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Bryan Alexander
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I research, teach, and help build programs about cyberculture.
Interests: web 2.0, gaming, cyberculture, gothic, intellectual property, wikis, writing, blogging, social software, multimedia narrative, project management
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He has turned his mind now to spiders
18 June.--He has turned his mind now to spiders, and has got several very big fellows in a box. He keeps feeding them his flies, and the number of the latter is becoming sensibly diminished, although he has used half... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Dracula Blogged
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Drones to home in on human screams
Posted 2 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Sitting on the edge of my bed cudgelling my brains
17 June.--This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed cudgelling my brains, I heard without a crackling of whips and pounding and scraping of horses' feet up the rocky path beyond the courtyard. With joy I... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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That's a very good point, MS.
Unless some folks barged in and hollered. That's more my imagination. :)
Commented Jun 7, 2021 on The case of Renfield grows more interesting at Dracula Blogged
The case of Renfield grows more interesting
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 5 June.--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed, selfishness, secrecy, and purpose. I wish I could get at what is the object of the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his ow...
That's good writing, then.
Commented Jun 7, 2021 on The Castle at Dracula Blogged
The Castle
5 May. The Castle.--The gray of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed. I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally I ...
Indeed.
Also: recall that Seward is making audio recordings. What other sounds are on there, besides his voice?
Commented Jun 6, 2021 on The case of Renfield grows more interesting at Dracula Blogged
The case of Renfield grows more interesting
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 5 June.--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed, selfishness, secrecy, and purpose. I wish I could get at what is the object of the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his ow...
This bit is one Dracula scholars keep going over. It is cryptic.
I like your point about the coach being a performance for Harker.
Also this: "It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again..." At several points the text gets weirdly dreamlike and surreal.
Commented Jun 6, 2021 on The Castle at Dracula Blogged
The Castle
5 May. The Castle.--The gray of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed. I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally I ...
The case of Renfield grows more interesting
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 5 June.--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed, selfishness, secrecy, and purpose. I wish I could get at what is the object... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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The more you read Dracula, the more you realize just how badly Jonathan is outmatched.
Commented May 31, 2021 on This morning when I woke at Dracula Blogged
This morning when I woke
31 May.--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself with some papers and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket, so that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again a surprise, again a shock! Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my me...
This morning when I woke
31 May.--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself with some papers and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket, so that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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Yes indeed. Mina is a true heroine.
Commented May 31, 2021 on There is a chance of escape at Dracula Blogged
There is a chance of escape
28 May.--There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to send word home. A band of Szgany have come to the castle, and are encamped in the courtyard. These are gipsies. I have notes of them in my book. They are peculiar to this part of the world, though allied to the ordinary gipsie...
Count me in every time.
TELEGRAM FROM ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO QUINCEY P. MORRIS 26 May Count me in every time. I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle. Art Continue reading
Posted May 26, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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My dear Art, We've told yarns by the campfire
LETTER, QUINCEY P. MORRIS TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMOOD 25 May. My dear Art, We've told yarns by the campfire in the prairies, and dressed one another's wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas, and drunk healths on the shore... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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Ebb tide in appetite today
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY (Kept in phonograph) 25 May.--Ebb tide in appetite today. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead. since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feeling. Nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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Delighted to read along with you, Most.
Commented May 24, 2021 on My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again at Dracula Blogged
My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY 24 May My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy. My dear, it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs are. Here am I, who shall be twenty in Septemb...
Excellent background, Most.
Commented May 24, 2021 on My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again at Dracula Blogged
My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY 24 May My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy. My dear, it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs are. Here am I, who shall be twenty in Septemb...
My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY 24 May My dearest Mina, Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy. My dear, it never... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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I am surely in the toils.
19 May.--I am surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in the sauvest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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I think that's right: a simple bolt, from the inside.
Commented May 18, 2021 on I have been down to look at that room again in daylight at Dracula Blogged
I have been down to look at that room again in daylight
18 May.--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for I must know the truth. When I got to the doorway at the top of the stairs I found it closed. It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. I could see that the bolt of the lock had n...
I have been down to look at that room again in daylight
18 May.--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for I must know the truth. When I got to the doorway at the top of the stairs I found it closed. It had been so forcibly... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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Yes indeed. Very old - but looking ahead.
Commented May 16, 2021 on Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion. at Dracula Blogged
Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.
15 May.--Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion. He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good deal to the left. He vanished into some hole or window. When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail. The distance...
Most Significant, I'm enjoying your comments as you read through the novel!
Commented May 16, 2021 on Chapter 4 at Dracula Blogged
Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4. JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL CONTINUED I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my ...
Only if they knew that weakness.
And if Dracula had no defending troops.
And if they got over terror. Recall that Gilles
de Rais drained surrounding areas of children for a while.
Commented May 16, 2021 on God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. at Dracula Blogged
God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.
Later: The morning of 16 May.--God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already. If I be sane, then surely it is maddening...
Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4. JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL CONTINUED I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.
Later: The morning of 16 May.--God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2021 at Dracula Blogged
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