Saturday, September 28, 2024

Dracula, The Hunters' Journals: 28 September; Seward's Diary

Dr. Seward reflects on Van Helsing's ideas.

Dracula - The Hunters' Journals


Dr. Seward’s Diary.

28 September.—It is wonderful what a good night’s sleep will do for one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. I have no doubt that he believes it all. I wonder if his mind can have become in any way unhinged. Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things. Is it possible that the Professor can have done it himself? He is so abnormally clever that if he went off his head he would carry out his intent with regard to some fixed idea in a wonderful way. I am loath to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van Helsing was mad; but anyhow I shall watch him carefully. I may get some light on the mystery.

Notes: Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

So Seward thinks Van Helsing is crazy. That is a reasonable assumption, really.

By the way. Today was the day Lucy and Arthur were to be married. 

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