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   by echtroipolemos 3y ago

   In the Bram Stoker novel, Dracula is eventually killed, but at what cost? Harker must eventually drive a stake through his beloved Lucy. Dracula is a virus, not a man.
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   by echtroipolemos 3y ago

   "Self-poisoned in this fashion, civilization looks as though it might easily decline into a kind of premature senility." This is the Cartesian distinction between understanding and imagination. Imagination requires a peculiar effo
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   by echtroipolemos 3y ago

   "There have always been fourth-rate writers and dramatists; but their works, in the past, quickly died without getting beyond the boundaries of the city or the country in which they appeared. To-day, the inventions of the scenario-writ
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   by echtroipolemos 3y ago

   The material for Down and Out in Paris and London was due to his disgust and self-loathing which arose from his time serving as a lapdog of the Colonial Raj. Following his time as a dishwasher (plongeur) in Paris and the ensuing poverty - w