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Date: Friday, 25 June 2004 02:54 (UTC)I bet! :)
You're right about the problem with the unidentifiable voices, though. I didn't have any problem remembering whether the 'voice' at any given time was female or male, but some of the entries by Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker did get hard to tell apart, especially towards the end of the book where they were doing increasingly similar things.