One of my Facebook friends uncovered a little gem in the deep, winding mine that is the internet: Google Lit Trips. The Lit Trip is an intriguing application of Google Earth, and a potentially useful way to bring the physical details of literature--and history (perhaps more especially)--alive in a sort of electromagnetically grounded sort of way.
My question to you is this: what lit trip would you like to see? or take for yourself? And what would you take with you to read (besides Prairie Schooner, of course)?
Twain certainly begs for a treatment. Huck Finn, for sure! Maybe hit a number of his fictional and real-life places of interest. Calaveras county, for one... I'm surprised there's a Portrait of the Artist map there, as locality in that story has such a limited impact, save his desire to leave it.
It would also be interesting to see side-by-side comparisons in fiction and history, like an approximation of the Europe trotting done in Stoker's Dracula versus Vlad the Impaler's military actions, or things in that vein. (Yeah, sorry.)
Posted by: DN | June 29, 2009 at 03:17 AM