Comments | dracula1897: Dr Seward's phonograph diary, spoken by Van Helsing

van_helsing1897 in dracula1897

Dr Seward's phonograph diary, spoken by Van Helsing

Oct 04, 2006 13:17

This to Jonathan Harker.

You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search - if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her today. ( This is your best and most holiest office... )

van helsing, diary, letter, seward

Comments 6

heavenscalyx October 4 2006, 14:49:48 UTC

Wouldn't it just have been a kick in VH's pants if Drac had prepared for the possibility of being driven out of England by, say, buying a chateau in France and running there instead of back to Transylvania?

ninja_jen October 4 2006, 18:30:59 UTC

Yes, a very hard, direct, swift kick ^_^

elettaria October 4 2006, 19:03:31 UTC

What a bizarre way to leave a message.

daundelyon October 4 2006, 19:13:55 UTC

I'd say it was about the same as leaving a message on an answering machine or voice mail. Whether or not anyone could understand it might be open for debate. VH's language gets weird when he's anxious.

elettaria October 4 2006, 19:40:31 UTC

I think it's that VH's language gets weird when Stoker remembers to make it weird, he went through a stretch of perfect English the other day.

It's not really like voice mail, although listening to it would be similar in some ways, because people check their voice mail for messages. They tend not to check other people's diaries for messages. I can only assume that Mina was slated to do some more writing up of Seward's diary and he banked on her not doing it until he was safely away.

Accent gwydiontinker October 8 2006, 03:52:03 UTC

This bit is easily the most grammatically butchered bit of this so far. It is also the first sound for sound transcript of VH himself and not what other people said he said. That said, (sorry) someone posted the suggestion somewhere a while back that others were translating his meanings. I think that is entirely the case and this is what he really sounds like all the time.