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Mr Waterproof at 16:00, 17 May 2020

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This ~~country no longer exists, but part~~ of ~~it is in~~ modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This is a region of modern day Romania, which was formerly in Hungary, and still has some of Hungarian speakers. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.

	And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club\|Kim Newman's]] series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...		And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club\|Kim Newman's]] series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...

AgProv: link to the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club - bloody tvtropes formatting, doesn't work here

2017-01-01T16:00:44Z

link to the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club - bloody tvtropes formatting, doesn't work here

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.

	And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club Kim Newman's]] series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...		And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club\|Kim Newman's]] series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...



	[[Category:Annotations\|Carpe Jugulum/Annotations]]		[[Category:Annotations\|Carpe Jugulum/Annotations]]

AgProv: link to the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club

2017-01-01T16:00:05Z

link to the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.

	And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in Kim Newman's series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...		And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in [[H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club Kim Newman's]] series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...



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AgProv: Another referent

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Another referent

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.

			And of course, the concept of a powerful vampire thinking outside the box, or perhaps the casket, is covered in Kim Newman's series of books beginning with ''Anno Dracula'', the tale of what might have happened if Dracula had defeated van Helsing's band of plucky dreamers and had himself invited to a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. Which is his invitation to stay on and take over Britain by marrying the widowed Queen Victoria, thus making himself the most powerful "man" on Earth. And all because the Queen expressed an invitation to a noble relative from the Balkans to come and stay...



	[[Category:Annotations\|Carpe Jugulum/Annotations]]		[[Category:Annotations\|Carpe Jugulum/Annotations]]

AgProv: correcting another of those annoying single-letter typos that I keep meaning to do something about but invariably forget to put right. There. Done.

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correcting another of those annoying single-letter typos that I keep meaning to do something about but invariably forget to put right. There. Done.

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	Corgi PB (British) p. 230: ''"clustersuck"''... The practice of more than one vampyre feeding from a prey species at the same time. An, er, indelicate reference. Change a consonant and it's a slang term for all-in group sex. Used in its original context by Shea and Wilson in ''"Illuminatus"''. Described "an unholy sacrament" in Oats' seminar notes, indicative of the Church's generally negative view of sexuality? Also a nod at Victorian repression, where the sexual aspects of Stoker's "Dracula" had to be sublimated into lovingly intense descriptions of the blood-taking practice... it was OK in the late 1800's (as any English Lit undergrad will excitedly tell you, when they do the Gothic Literature term, and think they're the first ones to discover this) to write about gory and messy death at the hands of an Undead in as much detail as you liked, but just let the sex get explicit... Cluster''suck'', yes: any other form of clustering from nearer the top of the alphabet, most definitely not.		Corgi PB (British) p. 230: ''"clustersuck"''... The practice of more than one vampyre feeding from a prey species at the same time. An, er, indelicate reference. Change a consonant and it's a slang term for all-in group sex. Used in its original context by Shea and Wilson in ''"Illuminatus"''. Described as "an unholy sacrament" in Oats' seminar notes, indicative of the Church's generally negative view of sexuality? Also a nod at Victorian repression, where the sexual aspects of Stoker's "Dracula" had to be sublimated into lovingly intense descriptions of the blood-taking practice... it was OK in the late 1800's (as any English Lit undergrad will excitedly tell you, when they do the Gothic Literature term, and think they're the first ones to discover this) to write about gory and messy death at the hands of an Undead in as much detail as you liked, but just let the sex get explicit... Cluster''suck'', yes: any other form of clustering from nearer the top of the alphabet, most definitely not.

	Corgi PB (British) p. 279: [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] are escaping into [[Überwald]] with Princess Esmerelda. Magrat is being gloomy about their prospects for survival, as they are entering ever more deeply into [[Vampires\|vampire]] country. The dialogue, in the hijacked vampires' coach, runs:		Corgi PB (British) p. 279: [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] are escaping into [[Überwald]] with Princess Esmerelda. Magrat is being gloomy about their prospects for survival, as they are entering ever more deeply into [[Vampires\|vampire]] country. The dialogue, in the hijacked vampires' coach, runs:

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Old Dickens: cat

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cat

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.



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Allan Lear at 12:05, 25 April 2013

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	General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not ~~de Magyars~~, but close.		General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not Magpyrs, but close.

Allan Lear at 12:02, 25 April 2013

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	''The brain surgeons were all digging the sound/Of Igor, on chains, backed by his baying hound...''		''The brain surgeons were all digging the sound/Of Igor, on chains, backed by his baying hound...''


			General comment: Vampires are traditionally from Transylvania. This country no longer exists, but part of it is in modern-day Hungary. The Hungarian language is Magyar, and by extension Hungarians are known as Magyars. Not de Magyars, but close.

Allan Lear at 11:45, 25 April 2013

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	Corgi PB (British) p. 90: [[Agnes Nitt]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] are attempting to sabotage the vampires by handing out [[Chicken Vol-Au-Vent\|vol-au-vents]] contaminated with excessive amounts of garlic. [[Vlad de Magpyr]] quite happily eats one, then announces ''"Any more of those garlic things? They're rather piquant!"''		Corgi PB (British) p. 90: [[Agnes Nitt]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] are attempting to sabotage the vampires by handing out [[Chicken Vol-Au-Vent\|vol-au-vents]] contaminated with excessive amounts of garlic. [[Vlad de Magpyr]] quite happily eats one, then announces ''"Any more of those garlic things? They're rather piquant!"''

	This echoes the opening of Anne Rice's gothic novel '''''Interview with the Vampire''''', where the callow student interviewer attempts to test the truth of folk legends by offering the vampire Louis Lestadt a clove of garlic. Louis takes a bite, then expresses approval of the piquancy of the flavour. The interviewer then goes on to test religious symbols on Louis, who thoughtfully examines a crucifix, turning it over in his hands and remarking on the kitsch nature of the art involved - just as the de Magpyrs have been desensitised to religious symbols by repeated deliberate exposure. In fact, on page 239, the Count de Magpyr, confronted with the holy symbol of [[Om]]nianism, takes the pendant in his hands and remarks ''"And this is the holy turtle of Om, which I believe should make me cringe back in fear. My, my, not even a very good replica. Cheaply made"''.		This echoes the opening of Anne Rice's gothic novel '''''Interview with the Vampire''''', where the callow student interviewer attempts to test the truth of folk legends by offering the vampire Louis Lestadt a clove of garlic. Louis takes a bite, then expresses approval of the piquancy of the flavour. The interviewer then goes on to test religious symbols on Louis, who thoughtfully examines a crucifix, turning it over in his hands and remarking on the kitsch nature of the art involved - just as the de Magpyrs have been desensitised to religious symbols by repeated deliberate exposure. In fact, on page 239, the Count de Magpyr, confronted with the holy symbol of [[Om]]nianism, takes the pendant in his hands and remarks ''"And this is the holy turtle of Om, which I believe should make me cringe back in fear. My, my, not even a very good replica. Cheaply made"''.

			Compare also the scene in The Lost Boys, where a suspected vampire is repulsed by a meal containing ounces of garlic on the not-unreasonable grounds that it tastes of nothing BUT garlic.

	Corgi PB (British) p226: Vlad's disgust at the "holy water" having spoilt his dandy silk waistcoat. Given other scenes in the book - the dandy clothes of the younger vampires, their take on role-playing games where, for instance, Lacci assumes the persona of a dowdy human shop assistant called Pam, and the way their parents look anxiously at all this. This is an echo of Mr Charles Pooter, in "Diary of a Nobody", who frets at his son Lupin Pooter joining the rebellious Victorian youth who expressed their disenchantment with their elders by wearing unfeasibly over-gaudy cravats and paisley-patterned waistcoats. (The feather of a peacock is a Mandelbrot set in its own right: Vlad is described as wearing a peacock-feather styled waistcoat.). This was held to be so shocking that employers threatened to sack any junior who dared turn up for work dressed like that - ''without a reference'' - and Victorian society in the 1880's collectively fretted at the outrageous dress sense of its young people. (Much as they did in the 1920's, 1950's, 1960's and practically every decade since...) At the time, Punch and Times editorials deplored the trend, and George MacDonald Fraser also describes the phenomenon in one of the Flashman books.		Corgi PB (British) p226: Vlad's disgust at the "holy water" having spoilt his dandy silk waistcoat. Given other scenes in the book - the dandy clothes of the younger vampires, their take on role-playing games where, for instance, Lacci assumes the persona of a dowdy human shop assistant called Pam, and the way their parents look anxiously at all this. This is an echo of Mr Charles Pooter, in "Diary of a Nobody", who frets at his son Lupin Pooter joining the rebellious Victorian youth who expressed their disenchantment with their elders by wearing unfeasibly over-gaudy cravats and paisley-patterned waistcoats. (The feather of a peacock is a Mandelbrot set in its own right: Vlad is described as wearing a peacock-feather styled waistcoat.). This was held to be so shocking that employers threatened to sack any junior who dared turn up for work dressed like that - ''without a reference'' - and Victorian society in the 1880's collectively fretted at the outrageous dress sense of its young people. (Much as they did in the 1920's, 1950's, 1960's and practically every decade since...) At the time, Punch and Times editorials deplored the trend, and George MacDonald Fraser also describes the phenomenon in one of the Flashman books.