Just saying...

[steepholm]

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Okay, but he is notably and notoriously sans shadow when we first meet him. Barrie was totally riffing on late Victorian popular literature in that play (viz. Treasure Island), and the charismatic boy's appearance flapping at the bedroom window of the young Lucy / Amy / Wendy inevitably recalls Stoker's novel, published a mere seven years previously.

Nana is, of course, Van Helsing.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Nana is, of course, Van Helsing.

Hee!

Nine

[owlfish]

And perhaps Dracula's shadow has just gone off for a very very long excursion? Vampirism might set shadows free to lead their own lives.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That makes vampirism sound a thoroughly worthy endeavour, like breeding tigers to release into the wild.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

There's an Andersen story like that, I think.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Nana is, of course. I wish I had known this earlier.