[ Relief ripples across his mind as Lestat seems to accept the subject change, and Matt assumes erroneously that he's gone unnoticed for now. Hearing Rimbaud quoted back for Rimbaud, on the other hand, prompts emotions that are much less complicated: Matt beams, pleased both that Lestat picks up what he's laying down and that he's not offended to be somewhat stereotyped. Assumed-about, at least. ]
Erotic books with bad spelling, [ he muses, seriously. (Which is to say: Not entirely seriously.) He has neither A Season in Hell or The Drunken Boat fully memorized, but the erotic books line has always stuck out.
Matt shrugs at the question, fingers dangling over the back of the chair. ] Some of the time I'll be reading, I'm sure. The rest ...
[ He hesitates a moment. But this part's hardly a secret. Their hosts must know it too. ]
I'll be trying to figure out what's going on here and how to get out. So we can all leave.
[ The library is part of this plan, actually. Matt definitely believes that people's bookshelves reveal things about them. For instance, that brick about the British empire, now serving as the pedestal for a bust--what does that say? I have the right to whatever I can lay hands on. QED. ]
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Erotic books with bad spelling, [ he muses, seriously. (Which is to say: Not entirely seriously.) He has neither A Season in Hell or The Drunken Boat fully memorized, but the erotic books line has always stuck out.
Matt shrugs at the question, fingers dangling over the back of the chair. ] Some of the time I'll be reading, I'm sure. The rest ...
[ He hesitates a moment. But this part's hardly a secret. Their hosts must know it too. ]
I'll be trying to figure out what's going on here and how to get out. So we can all leave.
[ The library is part of this plan, actually. Matt definitely believes that people's bookshelves reveal things about them. For instance, that brick about the British empire, now serving as the pedestal for a bust--what does that say? I have the right to whatever I can lay hands on. QED. ]