Dracula [Part 1]

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m. on the 1st of May arriving at Vienna early next morning should have arrived at 646 but train was an hour late Budapest wait Budapest I'm sorry I'm an American I'm sorry any Europeans watching Budapest seems like a wonderful place from the glimpse of what I which I got of it in the train and the little I could walk through the streets I feared to go very far from the station as we arrived a late and I feared to go very far from the station as we arrived too late and would start near the correct time as possible start as near the correct time as possible by the way in case you haven't noticed I'm doing this very casually the impression I had was that we were very that we were leaving the West and entering the East the most Western of splendid bridges over the dam De Nube De Nube De Nube De Nube sorry which is which is here of noble width and depth took us among the traditions of Turkish rule okay we're gonna need to do oh sorry I just slammed into the mic sorry we're gonna have to we're gonna have a little bit of an establishing thing I'll try to be better about it but I am NOT going to take this that seriously I want it to be fun and this is a 327 page book also I've never read Dracula so this is exact this is the first time for me as well anyway we left in pretty good time and came after nightfall took oh no no we left in pretty good time and came after nightfall to Klassenburg I hope I pronounce that well here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale I had for dinner or rather supper a chicken done up some way with a red pepper which was very good but thirsty mem get recipe for Mina I asked the waiter and he said it was called paprika hendel and that as it was a national dish I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians I hope I pronounce that right I'm sorry I'm doing my best I promise except I'm not even trying I again I won't I'm going through this for the first time and I want this to actually show I found my very smattering of German very useful through very useful here indeed I don't know how I should be oh my god I'm just gonna redo that I found my smattering of German very useful here indeed I don't know how I should be able to get on without it having some time at my disposal when in London I had visited the British Museum and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania and it struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country just on the borders of three states Transylvania Moldavia and Bokovina oh my god Oh Bokovina in the midst of the Carpathian Mountains one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of Castle Dracula as there are no maps of this country has yet to compare with our own ordinance survey maps but I found that blisters a post town named by Count Dracula is fairly a is a fairly well-known place I shall enter here of some of my notes as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina in the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities oh boy Saxons in the south and mixed with them are the Wallachs who are the descendants of Dacians Magyars in the West the Slutskys in the east and north I I hope I'm I'm so sorry for my pronunciations I am going among the latter who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns okay this may be so for when the Magyars Magyars Magyars I'm just going with Magyars Magyars conquered the country in the 11th century they found the Huns settled in it I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the carpet I of the cart pythons as it it were some sort of in that as if it were some sort of oh my god as if it were the center of some sort of imaginative whirlpool if sus fsc may stay may be very interesting mem I must ask the count all about them I did not sleep well though my bed was comfortable enough for I had all sorts of excuse me queer dreams if there is a word that I deemed to be a little bit too out of date I'm not going to use it and I'll just insert like a you know what a replacement but I I think we're is okay to say I I hope I don't offend this is why I didn't read HP Lovecraft fuck I didn't expect this I did it I expected it from Lovecraft there was a dog howling at night under my window which may have had something to do with it where it may have been the paprika for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe and was still thirsty towards more wait the paprika interesting towards morning I slept and was wakened by the conscious knocking or continuous knocking at my door so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then I had some breakfast I had for breakfast to more paprika in a sort of porridge of maize flour which I said was mulled mama mama Liga an eggplant stuffed with force meat a very excellent dish which should I call implet hit mem a get recipe for this also it sounds a lot like implant but okay I had to hurry bro I had what I had to hurry breakfast for the train started a little before a or rather it ought to have done so for after rushing to the station at 730 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move it seems to me the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains what ought they beat in oh I don't know what ought they be in China I don't like saying that all day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind sometimes we saw little towns or castles on top of steep hills such as as we had seen in old missiles oh did I read that and whatever sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side to of them to be subject to great floods it takes a lot of water and running strong just sweep the outside edge of a river clear at every station there are groups of people sometimes crowds and in all sorts of attire some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany with short jackets and around hats and homemade trousers but others were very picturesque the women looked pretty except when you got near them but they were all very clumsy about the waist okay they all had full they all had full white sleeves of some kind or other and most of them had big belts with a lot of stripes of something full lettering or strips old this is okay had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet in a ballet but of course there were pretty or there there were petticoats under them the strangest figures were the slaw box so oh wait slavics who were oh who were more barbarian than the rest with their big cowboy hats great baggy dirty white trousers white linen shirts and enormous heavy leather belts nearly a foot wide all studded over with brass nails they wore high boots but their trousers tucked into them and had long black hair and heavy muscle.