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I went & looked, Candice, it's in Section Five, What the Thunder Said.... Doug On 31-Mar-07, at 9:39 AM, MC Ward wrote: > Thanks for tracking this down, Doug. I have no memory > of reading it in _The Waste Land_, but it's definitely > a Drakool reference. > > Candice > > ... the truly essential question, which is, of course, > what does a single housefly _mean_? > (Barbara Hambly) > > > > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I had to go back & find Dominic's friend's blog & >> its reference to >> another, in which this was posted: >> >> << "And there's a passage in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste >> Land" which on his >> own admission was influenced by Stoker's novel: >> 'And bats with baby faces in the violet light >> Whistled and beat their wings >> And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.'" >> >> In fact, in an early draft of the poem (which I ran >> across in a >> scholarly work while researching a college essay), >> those three lines >> are a specific evocation of the Count scaling his >> own castle's walls: >> "A man contorted by some mental blight / Yet of >> abnormal powers / I saw >> him creep head-downwards down a wall..." >> >> And upside down in air were towers.>> >> >> WIth an 'of course' implied for all of us who hadn't >> noticed... >> >> Doug >> On 30-Mar-07, at 9:34 AM, MC Ward wrote: >> >>> What reference to Dracula in The Waste Land? >>> >>> Intrigued, >>> Candice >> Douglas Barbour >> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW >> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 >> (780) 436 3320 >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> >> >> No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for >> the beholder, no >> symphony for the listener. >> >> Walter Benjamin >> > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ > 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time > with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Walter Benjamin