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
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