So I need everyone to know something I discovered about the passage that Lestat reads in the latest episode, the one supposedly by St. Thomas Aquinas:
This excerpt is not, in fact, from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, which Lestat would have studied in his brief time at the monastery! It is taken from the poem "We Are Fields Before Each Other" by Daniel Ladinsky, who published a collection of poems called Love Poems From God in 2002, in which he writes poems under the persona of various philosophers, mystics, and religious figures. There's a whole section dedicated to Aquinas.
Now this excerpt is out there on the internet falsely attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, A LOT. Who can say if this is an error, or a deliberate bit of fun from the writers (the past and the present overlapping, rewriting one another, etc. - Lestat is speaking to a hallucination of his ten year old self after all). Either way, I'm pretty obsessed.
I'm including the rest of the poem below, for fun and context: