"Chai" It: Into It/ Over It, High Altitude Edition
It's time for another round of Into It/Over It , the High Altitude Edition. The point of this type of post is to point out a negative and replace it with a positive (and sometimes just point out positives). What does a picture of this awesome-yet-undisclosed location have to do with Gothic anything? If you have ever read any Gothic literature ( Frankenstein , The Castle of Otranto , Carmilla , Dracula , et cetera), they can be read as travel journals, with significant chunks of text devoted to describing landscapes and characters' travels. I re-read Carmilla on a weekend's camping trip, and the descriptions of Styria (region in modern-day Austria and Slovenia) reminded me of the critical angle of Gothic literature as travel journals.