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Because this just seemed like an appropriate post for the week before Halloween. Also, I have another dental appointment this afternoon, so I'm thinking about teeth.
For all of us who may have forgotten – Anne Rice's vampires may not sparkle, but they certainly are shiny!
To quote Lestat in The Vampire Lestat;
"My vampire nature reveals itself in extremely white and highly reflective skin that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind."
And also this;
"...the only consistent indication that I am not human is my fingernails. It's the same with all vampires. Our fingernails look like glass."
By the time we get to Queen of the Damned, it's full-on, full-time glowing. Like here;
"...His skin had a gold glow too it, the Dead glow which in the case of white Dead guys made them look like they were standing in a fluorescent light all the time..."
And here, about the vamp himself;
"My skin had a pearlescent gleam to it; and my eyes were even brighter, gathering all the colours of the spectrum and mingling them with an icy light."
So you know, not sparkly, but definitely opalescent. Rice's vamps do, however, torch nicely in sunlight – or tan, at any rate.
Also - if the golden age of science fiction is eleven, then when is the golden age of vampires? I’m positing somewhere around fourteen? At least for girls – sometime after we’ve ditched horses and picked up rock bands?
For all of us who may have forgotten – Anne Rice's vampires may not sparkle, but they certainly are shiny!
To quote Lestat in The Vampire Lestat;
"My vampire nature reveals itself in extremely white and highly reflective skin that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind."
And also this;
"...the only consistent indication that I am not human is my fingernails. It's the same with all vampires. Our fingernails look like glass."
By the time we get to Queen of the Damned, it's full-on, full-time glowing. Like here;
"...His skin had a gold glow too it, the Dead glow which in the case of white Dead guys made them look like they were standing in a fluorescent light all the time..."
And here, about the vamp himself;
"My skin had a pearlescent gleam to it; and my eyes were even brighter, gathering all the colours of the spectrum and mingling them with an icy light."
So you know, not sparkly, but definitely opalescent. Rice's vamps do, however, torch nicely in sunlight – or tan, at any rate.
Also - if the golden age of science fiction is eleven, then when is the golden age of vampires? I’m positing somewhere around fourteen? At least for girls – sometime after we’ve ditched horses and picked up rock bands?
