Ch. 21 - 27: Dracula - by Bram Stoker
Please use this thread to discuss Chapters 21 - 27 of Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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Is this alliteration simply pleasant sounding or indicative of something revelatory? Is Van Helsing a counterpart to Drac in some way? More so than a nemesis?Our old fox is wily; oh; so wily, and we must follow with wile. I too am wily and I think his mind in a little while.
Just isolating this for now.With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city. What does he do? He find out the place of all the world most of promise for him. Then he deliberately set himself down to prepare for the task. He find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers. He study new tongues. He learn new social life; new environment of old ways, the politic, the law, the finance, the science, the habit of a new land and a new people who have come to be since he was. His glimpse that he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his desire.
Nay, it help him to grow as to his brain; for it all prove to him how right he was at the first in his surmises. He have done this alone; all alone! from a ruin tomb in a forgotten land.
What more may he not do when the greater world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death, as we know him; who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole peoples. Oh, if such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.