so Mary had
this older half sister who her father was out in the picture and her mom was dead so Fanny but they adopted Fanny
into the family then there's Mary and then Mary Jane brought in two children from her first marriage Claire and
Charles and then they had baby William so it's kind of like The Brady Bunch right Mary and Claire are very very
close in age and they have a really insane relationship that we'll get you so that's that's her her uh
stepsister so now for Percy Percy Bish shell was born on August 4th 1792 which
makes him 5 years older than Mary um his father sir Timothy shell was a member of
gentry and he was a squire he had some Shelly family estates so they were like
pretty well off the Shell's he was known for his conservative and Traditional
Values and so I wrote AKA he was unamused by his son's Shenanigans so
yeah what is conservative back then God it must be like insane yeah so yeah so
Percy's Mother Elizabeth pilo Shelly was also very fancy so Percy's like a bit of
a Dandy their lifestyle is like kind of confusing and like kind of bizarre so
they're in a constant state like Percy and Mary and Mary's family are in a constant state of we're poor like we
don't have any money but they're moving from like furnished house to furnished house you know they're like living in
like these like big houses in in Italy and in Florence and in Paris and in
London so they keep like moving around but they're never like homeless and they also always have servants so like she
never cooked or cleaned so it's like we're super poor but could you imagine not having servants you know like okay I
mean it kind of reminded me when I was in Ireland and you have all these castles that are still owned by the same families that were like Beque them from
like Generations ago but like yeah you have a castle but you can't afford it so you have to open it up to the public and
have them pay an admission fee to like be able to leave the lights on and turn the heat on so like I don't know maybe
it was one of those like house poort things yeah totally so well they didn't like own house there like rented houses
around anyway Percy is even in he comes into the story because he wants to be a
writer and so he goes to William Godwin's bookstore and says I will be your benefactor if you teach me like
some of your skills I will give you money and spoiler alert He never [ __ ]
does so like for the rest of his life and the rest of Willam Godwin's life he's like give me money especially after
you stole my children and Percy is like no and he never does Percy is married to
a woman named Harriet Westbrook they got married in 1811 they eloped when Harriet was only 16 years old pattern and they
had two children together she was pregnant with a second children child when he left her for Mary so he's always
like never Percy's never been like a faithful dude his Wikipedia says he was in an intense platonic relationship with
someone else which is hilarious and you know so he's like but he's like he
thinks of himself as like a romantic guy you know like he's secet into like he's into Mary Wilson crafts like free love
stuff he's like you know let's all just like be happy and whatever so another question I have for you is are you are
you are you a poetry person I'm laughing I wrote I feel like no but
like I don't know maybe you have a secret like like for poetry it's it's almost like we've never
met I know well I thought I would just see make sure okay I'm going to read you a little bit of Percy's poems so you can
get an idea of what this Jude is like this is an excerpt from Ode to the
West Wind oh Wild West Wind thou breath of Autumn's being thou from whose unseen
presence the leaves dead are driven like ghosts from an from an enchanter fleeing
yellow and black and pale and hectic red pestilence strick in multitudes oh thou who charotis to the dark dark wintry bed
the winged seeds where they lie cold and low each like a corpse within its grave until thine aszure sister of spring
shall blow that's you know it's
flowery yeah I I guess I would describe it that way how else would you describe though it just it's it's like it sounds
luxurious like somebody who has never had to like worry very much about anything in life exactly right that's exactly right
yeah like the internet was like you know emotional in intensity vivid imagery
blah blah blah whatever it's not the Coal Miner's Daughter you know like it is it is like it hates a note but not
one that I love yes so Mary so now it's like 1810 1812 is Percy is in the god
shop they met in 1814 when he came over there so she probably didn't know that he had a a pregnant wife but even if she
did know I from this from the poem and from this I know exactly what kind of guy Percy was I'm sure he was like oh my
wife is the worst and you're so pretty and blah blah blah writing her poems blah blah so yeah in 184 they run away
to France they take CLA with them which will always be a problem CLA is the worst I'm team Mary 100% % so Claire's
her step sister yeah so so they're doing like weird Rich poor I read a while ago I read a book where like there was in
this time you would like bring a letter of introduction to a place so I bring a letter that'd be like oh well not me because I'm a woman I couldn't get a
letter in credit but a man would like bring a letter and be you know fars is you know vouches for me here's a letter
from fars and then they would someone would like credit me money when I when I went to a different place so you have to like kind of
likeit for yeah but like very manual so
that's what they're doing they go to France Mary's already pregnant so she's 16 she's already pregnant Percy is still
married to Harriet who's also pregnant just to say this now Mary gets pregnant five times and four of the babies die
young which is awful they have one son lived to be about like four or five but then he died and their fifth child a son
is the only one who lived to adulthood so they only had one uh child survive all the way which is terrible I me she
doesn't sound like a great mom if all your kids are dying and there's no congenital defect that's not her fault
all her kids are dying it's the 1700s her mom died of cuz the dirty
doctor hands yeah I guess that's true no like 75% is like a lot it's a lot of
kids to die yes it's awful it's it's it's higher than than average if 75% of
the dogs I owned died like like in three years like you got to stop giving me dogs well
yes that's that's definitely but it's also just like it's I think it's of the time I think it's high but she was like
I don't know it's just there's a lot of disease I don't know you're defending it's fine it's not her fault she didn't
kill her babies you're defending her yeah it's a terrible thing to happen I'm not defending to she didn't kill her babies it's terrible um so Percy wants
to have a commune literally and like he has her flirt with one of his friends and he's like you should hook up with that guy you know he wants to have like
a lot of lovers and like all live together they live in Italy for a while they climb Mount vvus which is hilarious
cuz I've also climbed Mount vus said it's stupid it's just like a tra around and there's like nothing and it's boring
their son William like he speaks Italian before anything else already Percy and CLA are 100% sleeping with each other
they're like maybe already doing it but um as soon as you know Mary starts like getting pregnant and he's she's
definitely sleeping with CLA too and Mary does not like Claire she hates her she do does not want her around she's like how can we get rid of her I'm just
tired of her following us and Percy's always like oh no let her stay course yeah yeah of course yeah she just as a
such a hanger on it's crazy so in 1816 they travel to Geneva to meet with Lord
Byron who's another poet have you watched the show Ghosts no but they Lord
Bon is a pretty big name yeah no absolutely absolutely so in the show seen show yeah it's there's a British
version and an American version but I've watched the British one but there's like a poet and he's always like oh Byron but he's like he's exactly this kind of guy
like the ghost is like exactly this kind of poet you know but let me read to you a little bit of a Lord Byron poem okay
this one's called she Walks in Beauty She Walks in Beauty like the night of cloudless climbs and Starry
skies and all thus best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes
thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to Gody day denies one shade the
more one Ray the less had half impaired the nameless Grace which waves in every Raven tress or softly lightens over her
face where thoughts serenely sweet Express how pure how dear their Dwelling Place
Place God they're so infatuated with women but like man they really don't want them to have rights like it's
weird them they just want to like have women around but they don't like why would you bother yeah no you're
right that that was very pretty but yeah it's very pretty so it's much longer that was a that that was an excerpt of
an excerpt but um very pretty very romantic so this is the big trip this is the lifechanging trip when they go to
Geneva one thing that happens is that Claire and Lord Byron hook up and she gets pregnant so now Claire is pregnant
from from Lord Byron I imagine it was a ploy by Percy to get them all to live together cuz he wanted to live with Lord
Byron too you're like sure like that's super romantic they just like kind of like live in Geneva and could hang out
but they don't they ended up like they never were really together Lord Byron just got her pregnant their daughter
algra was eventually taken by Byron and he ended up putting the algra
in foster care even though CLA wanted her back and Claire was really poor as she was Nanny around Europe and alra
died when she was four of malaria that was like L Lord Byron could have just given her to her mom and to have taken care of her that sucks but so the other
thing that happens on the trip to Geneva is that Mary starts writing a story which is a super popular story so it's a
historical fact that it was a gloomy ass summer like there was no sun it was like rainy and everybody you know they're all
writers here including cla's like not very great but Frankenstein didn't come out of nowhere so there are many many
versions of it she didn't just like R it in one day she like came up with the story on this trip but then she then she
you know worked on it for a long time so it's called officially Frankenstein or
the modern Prometheus and you know how that joke is like Frankenstein is like the monster or
whatever I got wrong but you know what I mean frankstein no Frankenstein is the doctor yeah yes so Frankenstein is the doctor so so the title is Frankenstein
the modern Prometheus so Frankenstein the doctor is the modern prus in which he's giving Society a technology that
Society does not know how to handle and that's like what we saw with the curies too because Prometheus he stole fire
from the gods and brought brought it to humans because being like this can help you but didn't see the UN the um
unintended consequences of doing it so giving humans fire gave them a choice to
use it for good or evil so that's what she was had in her mind like Dr Frankenstein giving um the world this
ability to like reanimate and do you use it for good or do use it for evil is that the actual title yes wow that's
weird I never knew that I know cool I know so it's a wild time to be alive
like I've said so there's a couple things happening also in the world like there's a thing called galvanism which is using electricity to stimulate muscle
contractions so people were like electrocuting dead frogs and like showing them jump that had to be fun
that really had to be fun yeah so that was like a thing in the world there's also a lot of like just like things
happening in science and philos phos ophy that are new this also the beginning of the Industrial Revolution so this is where we like you know really
seeing like machines like becoming so she knows that's happening uh and also it's a really sad story so there's also
some like experiences of loss and grief in Frankenstein as well so Frankenstein is published anonymously in 1818 she's
only 20 years old when she when she published it that's crazy yeah
so 200e spoiler alert let me tell you what frusin is about because it's not like the movies and also incidentally
she never got any money from any of the plays or acting out of that people did from the book which is lame well yeah
because patent laws don't protect content but that's that's that old no no no even in her time there were
it wasn't it wasn't a thing okay so it starts with a story of a man writing
letters from the Arctic so he's like a man is in the Arctic and he is um writing letters to his wife he's on an
expedition and he sees in the distance a sled with someone like a huge person on it like going really fast and then he
sees another sled or whatever coming after it with an old man who um is Dr
Frankenstein who's Victor Frankenstein and he's like I'm trying to find this creation and and chase after this this
monster that I made so he tells the story to the man on the boat so when we go back and he's telling his story
Victor Frankenstein is in college he starts to think about bringing something back to life and he does he does it like
right away so he finds like the dead body brings it back to life and he's horrified by it cuz it's like big and
ugly and not what he expected and he well he didn't find the dead body right he found bodies and he pieced
Frankenstein together I think so I'm not 100% sure okay but but it does get but
gets alive really fast then it escapes then it kills Victor Frankenstein's little brother and then the monster like
spends some time outside of like a family home and he like listens to the family talking he's like outside their
windows and he's like I think I could be a part of this family like he's really really lonely and then when he meets
them in like he like he like says hello to them they're super scared like scream
and run away and he burns their house down because he's like no one will ever love me I'm so ugly um and then he asks
he goes back to Dr Frankenstein and says I need a I need a partner I need someone who's just like me I can live my life
with because I'm lonely and he says Dr frankinson says okay I will make you like a girlfriend essentially but he
doesn't instead he destroys all of his all of his papers and the monster sees
him doing that and goes back and murders Victor's wife on their wedding night and then he escapes so that's where he's
like going out into the Arctic just to like be alone Victor's running after him um eventually Victor dies on the boat and the monster comes back and takes his
body and Mourns over him so he didn't kill that little girl like all that all
the movie stuff of like he finds a little girl and he like the FR monster finds a little girl and kills her by
hugging her too much or whatever like wanting her to be with him like that none of that happened no none of the it's alive
I don't think is there an eagor in it I don't know yeah there is yeah his helper The Hunchback no no I no I'm saying in
the book there's so many versions of the story is what I'm saying like she wrote several versions of it and then like the
world took it because it's a great [ __ ] story and wrote a million versions of it I just watched Young Frankenstein again with my sister it's
so good so good I mean Robert dairo played Franken 's monster at one point
like it's been done to death at this point exactly exactly so but the point is once you invent something you can't
go back so that's that that's like the the lesson of the of the story now
there's a little bit more money around they're trying to find patrons they're writing poetry there's some babies around um Lord Byron left he never
intended to stay Mary's dad still wants money from Shell he's never going to give it to him and
then after a couple like random weird things happen like after one of her babies dies Percy tries to get another
baby in Italy for them which like isn't weird like during this time like there were just like tons of Italian orphans you could like buy it was like a totally
normal thing there it cool and uh but they think that it was actually Percy's
kid from like an aair yes and so but they ended up not keeping that baby and then also some other tragedies happened
Mary wait what do you mean they it ended up not they just gave it back yeah they just gave it to like the baby box I
don't know it's like a very free baby time oh it's so easy going yeah and then some
other tragic things happen Mary's older sister Fanny dies by Suicide their their mother Mary wilon
craft definitely had like severe depression and both girls have it so Mary's super depressed and so was her sister her sister's a little bit like
I'm out of this Loop I'm not really a part of this family I don't really have anyone so she goes and she dies by
Suicide and they can't get her body back because suicide is a crime so if they
like say that they know her they'll have to like pay a fine so they have to leave her body where she was found wow which
is terrible and doesn't make any sense and then Percy's wife Harriet also dies by Suicide which is terrible because
like she Percy tried to like frame her as like a terrible wife and all these things but like she was just fine and he
just didn't want to be married you know so she does by Suicide too which is awful so now they're trying to they're
going around Europe Mary's still trying to get rid of CLA eventually she gets her a nanny job and gets rid of her
cla's trying to get her daughter back but she doesn't get it back so in this time you know Rich poor I can't imagine
Shelly being like we don't have any money I have to write poems you know just like being the worst you know seeing him him like that on July 1st
1822 a few weeks after Mary had another miscarriage so I think that they have their son Percy and then she has like
her final miscarriage and Percy got on a boat that was his boat
and he meant to meet meet with Lord Byron and some other people to talk about a new publication called the liberal so they were going to make like
a pamphlet or whatever and on the way back the boat was overmask that means it
had like the wrong what are they called Mas sails sails the wrong sails and the
crew was inexperienced and everyone drowned so Percy died when he was 29 so
he uh him and Mary were only together for like eight years there was a delay in knowing if they were dead because of
like the time period they were like well did he get to his destination and like no one knew and they had to like find someone like travel around and finally
figured out that they hadn't made it 10 days later their bodies washed up on shore
and he was cremated on the beach Mary and another like a person who was like a
friend of theirs took Percy Shell's heart out of his body and put it in a jar with like liquor to keep it and then
Mary eventually got it and like burned it so she had the ashes of his heart and she kept them with her until her death
she always had his heart with her that's kind of romantic but mostly rotes mostly
gross mostly gross so now Mary is a widow and she's still doing the same
thing she's traveling around but she's a great friend there's a ton of stories of her like giving people money and like
supporting Young Artists and all of these other things that she doesn't you know she she never accumulates her own
wealth because she's always like kind of giving it away she's writing up more books she writes poetry she writes some biographies of like different uh people
to to just to sell those one thing that she does that I think is fun is she's
friends with a trans man who known who
was named Isabelle Robinson and the The Story Goes she had a friend who was like I have to leave England because I have
I'm pregnant out of wedlock how do I get out of here and how do I like keep my uh like reputation and then she had another
friend who's like I want to I am a man I want to dress like a man like I want to be a man so Mary got them fake papers
and had them get married so that they were able to escape and they lived together as man and wife for like a very
long time it's pretty cool so is that cool and Mary was like super supported of that she was like whatever that's fine I think unfortunately the the trans
man friend ended up dying in a poor house and like bad things happen later but still it's a cool story yeah so so
she's doing that she's writing some books she wrote more books that I've never read and I really would like to
she wrote a novel called Vel perga one called The Last Man her last one was
called fa fauler she also spent a lot of time editing Percy's papers and trying to figure out who was going to write a
bag about him so she was this it was like a kind of a Perpetual fight between like his family and her family like who
was going to actually be the one to like kind of capitalize off of his life and his poems she did she P published like
an edited version of his poem people hated it like they just like which is weird because like how do you edit poems
differently whatever so she was doing a little bit of that his dad so Percy Shell's dad he gave her an allowance but
he never met her he was like giving her money to to as his son's Widow but they
never met and when he finally died he left her and her son a house um but the house was like in shambles it took all
the furniture and there were like people living on the land who had to pay a rent but like the um crops were bad it was
just like not a good situation like it sounded like it be cool but it was not cool yeah and yeah and then she is also
editing a lot of his stuff to be a little bit less truthful because England is getting more Victorian during this
time like more conservative more like what we know is like classic Victorian so she's not so she says is like we were
married when we ran away like they definitely weren't you know and she like leaves out the stuff that he wanted her to sleep with all his friends so she
kind of edited a little bit depending on the time so their son Percy is kind of a dud unfortunately he she tries to get
him to like run for office but no one like votes for him he like fiddles around school he's like not that smart
eventually he does get married to a woman named Jane and Jane and Mary become really good friends so Jane her
daughter-in-law is one of the people who you know really helps Mary organize her paper and like start to put stuff
together for her own story and later Jane is like one of the people who's in charge of her of her biography and she
definitely like idolizes Mary and talks about her in like a really like romantic way like she's the best and eventually
uh Percy and Jane they run like a playhouse they write plays Percy like
does like the costume design and paints the backdrops and writes the plays and people like it it's like very amusing so
he does fine they live a couple they um built a house and they call their house like Shelly house house of Shelly and
then Oscar wild named his house house of something else to make fun of them like down the street so that's where that
comes back Mary's father passes away in 1844 so she's like feeling super lonely and awful she's really sad she kind of
reconciled with her dad and she's super sad when he's gone then she starts to have in her 40s so they're like she was
40 and like still walking around you're like oh my go she was 40 she's not like 100 but you know whatever of the time
she started to get these weird headaches she started to kind of get like not feel good she had to rest a lot she spent
some time traveling with like to get the Sea Air and do things like that and it ended up that she died in 1851 at the
age of 53 and when they did her autopsy she definitely had brain cancer so she had like a large tumor in her brain that
she had been living with for like a really long time um and that was the thing that ended up ended up killing her
and then after that you know it's a kind of a mess of people trying to capitalize
off of them trying to sell their stories It's Kind Frankenstein having really a life of own you know becoming like one
of the most famous stories um ever but in you know really she was a very so
smart so talented and so lonely woman who was really kind of like abandoned by
her mom abandoned by her husband trying to just like live her creative life and that's it can you imagine being 20 and
writing the most influential thing in the history of the world no I'm like 38 and I barely influenced like a single
person much less the rest of the world I know I know is a lot it's a lot to live
up to they kind of sounded like a fun group though like they sound they sound like like a s Francisco like Tech bro
community of like they just freewheeling doing whatever they want I mean I I love
the idea of like oh let's move into this like potentially really dusty like really big house in Europe together and
then like take all of the sheets off all the furniture and you just like write homes there for a couple months and then you move somewhere else you know and
like you're like oh we're so poor also servant make me dinner I love I feel
like that would that's good for you but not so good for me if someone was like far as you have to sit in a room and write poetry I'd be like [ __ ] kill me
I'm not doing that I'm not gonna write poetry but I would like to sit in a room and read for like a month you know you remember we when you told me that like
your biggest hope for Flo is that she doesn't become like a PO poet yes oh
yeah no it would be terrible to have a child who was a poet because you'd have to listen to all of their bad poems and they good
ones so we're on the same page yeah no that'd be terrible like imagine if oh my God like if like miles was like hold on
like like hey Mom and on that cheek and over that brow So Soft so calm yet eloquent the smiles that win the tints
that glow but tell of days in goodness spent a mind at peace with all below a heart whose love is innocent I'd be like
great job Rhymes Like You Gotta yeah go do something different
like this is not wor time here learn how to learn how to code JavaScript um yeah
I mean really yeah so that's it it's it's he I think Percy really just like
had his women following him around you know and yeah it sound hard when you like are a poet and you walk up to every
woman and you're like I need to paint you in words it's just you know what I mean like like how easy is that like I
can do right now 100% even if it sounds like [ __ ] I can do it yeah 100 % no one
would ever tell you that your poems were bad they would just be like where WR a poem about me he's he's so mysterious
he's like this this dark mysterious guy like it must be a cultural thing it's like no he's he just like knows how to
manipulate you that's exactly right it's very very very manipulative okay wait hold on write a
poem a short poem about a mysterious man named fars oh my God o
okay ready yes pretty long okay okay this is way too long this is way too
long chat GPT okay I'm G to read a little bit of it in Shadows deep where Secrets lie there walks a man fars by
and by mysterious he with eyes so Keen a veil of enigma his silent scene in
Moonlight nights he Treads the streets his presence felt where Darkness meets Whispers follow his elusive trace a
figure cloaked in Mystic Grace with every step he stirs Intrigue his words like riddles make Minds fatigue and
cryptic language his tales unfold a tapestry woven of stories Untold who is far as his tic Soul a Wanderer a sage
beyond control his wisdom deep his past unknown a man of secrets yet to be known he dances with shadows through
Twilight's Haze a master of Secrets and mysterious ways with every glance a glimpse of his heart a puzzle unsolved a
puzzle to start in whispered rumors his Legend grows and enigma wrapped in Mysteries throws fars the man of the
veiled unknown Intrigue follows wherever he's thrown so let us Wonder let us dream in far's world where Mysteries
gleam for in his presence we find Delight in the riddles weaves in the depths of night dude that is awesome hey
can you hey slack me that I'm going to put part of that on my uh on my dating profile your resume that was real good
that was awesome and it it totally encapsulates me as a person I am
mysterious and my riddles I do produce riddles of the mind oh my gosh so funny
well now it's easy to write poetry
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