As I mentioned before, I'm listening to Steve's videos from last year's Dracula read-aloud to accompany my own rereading of Dracula.
* I'm really glad I'm listening to Steve's commentary. I don't know who else I would ever have learned that "the blood is life" was a popular sales slogan in the 1890s. (Perhaps this information might show up in an annotated version of Dracula, but it certainly wasn't in my version.)
* Interesting to be reminded that the stereotype of Americans and guns goes back to the 19th century. (I mean, I had known that, of course, but I hadn't thought about it for a while, so it was interesting to be reminded of it, and to think about just how far back this gun problem goes.)
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