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- From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
- Subject: Re: symbolism?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.003835.13548@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
- Organization: t.b
- References: <1993Jan26.201008.76703@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:38:35 GMT
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- jjh4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JANE HORVATH) writes:
- > i'm in the middle of reading bram stoker's dracula (can't afford to go
- > see it) and i can't help but notice how often stoker tells of his
- > characters' bathroom habits. first, dracula tells his guest to go 'make
- > a toilet' before he may eat. later, lucy is described as 'making her
- > nightly toilet' before she goes to bed. i can't quite understand the
- > importance yet, but i'm sure it will tie in somewhere.
-
- That's because when all is said and
- done and we get down to brass tacks you're
- just a newbie, even if you *are* qool enough
- to post that you like suppositories.
-
- Ok, here's your homework:
-
- 1. Obviously, dracula must be spying on
- everyone who 'makes a toilet' and is
- doing so to see whether they _____ or
- ___ when they ____.
-
- > i'm waiting to see if dracula himself will 'make a toilet'.
-
- 2. Yeah, well so is everyone else in t.b.
- because we want to find out whether
- he ______ or ____ when he _____.
-
- --Starcap'n Ra, {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
- oh, and by the {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
- way, nobody gets ^---------------The Wrong Choice
- an A around here internet: kennedy@asuvax.asu.edu
- unless they go down
-