The Dracula Tape Quotes
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I mentioned earlier that I would quote a few bits from The Dracula Tape, Fred Saberhagen does such a wonderful job conveying the count in a way I've never read before.

I had expected Harker's natural curiosity at these events to break forth at once in questions…

(referring to Dracula's disguising himself as a coachman to drive Harker to his castle and leaving the carriage to mark the locations of the blue flames)
He continues:

What I had not reckoned with was the—in this case—damnable English propensity for minding one's own business, which in my opinion Harker carried to lengths of great absurdity, even for a discreet and tactful young solicitor.

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