![]() ![]() ![]() Caught in a downpour, he sees an open window, and in a moment of desperation to secure shelter from the drumming on his head he enters the house. The first by Robert Holt, a man who has fallen on hard times. I'm sure the Proustians among us can confirm or deny the validity of that occurrence. What I know about Proust it seems so improbable, but there you have it mentioned on a history timeline. I pulled up a time line to see what else of significance happened in 1897 and the one interesting literary tidbit that jumped out at me was it was the year that Marcel Proust fought a pistol duel with Jean Lorrain. Initially The Beetle outsold Dracula, but as word got around the Stoker book became the hit of the season. ![]() The Beetle was published in 1897 the same year as the Bram Stoker's classic book Dracula. Fingers were pressed into my cheeks, they were thrust into my mouth, they touched my staring eyes, shut my eyelids, then opened them again, and-horror of horrors!-the blubber lips were pressed to mine-the soul of something evil entered into me in the guise of a kiss." Then, whether I was dead or living, I said to myself that this could be nothing human,-nothing fashioned in God's image could wear such a shape as that. "A face looked into mine, and, in front of me, were those dreadful eyes. ![]()
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