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The Mina Murry Files
“I want you to hypnotise me!” she said. “Do it before the dawn, for I feel that then I can speak, and speak freely. Be quick, for the time is short!”
"I can complete my entry on Lucy’s phonograph." ~Doctor Seward
He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder. I used manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done with all the rest.”
When my brain says “Come!” to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding; and to that end this!’ With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the—— Oh my God! my God! what have I done?
The man's Brain
The Used Woman
Dr. Seward gets to use the phonograph because he is a man and a doctor.
Why does Mina not use the phonograph when with Lucy? Why does she not know that Lucy even has one?
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