Child of Frankenstein

On April 10, 1815, the most violent volcanic eruption ever documented occurred in Indonesia (Mount Tambora). Minor eruptions continued for the next six months, impacting the climate worldwide - including the "year without a summer" in 1816. Driven indoors that summer by constant rain, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley first read German ghost stories to pass the time and then turned to writing them.

The most famous to come out of this was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", a story that has been popular for over 200 years old. She also birthed a literary genre that has created hundreds of thousands of other stories, plays and films the past two hundred years.

To be certain, this Covid-19 pandemic (and subsequent lockdown) of the past few months has been devastating. Certainly much worse than the eruption Indonesian eruption.

Tens of millions of people have been forced indoors. Some have been binging on media but I suspect a great deal of others have producing media - of all kinds. It will be interesting to see the art, songs, writings, movies, programs, crafts, businesses, and things never before seen or thought of that will find life soon.

There has to be a pony in here somewhere.