As for bleeding for Nic... some things are simply not worth it. Heck, every time they run a blood test on me they have to pick me up from the floor, cause I have this embarrassing tendency to faint like a Victorian maiden...
Wow............I can so seriously see why you thought of Nic when you read that passage. It's like selling your soul to the devil in order to have your dreams come true........and it also reminds me of how artists are known to constantly immerse themselves in angst believing that if they found true happiness, they would lose the very thing that makes them so creative and talented in the first place.
All in all, very, very cool find Randy!
Oh! And as to your question............No...............I'm not willing to bleed for the man. The last several years I've kinda been sucked dry by life. Put it another way.....I'm just about shriveled up! LOL!
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"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" ~~Gian Carlo Menotti~~
so last week i was reading this collection of short stories about vampires called By Blood We Live. in it there is a story called Ode to Edvard Munch by Caitlin R. Kiernan. there is a small part of the story that reminded me of nic, and why he is so good when he's bad. this isn't about the family man, this is for all the characters where he's so bad he's good. okay, background... a vampire trades dreams for blood. the blood donor is referring to his dreams..."I have begun to think of them as a sort of gift, though I know that others might think them more a curse. Because they are not entirely pleasant dreams. Some people would even call them nightmares, but things never seem so cut and dry to me. Yes, there is terror and horror in them, but there is beauty and wonder, too, in equal measure - a perfect balance that seems never to tip one way or the other." So, in the way i randomly connect things in my mind, this reminded me of nic. i thought she said it rather well. of course this would make nic the vampire dream weaver, and us willing blood donors. anyone out there willing to bleed for the man...... hehehehe.....
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