Notes to the Wall

10th grade English teech would be so...enthralled with this, I'm sure.

"Journalize, journalize, journalize." Wonder whether the Cush lives, and whether his students journalize to a Baylor blog?

Something to say, 'cause something needs saying.

Am not quite slogging through Anne Rice's Interview with The Vampire, prompted mostly by my Ma-in-law's dropping of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt on us and b/c D just finished it, and I only remember it from when it came out in paperback in...77?

I'm a lot more sympathetic to Louis, and I'd really forgot all about what a beast Lestat is. Grad school memories of reading The Vampire Lestat in a crappy apartment carved out of a Victorian great house crowded all the "Lestat's just a spoiled turd" outta my head. Late night hacking, waking after the sun's gone down, pounding out beautiful code while the U sleeps & the Strip dozes...well, it all fit in w/ romanticizing Lestat. First book really paints him unsympathetically. Hell, I might need to read it all again...

Discussion re: Xtianity w/ dearest led to a pretty sweet realization: perhaps the "you always get a 2nd chance" truism here in the States led directly from the "you're a sinner...but you can be saved." I was always pretty pissed at the "you suck" part of that, but I never really saw the basis it provides to the 2nd chance and the "bad acts can be redeemed" and "you're not what you just did" that are pretty much the foundation of US society and a big chunk of its legal system.

Well, the ideal, as I see it, anyways...