Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely. And leave something of the happiness you bring.
Count Dracula
I liked this passage because it is interesting: when we receive somenone in our place we never say what we truly expect people to bring or do, but it is this: someone who comes because it wants, who goes safe with no harm and be happy while visiting.
Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me. If it does I'm lost.
Jonathan Harker
Fearing for his life, something is needed. Maybe just imagination so he's able to bear all the provations he faces.
(...) The Szekely (...) can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The warlike days are over. Blood it's to precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.
Count Dracula
Firts of all, I liked the expression « mushrooms growths», refering to the growth of the influency of the Hapsburgs and Romanoffs in Transylvania. Second, this is a perpective of a vampire about war ans conquests. We can figure out something about the character in this passage.
(...) it is wonderfull how small a matter will interest and amuse a man when he is a prisioner.
Jonathan Harker
The mere event and Triviality can have some interest to one who's outside world seems so far away. It's like our mentality changes and our reality changes.
(...) the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" can not kill
Jonathan Harker
The old centuries have the wisdom to show us our mistakes, to lead us to a better way. If we pay attention or not, that's another question.
(...) I ain't afraid of dyin' not a bit; only I don't want to die if I can help it.
Mr. Swales (I didn't introduced this character in the first log, but I can say now that is an old man who lives in Whitby and stays friends with Mina and Lucy while they are there)
Trying not to die is no synonym of being afraid of death; it's synonym of loving life and what ir brings. But death it's the ultimate destiny and no one should ever fear it; we would be fearing life itself, since death is part of it. We would fear every minute of our existence.
For life be, after all, only a waintin' for somethin' else than what we're doing'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
Mr. Swales
Life is a constant wainting. The only thing we are exactly certain is about death. It is the only thing we are positively sure that it's going to happen.
Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city can not enter into the feelings of the hunter.
Count Dracula
City was so apart from country side as it is now.
It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreing body an envolope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vise of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Dr. Seward
I just like this passage. Sometimes it happens. It says something more.
I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strengh give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
Lucy Westenra
We controle how we feel, and how we feel is how we see life and how he see ourselves and the others.
These are the passages and this is what they make me think. I reflected about each and one of them, and this was what it came up. Or, at least, some of it.
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