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Post by dumas on Aug 2, 2006 22:31:39 GMT -5
I've been rereading Dracula the last couple days and I've noticed that Dr. Van Helsing says some interesting things. Does anyone else think Erin should draw Integra quoting one of her grandfather's sayings?
'His head is in plane with the horizon.' (of Quincy Morris)
'The milk that is spilled cries not out afterwards.'
One thing bothers me, though, about Integra being a lineal descendent of Van Helsing. He had a son perhaps thirty years before the events of Dracula (the doctor says he was of an age with Lord Godalming, who is presumably the same age as Dr. Seward (29)), but the son died young and his wife is mad. He never mentions any other children. Even if he remarried, he would still be in his sixties at the youngest.
Bah....I'm overthinking this. It's not important and just makes me look silly.
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Post by wonderingchan on Aug 4, 2006 6:04:23 GMT -5
well he still could have a child. Men can still reproduce children at a good old age. Unlike women men cand be fertile for ages.
Or maybe he adopted a child whos family were killed by a vampire and hadn't had the heart to tell it.
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Post by SailorPtah on Aug 7, 2006 3:22:58 GMT -5
This is why we all thought Van Helsing was Integral's great-grandfather for a long time.
It's a narrative cliché: fathers being impossibly old. (Pirates of Dark Water, anyone? =3) In this case, it looks like it happened two generations in a row.
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Post by dumas on Aug 7, 2006 8:35:58 GMT -5
This reminds me of a line from Mists of Avalon: A husband of forty may not become a father, but a husband of sixty surely will do so. - Morgaine, quoting an old Cornish saying to Uriens before their marriage, though I think she was referring to something Swift alludes to in Gulliver's third voyage after his departure from Laputa.
I was thinking the same thing about Integra's father, Sir Arthur when I saw him in Dawn. Unless, of course, the Hellsings share that Roman and aristocratic habit of passing down names.
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Post by wowposter on Nov 2, 2008 10:26:00 GMT -5
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