viaticumforthemarquise, you sound so wild in here. I believe I’ll take her counselling and run away next time I meet you, I want to see you chase me, tackle me down and do as you please with your prey.
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Lestat here. I want to answer one short question from Alex Hall. Alex asks me: “Did you kill Louis’s brother?” The answer is no. I had nothing to do whatsoever with the death of Louis’ brother. For those of you who don’t or can’t know, this pertains to the story of “Interview with the Vampire.” When I encountered Louis in the 18th century in Louisiana, Louis was grieving for his dead brother. Louis felt he’d failed his brother and caused the brother to take his own life. For a variety of highly complex reasons, I found Louis profoundly emotionally and physically attractive, and I invited him to receive the Dark Gift from me. I brought him over, made him my vampire brother, friend and lover. But only after did I learn about his family, his personal losses, his grief, etc. I would never have struck down some innocent person – Louis’ brother — just to make another person ripe for the Dark Gift. Never even occurred to me. I found Louis deliciously despairing, reckless, and charming. Of course, if he had not lost his brother he might not have been so attractive to me. But again, I didn’t plan all this. There are too many likely candidates available at all times for the Dark Blood; one does not have to go to great lengths to prepare people for it. At least that is what I felt back then in those nights. —– I’ll be back later today to answer more questions.
ANOTHER Fan Question for Lestat answered.
Lestat here. This question comes from Vicki Golightly: “I have never read the books but I have heard so much about them and yes I do have a question, how were you created and do you have a soul?” — Vicki, if you mean how was I created as a vampire, the process was simple. I was kidnapped by an older vampire named Magnus, taken by force to his tower outside of Paris, and there made a vampire through an exchange of blood. Magnus drained me to the point of death and had I not drunk his powerful blood after that, I would have died. Well, I drank it. And I became a vampire like him. This is how it is done with our species; the human is drained and then infused with the maker’s blood. And yes, I most certainly do have a soul — as surely as any human being has a soul. I define soul as that invisible and conscious part of myself which may or may not survive biological death. And I am certain I have one; I am certain that all human beings have souls. And very likely some non-human beings have souls as well. But this soul question is a matter of faith. I can tell you for certain that I have a conscience, and it is a very human conscience, though I do not always listen to it by any means. —- Vicki, thanks again for your question. —- I’ll be back later today with more answers.
Another Fan Question for Lestat answered!
Lestat here. Many of you have asked me whether or not I have any regrets. At first I ignored this question, because I am constitutionally opposed to the very idea of regret. But the more I saw the question, the more I thought about the whole matter. And I think there is indeed one thing in my life that I actively regret. I regret that during the 19th century when I lived in New Orleans with my vampire companions, Louis and Claudia, I did not tell them more about our origins, and about the vampires of the old world. I thought at the time that I was protecting them from secrets that could only hurt them, sheltering them in a wilderness and paradise that belonged exclusively to the three of us. But this was all wrong. I should have known that Louis and Claudia needed to know about the origins of our kind, needed to know where we’d come from, needed to know whether or not there were others out there, and I should have anticipated and encouraged their questions rather than keeping them at a distance from myself. Of course one reason I made this awful mistake is that I did know secrets about vampires that I was bound by an oath not to reveal. But I could have told Louis and Claudia more than I did. I could have respected their need for knowledge. I truly regret that I did not. As many of you know, our little coven family came to disaster, and I think I had a hand in that disaster, by not giving my beloved fledglings more information and insight into what we were. —- I’ll be back later to answer more questions.
Another Fan Question for Lestat answered.
Lestat here. My question today is from Heather Malone: “Lestat! What are your thoughts on gender? Does it matter? Do you think you would have lived your life the same way had you been born female? Best regards, H.” Thank you, Heather. Gender matters only because it matters to biology and society. I can’t imagine how I might have lived my life as a woman, simply because society in my time and even in the present sees women so differently from the way it sees men. I would have been restricted by law and custom in ways as a woman that I was never restricted as a man. How would I personally, the irreducible Lestat, have responded to life had I been a woman? Impossible to know. But I can tell you how my mother, Gabrielle, responded once she became a vampire. She put aside women’s garments and lived as a genderless being, ignoring society entirely and taking full possession of her superior vampiric strength with genderless impunity. She discarded feminine limitations with her feminine garments. She reveled in her new invulnerability. I admire her for it. — Now when it comes to loving others, caring about them, respecting them, becoming involved with them, no, gender means nothing to me. Almost all vampires ultimately transcend gender concerns in their social and emotional relationships. —- That being said, I would say how we personally respond to gender in all our dealings remains a mystery; some individuals no matter how long they walk the earth, may have deep biases based on gender, biases developed in them during a mortal lifetime. These might be so subtle as to defy qualification or analysis. I pride myself on having none, but I’m not sure that I’m right about myself in this. I have respect for the fact that this is a mystery. — I’ve certainly lived long enough to see that society’s assumptions about gender in my time were all proven false and foolish. On the other hand, there are aspects of gender difference that never change for human beings, no matter how much we would like them to change. —- Gender, it matters and it doesn’t matter. Thank you, again, Heather.
Anne Rice’s FB. Another Fan Question for Lestat answered.
Lestat here. I want to answer this question from Zaira Maranelli:
“Lestat… could you explain to me what is love for you? I speak about the deep love that make you suffer and pain, that make you forget about you and your thoughts… Have you really ever felt that?” Love, for me, Zaira, is caring for another so completely that that person is as important to you as yourself, so that you suffer when that person suffers, you know joy when that person knows joy, and you cannot separate your own fate from that person’s fate without considerable angst and misery. That is love. And yes, I have known it —- for my mother, for my beloved Nicholas and for Louis, and for Claudia, and for Armand and for others. Love is rooted in understanding, deep emotional and physical attraction, and in common sympathy. And once you love some one like that, well, you have given a hostage to fate. I find it impossible to live without loving. I find it excruciating to feel that I am utterly unloved. I thrive on loving and on being loved. I cannot contemplate living for any length of time without the hope of love, without hoping to experience love in my daily existence, and without the hope of knowing love in the future. In my worst trials, the memory of having been loved, and of loving has sustained me. Part of the agony of loving can be discovering that you have been cruel to the one you love, that you have cheated that person, that you have rejected the loved one when you did not mean to do it at all, that you have failed the person utterly. I have experienced all this; the fault was in me; not in loving. I have loved imperfectly, but I’m learning to love in new and better ways all the time.
ooc; The continued saga of Mater Gloriosa’s RPing
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Lestat here. The first question I want to answer today comes from Garrick Woolley: “Lestat, what was the greatest thing about being born to darkness when Magnus worked the Dark Trick?” — The greatest single thing about receiving the Dark Gift was the sense of power, the immediate awareness of heightened senses and greatly heightened strength. And young men are almost always seduced by power. The sense of being more powerful than humans, of being able to overcome any human adversary — well, that was dizzying. And later on, when I did pass into a human body at the behest of the Body Thief, that was what I immediately missed: the power. It takes years, maybe centuries to grasp other aspects of the Dark Gift, but the sense of greatly enhanced power is immediate. And thanks, Garrick, for the question. The second question I’ll address today is from Elizabeth Evelyn Pedro: “Lestat. I have fought long and hard to think of the right question to ask you. Then it came to me, asking a question to you is like asking god why he (or she) does what he does. There is no right question. There isn’t one I can think of that would not all ready have been asked. But I did finally think of something. Do you have a question? Any thing you want to ask us your followers? I’m quite sure you will get a honest answer.” Thank you, Elizabeth, and there is something I would like to ask of you and other readers: what is the one thing you truly loathe and despise about me? I’d be very curious to hear your answer. I’d also like to know how it is that you can overlook or forgive this thing, whatever it is, that you so despise in me. Of course I imagine some of you can’t forgive me for the traits you despise, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on that too.
You guys that second question!?!
what is the one thing you truly loathe and despise about me? … how it is that you can overlook or forgive this thing, whatever it is, that you so despise in me.
Nice to see; I wasn’t familiar with the US paperback cover!
Seems like this book is on everyone’s mind at the moment… either Anne Rice is using her Lestat RP (there’s a phrase I never thought I’d type) to drop hints about connections between Memnoch and Prince Lestat, or it’s all a big coincidence and we’ll sleep easier after the book comes out.
Can I just bitch about how we have to wait two extra days in the UK? Good. Because this is me, bitching.
#nostalgia flare-up bc this was the edition I read!
AR’s Lestat RP (omg yes that word has been bandied about and it’s perfect) does seem to be hinting about him an awful lot. Whether he appears or is referenced in Prince Lestat or a later book (since PL is just the beginning of a new veering-off series apparently) is anyone’s guess.
Avoid tumblr 10/28-whenever you read it, there will probably be spoiler explosion and I may, myself, commit acts of spoilage.
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