I love what you do with "stakes," Mark.
It's another curiosity that the same kind of sharpened
wooden stake is used both by humans, to kill a
_vampire_ , and (in Vlad's case) used by a vampire to
torture and kill his (presumably human) enemies.
Candice
--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yup--vamp is short for vampire. A vamp theoretically
> could suck the
> life out of a man. First applied to Theodora Barra I
> think.
>
> In the days before electric razors vampires must
> have shaved when
> they first woke up, before they hunted. Otherwise,
> since they can't
> use mirrors, it would have been a bloody mess.
>
> Invite no one in.
> Your friend
> could be a vampire.
>
> High stakes,
> low stakes,
> one sure stake for me.
>
> At 01:35 PM 2/28/2007, you wrote:
> >Joanna
> >Are vamps related to vampires??
> >Sounds a good thread though
> >P de P
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue
> relating to poetry and
> >poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Joanna Boulter
> >Sent: 28 February 2007 16:17
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler
> >
> >But hasn't anyone written any vampire poems? And if
> not, why not?
> >
> >Just a thought.
> >
> >joanna
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:40 PM
> >Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler
> >
> >
> > > I'd love to see your course list, Doug--thank
> you, and
> > > I wish I could take a course like yours.
> However, it
> > > would be hard for me, as usual, to avoid the
> "Zizak
> > > problem" of staying on text. No matter what I
> see/read
> > > of the "reimaginings of _Dracula_, I eventually
> end up
> > > back with Stoker and, in my Signet Classic
> edition,
> > > the fine introduction by Leonard Woolf.
> > >
> > > Now, we'd better get back to poetry, as Joe has
> gently
> > > suggested, and leave other things to the "shadow
> > > world" of the back channel.
> > >
> > > Candice
> > >
> > > My great hope in making this story public is
> that it
> > > will find at least one reader who will
> understand it
> > > for what it actually is: a cri de coeur. To you,
> > > perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
> > > (Elizabeth Kostova)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for this, Candice; I'll keep a look out
> for
> > >> it.
> > >>
> > >> I'm just a bit of a reader of vampire fiction
> (& a
> > >> big, but not really
> > >> fannish, fan of Buffy). And the last English
> course
> > >> I taught, in my
> > >> retirement year, was a senior course on popular
> > >> culture titled
> > >> Twentieth Century Vampires, which took in a
> long
> > >> 20th century as we
> > >> began with some short fiction & Dracula from
> the
> > >> 1890s.
> > >>
> > >> There are a couple of novels, highly
> > >> erotic/romantic, starring Mina, &
> > >> Dracula's last sister, that take the original
> story
> > >> further, Mina &
> > >> Blood to Blood.
> > >>
> > >> If you'd like to see my course list, I'd be
> happy to
> > >> send it b/c.
> > >>
> > >> Doug
> > >> On 27-Feb-07, at 10:01 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Doug (and others who may be interested in the
> > >> > narrative strategies used to recover--or
> > >> recuperate-
> > >> > the history as well as the new "reimaginings"
> of
> > >> the
> > >> > Dracula legend), there's a new novel out
> called
> > >> > (unfortunately, in my opinion) _Fangland_ by
> John
> > >> > Marks. This time the Dracula material is set
> in
> > >> the
> > >> > world of broadcast journalism, where
> "Evangeline
> > >> > Harker" (presumably the daughter or
> granddaughter
> > >> of
> > >> > Jonathan and Mina) works as a producer. The
> novel
> > >> > begins with her journals, as Stoker's does
> with
> > >> > Harker's journal, apart from a brief foreword
> by
> > >> one
> > >> > James Malley that is similar to Stoker's.
> Malley
> > >> > begins by saying that "the following
> document" was
> > >> > "generated in the spirit of the 9-11
> Commission
> > >> > Report," which gives you some idea of its
> > >> deliberately
> > >> > contemporary basis. Again, there are several
> > >> > speakers/writers competing for the "I"
> position.
> > >> > "James Malley" also says in his foreword that
> the
> > >> book
> > >> > is "an heir to the great novels of the
> realism of
> > >> the
> > >> > nineteenth century, a Tolstoyan account of
> > >> calamity."
> > >> >
> > >> > That's all I can tell you about _Fangland_,
> which
> > >> I
> > >> > acquired at my local library just today. (I
> also
> > >> > ordered _Children of the Night_--on the basis
> of
> > >> > Doug's recommendation--thanks for the tip.)
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm curious, Doug, about your interest in
> this
> > >> > material. Can you say something about that?
> > >> >
> > >> > Candice
> > >> >
> > >> > There is throughout no statement of past
> things
> > >> > wherein memory may err...
> > >> > (Bram Stoker)
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
>
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