I love how history weaves together and seemingly unrelated events come together to produce unusual results.

And that's what I want to talk about today very briefly.

I want to talk about the year without a summer, 1816.

Why? Because I want to.

Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk about apologetics and theology.

But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And so today I want to talk about the year without a summer.

And what prompted me to want to talk about this was I've been reading classic literature and lots of different kinds of classic literature.

And I started to get into Gothic novels recently.

So I was reading through Brom Stoker's Dracula and Percy Shelley's Frankenstein.

I like Dracula. I thought it was really good. I thought it was better than, I don't know,

I think there was a lot of hype over Frankenstein. It's a classic and there's good elements to it. But I didn't like Frankenstein as much, though I think there was a lot of hype over Frankenstein. I mean, it's a classic, and there's good elements to it.

But I didn't like Frankenstein as much.

Though I think if you read Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley,

so when was Frankenstein written here?

I have it right here because Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written 18.

Yeah, 1818. Well, I know the idea for it starts in 1816. I'll pull all of that together. But a lot of us, when we think about Frankenstein, we think about the Boris Karloff films, like the films from the 1930s. It's alive. And he's just got the bolts in his neck. And he's like, rah! And he just just walks and he's, you know, unintelligent, big blockhead.

And then the villagers chase him to the windmill and the windmill catches on fire.

That is not Mary Shelley Frankenstein.

That is not it at all.

Rather, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it's kind of like, I don't know, it reminded me of Moby Dick a little bit,

where it's more like the Frankenstein, Frankenstein, which is not the name of the monster.

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