Dracula Readthrough 2025, 28 September
Dracula Readthrough 2025, 28 September
CHAPTER XV
Dr. Seward's Diary.
28 September.---It is wonderful what a good night's sleep will do for one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. I have no doubt that he believes it all. I wonder if his mind can have become in any way unhinged. Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things. Is it possible that the Professor can have done it himself? He is so abnormally clever that if he went off his head he would carry out his intent with regard to some fixed idea in a wonderful way. I am loath to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van Helsing was mad; but anyhow I shall watch him carefully. I may get some light on the mystery.
I mean look at it from Doc Stewart's point of view. Which is more likely:
Occam's Razor says....
Yeah exactly. Seward is applying quite good logic here, you can't blame him. We know he's wrong, and the mystery even for him doesn't last very much longer, but the reasoning here is solid.