Night
This night, agitated by the growing storm,
how it has suddenly expanded its dimensions --,
that ordinarily would have gone unnoticed,
like a folded cloth, and hidden in the folds of time.
Where the stars give resistance it does not stop there,
neither does it begin within the forest's depths,
nor show upon the surface of my face
nor with your appearance.
The lamps keep swaying, fully unaware:
is our light lying?
Is night the only reality
that has endured through thousands of years?
--Rainer
Maria Rilke
(Trans. Albert Ernest Flemming)
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Cemetery of St. Mary's Church, Whitby. Bram Stoker's Dracula attacks a sleepwalking Lucy Westenra here. |
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The icon: Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the 1931 film. |
Enter freely and of your own will ... |
. . . Tell it, I pray thee. |
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Bran Castle and grave, home of Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler/Dracula). Some point to similarities between the real-life fifteenth century Romanian prince, Vlad Tepes, and Bram Stoker's creation, Dracula. |
| Small plaque at Vlad Tepes' birthplace in Sighisoara, Transylvania, that states Vlad Dracul (Vlad Tepes' father) lived here 1431-1435. Vlad Tepes was born in 1431. |  |
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