(M'58'12) Dracula Bram Stoker

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(M'58'12) Dracula Bram Stoker

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1mirrani
sep 7, 2012, 9:21 pm

Got the notes on this one. It's on the kindle. :)

2mirrani
sep 8, 2012, 5:17 pm

All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
I know this feeling well and I love it.

The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.
One thousand, one hundred and four people highlighted this. And I'm reading it over and over, wondering why.

Here and there we passed Cszeks and slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent. By the roadside were many crosses, and as we swept by, my companions all crossed themselves.
Seven hundred and twelve people highlighted this. Again, I ask why. What am I missing here?

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature, is it in the semblance of man?
And why wasn't this highlighted? I picked this one.

What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night, gloom, and fear?
Loved this.

Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina!
Is this an old school thing? To say goodbye to the special person twice?

Oh, Mina dear, I can't help crying, and you must excuse this letter being all blotted. Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing out of his life.
I liked this sentiment too. It's not often the poor men are thought of.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? I know I would if I were free, only I don't want to be free.
Same here. Thought to the man again.

Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
This one had 2388 highlights and I can agree with that choice.

"Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies."
Now there's a line that shows this is a dated classic.

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
Another great line.

I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.
Ah, the power of words in horror stories.

"I dunno 'im. There ain't no such a person 'ere. I never 'eard of 'im in all my bloomin' days. Don't believe there ain't nobody of that kind livin' 'ere or anywheres."
Text to speech does such interesting things with thr accent. You have to actually read these parts or be very good at text to speech translating.

Her husband groaned again. She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on.
Because you /are/ the one hurting when you love someone and they hurt.

We have been blind somewhat. Blind after the manner of men, since we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle, is it not?
Woah, was it!

If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a pleasure it would be. To stop and see people, and learn something of their life, and to fill our minds and memories with all the colour and picturesqueness of the whole wild, beautiful country and the quaint people! But, alas!
And on my last quote, I've come full circle. I feel the same way about travel. Maybe that's why these lines interest me.

4cedargrove
jan 11, 2013, 7:51 pm

This is one of those books that I keep saying I am going to read and never getting around to.

If you are missing something in the parts highlighted by all those people, then so am I! I don't see what's special about those parts... in fact they seem a little over wordy to me.

Thinking of the poor men being thought about, I believe this is something that the 'old' authors do far better than many modern writers.

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
Maybe we need to remember this in our darker moments.

I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.
Ah, the power of words in horror stories.

For some reason, this reminded me of Poe.

Her husband groaned again. She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on.
Because you /are/ the one hurting when you love someone and they hurt.

I absolutely agree with that, and think this is a good way of putting it.