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| MEMNOCH THE DEVIL FRONT PAGE |
| Unbearably,probably have to kill each night. by the time you're thousand years old,you'll look and sound wise,evenif you were a kid when you started,and you will drink and kill becaise you cannot resist it,whether you need it anymore or not . if you live longer than that,and some do,who know? you'll get tougher,whiter,ever more monstrous.you'll know so much about suffering that you will go through rapid cycles of cruelty and kindness,insight and maniacal blindness.you'll probably go mad.then you'll be sane again.then you may forget who you are. I myself combine the best of vampiric youth and old ago. Only two hundred years old,i have been for various reasons granted the strengh of the ancients.I have a modern sensibility but a dead aristocrat's impeccable taste.Iknow exactly who I am.I am rich.I am beautiful.can see my reflection in mirrors.And in shopwindows.I love to sing and to dance. What I do?Anything that I please. Think about it.Is it enough to make you want to read my story?Have you perhaps read my stories of the vampires before? Here's the catch:it dosen't matter here that I'm a vampire.IT is not central to the tale.it's just a given,like my innocent smile and soft,purring French-acceneted voice and graceful way of sauntering down the street.It comes with the package. But what happened here could have happened to humans,and it will happen to them again. We have souls,you and I.We want to know things;we share the same earth,rich and verdant and fraught with perils.We don'tÜÜÜeither of usÜÜÜknow what it means to die,no matter what we might say to the contrary.It's a cinch that if we did,I wouldn't be writing and tou wouldn't be reading this book. What does matter very much,as for myself the task of being a hro in thisworld. I mataintain myself as morally complex,spiritually tough,and aesthetically relevantÜÜÜa being of blazing insight and impact,a guy with things to say to you. So if you read this, read it for that reasonÜÜÜthat lestat is ately for the lesson and for the song and for the raison d'etre,that he wants to understand this own story and he wants you to understand it,and that is the very best story he has right now to tell. If that's not enough,read something else. If it is,then read on.In chains,to my friend and my scrible,I dicated these words.Come with me.just listen to me.Don't leave me alone. ANNE RICE |
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