Songs Of Delphi

Experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source. ”

Listen, keep you eyes wide. ”

It is your consciousness, your will, which must keep you alive. ”

Well, I lay there helpless in the face of my own cowardice and fatuousness again, ”

Let me say the powerful instinct of a vampire to whom even the slightest change in a human’s expression is as apparent as a gesture. ”

But there were several acts involved, the first was the death of the overseer. Lestat took him in his sleep. I was to watch and to approve; that is, to witness the taking of a human life as proof of my commitment and part of my change. ”

…and I proceeded to make the change. I can not say that it consisted in any one step really-though one, of course, was the step beyond which I could make no return. ”

Decided. It doesnt seem the right word. Yet I cannot say it was inevitable from the moment that he stepped into that room. No, indeed, it was not inevitable. Yet I can’t say I decided. Let me say that when he’d finished speaking, no other decision was possible for me, and I pursued my course without a backward glance. ”

I forgot myself totally. And in the same instant knew totally the meaning of possibility. From then on I experienced only increasing wonder. As he talked to me and told me of what I might become, of what his life had been and stood to be, my past shrank to embers. I saw my life as if I stood apart from it, the vanity, the self-serving, the constant fleeing from one petty annoyance after another, the lip service to God and the Virgin and a host of saints whose names filled my prayer books, none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existance. I saw my real Gods…the Gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. Cinders. ”