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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1184445" data-attributes="member: 8447">Quote and notations drawn from Leonard Wolf's The Annotated Dracula (Ballantine Books, NY, 1975), which is based on the second printing of the 1st edition of Draculap.156-7Mina Harker's Journal22 September"We came back to town quietly, taking a 'bus to Hyde Park Corner.  Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so we sat down; but there were very few empty chairs.  It made us think of the empty chair at home; so we got up and walked down Piccadilly.  Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days, before I went to school.  I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedanry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us -- and we didn't care if they did -- so on we walked.  I was looking at a very beautiful girl, in a big cartwheel hat, sitting in a victoria outside Giuliano's, when I felt Jonathan clutch my arm so tight that he hurt me, and he said under his breath:  "My God!"  I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I feat that some nervous fit may upset him again; so I turned to him quickly, and asked him what it was that disturbed him."He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed bear, who was also observing the pretty girl.  He was looking at her so hard that he did not see either of us, so I had a good view of him.  His face was not a good face; it was hard, and crule, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal's.  Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice.  I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.  I asked Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently thinking that I knew as much about it as he did:  "Did you not see how it is?"""No, dear," I said; "I don't know him; who is it?"  His answer seemed to shock and thrill me, for it was said as if he did not know that it was me, Mina, to whome he was speaking: --""It is the man himself!""Wolf notes as follows:  (note 8) "It should also be noted that here, once again, we see Dracula abroad in daylight.  This will happen still another time in Stoker's story, though, interestingly enough, the film industry has taken it as dogma that a vampire cannot stir abroad by day."  (emphasis was Wolf's)I am looking to find the exact other passages in the book, but I took a class on "The Literature of Horror" where we delved into the fact that Dracula, by the book, could and did show up three times in the daylight in the book.</blockquote>

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