<The Queen of the Damned, 1994> 앤라이스 Rice, Anne 독후감, 인상깊은 구절

읽은건 이 버전

Louis, the watcher, the patient one, was there on the 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. But their fears and hopes for this night were heartbreakingly human.

202 Khayman

The Vampire Lestat and his cohorts stood spying upon the hall through the holes in a great serge curtain.

Lestat embraced his companion Louis, and they kissed on the mouth, as the mortal musicians put their arms around both of them.

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앤라이스 작가님 그냥 gay라고 하시지...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 근데 괜히 뱀터뷰 미드가 나온게 아니구나 단어로 정의만 안했을 뿐이지 이미 레스타랑 루이는 유사연인임 근데 그렇게 치면 가브리엘도 그렇게 치면 클라우디아(?)도 마리우스도 아르망도 아 제발 근데 정말로 너무 Vampire Lestat 부터는 레스타가 메리수가 된다

And then the vision paled, and died away, like music half heard and half remembered. She was near to death; her body gone, all pain gone, all sense of permanence or anguish.

She stood in the clearing in the sunshine looking down at the mother on the altar. "In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil."

241 Jesse, Maharet

Was nobody ugly ever given immortality? Or did the dark magic simply make beauty out of whatever sacrifice was thrown into the blaze? But Gabrielle had been a lovely thing in life surely, with all her son's courage and none of his impetuosity, and Louis, ah, well, Louis of course had been picked for the exquisite bones of his face, for the depth of his green eyes. He had been picked for the inverterate attitude of somber appreciation that he revealed now. He looked like a human being lost among them, his face softened with color and feeling; his body curiously defenseless; his eyes wondering and sad.

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이러고 두 페이지동안 모인 뱀파이어들 외모찬양함 제발ㅜ 작가가 선명하게 뱀파이어들을 핥고 있었다

근데 여기서 마리우스랑 친구들, 그리고 레스타 coven 멤버들 모이는게 so much like avengers assemble resemblance its ironically so funny like why can't western people stop this obsession with the dream team to save the world smh what do you mean these ten vampires are the only ones to save the world? 그래서 항상 이런 assemble 나오면 걍 웃음

I was weeping now and she was weeping and she was that tender fragile being again, the being I had helf on Saint-Dominque, the one who needed me, but that weekness wasn't destroying her after all, though it would certainly destroy me.

"Lestat," she whispered as if in disbelief.

"I can't follow you," I said, my voice breaking. Slowly I rose to my feet, "We're not angels, Akasha; we are not gods. To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us."

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I would've loved this sentence if I haven't been let down by the whole nonsense of flying over damn continents 하지만 문장 자체는 정말 좋았다 하지만!! 뱀터뷰에서만큼의 현실적인 설득력이 없다보니(because they literally defy gravity lol) 그냥 감정과잉으로 느껴지는 게 아쉬웠음

그런데 여기서 lestat 이 to be human, that's what most of us long for에서 왜 레스타가 루이에게 끌리는지 확연하게 드러나는 것 같다. 레스타와 루이가 제일 시리즈에서 인간적인 캐릭터라서

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어쨌든 그래서 maharet 이랑 makare reunite 하고 akasha 죽임

이 서사를 위해서 불필요한 묘사와 관점 전환이 너무 정신없었다

그래서 책 자체는 불호였는데 3/5점을 준 이유는 막판에 루이랑 레스타가 같이 뉴올리언스 옛날 집에 갔다가 루이 무덤 가서 얘기하는 장면이 정말 좋아서....

루이를 자주 발췌해서 그렇지 진짜 시퀄은 다 허위매물 수준이다 뱀터뷰 이후로는 그냥 쭉 레스타가 주인공이라... 뱀터뷰의 그 딥하고 현학적인 분위기를 좋아하면 이제 안나옴 없다... 루이랑 레스타 단둘이 대화하는 씬 보려고 480페이지를 견디다니...

Someone up there in the old flat. Someone who walks softly yet makes the boards creak.

The little downstairs shop was neat and dark behind its barred windows; porcelain knickknacks, dolls, lace fans. I looked up at the balcony with its wrought-iron railings; I could picture Claudia there, on tiptoe, looking down at me, little fingers knotted on the rail. Golden hair spilling down over her shoulders, long streak of violet ribbon. My little immortal six-year-old beauty; Lestat, where have you been?

476

😭😭😭

He was in the ahllway, looking through Caludia's door.

The coat was perhaps a little shorter, a little less full than those old frock coats had been; but he looked so very nearly like himself in the old century that it made the ache in me deepen unbearably. For a moment I couldn't move. He might as well have been a ghost there: his black hair full and disheveled as it had always been in the old days, and his green eyes full of melancholy wonder, and his arms rather limp at his sides.

477

레스타가 보는 루이 묘사가 정말 좋다....

I tried to find the stars. But I couldn't. When I looked down again, I saw Claudia; I felt her hand touch mine.

Then I looked at Louis again, and saw his eyes catch the dim and distant light and I winced. I touched his face again, the cheekbones, the arch beneath the black eyebrow. What a finely made thing he was.

"Blessed darkness!" I said suddenly. "Blessed darkness has come again."

"Yes," he said sadly, "and we rule in it as we have always done."

Wasn't that enough?

He took my hand-what did it feel like now?-and led me down the narrow corridor between the oldest, the most vulnerable tombs; tombs that went back to the oldest time of the colony, when he and I had roamed the swamps together, the swamps that threatened to swallow everything, and I had fed on the blood of roustabouts and cutthroat thieves.

His tomb. I realized I was looking at his name engraved on the marble in a great slanting old-fashioned script.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

1766-1794

He rested against the tomb behind him, another one of those little temples, like his own, with a perityle roof.

...

"You're not going to leave us, are you?" he asked suddenly, voice sharpened with distress.

"No," I said. I wished I could speak of it, all the things that were in the book. "You know, we were lovers, she and I, as surely as a mortal man and woman ever were."

"Of course, I know," he said.

I smiled. I kissed him suddenly, thrilled by the warmth of him, the soft pliant feel of his near human skin. God, how I hated the whiteness of my fingers touching him, fingers that could have crushed him now effortlessly. I wondered if he even guessed.

There was so much I wanted to say to him, to ask him. Yet I couldnt' find the words really, or a way to begin. he had always had so many questions; and now he had his answers, more answers perhaps than he could ever have wanted; and what had this done to his soul? 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.

"Want to go on a little adventure?" My heart was thudding suddenly. It would be so grand if - "Want to break the new rules?"

"What in the world do you mean?" he whispered.

I started laughing, in a low feverish fashion; it felt so good.

479-480

I was remembering so many things; the first time, for example, that I'd ever seen him in a tavern in New Orleans. He'd been drunk, quarreling; and I'd followed him out into the night. And he had said in that last moment before I'd let him slip through my hands, his eyes closing:

"But who are you!"

I'd known I'd come back for him at sunset, that I'd find him if I had to search the whole city for him, though I was leaving him half dead in the cobblestone street. I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

That was the problem, and nothing she'd given me-not suffering, or power, or terror finally-had changed it one bit.

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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

그리고나서 둘이 David Talbot 만나서 불멸이 되고 싶으면 연락하라고 하고 떠남

Tale of the twin sisters 가 조금 개연성이 없고 (뱀파이어는 있는데 이집트 신들은 없다고 설정한게 조금... 네.) 아쉬웠지만 하 결말이.. 굿.

내가 다음 시리즈를 과연 읽을지는 모르겠지만 희한하게 뱀파이어 연대기는 결말에서 모든게 갑자기 미화돼서... 읽어볼지도