Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of— this tic, that tendency, like the way I’ve mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood. — Connubial by STEPHEN DUNN
He asked me if we can go home. Home? Can there be a more offensive question? Run back to New Orleans. Pry up his bones, why don't you? Louis de Pointe du Lac. Dead weight.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x01 "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned
Something is underneath, the weight's off
be aware of possible eyestrain (flashing, quick cuts, jittery movement)
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"You and me. Me and you. You and me. Me and you. You and me. Me and you."
Interview with the Vampire season 2 episode 1 "What can the damned really say to the damned?" (2024) dir. Craig Zisk
You and me. Me and you.
JACOB ANDERSON as LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC IWTV S0201 What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.01 | "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"
So, how does denial manifest itself tonight?
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 2x01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned We own... nothing.
“Memory, origin of narrative; memory, barrier against oblivion; memory, repository of my being, those delicate filaments of myself I weave, in time into a spider’s web to catch as much world in it as I can. In the midst of my self-spun web, there I can sit, in the serenity of my self-possession. Or so I would, if I could.”
— The Scarlet House, Angela Carter
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 2x01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned I can feel her. I can feel her next to me. She's having a nightmare. What's worse than a nightmare? If your soul's projecting out its fears, at least it's up and running. But the absence of anything? The void. The nothing. Pieces coming back. Hours, nights. Objects surfacing in water. It was just something she wrote. But it wasn't true. She could dream.
What's the observation?
Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire 2.01