Tonight’s Dracula update:
(Well, sort of update anyway.)
Having previously remarked on Jonathan Harker’s propensity
to colour shifts, we now have a new one. I quote:
‘Then her husband (Jonathan)
turned to her, wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy
whiteness of his hair…’
It seems that while Dracula’s poison is gradually turning
Mina into a vampire, Jonathan is offering some compensation by becoming an
oompa-loompa. Hey,ho; that’s Victorian England for you – nothing if not well
balanced.
And talking of Victorian England, I can’t help noting that
the ‘ordinary’ male characters – those whom Mina is want to call ‘good, brave
men’ about twice a page on average – are rather excessively given to weeping
and squeezing one another’s hands. It is with some relief, however, that when
Mina asks them to promise that they will kill her should the vampire’s poison
take her too far along the road of diabolical transition, they are too emotional for tears. Oh, good.
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