Happy birthday, bertine! Have an awesome day!!

I reread Bram Stoker's Dracula last month, finishing right around Halloween. This is possibly the most chilling paragraph in the book (in my opinion), especially considering the monstrous aspects of Stoker's vampires, as well as the very real idea of damnation in the book:

from Jonathan Harker's journal, 3 October:

"To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks."

Also, Van Helsing is very DRAMATIC. It'd been quite a while since I last read this book; I'd kind of forgotten.

Anyway, Susan demands my attention; also, she says Dracula scares her so I should quit talking about it. In order to make her feel better I'll use my Chococat icon, which she secretly adores but would never admit to.