#Dracula daily august 30

[c-schroed]

Well folks, you heard Lucy. Save the date for the 28th of September. Wedding day! Surely nothing bad will happen until then. It'll be just fine.

[fandomaddictwut]

If anything happens to Lucy before September 28, I am going to commit a felony 

[avayarising]

Jack Seward appears to have fallen into a minor time vortex. Yesterday Renfield got out and headed next door and got hauled back again in a paroxysm of rage. Now today it’s been a week and three days since then.

[mygoodfriendjohnathanharker]

I love lying

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Arthur taking Lucy on the cutest dates ever and then hitting her with this smooth ass line

[actualrachaeltad]

AITA for telling my (30M?) fiancée (19F) that she is ‘getting fat’ when I just meant her health is improving after she was (hypothetically) drained of her blood? She won’t go rowing with me anymore :( :( :(

[your-friend-bram]

August 30

Lucy's excitement at addressing the letter to Mina Harker, is so sweet! Her showing concern for Jonathan's well-being was kind, but part of me can't help but wonder if she's extending the invitation just to have Mina back with her because she's so lonely even with Arthur there now... Her excitement for her own upcoming marriage is sweet as well— if not a little bitter, for I know what happens next.

-Bram

[letsgethaunted]

Dracula Daily: August 30

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[thethirdromana]

Mem., get recipe for Mina: a food guide to Dracula Daily

Inspired by There and Snack Again (in which you eat along with the LOTR movies), this is your guide to eating and drinking along with Dracula Daily.

All under a cut because there's no way I can do this without extensive spoilers. I strongly recommend not reading this unless you already know what happens in Dracula. Also only if you're comfortable reading about alcoholic drinks - there's a lot of booze in this novel.

Let's eat!

2 May We start with the famous paprika hendl. Google "chicken paprikash" and choose whichever recipe most strikes your fancy.

3 May For breakfast, choose from mamaliga (cornmeal porridge, similar to grits), "impletata" (vânătă umplută - stuffed aubergine) or anything with more paprika in it.

4 May For dinner, Jonathan has robber steak: "bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire".

5 May Slivovitz, if you'd like it (Jonathan declines). Then, for dinner, Dracula serves up roast chicken, with some cheese, a salad and a glass or two of Tokaji wine.

6 May "A cold breakfast" for Jonathan. In Romania a cold breakfast might include boiled eggs, telemea (sheep's cheese), franzela (bread) with assorted spreads, sliced cucumber and tomatoes, and sunculita taraneasca (sliced smoked pork). Jonathan also has "an excellent supper", but doesn't tell us what that includes.

16 May Would it be too bleak if I suggested eating a symbolic Jelly Baby?

26 May A glass of wine as Quincey and Jack congratulate Arthur and drown their sorrows.

18 June There's a kind of Scottish fruit slice called "flies' graveyard". That might make a suitable snack given Renfield's meal today.

24 June I guess a gingerbread woman, for the wolves? IDK, it turns out doing this for a horror novel is a bit grim.

8 July Thankfully the internet has hundreds of ideas for spider-themed cakes so you can eat along with Renfield.

18 July The voyage of the Demeter begins! Celebrate by eating like a sailor: have some salt pork, or make ship's biscuit.

20 July Renfield has just eaten several sparrows. Provide redress by feeding birds near you, bird flu guidance permitting.

24 July Imitate the "feet-folk" from York and Leeds by drinking some tea or eating some cured herring.

10 August Lucy and Mina enjoy a "severe tea". There are lots of severe teas in Victorian literature, but few writers actually describe what's in it - e.g. the Churchman's shilling magazine, 1868, has a story with a severe tea "which implies coffee, tea, and muffins, with substantials". What are substantials? I have no idea, but that's what you should eat today.

11 August Dracula has a little nibble on Lucy. I don't suggest doing this for every vampire bite in the novel, but given this one is particularly significant, how about marking the occasion with some black pudding?

30 August No food details for a while, but in this entry, Lucy notes that she "has an appetite like a cormorant" and "Arthur says I am getting fat". Celebrate with some cake.

3 September Van Helsing has been! And surely he wouldn't have come all the way from the Netherlands empty-handed? Acknowledge his visit with some gouda or a stroopwafel.

4 September Eat some sugar, which Renfield has requested for his flies.

7 September To stay in line with what the characters actually eat and drink, have a glass of port (though ideally not if you've just given blood). But for the real spirit of the day, consider a corn-on-the-cob.

9 September Free space! Jack has "an excellent meal" but doesn't say what it is. Dig into your favourite dinner.

10 September A sip of brandy, with which Van Helsing wets Lucy's lips.

11 September The garlic flowers arrive. There's lots that you can make with wild garlic - personally, I like it in risotto.

17 September A boxful of garlic flowers arrive for Lucy every day. Time to make chicken with 40 cloves of garlic. Other options for today include more black pudding (in honour of Renfield lapping up Jack's blood) or sherry.

18 September The Zookeeper enjoys a teacake, and so shall we.

20 September No food, but the labourers have "a stiff glass of grog". This is rum diluted with water, but you could also add lemon or lime juice, sugar, and/or cinnamon.

25 September Nibble another Jelly Baby for the Bloofer Lady.

29 September A lot happens in this entry, but there's not a lot of food. There are thirsty labourers, however. Maybe have a beer?

30 September Mina makes everyone a pot of tea. Also, we don't know what they have for dinner, but they eat it at 7pm, if you'd like to time your evening meal accordingly.

1 October More tea! Since this is being gulped down by a working man, make it builder's style - strong, sweet, lots of milk.

2 October Jonathan visits the Aërated Bread Company. He only has a cup of tea, but you could have whatever you like best from their menu:

(source)

3 October Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood like "a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk". You could either have some more black pudding, or drink a glass of milk in solidarity with Mina.

15 October The Crew of Light aren't focusing much on meals any more, but they have travelled on the Orient Express. Here's the 1887 dining car menu.

(source - I can't vouch for the accuracy of a random person on Twitter but it looks plausible)

29 October No one is thinking of food in this bit of the novel (though Mina makes yet more tea), but as they're heading to Romania, have some sarmale. These stuffed cabbage rolls are the Romanian national dish.

31 October Mina and Van Helsing have "a huge basket of provisions". Have a picnic in their honour, if it's warm enough where you are.

1 November Mina and Van Helsing have "hot soup" into which the local cooks have put an extra amount of garlic. Consider having a truly extra amount of garlic with this 44-garlic-clove soup.

7 November The Crew of Light return to Transylvania. No details of food, but in honour of their journey, I would suggest a final round of chicken paprikash, to bring us back to where it all began.

[aster-blogging-dracula]

Reading BlueCatWriter's Dracula along with Dracula Daily

Ok so I've been meaning to read all of @bluecatwriter 's wonderful Dracula hc fics in order for a long time but I never have time to get with it so I decided to read it along with Dracula Daily this year.

If anyone else wants to do the same, here are the dates (or aproximante dates*) for each fic. (idk if someone has done this already but oh well) (BlueCat if you read this feel free to correct me if i got any date wrong)

*(Since there's 2 pre-canon fics and 2 days of may before dd, i'm setting those fics on those dates. Dates of undated fics are also adjusted to not overlap with date of other fics)

*(The order during the varna stay is a bit wacky since the book gets pretty vague for 2 weeks there but I tried to adjust it as well as possible.)

1-A picnic in may. May 1st 2-Home before you know it. May 2nd 3-I too can love. May 16th 4-Three letters. May 19th 5-The prisioner. May 28th 6-Tonight is mine. June 29th 7-Stay awake. August 14th 8-In sickness and in health. August 24th 9-Full of vague fear. August 24th 10-A golden afternoon. August 31st 11-A doctor’s confidence. September 2nd 12-I come to my friend when he call. September 2nd 13-Blood she must have. September 7th 14-After the transfusion. September 7th or 8th 15-Sleeping beauty. September 10th 16-The wolf in the window. September 17th 17-Sympathy. September 18th 18-Things will be different. September 19th 19-My only son. September 19th 20-Come, my husband. September 28th 21-These others. September 29th 22-Lucy’s second death. September 29th 23-How good and thoughtful. September 29th 24-Brandy, bath, and beadtime. September 30th or October 1st (preferably the former since the dd entry is slightly shorter that day) 25-A pale orphan. October 2nd 26-You will not call in vain. Between September 30th and October 11th?? 27-Renfield’s death. October 3rd 28-Safe for one more moment. October 3rd 31-Hungry. Between October 12th and October 15th 29-A week in varna. Between October 15th and October 27th? 30-Waiting. Between October 17th and October 27th? 32-Judge moneybag. Between October 15th and October 27th? 33-How i miss my phonograph. October 24th 34-Mem. get recipe for mina. Between October 15th and October 27th? 35-Farewell, sweet friends. October 30th 36-Starlight on the sereth. October 31st 37-Step into the light. Between October 15th? and November 6th (if reading in one sitting wait until november 6th)

38- Love multiplying. November 7th onward

Omg guys it's may already I'm so exited for this. This year I know I will be up do date with everything even tho I'm busy with my End of Degree Project because the dracula fixation i caught last year is a part of my life now I have been planning this so long guys.

[vickyvicarious]

Who's Read What in Dracula? Masterpost

This is a little self-assigned project to try and keep track of who has read (as well as written) what documents, and, importantly, when they do so. Last year I spent some time thinking about this and it informed some of my thoughts about specific characters' perspectives and actions in interesting ways. So I thought it could be a neat resource to have for others!

I'm going to update this in time with the novel, so there won't be any spoilers. This post is going to be a master reference, with links to each individual character's posts. I originally wanted to do this as a series of graphs for each character, with color-coded bars for each document they've read, but I'm not savvy enough to figure out a non-confusing way to do so, especially given the number of different authors/documents. Instead, I'm going to have a separate post for each character, and just have the info in written form there. Here are the links to each of those, in order of introduction:

Jonathan Harker

Mina Murray

Lucy Westenra

Jack Seward

Quincey Morris

Arthur Holmwood

Abraham Van Helsing

Some housekeeping notes: Obviously, each character will have read their own writing. I'm not going to update day-by-day for any such things. Instead, I'll only update whenever they access new information by someone else, or begin what I'm counting as a new document.

Most of the time, we know for a fact when characters get access to a new document. However, there are a few exceptions. I have my theories, but I will mark them as speculative whenever that label applies.

I break up documents based on chunks of information and have assigned titles to them as such. The labels may change as time goes by as needed to avoid spoilers. I also try to add in dates, but for any longer accounts it will just be a range of dates rather than every entry.

Below the cut is a list of all the documents, in order of appearance, with dates. I'm using color-coding for all the main authors, which will match the colors used in individual character posts. This too will be updated over time, so no worries about spoilers here either. Unless, of course, you don't want to know if someone who has only written once before will go on to write often... in that case, don't look below.

Castle Dracula Diary (3 May-30 June) - Jonathan Harker

Invitation to Castle Dracula (3 May) - Count Dracula

Letter to Innkeeper (4 May) - Count Dracula *

Letter to Dracula (5 May) - Mr. Hawkins *

Letters to Lucy (9 May, 17 May?*) - Mina Murray

Letter to Mina (2/3 May?) - Jonathan Harker *

Letters to Mina (11 May?, 24 May) - Lucy Westenra

Dictated Letters Home (11 May, 18 May) - Jonathan Harker *

Letters to Various Solicitors (11 May) - Count Dracula *

Phonograph Diary (25 May-?) - Jack Seward

Letter to Art (25 May) - Quincey Morris

Telegram Reply to Quincey (26 May) - Arthur Holmwood

Intercepted Letters Home (28 May) - Jonathan Harker *

Renfield's Notebook (5 June?-?) - R. M. Renfield *

Log of the Demeter (18 July-4 August) - Captain of the Demeter

Whitby Journal (24 July-19 August) - Mina Murray

Message to Lucy (27 July) - Arthur Holmwood *

Daily Graph Articles (8-9 August) - News Correspondent

Letter from Budapest (12 August) - Sister Agatha

Letter to Carter, Patterson, & Co. (17 August) - Billington & Son

Letter to Mina (17/18 August?) - Mr. Hawkins *

Letter to Billington & Son (21 August) - Carter, Patterson, & Co.

Post-Whitby Letter to Lucy (24 August) - Mina Murray

London Diary (24 August-17 September) - Lucy Westenra

Whitby Letter (30 August) - Lucy Westenra

Letter to Jack (31 August) - Arthur Holmwood

Telegram to Jack (1 September) - Arthur Holmwood

Letter to Van Helsing (1 September?) - Jack Seward *

Letters to Arthur (2, 3, 6, 15?* September) - Jack Seward

Letter to Dr. Seward (2 September) - Van Helsing

Telegrams to Van Helsing (4-8 September) - Jack Seward

Telegram to Arthur (8 September) - Jack Seward

Telegram to John (8 September) - Van Helsing *

Telegram(s?) to Vanderpool (10, 13? September) - Van Helsing *

Delayed Telegram to Seward (17 September) - Van Helsing

Lucy's Memorandum (17 September) - Lucy Westenra

Unread Letters to Lucy (17, 18 September) - Mina Murray

Escaped Wolf Article (18 September) - Pall Mall Gazette

Telegram to Quincey (18 September) - Arthur Holmwood

Mrs. Westenra's Death Certificate (18 September) - Jack Seward/Van Helsing *

Telegram to Arthur (18 September) - Quincey Morris

Telegram to Summon Arthur (19 September) - Jack Seward *

Hennessey's Report (20 September) - Patrick Hennessey

Letter to Mrs. Westenra's Lawyer (21 September) - Jack Seward *

Post-Whitby Journal (22 September-?) - Mina Murray

Telegram to Mrs. Harker (22 September) - Van Helsing

* We know these documents exist, but never get to read them (or in one case, only get a brief excerpt) as they aren't added to the record. Sometimes some of the main characters do get to read them, but not always.

Question marks after a date denote uncertainty, though they're all likely written within a few days of the tentative one listed. When after a dash they mark an incomplete document.

[bibliophilecats]

Dracula Daily Eat-Along August 30

Following this Dracula Food Guide, we will (try) to eat along with the story (while listening to Re:Dracula).

Today: Cake

A yummy selection of cakes from my favourite cake shop.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Wow, today’s (August 20) Dracula Daily entry really shows how much Stoker messed up his timelines! He wanted Renfield’s condition after Dracula’s arrival in Carfax Abbey near London to continue for a week, but he didn’t plan out the timing so the entry instead comes a day after yesterday’s! The second problem is a more fixable error - the latter portion of today’s entry, the part saying it has been three days and they are going to let Renfield escape as an experiment -

…Three nights has the same thing happened—violent all day then quiet from moonrise to sunrise. I wish I could get some clue to the cause. It would almost seem as if there was some influence which came and went. Happy thought! We shall to-night play sane wits against mad ones. He escaped before without our help; to-night he shall escape with it. We shall give him a chance, and have the men ready to follow in case they are required....

- should be listed as being written on the evening of August 22nd. That would have Renfield let out of the straightcoat on the night of the 19th/20th, and the ‘three days’ being the 20th, 21st, and 22nd, which fits with the report of the ‘experiment’ being on the 23rd. That’s why you won’t be seeing that entry today, as you would expect.

That also gives me the impression that Lucy’s entry about being in Whitby and feeling well for the last week (August 30) may not be intentionally Stoker having her put on a brave face to Mina, as it seems when read chronologically. The book places it separate from, and before, Lucy’s 24th-25th entries where she is near London (in Hillingham) and unwell, so Stoker likely intended it in connection with Seward’s August 20th entry - indicating Dracula had been away from Whitby for a week and therefore Lucy was doing better there, before coming to London and becoming his target again - but didn’t manage to make the dates consistent. That lines up with the sequence of the entries in the book, ignoring dates: Lucy saying she has been well in Whitby for a week, followed by Seward saying Renfield has been upset for a week and then or three days, followed by Lucy being near London where Dracula is and becoming unwell again. I think that is Stoker’s intended sequence of events.

Moreover - just figured this out - Renfield is quiet during the three nights because Dracula is away from Carfax feeding on Lucy, because after one week she returns from Whitby! The reason I could never figure out, last year, how Renfield’s behaviour lined up with Dracula’s location, was because Stoker’s dates were inconsistent!

So, in sum, I believe the intended chain of events is:

For a week after Mina’s departure, Dracula is in Carfax Abbey, Renfield is in a passion and restrained in the straightcoat, and Lucy (with Arthur) is in Whitby and recovering.

Lucy returns to Hillingham near London and Dracula preys on her. He is away from Carfax during the nights, and Renfield grows quiet at night and is released from the straightcoat. He becomes wild at dawn when Dracula returns.

Lucy grows weaker and more unwell; Stoker wants to build this up but gives the wrong dates, so that her diary entries precede the one at Whitby where she felt well. By August 31st Arthur is horried enough to write to Seward about her health, and then the dating of entries gets back on track.

[cozcat]

your friend and mine Jonathan Harker is back for another year of Dracula Daily! and if you're like me, you might want to keep track of how much you've read.

the StoryGraph listing for Dracula Daily has 440 pages, so below the cut is the dates of each entry, and the approximate page count for each. (the simpler option listed on StoryGraph is 4 pages per email, as there are 110, but sometimes you want full credit for reading the October 3 email.) some page counts span a couple of days due to short entries, but for the most part, entries are at least a page!

May 3: 4 pages

May 4: 6 pages

May 5: 21 pages

May 7: 28 pages

May 8: 33 pages

May 9: 35 pages

May 11: 36 pages

May 12: 41 pages

May 15: 43 pages

May 16: 48 pages

May 18: 48 pages

May 19: 49 pages

May 24: 54 pages

May 25: 56 pages

May 26: 56 pages

May 28: 58 pages

May 31: 59 pages

June 5: 59 pages

June 17: 60 pages

June 18: 60 pages

June 24: 63 pages

June 25: 66 pages

June 29: 69 pages

June 30: 72 pages

July 1: 73 pages

July 8: 74 pages

July 18: 75 pages

July 19: 76 pages

July 20: 78 pages

July 22: 78 pages

July 24: 81 pages

July 26: 82 pages

July 27: 82 pages

July 28: 83 pages

July 29: 83 pages

July 30: 84 pages

August 1: 88 pages

August 2: 89 pages

August 3: 90 pages

August 4: 91 pages

August 6: 93 pages

August 8: 100 pages

August 9: 102 pages

August 10: 104 pages

August 11: 108 pages

August 12: 110 pages

August 13: 111 pages

August 14: 112 pages

August 17: 114 pages

August 18: 116 pages

August 19: 119 pages

August 20: 120 pages

August 21: 121 pages

August 23: 122 pages

August 24: 126 pages

August 25: 127 pages

August 30: 127 pages

September 1: 128 pages

September 2: 131 pages

September 3: 133 pages

September 4: 135 pages

September 5: 136 pages

September 6: 137 pages

September 7: 144 pages

September 8: 146 pages

September 9: 147 pages

September 10: 151 pages

September 11: 153 pages

September 12: 154 pages

September 13: 157 pages

September 17: 163 pages

September 18: 179 pages

September 19: 181 pages

September 20: 188 pages

September 21: 199 pages

September 22: 205 pages

September 23: 206 pages

September 24: 207 pages

September 25: 218 pages

September 26: 232 pages

September 27: 237 pages

September 28: 238 pages

September 29: 263 pages

September 30: 283 pages

October 1: 310 pages

October 2: 319 pages

October 3: 360 pages

October 4: 367 pages

October 5: 378 pages

October 6: 381 pages

October 11: 386 pages

October 15: 388 pages

October 16: 388 pages

October 17: 389 pages

October 24: 390 pages

October 25: 391 pages

October 26: 392 pages

October 27: 392 pages

October 28: 399 pages

October 29: 402 pages

October 30: 416 pages

October 31: 417 pages

November 1: 419 pages

November 2: 420 pages

November 3: 421 pages

November 4: 424 pages

November 5: 432 pages

November 6: 439 pages

November 7 (epilogue): 440 pages

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm going through the complete text of Dracula to try and determine what year it takes place based on the days of the week mentioned by the characters.

The novel can be set no earlier than 1888, as that was the year the Kodak camera Jonathan uses was invented, though the Eastman Kodak company wasn't formally organized until May 1892, so we're really looking at 1893 as the lower bound.

Arthur and Quincey go home after Lucy's funeral on 22 September, and on the 26 September Dr. Seward receives a letter from them dated Sunday, which must have fallen on 23, 24, or 25.

Sunday, 23 September, 1888 [this year is too early]

Sunday, 25 September, 1892 [too early]

Sunday, 24 September, 1893

Sunday, 23 September, 1894

Sunday, 25 September, 1898

Sunday, 24 September, 1899

Sunday, 23 September, 1900

Note: the novel was published in 1897, but all we know is that it takes place in the 19th century (Jonathan says so on 15 May, Seward on 26 September, and Van Helsing on 30 September), so 1898, 1899, and 1900 are not necessarily disqualified. This gives us upper and lower bounds of 1888 - 1900, or more likely 1893 - 1900

Spoiler for events that haven't been emailed yet: on 2 November, Jonathan writes in his journal that Mina and Van Helsing should have arrived in Veresti around noon on Wednesday. A few pages later, Mina's own journal says they arrived at Veresti noon on 31 October.

Wednesday, 31 October, 1888 [too early]

Wednesday, 31 October, 1894

Wednesday, 31 October, 1900

Lucy's very first letter to Mina is not dated, but is said to have been written on a Wednesday. Dracula Daily emailed it on 11 May, but only because that happened to be a Wednesday in 2022. Mina's previous letter to Lucy was dated 9 May, and subsequent letters between the group tend to be delivered very quickly, so let's look for Wednesdays that were less than, say, four days after 9 May

Wednesday, 13 May, 1891 [too early]

Wednesday, 11 May, 1892 [too early]

Wednesday, 10 May, 1893

Wednesday, 13 May, 1896

Wednesday, 12 May, 1897

Wednesday, 11 May, 1898

Wednesday, 10 May, 1899

On 25 September, Mina tells Van Helsing that Jonathan nearly fainted last Thursday when he saw a man that looked like a young Count Dracula. She recorded this episode in her diary three days prior.

Thursday, 22 September, 1892 [too early]

Thursday, 22 September, 1898

A newspaper clipping dated 8 August says that the big storm that hit Whitby came out of nowhere, and that Saturday evening had been as calm as any other. On 6 August, Mina wrote that the day was gray and fishermen were warning people that a storm was brewing. If Saturday evening was calm, but Mina reported gray skies on the 6th, then either she wrote about it late on Saturday after the storm started rolling in, or sometime on Sunday, meaning Saturday is either 5 or 6 August.

Saturday, 6 August, 1892 [too early]

Saturday, 5 August, 1893

Saturday, 6 August, 1898

Saturday, 5 August, 1899

Those are all the days of the week mentioned in the book, so now let's account for the phases of the Moon. Mina says it was full at 3am on 11 August. Full moons rise at sunset, so it would have risen on the 10th. Looking at a phase calendar, let's say a reasonable person in the 1890s would say it looks full for 2 days before or 2 days after the actual full moon (3 days, and you start to notice it waxing and waning). When did the full moon fall between 10 and 13 August?

Saturday, 10 August, 1889 (looks full from 8 - 12) [too early]

Monday, 8 August, 1892 (looks full 6 - 10) [too early]

Thursday, 12 August, 1897 (looks full 10 - 14)

Friday, 10 August, 1900 (looks full 8 - 12)

Dr. Seward says that there was "full moonlight" on 20 September, the night Lucy died. That's more than a month after Mina's full moon, but Seward didn't actually go outside to check, he just noticed the moonlight through the window, so let's give him some more wiggle room and say that the moonlight could appear bright enough to be mistaken for full up to 4 days before and after the actual full moon; it's about one week between the quarter and full phases, and nobody could mistake a quarter moon's light for being full, but I guess you could make that mistake for a gibbous moon if you don't see it directly. When did the full moon fall between 16 and 24 September?

Thursday, 20 September, 1888 (seems full 16 - 24) [too early]

Friday, 18 September, 1891 ("full" 14 - 22) [too early]

Monday, 25 September, 1893 ("full" 21 - 29; kind of a stretch)

Monday, 21 September, 1896 ("full" 17 - 25)

Tuesday, 19 September, 1899 ("full" 15 - 23)

Let's tally up all the data

1888: 3

1889: 1

1890: 0

1891: 2

1892: 5

1893: 3.5

1894: 2

1895: 0

1896: 2

1897: 2

1898: 4

1899: 4

1900: 3

No year won all 7 possible points, so there's no doubt that Bram Stoker was just making up the timeline as he went along; he didn't have calendars and moon charts open as he was writing, so he fudged some details because he figured nobody would ever attempt to put the story in chronological order. That said, the year that fits best would be 1892 were it not for the fact that the Kodak company was brand new in May 1892, so it's unlikely a British law firm would supply their solicitors with American cameras before they became ubiquitous. 1898 and 1899 come in second, and are therefore the most plausible for the novel's setting; if we ignore the moon, 1898 wins with 4 points to 3. I however choose to set the novel in 1894 because that would place the epilogue in 1901, just over the hump of the 20th century, which is fitting, but really you could argue for any years except 1890 and 1895.

[learningisfundamental]

(D-9 of productivity challenge)

25th August, Sunday,2024

📒 Study Targets Achieved: Finished Chapter 3 of ''The Social Genesis of Emotions; A study of Karpathos''

🗒️ Other Tasks Done:

Returned home from my trip and unpacked my stuff

Did house work: 2 loads of laundry

Finished Reading ''Rodin'' by Daniel Kiecol

Ordered more books (even though I shouldn't have spend more money this month, there was a sale and I am a very weak bookworm)

🛌 Sleep: 10 hours

📚 Currently Reading:

''Dracula'' by Bram Stoker (I'm currently doing the Dracula Daily thingy - 25/08)

The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (read 2 short stories)

"Babel" by R.F. Kuang (read 1 chapter)

💊 Supplements & Medications: All of them, except of course the calcium supplements

🏋️‍♀️ Exercise: took a 30 minute walk

🥗 Healthy food intake (in %): 30%

👩‍🎨 Hobbies: did some programming on the mimo app (and wrote down some notes to make revising what I've learned so far easier)

📺 TV & other media: watched 3 episodes of ''Hannibal'', finishing the 2nd season

👤 Mood: happy

💼 Productivity Stars: 2/5 ⭐

Today I returned home after my mini-vacation with my friends so I had more time to focus on studying and getting some reading done. Tomorrow I'm going on my second (and last) vacation trip for the summer, to Crete, with my friends and I'm going to be gone for about a week, a week and a half; since I'm mostly going to be spending my time with them I won't have the time to focus much on other tasks and that's why I'm probably not going to post from 26/08-03/09. See you all when I'm back!