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   From: kjrobinson@mail.com   
      
   On 6/17/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:46:07 -0700, Tim Merrigan    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 6/16/2025 8:16 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>> Note that most versions of Dracula end in England because they are   
   >>> based (directly or indirectly through an earlier movie's script) on a   
   >>> stage play, not the book. And I don't think these are isolated cases.   
   >>   
   >> Also, the book is a collection of letters and diary entries, some   
   >> "originally" in shorthand.  It would be hard to maintain that in a   
   >> visual format.   
   >   
   > Another novel done similarly is, IIRC, Wilkie Collins' /The Woman in   
   > White/. There were probably others: this is probably a recognized   
   > literary style.   
   >   
   > In the /Dracula/ I have seen, the closest to this is a scene where an   
   > orderly reads a newspaper report about small childern injured by a   
   > "bootiful lady". In the book, IIRC, you just get the newspaper story.   
   >   
   > You /could/ do a film of the book with characters reading the various   
   > letters, diaries, etc, but I agree that it would work very well. As   
   > you say, this literary style would be hard to maintain in a visual   
   > format.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel   
      
   Or, short story, as in Avram Davidson's  _Selectra Six-ten_   
      
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