Interview

So, last week I randomly decided that I wanted to read some Anne Rice. Knowing that she has become a Christian, I wanted to know what her first books were like as opposed to her new books.

I chose Interview With the Vampire as the first book and I'm going to pick up a later book next week.

I am completely blown away by this book. I will warn you that some of the content is disturbing (I'm in part three and so far, there's no graphic stuff, just...creepy parts), but the overall story is incredibly spiritual.

It's kind of like reading about the fall of humanity from another perspective - where the humans are the unfallen and the vampires are the fallen humans (of course the humans in this are sinful as well, but it's kind of hard to explain and that's the best I can come up with).

Here are two quotes that just took my breath away:

"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."

"It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and that some great secret was to be revealed in that meeting, some great gulf miraculously closed forever. But who was to make this revelation when the sky and sea became indistinguishable and neither any longer was chaos? God? Or Satan? It struck me suddenly what consolation it would be to know Satan, to look upon his face, no matter how terrible that countenance was, to know that I belonged to him totally, and thus put to rest forever the torment of this ignorance. To step through some veil that would forever separate me from all that I called human nature.

I felt the ship moving closer and closer to this secret. There was no visible end to the firmament; it closed about us with breathtaking beauty and silence. But then the words put to rest became horrible. Because there would be no rest in damnation, could be no rest; and what was this torment compared to the restless fires of hell? The sea rocking beneath those constant stars - those stars themselves - what had this to do with Satan? And those images which sound so static to us in childhood when we are all so taken up with mortal frenzy that we can scarce imagine them desirable: seraphim gazing forever upon the face of God - and the face of God itself - this was rest eternal, of which this gentle, cradling sea was only the faintest promise."