maybe I've been staring into the abyss of dracula paprika discourse for too long but what if the real answer to this mystery lies not in whether the paprika hendl itself was spicy or sweet or salty but in asking if it's a coincidence that this vampire novel with a lot of motifs of disturbed sleep starts off with someone getting so thirsty that he can't quench it no matter how much water he drinks, having terrible dreams all night which he directly attributes to this thirst, and then voluntarily going back to eat more of the dish that made him so thirsty in the first place
and, of course, noting down that he'd like to bring this foreign thirst-inducer back home to share with his bride-to-be
