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Day 30 - Without Despair

we all went through the flames;

we endured.

brave and impossible

without despair, authentic

We did dare much

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 380.

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Day 29 - I Want

no need for flowers

I want a word a heart

you and I know why

infinite tenderness

the burden that you bear

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 165.

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Day 28 - Coming Out

I go alone

coming out;

I have no fear;

I shall find the world

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 203.

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Day 27 - One Good Thing

one good thing has arisen from it;

the opportunity to come and go

without difficulties

I shall not take it for granted

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 120.

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Day 26 - Hear Me

look forward

Hear me, ESCAPE!

this was no place for us

Ask all questions

to find the answer

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 315.

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Day 25 - The Work

It was personal

a sad sort of work

nothing must be said of this

I felt the amazement at what had occurred

however, no sign anywhere to show it

my thoughts ragged, exhausted

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 130.

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Day 24 - At Sea

grim dangers at sea

the lightning

the tempest with white wings

the inrushing water

a shout swept away

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 79.

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Day 23 - Just Because You Can’t Understand It Doesn’t Mean It’s Wrong

change not some mistaken idea

it is our ideas that will be right

I know it is all true

My mind is made up.

As for me, I shall

in my own way

be

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 202.

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Day 22 - Some Thoughts

—Another day and no lying / We must continue

—Most strange; no further fears / I must try to speak more fully

—I do not think it was such a shock / I expected something strange / just as expected; change would occur

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 339.

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Day 21 - I Try

naturally anxious

I sympathise

I try

not very well

to be all right

the anxiety is beginning to tell on me

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 74.

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Day 20 - Drowning

life passed

in a half-dreaming kind of way

I suppose I was passing through memory

I was drowning

I felt it

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 100.

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Day 19 - Anxious

I don’t want to worry

I am so worried in my mind

I cannot think freely

I am in this mood of being burdened

with the future.

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 273.

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Day 18 - It Was a Shock

I wish I could fathom change

It was a shock to me

my own power

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 118.

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Day 17 - Excitement

of course I wanted to see all I could

I came close to beautiful inquiries

it was all very mysterious

I was excited

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 4.

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Day 16 - Write

I should take the chance

write the call to action

greatly changed

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 337.

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Day 15 - I Was Afraid

the door cannot be far off.

I am unhurt as I could be

I was afraid to draw nearer

to the Real

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 104.

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Day 14 - Honesty is a Locked Door, and

searching for the key is getting dreadful.

I must try to learn to talk. . . .

I want to say something

the things I’ve been sayin’ I didn’t mean

Source: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Signet Classics Edition, 2007. Text from pg. 75.

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