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When it’s good, there’s sort of nothing like it. When you’re in the moment, and the audience is with you, and you’re telling that story, and it’s alive, and it’s happening… and it feels like it’s never happened before, there’s nothing better. It’s just like flying.
When it’s bad, it’s awful.
David Tennant, 4/6/2016, on the extremes of being on stage (via jeeno2)
The Vampire Lestat : part V ━ The Vampire Armand
━ Story of Armand 1/3
I had it through the blood of my mother, who had come from those people, the daughter of a Keltic chieftain married to a Roman patrician.
Marius, The Vampire Lestat
I just don’t understand how this works? Could she still be a Roman citizen, even if he defines her as a Celtic ‘princess’? Was she a freed slave? ARgh I need answers!
She was not a Roman citizen. If Marius’ father indeed legally married her, she must have been a freed slave. My headcanon is that he probably bought her on slave market, possibly after some successful military campaign in Galia (don’t bother figuring out if there was any at the time, there probably wasn’t). She was proably super expensive and the guy who was selling her surely made a point of her blood status to get a higher price.
Now, did he marry her before she was pregnant or after? He must have married her before Marius was born, that’s certain. Marius was born as a free Roman citizen so his mother couldn’t have been a slave at the time. I assume his father bought himself a pretty barbaric princess, got her pregnant and decided to free and marry her so his child would be a citizen. Did he fall in love with her? Was there any other reason? Who knows.
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Im looking for symbolism in The Vampire Lestat for my book report but coming up seriously short… HELP????? Please???
This is a great challenge for you to come up with your own ideas, and start to build confidence as a writer by crafting your report in which you express your ideas. It would be robbing you of the experience to just do it for you. But I will help a little ;]
What even is symbolism? Colors and objects, certain actions, can be associated with a deeper meaning, which can be intentional or not on the author’s part.
Red is a color that’s used in TVL. So if I were to pick that as a symbol to investigate, I would look at things that are mentioned with this color. This is a short list.
- Blood, obviously, and Lestat’s vision of the red stream when he is turned.
- Lestat’s lip makeup he wears when he performed with the little actor troupe.
- Nicolas has a red velvet frock coat.
- Lestat’s red velvet cloak, given to him after killing the wolves.
- Lestat getting kidnapped in that red cloak.
- The murdered stable boy wearing a fancy red velvet coat.
What kinds of connections can you make? You could say that:
- Red is associated w/ positive feelings like being rewarded, for Lestat’s service to his village. Velvet is expensive, and the villagers are showing that they appreciate him and respect him as their Marquis’ son.
- Red lips make him look more attractive on stage, red lips usually imply that there is blood in them from kissing or the anticipation of kissing, so there’s that flirtatious excitement there.
- When the Children of Darkness kill the stable boy, Lestat finds the body dressed in a red velvet coat:
“I kept thinking over and over of the stable boy, mangled and thrown there in that fancy red velvet frock coat. I had seen that coat before and I couldn’t remember where I had seen it. Had it been one of my own? Had they gotten into the tower? No, that was not possible, they couldn’t have gotten in. Had they had a coat made up identical to one of my own? Gone to such lengths to mock me? No. How could such creatures do a thing like that? But still… that particular coat. Something about it…”
Did they mean, “This is YOU Lestat, all dressed up like you’re the prince of France! We made this kid into a piñata and we’re going to destroy you as badly as this next BWAHAHAHAAAA!” ?
Skim TVL and find recurring colors, objects, actions, and list them. Then, you might start to see associations you can make.
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him.
And I had always loved him, hadn’t I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat?The Queen of the Damned (1988)
Stupidly I stared at him. How perfect he seemed to me as he stood there waiting with such kindness and such patience. And then, like a fool, I came out with it.
“Do you love me now?” I asked.
He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. “Yes,” he said.Prince Lestat (2014)
I kissed him. I pressed my lips to his and I held this kiss for a long silent moment. And then I gave in to a silent wave of feeling, and I took him in my arms. I held him tight against me. I felt his unmistakable silken skin, his soft shining black hair. I heard the blood throbbing in him, and time dissolved, and it seemed I was in some old and secret place, some warm tropical grotto we’d once shared, ours alone in some way, with the scent of sweet olive blossoms and the whisper of moist breeze. “I love you,” I whispered.
In a low intimate voice, he answered: “My heart is yours.”louis + lestat. die young. love forever.
@hyperbeeb: “Now matter how hard you ship Louis and Lestat you will never ship Louis and Lestat as hard as Lestat does.” [X]
So the other day I was reading The Vampire Lestat, and I was at the part where Lestat played the violin for Akasha and Enkil and then Akasha freaked out and screamed and smashed the violin then things went down–but anyways. At that specific part, I’m pretty sure I started actually seeing it and hearing every single note and I heard Akasha’s screams and after that scene was over, I tore myself from the book and I felt dizzy and I felt like I had a beautiful nightmare and just ?? what was that—
Anne Rice be like: it can be a sweet dreeeam or a beautiful nightmaaare
Here I am! I think that one of my favourite quote is.. no, well, there are so many.. but I’ll take one from “Scelti dalle Tenebre” (The Vampire Lestat). It’s taken from the Conversation between Nicolas and Lestat, one of my favourite part of the book. “Vedevo l’universo, il sole, i pianeti e le stelle, e la notte nera che si protrae in eterno. Cominciai a ridere. “. That made me feel so sick but I loved it.
Thank u! Wow, they changed the title of TVL to “Chosen by Darkness”. Wonder why? Obviously Lestat was Chosen by Darkness, claimed by it, not having the choice himself.
Google translate tells me your fave quote is:
I saw the universe , the sun , the planets and the stars , and the dark night that lasts forever . I started laughing . < You know it ! We will never know why the hell has happened , even when it will end ! > “ .
Which is different than the English version:
I saw the universe, a vision of the sun, the planets, the stars, black night going on forever. And I began to laugh. "Do you realize that! We’ll never know why the hell any of it happened, not even when it’s over!”
A big thing I remember being shocked and impressed with when I first read the VC at 11 yrs old was that Anne Rice was getting away with several cardinal sins in writing:
- starting a sentence with “And”
- starting a sentence with “But”
- Adding Capital Letters Wherever it looks like it might Add Impact (we refer to these as Rice Caps)
- So many more…
It looks like in the Italian translation, at least in that one quote you shared, has corrected the starting a sentence with “And” sin!
That, and the other changes, may be error(s) in Google translate. It’s still interesting to compare.
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