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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"
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Oh is that another daily dracula commentary blog? That's really cool! Will have to read through it some time.
I'd love to see if Brannan has an explanation for why he looks at 1892 for his Moon Phase. The analysis in The Dracula Project, as well as in my paper annotated copy, the most likely setting is 1893. IIRC though there was one passage where none of the years in a reasonable range (like 1889 to 1896 or something) fit the moon phase that Stoker had specified. So we shouldn't be too literal with that kind of element.
I am a very innocent person, I had no idea that “Dracula Daily” was an internet phenomenon and that there were numerous blogs, forums, etc. discussing it. I discovered this concept thanks to @pseudo@jlai.lu and you. Until now, I had only read half of the novel about 10 years ago and seen Eggers' Nosferatu.
I checked out his blog and found explanations here and there.
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6th september
I'm very glad you like it. I find it hard myself to keep the pace. But I hope to catch up on your all before the rentrée.
Que'est-ce que ce la rentree ?
La rentrée, c'est la fin des vacances ! On parle de "rentrée scolaire" pour les écoliers et étudiants et, par extension, ça s'applique aussi aux travailleurs. En ce moment, depuis début juillet, ce sont les "grandes vacances" en France. 2 mois de pause pour les écoliers. La rentrée aura lieu début septembre !
Ah, merci beaucoup ! Début septembre, c'est assez tard, non ? Quand j'étais à l'école (en vietnam, dans une école internationale avec un programme d'études britannique), nous commencions l'année scolaire au milieu août.
Les mois les plus chauds en France métropolitaine sont juillet et août, ce sont toujours les deux mois des "grandes vacances" ou vacances d'été. Et la rentrée a toujours lieu autour du 3 septembre pour les scolaires, fin septembre en général pour les étudiants universitaires. Mais je crois que les établissements scolaires français à l'étranger s'adaptent un peu en fonction du climat local.
Back to school time, also back to the non-summer life style, with usually more work and more predictable/less flexible schedule. Idk a proper english translation.
Yeah I don't think we have a concise word for it. Just "the end of the holidays" or "the start of school"or something like that.
Well in France, it is a big event in the year even for families without children. And for families with children the school calendar is even more important than the civil calendar.
It is my very personal opinion that we should move the beginning of the year to September. That won't stop people to party the 1st January anyway but it would reflect much better the rhythm of life throughout the year.
Honestly if it weren't for you and others sharing them, I wouldn't have known that it was a whole phenomenon, either. I knew about the OG Dracula Daily email list, but I didn't realise how many different people were doing public commentaries on it.
Interesting that this particular person seems to have arrived at a date on their own, based on phases of the moon. Completely independent of most of the analysis out there that puts it just 1 year later than where they put it.