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Personal Reminiscences of Bram Stoker


If Samuel Morse had
walked the boards to
decry “What hath
God wrought!” instead
of tapping it out on
May 24, 1844 from
Washington to Baltimore,
he and Irving (John
Henry Brodribb) would’ve
brought down the house
at the Lyceum Theatre
bringing Pay Per View to
London flats, instant replay
to web browsing
theatre buffs testing
their knowledge of Shakespeare
with “Richard II”
played out on the moon,
“The Tempest” underwater
clicking electric
mash notes to
submarines in hopes of
transforming the speed
of printing, the allure of
vampires scalping tickets
to sold-out shows
right down the street
in Picadilly.
 

—L. B. Sedlacek