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In the Bram Stoker novel, Dracula is eventually killed, but at what cost? Harker must eventually drive a stake through his beloved Lucy. Dracula is a virus, not a man.

"Self-poisoned in this fashion, civilization looks as though it might easily decline into a kind of premature senility." This is the Cartesian distinction between understanding and…

"There have always been fourth-rate writers and dramatists; but their works, in the past, quickly died without getting beyond the boundaries of the city or the country in which the…

The material for Down and Out in Paris and London was due to his disgust and self-loathing which arose from his time serving as a lapdog of the Colonial Raj. Following his time as …