Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.
Coca-Cola was founded in 1892.
Levi's blue jeans were invented in 1853.
Dracula was published in 1897, set in that time.
We could have had Dracula wearing jeans, drinking a Coke and playing Nintendo and it would be accurate. -
...and accurate to the book, too.
When I read it for the first time, I was surprised by how much of a 19th-Century technothriller it was. In the book, Jonathan Harker has a Kodak camera. There are lots and lots of telegrams-- tweets. Most of the book was written as short epistles -- blog posts.
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@EricAlper I don't know about Dracula himself, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Quincey Morris drink coke or wear jeans.
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@Ash_Crow @EricAlper Isn’t Dracula meant to be ancient in the setting? So if he wore jeans or drank coke he’d be saying “How do you do, my fellow Victorians?”, but due to his age he could be doing that while pointing to his self-winding clock.
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@johnaldis @Ash_Crow @EricAlper "How do you do, my fellow Victorians?" would kind of be in character for him, though. His basic deal in the novel is that he's figured out that England is now the most important nation in the world, and consequently he desperately wants to be a part of it, even though it's it's a world that's moved beyond everything he represents.