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Just as I was writing about why more literary characters don't use the internet, Salon's Laura Miller wonders which modern-era technologies classic characters would use. She says Sherlock Holmes would be into text messaging, Holden Caufield would have a blog, Captain Ahab would use a GPS, etc. It's a fun parlor game for your next nerdy cocktail party. If I could add to that list, I'd say Bram Stoker's original Count Dracula--with all that time alone in his castle hanging out with those sexy vampire bride teases and dreaming up ways to seduce unsuspecting virgins--would have totally been addicted to internet porn.

Matt Wood

Matt Wood is a book review editor for TriQuarterly, and a writer and social media specialist for the University of Chicago Medicine. He graduated from the Master of Arts in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University in 2007, where his final thesis, "Through an Unlocked Door," won the Distinguished Thesis Award.

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