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[darchildre]

On reflection, one of the very best things to have come out of being a life-long Dracula nerd is that you really never run out of people who have not yet read the book and thus can be astonished by hearing Quincey Morris' marriage proposal to Lucy quoted.

Tonight's lucky winner was my mom, whom I guess I had assumed had absorbed a lot of Dracula knowledge just by, y'know, having to live with me but is actually somehow still unaware of the silliest bits of the book.

For those of you who are also tonight's lucky winners, Quincey Morris is a character who almost never makes it into film adaptations of Dracula and it is a crying shame because he is a Texan written by a British dude in the 1890's and is, thus, a cowboy in the middle of a very Victorian vampire novel. His proposal to Lucy is as follows:

Miss Lucy, I know I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of your little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit. Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?

It works best if read aloud in your best exaggerated southern accent.

Comments

[out_there]

That is hilarious. I didn't know that character existed (and I guess, back in 1890s, he genuinely would have been a cowboy) but wow.

[calliopes_pen]

I will always have a fondness for Quincey, and his bizarre way of talking. (And his random shooting at bats through a window, missing, and causing everyone terror for a moment.)

[darchildre]

Quincey is one of the great joys of actually reading the book (along with finding out how bad at everything Dracula really is) and I love him very much.

[darchildre]

He is an eternal delight.

[frenchroast]

OMG. I did not know about this character (or had forgotten, it's been ages since I read the book, and I totally glossed over parts of it). Now I really, really want to see an adaptation with him in it, because YES PLEASE LET ME LAUGH.

[darchildre]

Quincey is so good.

I am very biased, but I do think Dracula is extremely (unintentionally) funny in places and well-worth rereading to find those bits.

[frenchroast]

Oh, I'm definitely tossing it into my reread pile. I'm ashamed at how much I've forgotten.