Whoof! Just realized that I should have been more
clear:
> I wrote:
<snip>
> Vampires are a peculiarly seductive lot, I agree,
> although I think that erotic quality didn't really
> get developed until ~ the Victorian age(?); the
> 'original'
> Nosferatu is quite disgusting IIRC, and the stories
> I've heard of Vlad Tepes make him a genuine monster
> of a man. *** It's all that suppressed sexuality
and
> tightly-reined desire... Are vampires as popular in
> Europe, given the absence of Puritanical
> underpinnings? (I'm assuming that in GB, the source
> of Victorian 'delicacy,' such sensual vampires are
> equally attractive.)
*** I should have inserted here something like 'I
think that what makes the modern version of vampires
so compelling is all that...' [rest of paragraph].
Debbi
Sloppy Sentencing Maru
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