Dracula Readthrough 2025, 8 July
Dracula Readthrough 2025, 8 July
CHAPTER VI
Dr. Seward's Diary.
8 July.---There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration! you will have to give the wall to your conscious brother. I kept away from my friend for a few days, so that I might notice if there were any change. Things remain as they were except that he has parted with some of his pets and got a new one. He has managed to get a sparrow, and has already partially tamed it. His means of taming is simple, for already the spiders have diminished. Those that do remain, however, are well fed, for he still brings in the flies by tempting them with his food.
This has real There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly energy to it. Perhaps...
And we're off until the 18th.
I love to hear about english nursery rymes. It is very interesting this one remind me of the less grim "le fermier dans son pré". But this french nursery ryme doesn't look anything like what is happening in the book.
Oh we have The Farmer in the Dell too!
But yeah, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is quite a bit darker.
And from there it continues building in that manner, adding cat, dog, goat, cow, and, finally, the final verse is (in full):