Weekend Playlist: V.

“Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality?”

“Very few things really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

Louis: That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can’t recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.

Louis: We reached the Mediterranean. I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black, nighttime waters, and how I suffered then, straining to recall the color that in my youth I had taken for granted.

Armand: You are beautiful my friend. Lestat must have wept when he made you.

Armand: The world changes, we do not, there lies the irony that finally kills us.

– Anne Rice, from Interview With the Vampire. (book and film)

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Top artwork by Sergio Baradat.