[UA] How many vampires are there?

Timothy Ferguson ferguson at beyond.net.au
Tue Jul 31 05:59:57 PDT 2001



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Royal Minister of Stuff
> There's one interesting scene in the movie.
> Willem Defoe's character, a real vampire recruited by
> Malkovitch's Murnau, expresses sadness over reading
> "Dracula."  He explains that Dracula had no servants
> when John Harker came to visit him and the combined
> humuliation and difficulty of waiting on someone all
> by himself must have nearly broken the ancient
> vampire's heart.

Stolen from R. Chetwynd-Hayes, who also points out that since Dracula served
fried food to Harker, at one time or another he must have worn a
pinafore/apron.

He does note the three sisters don't appear to be the domestic type...


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