Oh my gawd...I forgot that important tidbit. They play on it in Vampire
2000, I think. A long scene for an intro, where they pan the cam all over
the rat-infested, I mean vap-infested, ship.
Terrie
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Carley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Caedmon, Whitby and reality, or otherwise.
> Hi Terrie, in the original Bram Stoker the Count turns up on a sort of
> wrecked plague ship in Whitby harbour - it gives onto the North Sea and
had
> shipping connections with the Baltic once upon a time.
>
> Nowadays a guy in a top hat takes you on the Ghost Walk at dusk around the
> town J
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tlrelf" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 03 October 2001 04:45
> Subject: Re: Caedmon, Whitby and reality, or otherwise.
>
>
> I really like this one, John. I'm trying to figure out the
> nonparenthetical
> part of the title though. Perhaps I need to read up on the Caedmon and
> Hild
> references? When I think of "donuts", I think of police officers.
> Dracula,
> well, any blood suckers will do. Metaphoric plus traditional vamps.
> It's an expansive scene, this. You've certainly covered lots of
territory.
>
> <snip>
> > Donuts and Dracula (Whitby and Chips)
> >
> > we join the queue
> > trip
> > on the cobbles
> > claim we're not afraid
> > of the gaps in the pier
> >
> > we stand by the cross
> > at the top of the steps
> > and I give a lecture
> > on Caedmon
> > and Hild
> >
> > somewhere
> > beyond the sea mist
> > beyond the flit
> > of the butterfly's wing
> > and the peal of Easter bells
> > lazers are guiding
> > policy
> > maybe
> > nobody seems too sure
> >
> > we shrug
> > dodge a wasp
> > comment on the sautéed squid
> > have another pint
> > of iffy beer
> >
> > on the hill
> > the rose window
> > frames another wodge of sky
> > only costs a fiver
> > for the lot
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