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Invisible Bodies
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Culture is everything that is left as a residue once we have forgotten all the books we've read.
In the Romantic era, Prometheus, the Titan god of fire who stole fire from the gods, gave it to humanity and was sentenced to having his liver gobbled up by an eagle every day, represented the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy. For this reason Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein bore the subtitle The Modern Prometheus, an experiment gone wrong. In thi...