She Carried His Heart in a Silken Shroud!
Two famous sayings come to mind for this morning’s post…
A reporter once asked Stephen King why he writes such scary stories. King answered, “It is because I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
The second quote is when a person in love tells his/her lover: “I give you my heart.”
It seems that Frankenstein author Mary Shelley took the second quote literally. After her husband died Shelley…
…kept the heart in a silken shroud, and is said to have carried it with her nearly everywhere for years. In 1852, a year after she died, Percy’s heart was found in her desk. It was wrapped in the pages of one of his last poems, Adonais…
Source: Mental_Floss.
