CUNY Academic Commons | Brianna Caszatt | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/bcaszatt/activity/ Activity feed for Brianna Caszatt. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1b9ecede3e21f810033c0ad541ab6489 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) commented on the post, 76, on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/10/26/76/#comment-620 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:13:43 -0500 I think that Van Helsing is saying in a very roundabout way that he doesn’t have any conflicts in his schedule, or other people in his life who need his attention at the moment, so he’s free and happy to come help […]

]]> a19cf53dd3e6e325d072f31e11fe9ba9 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=446 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:39:46 -0400 Note

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is t […]

]]> 9eee8cffeb97e4676c7b9163df4ed7e5 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=444 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:38:40 -0400 Mina Harker’s Journal

6 November.—It was late in the afternoon when the Professor and I took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming. We did not go fast, though the way was steeply dow […]

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5 November, afternoon.—I am at least sane. Thank God for that mercy at all events, though the proving it has been dreadful. When I left Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy cir […]

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5 November.—With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing away from the river with their leiter-wagon. They surrounded it in a cluster, and hurried along as though beset. The sno […]

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4 November, evening.—The accident to the launch has been a terrible thing for us. Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long ago; and by now my dear Mina would have been fre […]

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5 November, morning.—Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van H […]

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4 November.—This to my old and true friend John Seward, M.D., of Purfleet, London, in case I may not see him. It may explain. It is morning, and I write by a fire which all t […]

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2 November, morning.—I was successful, and we took turns driving all night; now the day is on us, bright though cold. There is a strange heaviness in the air—I say hea […]

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1 November.—All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best s […]

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31 October.—Arrived at Veresti at noon. The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I could say was: “dark and quiet.” He is off now […]

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4 November.—To-day we heard of the launch having been detained by an accident when trying to force a way up the rapids. The Slovak boats get up all right, by aid of a rope and s […]

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3 November.—We heard at Fundu that the launch had gone up the Bistritza. I wish it wasn’t so cold. There are signs of snow coming; and if it falls heavy it will stop us. In suc […]

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2 November.—Three days on the road. No news, and no time to write it if there had been, for every moment is precious. We have had only the rest needful for the horses; but we are both bea […]

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2 November, morning.—It is broad daylight. That good fellow would not wake me. He says it would have been a sin to, for I slept peacefully and was forgetting my trouble. I […]

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1 November, evening.—No news all day; we have found nothing of the kind we seek. We have now passed into the Bistritza; and if we are wrong in our surmise our chance is g […]

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31 October.—Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is sleeping. I am on watch. The morning is bitterly cold; the furnace heat is grateful, though we have h […]

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October 30. Night.—I am writing this in the light from the furnace door of the steam launch: Lord Godalming is firing up. He is an experienced hand at the work, as he has had for yea […]

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When I had done reading, Jonathan took me in his arms and kissed me. The others kept shaking me by both hands, and Dr. Van Helsing said:—

“Our dear Madam Mina is once more […]

]]> eddf338ac4a42603c276013860a9ed14 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=409 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:20:38 -0400 Mina Harker’s Memorandum

(Entered in her Journal.)

Ground of inquiry.—Count Dracula’s problem is to get back to his own place.

(a) He must be brought back by some one. This is evident; for had he power t […]

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30 October, evening.—They were so tired and worn out and dispirited that there was nothing to be done till they had some rest; so I asked them all to lie down for half an hour whilst I s […]

]]> 62ed390935db35262c23fe7a596d8ba6 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=405 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:18:39 -0400 Jonathan Harker’s Journal

30 October.—At nine o’clock Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and I called on Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff, the agents of the London firm of Hapgood. They had received a wire from Londo […]

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30 October.—Mr. Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who could best be spared, since he does not speak any foreign language. The for […]

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30 October, 7 a. m.—We are near Galatz now, and I may not have time to write later. Sunrise this morning was anxiously looked for by us all. Knowing of the increasing d […]

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29 October.—This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; s […]

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28 October.—When the telegram came announcing the arrival in Galatz I do not think it was such a shock to any of us as might have been expected. True, we did not know whence, or how, or whe […]

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Rufus Smith, London, to Lord Godalming, care H. B. M. Vice Consul, Varna.

“Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o’clock to-day.”

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27 October, Noon.—Most strange; no news yet of the ship we wait for. Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual: “lapping waves and rushing water,” though she a […]

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26 October.—Another day and no tidings of the Czarina Catherine. She ought to be here by now. That she is still journeying somewhere is apparent, for Mrs. Harker’s hypnot […]

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25 October.—How I miss my phonograph! To write diary with a pen is irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must. We were all wild with excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram fro […]

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Rufus Smith, Lloyd’s, London, to Lord Godalming, care of H. B. M.Vice-Consul, Varna.“Czarina Catherine reported this morning from Dardanelles.”

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24 October.—A whole week of waiting. Daily telegrams to Godalming, but only the same story: “Not yet reported.” Mina’s morning and evening hypnotic answer is unvarie […]

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17 October.—Everything is pretty well fixed now, I think, to welcome the Count on his return from his tour. Godalming told the shippers that he fancied that the box sent a […]

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16 October.—Mina’s report still the same: lapping waves and rushing water, darkness and favouring winds. We are evidently in good time, and when we hear of the […]

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15 October, Varna.—We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the Orient Express. We travelled night and day […]

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11 October, Evening.—Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.

I think that none of us were surprised when w […]

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6 October, morning.—Another surprise. Mina woke me early, about the same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. Van Helsing. I thought that it was another occasion f […]

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5 October, afternoon.—For some time after our meeting this morning I could not think. The new phases of things leave my mind in a state of wonder which allows no room for active tho […]

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5 October.—We all rose early, and I think that sleep did much for each and all of us. When we met at early breakfast there was more general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to […]

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5 October, 5 p. m.—Our meeting for report. Present: Professor Van Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker.

Dr. Van Helsing described wha […]

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4 October.—When I read to Mina, Van Helsing’s message in the phonograph, the poor girl brightened up considerably. Already the certainty that the Count is out of the country has given […]

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THIS to Jonathan Harker.

You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search—if I can call it so, for it is not search but kn […]

]]> 6f55d67846faeda6359ac9c508c7e412 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=361 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:27:18 -0400 Jonathan Harker’s Journal (continued)

4 October, morning.—Once again during the night I was wakened by Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into s […]

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3-4 October, close to midnight.—I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things cha […]

]]> f4ec4775cd6319097196367674f10fb9 Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Annotating Dracula https://annotatingdracula.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=356 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:24:58 -0400 Dr. Seward’s Diary

3 October.—The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I c […]

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3 October.—As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Hel […]

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3 October.—Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all c […]

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2 October.—I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield’s room, and gave him instructions that if there shoul […]

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“1 October.

“My Lord,

“We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes. We beg, with regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr. H […]

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1 October.—I am puzzled afresh about Renfield. His moods change so rapidly that I find it difficult to keep touch of them, and as they always mean something more than his own well-being, the […]

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