[[Bram Stoker]] [[lit/kindle/Dracula|Highlights]] I was fortunate to finish reading Bram Stoker's Dracula just as Robert Egger's adaptation of Nosferatu hit theaters. I didn't sleep for two nights after watching the film at Sie in Denver. I found the book initially difficult to read given its format as a found collection of letters and diary entries (the original Blair Witch?), but once the action started to pick up the story became more fluid and the characters more cemented in my mind. The book--published in 1897, during the Victorian era-- is ultimately (for me) an allegory about the rise of science and the wisdom we might leave behind. As Dafoe's character Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz (inspired by the character Van Helsing in the book), puts it so well: > I have witnessed things that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb... We have become so much enlightened as we have been blinded by the gaseous light of science.