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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: symbolism?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:30:36 GMT
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301270030.42@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1993Jan26.201008.76703@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.201008.76703@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> 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. i'm waiting to see if dracula himself will 'make a toilet'.
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- It was considered relaxing, in those days, to make useful objects out of
- porcelain.
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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