Well, more of an Oolanga cameo.
He appears in a Mimi flashback during tea with the snake. Also, tea has been moved back to luncheon, or there’s no way they can get to Liverpool on time.
Sunset’s around 9PM these days in Liverpool, so that helps.
Stoker had a stroke in 1906, and so I’m thinking that Stoker’s mental state wasn’t due necessarily syphilis but mini-strokes. In fairness (to myself) I also didn’t think it was any big deal if it were syphilis. I don’t see it as a great failing to have been born before the invention of penicillin.
Yes, yes, it means he had sex! I can hear the Boomers yelling “A ha! Hypocrite!” already, though I’m not sure anyone had suggested otherwise. Our modern view of sex would put any previous known era to shame, I think, including late Greece and Rome.
Anyway, this is kind of fun. The awful, awful illustrations of LotWW were done by Pamela Colman Smith who recalls, to me, Bjork:
Her contributions to the book include:
But Ms. Smith was also the artist on the Waite-Smith tarot deck, which is positively iconic. I mean, you’ve seen these, right?
Tenacious D based an album cover on this one:
Wikipedia says over 100 million decks have been printed. That’s, like, a million a year forever.
Lair Of The White Wyrm 