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And I' e, where you can best see ood without the other And I want so iveRandonition will never be enough, I' ahead now, aren't I? If you've readabout What was this disaster of which I speak?

Well, let's review, shall we? As I've said, I wrote the book and made the album because I wanted to be visible, to be seen for what I am, even if only in symbolic terms

As to the risk that ht realize I was exactly what I said I was-I was rather excited by that possibility as well Let them hunt us down, let them destroy us, that was in a way ht to kill us And think of the battles! Ah, fighting those who really knohat I am But I never really expected such a confrontation; and the rockmusician persona, it was too marvelous a cover for a fiend like me

It was my own kind who took me literally, who decided to punish me for what I had done And of course I'd counted on that too

After all, I'd told our history in s I'd been sworn never to reveal And I was strutting before the hot lights and the caotten hold of me, or more likely a zealous police officer on a minor traffic violation five minutes before sunup, and somehow I'd been incarcerated, inspected, identified, and classified-all during the daylight hours while I lay helpless-to the satisfaction of the worst mortal skeptics ide?

Granted, that wasn't very likely Still isn't (Though it could be such fun, it really could!)

Yet it was inevitable that , that they would try to burn me alive, or chopones, they were too stupid to realize how safe ere

And as the night of the concert approached, I'd foundof those battles, too Such a pleasure it was going to be to destroy those ere as evil as I was; to cut a swathe through the guilty; to cut down ain

Yet, you know, the sheer joy of being out there, ic!-that's what it was all about in the end I wanted to be alive, finally I wanted to be sione to Paris two hundred years ago and met death on the boulevard, would have his moment at test

But to continue with the review-the concert was a success I hadreatest ilings, my paramours, from whom I'd been separated for too many dark years

Before the night was over, we licked the pesty va But we'd had an invisible ally in these little skirmishes; our enemies burst into flames before they could do us harm

As ht Ib take the question of danger seriously I ignored Gabrielle's iain; and I dismissed Louis's dark suspicions as I always had

And then the jaer

Just as the sun was rising over Car my eyes as vampires round lair It wasn't only the young vas had roused from their slumber the very oldest of our kind in the world