Why is it that when couples make a new human life, it’s ‘beautiful’ and ‘miraculous,’ but when I make a new human life alone in my basement, it’s ‘a crime against nature’ and ‘morally abhorrent’?
“ “I can leave now if you like,“ I said tremulously. "I can simply get up very slowly and leave without hurting you. I swear it. You must not be alarmed.”
“Why you?” she asked.
“I don’t understand your question,” I said. Was I crying? Was I just shivering and shaking? “What do you mean, why me?”
She came in closer and looked down at me. I could see her very distinctly.
Perhaps she saw a mop of blond hair and the glint of light in my glasses and that I seemed young…
…She came very close to me. Far too close. She shouldn’t. In a moment she’d be screaming…”
Louis, the watcher, the patient one, was there on account of love pure and simple. The two had found each other only last night, and theirs had been an extraordinary reunion. Louis would go where Lestat led him. Louis would perish if Lestat perished
i. Every You, Every Me – Placebo, ii. Do I Disappoint You? – Rufus Wainwright, iii. Kiss With a Fist – Florence + The Machine, iv. My Sweet Prince – Placebo, v. I’d Love to Kill You – Katie Melua, vi. Make This Go On Forever – Snow Patrol, vii. Love Song For a Vampire – Annie Lennox, viii. Samson – Regina Spektor, ix. Rebel Prince – Rufus Wainwright, x. Flaws – Bastille
I want to do a piece of Lestat when he was a young human and he fought the wolves…but I can’t remember some of the details.
Like…how many dogs he had, what kind…I remember he brought a morning star but… What else? :-T I don’t own the book to reference it
Two dogs, this I know.
Yup. “And here I was going out to hunt in rawhide boots and buckskin coat, with these ancient weapons tied to the saddle, and my two biggest mastiffs beside me in their spiked collars.”