0:38 to chapter nine and
0:40 and
0:42 we go straight in following on from the
0:44 last chapter where we know that Lucy's
0:47 condition is deteriorating. We have a
0:50 telegram to begin with opening from Dr.
0:53 sewed. And
0:56 there's concern there. Actually, that's
0:57 that's actually a letter. Sorry, not a
0:59 telegram. I thought it looked a bit long
1:02 for a telegram. There's a letter there.
1:04 And you'll notice this corresponds with
1:06 the dates for the last chapter as well.
1:09 So, Lucy's condition has gone back a bit
1:11 and is expressing his concerns about
1:13 Lucy's health there.
1:16 And then we have Dr. Seid's diary. So
1:20 he's a bit more open about
1:23 what actually he was saying in the
1:25 letter. You get a bit of self-reference
1:27 here to that other document obviously
1:32 that Stoke has created. So
1:34 have you said have you said anything to
1:36 our young friend the lover of her from
1:38 Van Housing there? No. I said I waited
1:40 till I'd seen you as I said in my
1:41 telegram. I wrote him a letter simply
1:43 telling him that you were coming as Miss
1:45 Western row is not so well and that I
1:48 should let him know if need be.
1:50 So, not being completely open with the
1:53 full extent of how concerned they are
1:56 Lucy's health,
1:59 then he has um
2:01 some thoughts about
2:03 so Van Helsing does have some ideas
2:05 about what's going on, but he's deliberately
2:07 deliberately avoiding
2:09 avoiding
2:12 saying what it is. So, we have some
2:13 circumlication here, which is
2:14 deliberately kind of talking around. I
2:17 have for myself fortunate or present
2:20 later I shall unfold to you and also
2:22 that's the stoker creating some suspense
2:25 for us in terms of Van Helin's idioelect
2:28 notice how when he uses vocative here of
2:31 he uses evocative of my friend John he
2:33 tends to address that as an affectionate
2:37 vocative to his friends my my friend
2:40 part of his ide and stoker presents Van
2:43 Helsing as he's the foil to Dracula
2:46 whereas Dracula is the dangerous, scary
2:48 foreigner. You've got Van Helsing here
2:52 is the is the friendly, kind, heroic,
3:00 So, how hard I did this, it made me
3:02 laugh. I did not see the application and
3:04 told him so for reply, he reached over
3:06 and took my took my ear in his hand and
3:09 pulled it playfully as he used as he
3:11 used long ago to do at least. Can't
3:13 imagine many lectures where you get your
3:15 ears pulled. But I think as Stoker is
3:18 meant to say, it's the nature of the the
3:20 nature of the man. He's an unusual he's
3:23 an unusual
3:26 master and teacher and expert and
3:29 scientist, isn't he? He's not he's not typical.
3:31 typical.
3:33 He uses this big analogy here about
3:35 basically explaining why he's not saying
3:38 everything that his ideas yet in this
3:41 section here.
3:43 And then this was I highlighted this for
3:45 the idi as well. You you were only
3:48 student then. Now you are master and I
3:52 trust a good habit have not fail. So you
3:55 see Stoker leaves out words. So he uses
4:02 that creates more of the idioct. And
4:04 then over the page,
4:07 Stoker raises more tension in terms of
4:14 Heling's face grew set as marble. His
4:15 eyebrows converged till they almost
4:18 touched over his nose.
4:20 Lucy made lay motionless and did not
4:21 seem to have strength to speak. So yeah,
4:23 so Stoke is building up the level of
4:26 suspense here.
4:29 This is ironic line here as well. She
4:31 will die for sheer want of blood to keep
4:33 the heart's action as it should be.
4:35 There must be transfusion of blood at
4:38 once. Is it you or me? So
4:40 So
4:43 blood transfusions, new technology at
4:45 the end of the 19th century and they
4:47 didn't really know about blood groups.
4:50 So they had a big hit and miss success
4:52 rate. They would just sometimes think,
4:54 oh yeah, this is brilliant. It's working
4:56 so well and then let's try it on this
4:58 patient. Oh, they died. Oh, and then
4:59 eventually they realize about blood
5:01 groups, but at this point they didn't.
5:04 So, it's another one of these high tech
5:06 juxositions with the arcane powers of Dracula,
5:09 Dracula,
5:11 but she also does need blood. She's
5:13 going to need blood when you know what's
5:17 coming up. Well, maybe you don't. But
5:20 anyway, Arthur also joins them at this
5:22 point because he said, "I I read between
5:24 the lines of your letter."
5:27 So, he could tell that something was up.
5:28 Sher, you have come in time. You are the
5:31 lover of our dear miss. She is bad.
5:34 Very, very bad.
5:37 So Arthur has arrived to help out as
5:39 well. Tell me and I shall do it. My life
5:41 is hers and I would give the last drop
5:44 of blood in my body for her. So he is
5:46 going to be the donor. There's this
5:48 humorous line for Van Hel. My young sir,
5:50 I do not ask so much as that. Not the
5:54 last. So he's got this kind of dark
5:56 humor that Stoker gives him as a character.
6:01 She wants blood and blood she must have
6:03 or die. And that obviously that's a link
6:05 to vampirism as well, but obviously
6:06 needs blood as part of the blood
6:15 Then we have some sortification. Her
6:17 eyes spoke to us. That was all. That's
6:19 when Lucy's they go to see Lucy and she's
6:21 she's
6:23 ill there. He mixed the narcotic and
6:24 coming over to the bed said cheerily,
6:27 "Now little Mish, here is your medicine.
6:30 Drink it off like a good child. See, I
6:32 lift you so that you swallow is easy."
6:35 Yes, she made the effort with success.
6:38 So, giving her some medicine to try and
6:40 make her pass out. I haven't got too
6:42 much else to say. I mean, there are
6:43 other things. I'll just try and cover
6:47 the things that jump out to me. Then
6:48 Lucy was sleeping gently, but her
6:49 breathing was stronger. I could see the
6:52 counter pain move as her breast heaved.
6:54 By the bedside, sat van helicucular intently.
6:56 intently.
6:58 This is when they noticed that the marks
6:59 on her throat. What do you make of that
7:02 mark on her throat? What do you make of
7:03 it? I've not examined it yet, I
7:08 answered. What have you been doing?
7:11 Come on, Dr. Seid.
7:13 Van Helig goes back to Amsterdam. I've
7:16 said before about most adaptations, Van
7:19 Helsig comes in as a know he knows very
7:22 quickly that it's a vampire. In the
7:24 novel, he has to check he goes back to
7:27 Amsterdam and goes back and checks his
7:29 books and then comes back and but you
7:31 can understand why in films and TV
7:33 versions they cut that step out just
7:37 because it slows things down basically.
7:42 Then we have more from Dr. Sue's diary.
7:45 Lucy herself says she's afraid to go to sleep.
7:46 sleep.
7:48 Afraid to go to sleep. Why so? It's the
7:50 boon we all crave for. People don't use
7:52 the word boon enough. It's great as in
7:55 benefit. Ah, not if you were like me. If
7:59 sleep was to you a pre of horror.
8:00 Precage of horror. What on earth do you
8:03 mean? Well, of course, irony for we know
8:07 that Dracula is around and Dracula has
8:11 been drinking her blood every night.
8:13 A telegram came from Van Helsing at
8:14 Amsterdam while I was at dinner
8:15 suggesting I should be at Hinningham
8:17 tonight as it might be well to be at
8:18 hand and stating that he was leaving by
8:21 the nightmare would join me early in the
8:23 morning. So again, they're going to go back
8:25 back
8:26 because Van Helsing has presumably
8:28 discovered and confirmed his suspicions
8:30 about vampirism. go back and attend to Lucy.
8:38 And I didn't put too much on this page
8:40 actually, but again, you might find
8:41 things that you want to talk about
8:45 yourself. And
8:46 as I passed over, he moved back in his
8:48 exclamation of horror. God in him, which
8:50 is weird because he's Dutch and that's
8:53 German. So that's I think just Stoker
8:55 probably putting that in saying it
8:56 sounds foreign and maybe no one will notice.
9:06 even the lips were whiter, the gums seem
9:08 to have shrunken back from the teeth as
9:09 we sometimes see in a corpse after a
9:11 prolonged illness.
9:14 So again, this is just foreshadowing
9:16 becoming a vampire.
9:18 It's not too late. It beats though
9:20 feebly. All our work is undone. We must
9:22 begin again. There is no young Arthur
9:24 here now. I have to call on you yourself
9:27 this time, friend John. So more donating
9:28 of blood.
9:30 And then this to another kind of
9:33 contextual point here because if our
9:35 young lover should turn up unexpected as
9:37 before, no word to him, it would have
9:39 once frightened him and in jealous him
9:42 too. There must be none. So, so what
9:45 this is is this comes from
9:48 really like a historic
9:53 thinking about how blood works and the
9:55 what blood actually is and what it means
9:58 and the spirituality connected to blood
10:02 and the idea of Arthur is engaged to
10:05 Lucy and when they get married they kind
10:09 of become in the eyes of the church, in
10:11 the eyes of God, in the idea of the
10:13 culture of the time would be that they
10:17 are of one body effectively. So the
10:20 mixing of blood it's there's actually a
10:23 kind of indirect kind of sexual
10:24 connotation because this would be their
10:26 relationship would be again I've got to
10:29 remember this on YouTube consummated on
10:33 their wedding night and so anyway look
10:35 you know I'm sure you can work
10:37 everything out you can put the pieces
10:41 together as it as it were and
10:43 so that's why Arthur would be possibly
10:45 jealous because blood transfusions is a
10:50 new a new thing and and in the Bible it
10:53 can be interpreted as saying that that
10:54 shouldn't be done in that way which is
10:56 Jehovah's Witnesses interpret the Bible
10:59 like that um you know you know to this
11:03 day and there other religions obviously
11:04 there's lots of cultural symbolism
11:07 connected to blood so you can see the
11:10 kind of the kind of cultural DNA of
11:14 where this idea has come from
11:16 and it adds again a level of suspense,
11:18 but it also there's a there's a thing
11:21 here because obviously Dr. Seard also
11:24 proposed to Lucy as well. So they're all
11:26 being connected these men al together
11:28 kind of through Lucy effectively as
11:30 their blood is going into her. There's
11:34 an irony here because the um the mother
11:35 says you want a wife to nurse and look
11:38 after you bit that you do. As she spoke,
11:43 though it was only momentarily for her
11:45 poor wasted veins could not stand for
11:49 long such an unwanted drain to the head.
11:54 Okay, so let's continue. And
11:56 And
12:01 Van Helsing puts loads of garlic around
12:04 Lucy's room.
12:06 I put him in your window. Oh, I make
12:07 pretty wreath and hang him around your
12:10 neck so that you sleep well. Oh yes,
12:12 they like the lotus flower. Make your
12:14 trouble forgotten. It smells so like the
12:16 waters of leather and of that fountain
12:18 of youth that the concistador is thought
12:20 sought for in the Florida and find them
12:23 all too late. So the lotus flower that's
12:25 really like thinking about opium and the
12:27 waters of leather is the river of the
12:29 undead that they would drink, you know,
12:33 in for ancient Rome. the idea of the uh
12:35 going to the afterlife and in the
12:37 underworld, they drink from the river,
12:38 the water from the river, and it makes
12:44 But it's actually garlic, which of
12:47 course we all know,
12:48 we all know, I pressed the wrong button
12:51 there for a second. We all know is part
12:53 of the vampire claw and the mythology of
12:54 it as well. But again, it would seem
12:57 unusual here. I doubt that the
12:58 contemporary readers would really have a
13:02 knowledge of of that really.
13:05 Van Halo say no trifling with me. I
13:07 never jest. There is grim purpose in all
13:09 I do and I warn you that you do not
13:12 thwart me. So he's always he's serious
13:14 about what he does and he actually
13:16 alarms Lucy there. So Stoke takes him as
13:20 this is definitely this quirky unusual
13:24 but you know genius character.
13:25 And then we got more efforts to the
13:28 garlic smell. and
13:29 and
13:31 he makes a wreath to go around. This
13:34 obviously all designed to ward off
13:36 Dracula's attentions.
13:38 So that's it really for the chapter.
13:40 That's quite a short chapter actually.
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