Lestatian Philosophy!
I started reading Blood Canticle by Anne Rice, who's one of my favorite authors. She's probably most known for Interview with of a Vampire from her Vampire chronicle series. I want to quote her opinion written in the voice of vampyre Lestat, it's not about sucking blood and mutilating corpses! But rather a rare 'humanistic' monologue:
"Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination, or a climax. The great "at last" or "nth degree". A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand".
"This derives of course from our susceptibility to viewing the "now" as the End of Time, an Apocalyptic obsession that has endured since Christ ascended into Heaven"
"We must stop this! We must perceive that we are dawn of a sublime age! Enemies will no longer be conquered, they will be devoured, and transformed."
Hmm.. is that like how it is in Iraq?... that it was not 'conquered' but 'devoured'?
Lestat continues "But here's the point I really want to make: Modernism and Materialism – elements that the Church has feared for so long- are in their practical and philosophical infancy! The sacramental nature is only just being revealed… never mind the infantile blunders! The electronic revolution has transmuted the industrial world beyond all predictive thinking of the twentieth century"
Quiet the "optimistic" look to the future. Personally, I think we can only go down from here.. and I'm not talking technology :/
"Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination, or a climax. The great "at last" or "nth degree". A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand".
"This derives of course from our susceptibility to viewing the "now" as the End of Time, an Apocalyptic obsession that has endured since Christ ascended into Heaven"
"We must stop this! We must perceive that we are dawn of a sublime age! Enemies will no longer be conquered, they will be devoured, and transformed."
Hmm.. is that like how it is in Iraq?... that it was not 'conquered' but 'devoured'?
Lestat continues "But here's the point I really want to make: Modernism and Materialism – elements that the Church has feared for so long- are in their practical and philosophical infancy! The sacramental nature is only just being revealed… never mind the infantile blunders! The electronic revolution has transmuted the industrial world beyond all predictive thinking of the twentieth century"
Quiet the "optimistic" look to the future. Personally, I think we can only go down from here.. and I'm not talking technology :/
posted by Mystique at 2:17 AM
2 Comments:
so what do you think about Ann Rice's conversion to Roman Catholicism?
I think when Anne Rice believed that she found some spiritual fulfillment; we lost a great influential writer. A fiction writer's greatest tool is the vast imagination. Religion, unfortunately, would put a lot of restrictions on that. Anne Rice has become the famous writer that she is because of her Vampire Chronicles, which now she stopped "repented" from writing. Only her early works would keep her memorable. Thanks for your comment.
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