I need you as the one luminous point in my madnessĀ
"If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?"
I loved you with the most violent passion;
I hated you with the most bitter animosity;
I longed for your death,
and yet I sought your presence.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us anymore.
"If I let him do this to me, what else will I allow?
Anything, anything, anything."
You said I killed youā haunt me, then! Be with me always ā take any formā drive me mad!
she loved him alive,
she loved him dead,
she loved him resurrected.
you'll never recover from that kind of devotion.
In the dream I don't tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.
"Do you realise how devoted I am to you, all the same? There's nothing I wouldn't do for you, dearest Honey."
The pain will remind us of each other. When we meet later, if there is a later, we will recognize each other by it.
Across centuries and the void of a world, sleepless, I seek you.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there"
LESTAT DE LIONCOURT AND LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
// Fyodor Dostoevsky , Notes from UndergroundĀ // Henry Miller toĀ AnaĆÆs Nin,Ā A Literate Passion: Letters Of AnaĆÆs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953).Ā // Margaret Atwood, We are hard // Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk // Franz Kafka, The Castle // Raleigh Ritchie, Bloodsport // Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless // Emily BrontĆ«, "Wuthering Heights," // Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Liebe der Magdalena // Leah Horlick, For Your Own Good // Richard Siken, I had a dream about you // Virginia Woolf, "Letter to Vita Sackville-West," 16 February 1927 // Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays // Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day // Rumi //
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just an excellent study on perspective. because " i was shot in the street, you didnt call" "im a selfish bastard. i dont have an answer" dialogue could be read to show Louis is such a cruel light. but it doesnt. it extends so much grace and sympathy and empathy to him. because we see it through Lestat's perspective. its what he offers to Louis here. and even after seeing Louis' state, he goes to see Regina as Louis asked. irrespective of what it could do to him. Louis called. and he went.
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At a time when Netflix is getting roundly criticized for forcing its shows to treat the audience like we have all of two brain cells to rub together, The Vampire Lestat is out here volleying everything from 70s gay references to 1700s Dutch Republic references at the speed of light while saying, "You don't get it? Well, that's a fucking you problem."
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The idea that Claudia's rape was 'made about Lestat' is such a profoundly idiotic, 2012 Tumblr level of 'criticism' I can't take it seriously.
Lestat is being raped in the scene. He is not being told of Claudia's rape, he is not reacting to it, his own rape is happening on screen. Claudia's is being narrated, we don't see it because 1) she is dead 2) it's her own words.
The reason why people don't get why is being paralled is again, the same reason people don't get anything in this fucking fandom: giving Louis some accountability for his own damn actions.
The reason why Lestat and Claudia's rapes are being shown at the same time is because that's what Louis did. He aired them both to world, he got them both exploited in that book. It has nothing to do with Lestat knowing or reacting to what happened to Claudia. So no, it was not 'made about Lestat' or 'it's the trope where they make a woman's rape about a man'.
The only person that made her rape (and Lestat's) about himself is Louis. He made it about his guilt, he made it about how Lestat recounting his was the only way he 'forgave him'. And the show's narrative is calling him out on how fucked up and exploitative that was.
But you can cover your ears and sing lalalalala if that makes you feel better.
