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1984
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Dracula's not evil, he's just a little salty about kids these days and their newfangled technology. All he has is old fangs.

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Transcript

00:03

Even though Dracula might call to mind old bunny aristocrats in creepy [Dracula wearing a crown outside a creepy castle]

00:07

pre-modern castles the book contains a surprising amount of cutting-edge

00:11

technology cutting-edge for the late 19th century that is.. not like Dracula has

00:15

Wi-Fi and Netflix if he did he might be too distracted to chillin to do much [Dracula watching Netflix on TV]

00:19

killin' right well though we have a feeling he'd hate twilight, just

00:23

saying.. One of the more prominent examples of new tech is shorthand a [A man drawing with a quill on a piece of paper]

00:27

symbolic writing method that makes writing quicker and easier because in a

00:31

modern industrial economy who has the time to write the entire letter P

00:35

although short hand had been around for a while it saw in popularity as more [Woman on the phone rapidly writing things down]

00:40

and more women became secretaries and even though shorthand might have been

00:44

popular with the ladies Dracula was definitely not a fan there's a scene in [Dracula displeased about short hand writing]

00:48

Chapter 3 where Dracula opens an envelope sees its letter inside is

00:51

written in shorthand and he burns both the letter and the envelope disgusted [Dracula opens a letter and burns it]

00:55

though maybe to repel vampires you don't need crosses and garlic just grocery

00:59

list and shorthand LOL maybe. Another technological marvel that crops up in [Man using a typewriter]

01:03

Dracula is the typewriter aka the macbook pro of the late 19th century you

01:08

think cafe full of people on their laptops is annoying try a cafe full of [People using macbooks by a cafe window]

01:13

typewriters and Mina's a big fan of them though she types and transcribes

01:17

like it's as easy as riding a bike not that you should ever try riding your [Man wearing a pink helmet attempting to ride a typewriter]

01:21

typewriter around town at least not without a helmet in fact Mina's so into

01:25

typewriters that in chapter 14 when she's getting ready to hunt vampires she [Mina preparing to hunt vampires outside a castle]

01:28

writes.. I shall be prepared. I shall get my typewriters this very hour and begin

01:34

transcribing though probably not the one you wanted on your side during the big [Man with two guns and Mina holding a typewriter]

01:37

vampire showdown unless you want to read some detailed notes about his cape or

01:42

something well it's worth mentioning that Dracula isn't brimming with tech [Bram Stoker holding an iPhone]

01:45

just because Bram Stoker thought it was all oh so cool what's really in play

01:49

here is some keen use of metaphor Dracula central battle is not just

01:54

between vampires and people who don't want to be attacked by vampires it's [Dracula in a room with Mina holding a typewriter and a man holding two guns]

01:57

also between the old and the new aristocrats Eastern Europe and

02:01

handwriting on one side telegram typewriters railway schedules

02:05

phonographs and shorthand on the other hand writing versus shorthand might not [Hand writing and short hand disguised as warriors facing off]

02:09

exactly seem like the battle of the century but

02:12

that's why the book is called Dracula and not cursive writing

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