An interesting use of LJ

[rushthatspeaks]

Via glazzal: a community has just started up called dracula1897, which is posting the entirety of Bram Stoker's novel in chronological order using the dates given in the text. The book contains diary excerpts, telegrams &c. with several different putative authors, and Stoker preferred interweaving longish sections of narration to organizing the thing strictly chronologically, so this posting arrangement should give a rather different perspective than a print edition (and may provide insight into Stoker's structure and pacing).

Since today is May 3rd, Jonathan Harker has just arrived in Transylvania, where he has no doubt located a small Internet cafe.

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[kate_nepveu]

This was also done as a blog last year, which apparently is starting over again this year; there were interesting comments on all the posts, but I stopped reading because of lack of time.

http://infocult.typepad.com/dracula/

[breadandroses.livejournal.com]

ooh. interesting.


BTW, you should know that you have gotten me utterly sucked into BPAL. I haven't bought a thing yet, but I cannot stop reading the website or the forums. I don't even like perfume, it tends to make me sneeze.

So, my finals probably are suffering for it, but I'm enjoying myself.