I've moved
My new address is http://blog.zog.org.
Not because I was immensely dissatisfied with Radio, just because TypePad is the better service. That, and Robb's Law: I don't want to have a weblog (any website really) on a domain that I don't own.
Ik ben verhuisd
Mijn nieuw adres is http://blog.zog.org.
Niet omdat ik heel erg ontevreden was van Radio, maar gewoon omdat TypePad beter is. En omdat ik er een website kan hebben op mijn eigen domeinnaam.
My new address is http://blog.zog.org.
Not because I was immensely dissatisfied with Radio, just because TypePad is the better service. That, and Robb's Law: I don't want to have a weblog (any website really) on a domain that I don't own.
Ik ben verhuisd
Mijn nieuw adres is http://blog.zog.org.
Niet omdat ik heel erg ontevreden was van Radio, maar gewoon omdat TypePad beter is. En omdat ik er een website kan hebben op mijn eigen domeinnaam.
dinsdag 8 juli 2003Moe, maar ik geraak niet in slaap. Juist een uur wakker gelegen in bed. Misschien eerst eens naar Newsnight kijken.
En dan nu: naar bed! Want morgen op om 6u om te verhuizen!
Dracula is Don Giovanni!
- Both anti-heroes claim three 'victims' (the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in the case of Don Giovanni; Lucy Westenra and Jonathan and Mina Harker in the case of Dracula);
- Each is faced by enemies who include two pairs of lovers and an elderly man;
- Both have parallel master-servant relationships (with Leporello and Renfield, who both complain of being denied the pleasures enjoyed by the central characters);
- Apart from the seduction of the peasant girl Zerlina, all the significant developments in Mozart's opera, and particularly Don Giovanni's sexual assaults, take place at night;
- When he seduces Donna Anna, he does so wrapped in a vampiresque cloak. She wakes up as if from a dream, in the same way as Lucy does after being attacked by Dracula.
- Mr Barrico also notes that Mozart's opera features a character from the ranks of the "undead". Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, has enough vampire-like attributes to return to life after his murder and drag Don Giovanni down to hell.
[The Guardian]
