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"Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you." - Carol Ann Duffy

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Thinking about the recent interviews and all the bits and pieces we're getting. The near messiah having a nervous breakdown comment, the hyper sexualized being comment, the everything informed by trauma comment, the following Anne Rice's lead by making the series take a dramatic turn with TVL comment. They're truly going to embrace the insane chaos that was Rice's storytelling while making it better for having the clarity of the entire story before them to mold. They've already proven it with the first part of the tale. I'm sure it's going to continue to be incredible.

But those comments have also created a stupid brainworm. What if Lestat's seemingly over-the-top murder of the priests in season one connects to his past and the monastery? What if something more happened beyond his father not thinking much of an education? What if that something is the real reason he's brought home and the catalyst for his family's treatment of him after? What if him being locked away is punishment for what he'd suffered there? What if he's blamed and deemed a monster that tempted a priest and all that utter bullshit. The ocean between Christ and himself. What if "gifted pupil" has a darker, traumatic undertone.

What if Louis' priests were not as kind as Louis thought?

What if they were?

Trauma informs everything, right.

It wouldn't be true to the original story, but this is an adaptation, and it's not that much of a stretch from Lestat's experiences in the chronicles. And when you think of his book canon interactions with the divine...

Or maybe not.

Time will tell.

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Margaret Atwood & Stanley Kunitz

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Come

Home.

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"My father's daughter. Victim and protegee. Greatest love and ruination."

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"I didn't want this."

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"But the wolf is always there..."

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To be made whole by being not a witness but witnessed.

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Hopefully the "a wolf congratulated for not killing her pup" line comes into play in season three. I feel like it already comes across as a recollection, like something is coming full circle in Lestat's mind, like he's parroting something said in the past. So, I hope it's a moment of clarity for him that reverberates beyond their present situation. A dot that we'll get to connect later. I don't know. It's a great line without any tendrils into the deeper past but it would be fun to have an aha moment in season 3 of oh that's what he was thinking about, that's the other layer, that's what's also going on there.

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"One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad."

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"Just this once..."

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"The night isn't dark; the world is dark. Stay with me a little longer." - Louise Gluck

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"It is holy to say any name 3 times, but I've stood in front of enough mirrors to know no one is coming just because you ask for them." - Reyna N.A. - Excerpt of "Ghost"

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"Look how long this love can hold its breath."

"Forget me and come back to me again."

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"...make them stay, make them stone."

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"Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money..." This line kills me. Such a degrading, demeaning compensation for the evil inflicted and a life stolen. Whether that was Magnus' intent or not it's nauseating.

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When real life and IWTV meet:

Storyville - New Orleans Music Map

Two blocks up Iberville, away from the river, was Pete Lala’s saloon, which also featured the best musicians in town. Jelly Roll Morton recalled a pool game there:

One day we were all up at Lala’s saloon. Pensacola Kid was playing Buster Brown for ten dollars a round and they asked me to keep the game. In came Chicken Dick, the Uptown roughneck, and started yelling…. He hit me hard and I fell on the table with my hands on some balls. I hauled off and hit him with a pool ball and he jumped like he was made of rubber…. They gave me a name. ‘Don’t fool with Winding Boy. He like to kill Chicken Dick.’ I had sense enough to know it wasn’t healthy to wear a name like that around New Orleans where some tough guy might decide to see how hard I really was. So I decided to accept Tony Jackson’s invitation to visit Chicago.

--Jelly Roll leaving New Orleans. Also, I had to add the picture of the Anderson Storyville building!

Link is to the source article and website dedicated to the history of Storyville.