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#And the next one I'm reading how Jack is pouting while throwing a tantrum in his mind
immediatebreakfast · 1 year
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The total dissonance between the two main events of this entry is so funny, and brilliant. It's not even about how the story is slowly putting their pieces together as the important parts connect. It's all about how:
On one hand we have Mina being absolutely rejoiced since she finally got sister Agatha's letter, and how she already is preparing herself to go to Budapest to get to Jonathan as fast as she can. Her prose opens like a waterfall as Mina pours all of those feelings she held tight on her chest.
"I have cried over the good Sister's letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it lies. It is of Jonathan, and must be next my heart, for he is in my heart."
On the other hand we have back doctor Jack Seward being so offended that Renfield doesn't acknowledge him as a superior anymore that he took a whole long paragraph to complain about it. To the point of Seward insulting Renfield while he records on his phonograph.
"but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!"
These two events may belong in the same novel, but they certainly are different literary genres right now.
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