Pr., M.D., PhD, D.Litt.

Blog tags : #seven years later ; posts happening around the time of the epilogue of Dracula.

It is with much discontent that here I write reply to your question, this not for cause that you have upset me by your words, but for that it was my hope that yourself you had not to suffer through the same despair as I did when my wife's mind has gone. Indeed though I have many years of experience in medicine, the untimed grief I hold to her is one pain that never heals though it weakens, and such it is as an old scarred over wound that it may yet open if poked too deeply, and then need nursing all again. Mistake not and know that mine need not be your fate ; for it is to be known among us doctors, that there be no two bodies which upon the complete dissection, and the inspection of the organs, and the measuring of the limbs, we find to be equal in every way, and this is true of the mind also. The ache that shall grasp one without hope for cure may spare the other having the merest remedy, and it is well thus that you should come to me for advice. Finally I must answer to your point that distraction is of best resource ; for the heartbreak you must allow to wash over you, such as the wave on the sand, and then recede back into the ocean while you stay whence you were firstly. Thoughts of sadness and of anger you see and know as well, and then think of what else the Good Lord has given you that is good, and those good things then they chase away the sadness. Be vigilant that you have not the time to brood, for aught good comes from a man brooding. Stay your mind on some affair of which you have rightful contentment, where you have earned success, so that this contentment it may replace your pain, and thereupon I have the hope that you shall be well in mind and soul both.

Not so ; for the first, I be man of medicine and man of peace, and have killed no-one but rather I have pledged, and sworn the oath, to save, for such does Hippocrates wisely order. And to the second, then though I know the stories and folklore from study, and admit there is upon this world many miracles that would be such to stretch the credulity of one who would make himself skeptic, then never before have I met in body, or even seen evidence of, the lycanthrope, who you name were-wolf.

Of this the answer is not easy to find, for there is merit and value in many colours, and few I could say to be unequal to another ; yet after much thought, I have conclude that white be the answer true. For, indeed, white is noble and proud, and empirically it has been shown that all colours within white reside, and then from white they can be taken out as well with use of a special prism. There we can say that to love white is to love all colours as well as the one, and there is it that we find God, for in such the same then we know to love the One Lord is also to love the world entire. And thus it is that in paintings, now and yesteryear, then the Father does wear white ; and white also be the colour of purity, and of the holy love of marriage, and of nobility, for all these are the good things of the world and are examples unto us of that way we should act in the good life.

Of this man there be aught of which I know. Neither have I read a book he published, neither also have I met him, or even have his ideas to me been told, and so I cannot have an opinion upon which he who I do not know, such the same as it is I cannot tell the taste of a fruit that exists not. Yet of the march of science I am careful to stay keen, and hear words often of the recent advances, and thus I expect the most empirical discoveries to be relayed to myself through the papers ; and since such was not the case of the man who is known as Sigmund Freud, then I will assume him not to have great significance in the fields in which I have proficience.

I have kept the flowers for myself, however, as they were fresh still, and have set them in a vase to be put in the room that is Karlijn's. I hope she is to enjoy them.

Remains therefore the philosophical sight. And herein you tell me that sodomy, as in the concept of the thing-in-itself of sodomy, refuses those variations that you list. So it concludes that the pure form of sodomy, the true form, the form in a word that we called platonic, is only achieved once both or more of the partakers are unclothed in full and also are looking at each other. From this we infer, as a matter of empirical reason, the aspect of sodomy that you deem essential is that one shall know the other without concealing aught. For if I were to be naked, yet excepting the socks, then still I hide myself from view, even were it in the slight part. And also if I were to face one naked, yet avert my eyes from he, then I would conceal him in his stead, and there too refuse the full knowledge. But when neither shall shield the other, and when also neither will deny to behold, and the gaze is uphold throughout the process, then one may say the thing-in-itself of sodomy may be grounded in our world, briefly though as it may be. For is it not known that the truest form of love, that is the love given to a wife by her husband and by a husband his wife, it is to know and be known without exception, as well as one does know himself, and there have a heart warm in care for the lover ? And does the love of God itself not go through knowledge as well, for God knows all and has love for all, and one cannot love God truly if not told of He in truth and fullness ? Now we can then say, to make your statement in new words such that to a reader it appears simple and quick in understanding, that whence it is done entirely clotheless and with complete observation and love, then a philosopher may speak of platonic sodomy.

Ah ! Where is it that you believe myself to live, that you should have it in your mind that I would have the want, or perhaps the need, or even the ability as well to care for bees ? They flung at me upon that I opened your package, and merely by chance was I not bitten by their sting. Now they are away in Amsterdam, for I have opened the window so they may be free, and not constrained within my study, wherein there is no flower and less nectar even so they surely would have starved. Yet it is unknown to me what they will become, for there was no queen in that box, and merely three bees do not a hive make. If it was your idea that you should make a cruel joke to me in effect, then you shall now know that it is likely moreso that by your design the bees will be hurt, rather than I would.

It is indeed an assignment, my friend, and one that I know not how to make easier to others : the answer merely is here, that I have little care to stay idle, and at all times when I have the ability then I inquire to read or research a subject of my interest. Therefore no moment in my life is to be wasted, but indeed every one used in the way most diligent, and there is no ceasing to my learning ; indeed, even to-day, in my greater age, then I am intent on being expert in sexology. There are other men of my knowledge and friendship who are not so, and who are content to rest and to do aught when they leave their work, but myself I am not such.

Therein this note I assume that you mean the man named Frankenstein, who indeed is friend with my good friend Jack, and as he is the friend of my friend thereby I see him friend also. I saw him not when he was in the land of the Briton in recent days, however, though if the circumstance allowed for it then I would have had it otherwise, I was called to Amsterdam to see my wife in urgency. As such it is that he and I missed the other through sheerly unluck, of which is unfortunate, for I know from my friend Jack that the Dr. Frankenstein is of great intelligence and has much things in the knowledge of science that I enjoy discussing.

There is in the enlightened society many of great folks and minds who condemn it, and indeed many amongst those who practice the deed are great sinners of that I cannot defend in the honesty of my soul, and yet I - along with other that are similar-minded, such as the Dr. von Krafft-Ebbing who is, in the time that is now, the expert in all the subject as is empirical by his book upon - have not the thought to condemn sodomy, which indeed is in fact legal in such countries as mine and his alike, though not yet is the case of this in England, of this I much disapprove, for were it so then the prisons and asylums in this powerful nation may have been emptied somewhat. Those who feel their predilection be towards sodomy, as those may find their predilection in taste to be for sour or for sweet, then are no more sinful or sane than any other man, and no ill will shall I hold to them, though the same I may not have said merely a year ago, and much of what I say it comes from the book Psychopathia Sexualis, and it also comes from witnessing the talking of Dr. von Krafft-Ebbing, who has written the book.

Of these devices of recent time and recent creation as well I was not aware up until the seeing of this very note, and the very impressively precised photograph along with it that you have sent. Upon their efficiency, and the effect unto the madman, there I cannot rightly say I have the knowledge empirical, for indeed I have not seen use of them by myself, though it be that my good friend Jack Seward, who is doctor and talented alienist, intends the experiment unto the patients that he has in his asylum, and from him the results will be known to me. In the realm that is not of facts, and merely of theory, that indeed is derived from facts but untested in practice, and no less worthy by its nature than the ideas borne only out of facts are worthy, then I may allow to cast doubt upon the especial cures that Dr. Young does promise with his invention, for though this may have many good and effective dealings with the body in that it is needed, then the mind is of different matter, and perhaps not matter even. There are madmen I have known, through the Dr. Seward in England and as well throughout other acquaintances who also are charged of the insane, who would enjoy quite the prescription of this ; and therefore specific in this manner I may recommand it, if not for as many as Dr. Young be claiming.

Of this game I have nought heard of, not even the once, neither in childhood nor in parenthood nor even in present days when I am close to the young Mister Quincey ; though if it is such a name as has figures of me and those I know within it, then it must be of your personal creation, for I am not a very public man indeed. As well from your letter I am able to infer, and know it is empirical, that your game is based around chance and little else, for I find no reason else if I am married to the un-dead Count - whom I would not call a friend and even not an distateful acquaintance, and certainly would not marry even were it possible, by that the law changes, and that I somehow never had been married to Karlijn. It however is pleasing to see the art as it is that you provided within those papers I receive, and you must be assured of the possession of some talent, that is greater than mine at least if none save that.

It is of surprise to me that one such as you are, if what is claimed by the signature of the note therein is empirical, would ask of assistance to me, who has slain already multiple of the un-dead and regret it not. This having been known, I have in recent times seen evidence that even in a empty and half-life that is the life of the vampire then the soul can be preserved ; and that, by the logical extension of the knowledge thus, the evil of the Count was his own and only his own ; then a man of science as I am proud to be cannot say that every word by the vampire is a trick and ought be dismissed, therefore I be happy to answer the question yours as a good friend, Guy. As for the contents of your message in itself, then it is a feeling of no unknown element to me, for not only am I a doctor of the body and have as a profession the cure of physical ills, also I am well-versed and cultured in hypnotism and the treatment of the mind, of which fear is the vassal. Though the condition that you describe in this here letter is harduous to heal, and indeed many who even I would call savants would shake their heads and tell you there is no helping it, I am aware of the work of an ancient Arab scholar, The Sustenance of the Body and Soul, to which I may have access and use as to remove the fear from yourself. This is, though I need not say the words for the fact is obvious, an offer that has no demand for payment ; though if you in full permit examination of yourself, as a member of the un-dead, then it would be a great advancement of medicine. As well you shall not be offended if, in the case we are to meet, I bring measures to protect me, for rarely I have seen or heard of the vampire that is itself harmless.