A lot of that was set afire because of reading this book. The questions I've asked, the roads I've taken, the experiences I've had, are all a result of my search for my own truth. Now, 17 years later I've been around the world many times, am nearing the completion of two degrees (psychology and philosophy) and am a much different, much broader, much more deepened soul. I had become a philosopher (though not a good one). With no reading, history, or even exposure to any philosophy (Arkansas public school after all) I now asked questions about ethics, the nature of God, what is beauty, morality, and more. It is a slippery slope to question everything. By witnessing the drama of Lestat's journey, this manifestation of the Shadow declaring it's evil and it's good. That queston, can something evil love? The values of the Southern protestant is one of black and white and there is no mixing, no grey, no overlap. The book engendered a question within me that never found any sunlight growing up a protestant in the Deep South. I went to the base library to check out Dracula and beside it on the shelf was this book. I joined the Marines in 89 and while watching a movie about a teenage vampire it was mentioned that Dracula is 'good literature'. I didn't read anything else other than fantasy novels (like Dragonlance). I don't mean that I turned goth or vampire or whatever. This is one of those books that defined me.
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