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Basically, it’s this: Dracula Daily is not the same as reading Dracula. It’s an adaptation, like a film or graphic novel or play based on Dracula would be.

Sending the portions of the novel to readers based on their dates in Dracula when they do not appear in that order in Dracula is a meaningful adaptational change. Dracula, as a novel, exists with its words in a certain order, which is not the order in which Dracula Daily presents them.

Recently there has been a post going around showcasing a project in which someone created a book titled Gatsby Great The with the premise that all the words in The Great Gatsby are there, but listed in alphabetical order. Looking through Gatsby Great The is obviously a very different experience than reading The Great Gatsby.

The film Memento (2000) does not present its events in chronological order, but there are film edits out there that do show all scenes in chronological order. Watching a strictly chronological edit of Memento is not the same as watching Memento.

What I’m trying to get at here is that the decisions Stoker made to present events in the order he did in Dracula were decisions made with purposeful intent, and are therefore an important part of Dracula as a novel. Dracula Daily, an adaptation, does not replicate these decisions, and this makes it different from Dracula. The mood sustained in the reader is going to be different based on what the reader knows and when the reader finds it out. The effect of the story on the reader is going to be different with deliberate pauses in the story based on dates in the story rather than the reader’s own reading pace.

Of course, no author, living or dead, can force readers to read their book in any particular way. Once a reader has a book in hand, they can read it backwards, read pages in the order presented by a random number generator, read only every other page, or do any number of other things. But if someone told you they read a book page by page in a random order, maybe by the end they would understand the story, but maybe you would think that they’d missed out on the reading experience in an important way.

Dracula Daily offers the text of Dracula in chronological order, so it’s not quite the same as this random-page reading hypothetical. However, it is not a neutral presentation of Dracula. Reordering, like any adaptation, includes losses. The best adaptations also include gains, and perhaps Dracula Daily is one of these. For all Dracula Daily readers, I hope so.

I don't think he has any idea how often I think about that correction. He didn't moderate his tone or worry about embarrassing me; he was harsh in how he said it and did so in front of others. He knew he was right and there was no good reason to coddle my feelings. I appreciate that, because it make me take it seriously and really reflect on it. I already knew that you could use drugs without becoming addicted (I have) and that you could be addicted to something and have that addiction not be a problem (I have had a physical dependency on drugs which were a net positive for me to use). Yet, despite knowing that, when I was doing advocacy work I was defaulting to language with fucked up implications. Partially to seem respectable and partially because I was mentally distancing myself from other drug users.

I was thinking about him again today, and how he's permanently changed the way I speak about drug use when I do activism. He's had a knock-on effect, for every person I reach, and I'm sure he has done the same thing with many other people he's corrected.