“The boy strips off the ribbon and the paper to reveal a box. This he opens and pulls out a toy…. It’s mechanical with a wind-up key in the back. Also, it turns out it’s a sort of music-box, because the boy winds up the key and the monkey starts to play…. No problem recognizing it: ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’.”
- The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth (regarded as partly the inspiration for Love Never Dies)
so do we think young ladies were showing up to their book club in Paris in 1913 like “good day mesdemoiselles <3 this week i bring to our discussion a somewhat scandalous idea. after reading the concluding installment of m. leroux’s novel, i have written a story about how erik, the phantom of the opera, might have married christine daaé after all! do not tell maman”
Given that there were Jane Austen cosplayers having group teas what, at least thirty years prior, I think it’s fair to say hells yes lol
sometimes the notification box on posts forgets how to be a functional element of a web page and just starts cramming actual posts from my blog into itself, engulfing the notes and eating them alive i guess
