The Phantom Of The Laboratory
Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
We are fortune here at Science20 to have come across an early work by Gaston Leroux. This manuscript was dated to 1899, suggesting it was an early, discarded draft of the work that later came to be known as "The Phantom of the Opera". Current speculation is Gaston changed the setting at the beheast of his editor. Here, then, is the unabridged transcript of that early draft. It is set in the historic 1899 Paris Academie des Sciences, and begins with the arrival of two new managers to this prosperous yet troubled place.[Secretary] "Welcome, new Branch Heads, to our Paris Laboratory! We owe our success to Professor Carlotta, though we do have a new post-doc named Christine Daei. Good luck with the upcoming grant season!" read more