Like Claudia, Daniel drags Louis (and a +1) around on a mission; like Claudia, he is the youngest vampire among them. Unlike Claudia, he doesn't require an escort, and can come and go as he pleases. That he has living family still, that he is a public figure, are handy excuses. His daughters are worried after all his shit on TV. One of his exes wants money. He has agents to wrangle.
He says goodbye to Louis, he tells Lestat to think of who he'd like to play him in a movie adaptation (just to rile him up).
Stupid, he thinks, when he gets to where he's going. This is stupid, and Armand isn't even going to notice, and why would he want Armand to notice him anyway? Why is he doing any of this? But it can't go unanswered, or he'll go insane, no matter that it's been weeks.
The man is a former YouTube grifter turned TikTok grifter turned conservative streaming pundit. He calls himself a philosopher, and millions of eager, dipshit fans agree. He's written four books and they're all awful— neotrad, capitalist drivel that misses the point of Stoicism and dresses it up in a wannabe-Mormon dress shirt and tie. He does these awful weekly shows where he misunderstands a new (real) philosopher each episode and explains why their work is all lies, and he really, really hates (and really, really doesn't get) Sartre.
One among many. He doesn't seem to get anything. But Marxism is a buzzword, and the guy selects himself one day while Daniel is attempting a scheme, by announcing a partnership with a unique blockchain coin.
Sparks in people. There must have been an incredible one in Jean-Paul Sartre, for Armand to have wanted to flex his friendship with him. He even has (had, maybe) his books still. An insignificant mortal who was so important that he got a deliberate, smug-casual cameo in a story that tore Armand's heart out. That Sartre and Beauvoir were infamous for seducing young students together is something he opts not to think too hard about.
(Mostly.)
Armand likes existentialism. Armand likes French philosophy and he hates Web3 pricks. There's no way for Daniel to make the vampire see this murder and know it's for him, so he takes a while, loopy from the kill (the guy was buzzing on oxy, a predictable hypocrite), to go through his office. He finds some notes, selects a specific page, folds it up, and puts it into the corpse's pocket.
Plans to read Journey to the End of the Night, though based on these shallow scribblings, he never got around to it. The notes are mentioned in the news coverage, and the grifter has an endless parade of enemies to investigate.
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He says goodbye to Louis, he tells Lestat to think of who he'd like to play him in a movie adaptation (just to rile him up).
Stupid, he thinks, when he gets to where he's going. This is stupid, and Armand isn't even going to notice, and why would he want Armand to notice him anyway? Why is he doing any of this? But it can't go unanswered, or he'll go insane, no matter that it's been weeks.
The man is a former YouTube grifter turned TikTok grifter turned conservative streaming pundit. He calls himself a philosopher, and millions of eager, dipshit fans agree. He's written four books and they're all awful— neotrad, capitalist drivel that misses the point of Stoicism and dresses it up in a wannabe-Mormon dress shirt and tie. He does these awful weekly shows where he misunderstands a new (real) philosopher each episode and explains why their work is all lies, and he really, really hates (and really, really doesn't get) Sartre.
One among many. He doesn't seem to get anything. But Marxism is a buzzword, and the guy selects himself one day while Daniel is attempting a scheme, by announcing a partnership with a unique blockchain coin.
Sparks in people. There must have been an incredible one in Jean-Paul Sartre, for Armand to have wanted to flex his friendship with him. He even has (had, maybe) his books still. An insignificant mortal who was so important that he got a deliberate, smug-casual cameo in a story that tore Armand's heart out. That Sartre and Beauvoir were infamous for seducing young students together is something he opts not to think too hard about.
(Mostly.)
Armand likes existentialism. Armand likes French philosophy and he hates Web3 pricks. There's no way for Daniel to make the vampire see this murder and know it's for him, so he takes a while, loopy from the kill (the guy was buzzing on oxy, a predictable hypocrite), to go through his office. He finds some notes, selects a specific page, folds it up, and puts it into the corpse's pocket.
Plans to read Journey to the End of the Night, though based on these shallow scribblings, he never got around to it. The notes are mentioned in the news coverage, and the grifter has an endless parade of enemies to investigate.
Daniel takes the scenic route to New York.