So the vampire genre, Lodge says "allows the protagonist to be both the author of her own destiny and the victim of forces beyond her control."

所以对于吸血鬼这种文类，洛奇的说法是：“让主人公既成为她自己命运的缔造者，同时也是她无法控制的力量之受害者。”

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Michael Joo, a New York artist of Korean extraction who participated in one of Mr Hirst's earliest shows and also contributed to the RED auction, says:"This is not vampire-like, life-draining greed;"

韩国血统的纽约艺术家麦克尔·乔参加过赫斯特早期的一个展览并在RED拍卖会上捐赠了自己的作品，他说道，“这并不是吸血鬼似、对人生的无止境贪欲；

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There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".

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"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.

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Yet it is significant, she says, that this aspect of vampire lore has risen to prominence since the 1970s.

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