Letter, Abraham Van Helsing, M.D., D.Ph., D.Lit., etc., etc., to Dr Seward

[van_helsing1897]

2 September.

My good Friend, -

When I received your letter I am already coming to you. By good fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have trusted me.

Comments

[stokerbramwell]

Man, look at that list of degrees. And yet Dracula still speaks English better than he does.

[elettaria]

DRACULA: Ah, my beloved! Let me drink your blood! Drink mine in return and you will enter into eternal life!
SHRINKING MAIDEN: Eternal life?
DRACULA: Well, for certain values of "life". You may have to spend eternity locked in my decaying castle, although I do have some rather cute chicks you can hang out with.
SHRINKING MAIDEN: Nah, doesn't really appeal, I've got a deadline this week.
DRACULA: But you will gain access to my wondrous library and you will magically learn to speak faultless English, albeit with a seductive Eastern European accent!
SHRINKING MAIDEN: Do I get a research grant?
DRACULA: I suppose so.
SHRINKING MAIDEN: You're on.

[stokerbramwell]

I would respond to that lovely bit of wittiness, but I am far too transfixed by your icon. Whence comes the quote?

[elettaria]

Google it, and then, for additional fun, try running the site through Regender. Are you ready to accept Jessica Christ into your heart?

[sulinpanda]

SHRINKING MAIDEN: Do I get a research grant?

THAT'S hilarious!

[vito_excalibur]

You may have to spend eternity locked in my decaying castle

And this differs from grad school how?

[skaryma]

The castle is probably more comfortable.

[elettaria]

Yes, my postgrad place is hundreds of years old with no central heating and really horrible lighting.

[vgnwtch]

I'm reminded of the Frodo as grad student and Gandalf as committee chair email that was going around my academic friends' inboxes...

[chateaudyquem]

let me see, it's doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of literature?

heh, well, dracula's had a bit more time to learn than van helsing, i dare say :)

a nice parallel there, that at one instance sucking of a wound is helpful...

[vgnwtch]

Man, look at that list of degrees. And yet Dracula still speaks English better than he does.

Experience tells me that an abundance of qualifications is no guarantor of good English; and why ought it to be? :)

Plus, Dracula has been alive for centuries - do we know how long he's been learning English?