Which begs the question, what exactly is a colon? (Stay with me here. This thing, “:” That’s also quite a “graphic,” stylized visual figure, huh? I mean, what, the vampires don’t have any other teeth? How do they leave just two dots? That’s pretty vivid and colon-like. So, I ask you, dear reader, isn’t a vampire bite a bit like a colon? Beyond just literary symbolism and thematic analysis in the often stale ways we’ve come to accept, Barthes played around with character names, sentence structures, even messed around with the order of his own texts so as to examine how the textures and the often superficial or surface qualities of works can tell you a lot about their deepest layers significance and almost certainly yield refreshing interpretations. They don’t like crosswords, though.)īarthes’ methods, though rigorous, could verge on surrealism. (By the way, vampires also like word games, as Son of Dracula proves when Count Alucard-hmm-comes to town. For those of you who may not know, Barthes was one of the greatest critical minds of the past century and he was a big proponent of word games as research tools. From a True Blood poster.Īnd then I was possessed by the spirit of Roland Barthes. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Alright, now, about our core competencies…) (This is the point in my train of thought when I noticed that my colleagues were kind of quiet in that meeting. Really, from before the 19th century to True Blood, we haven’t changed that mental image because of its sheer imaginative power. It’s a very graphic image-and I mean graphic not in the sense of bloody, but in the sense of supremely visually stylized. “Marks: two small punctures near jugular vein, resembling pinpricks. Seriously, if I were to ask anyone, anyone on the street, what marks vampires leave on the necks of their prey, what would this everyman reply? I’m willing to bet that he would answer with some variation of the description below, uttered by a doctor reading from a coroner’s report in Dracula’s Daughter. The doctor said the tests were inconclusive-joking! And if you think I have too much time on my hands, you should know, I was thinking about this during a staff meeting-joking! Well, kind of.) The other day, I was thinking about the fang marks vampires leave on their victims. But, if you’ve got the nerve to read some analysis, there’ll be a slight, surrealist detour. If you want to skip ahead, right to the glamour shots, go ahead.
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