Oh, wow. I hear (read) you totally on that! Wanderlust is just all-consuming - I hope the terror fades in time and you follow your heart to these places.
A couple of years ago, I had the most lucid dream... I was in Constantinople with my brother, except that it was at that period Byzantium, although I was in modern clothing and such. I dreamt it was sunset and all these massive old churches and strange things were around me. It was emphatically not Istanbul.
The place was really sinister and beautiful and when I woke up, I ached to go, except of course it would be nothing like that now. I'm not interested in Istanbul, but Constantinople/Byzantium haunts me. If only you could do time travel!
Oooooh, I wish I had dreams like that! It's weird how you can have this heartsickness for places nobody alive has ever been... this also reminds me of the story Ramadan from the Sandman series. It's about Old Baghdad, pre-every-preconception-we-have-now.
Oh, man. Old Baghdad! Yet another place to be sick at heart about D:
But Thorne is just so stupid! "Hello, pretty cloud. Cloud Gift. Hello, pretty rabbit. Rabbit Gift. Hello, breath. Breath Gift." Maybe I'll just skip to the awesome historical parts. ;)
*snort* "Hello, nice snow people, who I am kind to because I only bite you in small instalments and don't actually kill you!"
It's worth skimming to the part where Marius starts talking about how he felt about what Lestat did. That's awesome. Thankfully it goes into the proper flashback part soon after, and you have maybe 500 Thorne-less pages. And even Marius doesn't use the word "Gift" quite as much.
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Date: 2007-08-09 10:54 am (UTC)A couple of years ago, I had the most lucid dream... I was in Constantinople with my brother, except that it was at that period Byzantium, although I was in modern clothing and such. I dreamt it was sunset and all these massive old churches and strange things were around me. It was emphatically not Istanbul.
The place was really sinister and beautiful and when I woke up, I ached to go, except of course it would be nothing like that now. I'm not interested in Istanbul, but Constantinople/Byzantium haunts me. If only you could do time travel!
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:27 am (UTC)But Thorne is just so stupid! "Hello, pretty cloud. Cloud Gift. Hello, pretty rabbit. Rabbit Gift. Hello, breath. Breath Gift." Maybe I'll just skip to the awesome historical parts. ;)
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:41 am (UTC)It's worth skimming to the part where Marius starts talking about how he felt about what Lestat did. That's awesome. Thankfully it goes into the proper flashback part soon after, and you have maybe 500 Thorne-less pages. And even Marius doesn't use the word "Gift" quite as much.