The Planet

"You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup."

you might ask yourself, what did Dracula have for dinner,

but not

Spoiler

what sup

May 5th: https://draculadaily.substack.com/p/dra ... -5-08e?s=r

Jonathan Harker is trying to convince us just a little too much that he didn't eat anything weird or drink too much. "I ate perfectly normally, just like you'd eat cat at home and only a couple of glasses of wine."

I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out. I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were "Ordog"—Satan, "pokol"—hell, "stregoica"—witch,

So this is why travel dictionaries always have these weird example sentences like "don't go to the scary castle filled with vampires" and "quickly coach driver, get me the hell out of here."

all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me. With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.

I think he just went to a rock concert, honestly.

Jonathan Harker wouldn't know danger if a whole village warned him about it.

I don't know if Dracula really going out there and putting on a fake beard and pretending to be his own coach driver is supposed to be funny, but it is.

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 10:27 pm

Jonathan Harker is trying to convince us just a little too much that he didn't eat anything weird or drink too much. "I ate perfectly normally, just like you'd eat cat at home and only a couple of glasses of wine."

I looked up what "London cat's meat" actually was, apparently London used to have door to door "cat meat's men," who sold scraps of (mostly horse) meat "too old or diseased to sell to humans," but still good for a cat or dog to eat.

Cats had milkmen, but for meat! What a life!

This does not clarify to me exactly what Jonny's on about. Does he eat cat food at home? Odd man.

(He's definitely trying too hard, though.)

Hey, Slivovitz, I've had that!

Alex wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 10:34 pm

I looked up what "London cat's meat" actually was, apparently London used to have door to door "cat meat's men," who sold scraps of (mostly horse) meat "too old or diseased to sell to humans," but still good for a cat or dog to eat.

Cats had milkmen, but for meat! What a life!

This does not clarify to me exactly what Jonny's on about. Does he eat cat food at home? Odd man.

(He's definitely trying too hard, though.)

I *think* he's saying it wasn't very good so he didn't have that much meaning he wouldn't have had weird nightmares, because some people claim overeating causes bad dreams, ie this really happened.

Ooh, I should mention, there is a short story called "Dracula's Guest" that Bram Stoker wrote that was probably initially the first chapter of Dracula, but was removed for not being necessary to the story.

It involves Jonathan Harker, unnamed in the story, ignoring the helpful advice of his hotel owner not to go out on a cursed day, as he is one to do, with spooky consequences.

It's part of a short story collection called Dracula's Guest and Other Weird stories. You can read it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula%27s_Guest

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 10:53 pm

Ooh, I should mention, there is a short story called "Dracula's Guest" that Bram Stoker wrote that was probably initially the first chapter of Dracula, but was removed for not being necessary to the story.

It involves Jonathan Harker, unnamed in the story, ignoring the helpful advice of his hotel owner not to go out on a cursed day, as he is one to do, with spooky consequences.

It's part of a short story collection called Dracula's Guest and Other Weird stories. You can read it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula%27s_Guest

Ooh. No Dracula tomorrow, I think, I can read this instead.

Alex wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 11:09 pm

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 10:53 pm

Ooh, I should mention, there is a short story called "Dracula's Guest" that Bram Stoker wrote that was probably initially the first chapter of Dracula, but was removed for not being necessary to the story.

It involves Jonathan Harker, unnamed in the story, ignoring the helpful advice of his hotel owner not to go out on a cursed day, as he is one to do, with spooky consequences.

It's part of a short story collection called Dracula's Guest and Other Weird stories. You can read it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula%27s_Guest

Ooh. No Dracula tomorrow, I think, I can read this instead.

Walpurgis Night is the night of April 30 to May 1st, so if I had known about this before I would've read it that day, but alas.

I've been laughing at the idea of Dracula putting on a fake beard and going out there to pretend to be his own coach driver and now I'm going to be disappointed if we don't see him put on a French maid outfit to dust Jonathan's room or put on beanie propeller hat to pretend to be the stable boy or ... in the next journal entries.

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Thu 05 May, 2022, 11:15 pm

I've been laughing at the idea of Dracula putting on a fake beard and going out there to pretend to be his own coach driver and now I'm going to be disappointed if we don't see him put on a French maid outfit to dust Jonathan's room or put on beanie propeller hat to pretend to be the stable boy or ... in the next journal entries.

"I must admit, Count Dracula's castle is terrifically well-staffed," Jonathan said.

"I'll say," said Dracula, panting after his umpteenth costume change twenty minutes into the castle tour, not entirely sure if he's wearing the stable boy beanie or the chef's hat.