Amaranthine: переводы

→Think about it. The sensuality and allure of vampires must go beyond biting and blood. Come on! Neither of those things is particularly enticing, even when you add a hot, brooding guy or a sexy chick to the mix. But sprinkle in the ability to live practically forever and to be frozen physically in time so that you don't have to age, and you have a whole new thing. Vampires rebel against time, and they win! Teenagers get that. Because isn't rebelling against time, whether "time" is represented by wrinkles or a parent's disciplinary hand or death itself, what being a teenager is all about? Of course it is. Or at least it mostly is. Hopefully you're nodding and grinning and thinking, Cast hasn't lost it. She's old, sure, but she hasn't lost it. Yet.

→It does sound bizarre. How could a teenager in the 70s, or the 2000s for that matter, "identify" with vampires? Okay, stay with me here. When I was a teenager I understood vamps deep in my soul because, at the very core of my hormone-filled being, I believed I was immortal too. Actually, it was such an nnate belief, one that went so hand-in-hand with zits and driver's ed, boy angst and prom, that it wasn't until I looked back in retrospect that I realized what really drew me to absorb all the vampire mythos 1 could get my hands on.

→But while I'm taking this trip way back down Memory Lane, I find that I neen to admit to more than just my age. If I'm being honest wiht myself, and with you, I have to add that the allure of the wampire is much more complex than simple lust. The truth is that vampire appeal goes beyond raging hormones and our baser emoions. I devoured Anne Rice's book and then went on to absorb Bram Stoker's Dracula and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's amazing Chronicles of Saint Germain not just because they were sexy—that's way too simplistic a reason. I got hooked on vampires as a teenager because I identified with them.