seperation or lack of finding the edge

it occurs to me that perhaps there is some validity to the mythology of Zues chopping selfs in half. If one looks at the main characters in Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire. Lestat needs his other self. Louis other limbs may be more in the line of knowledge; answers none can produce. Claudia a mother, an arm to enfold her, and a body that will not betray her and wrap itself about her as taut as woven shroud. She was rather fond of the finer things in life and a shroud of linen and cotton certainly would not behoove her. And this space this lack of, the distance between need and want. These characters need and believe it to be want. Sex is food.

Futhermore, those as food is there a distance where euphoria enters as desire and the distance between living and a high so great simply decides it is the other half lacking. The euphoria an opiate so powerful that a young girl terrified hears no pain as the entry point as how many fear a painful death. Moreover, how many fear more a painful life as Armond when Louis finds the distance between them to be greater than the desire to cross it.

Of all the characters , Claudia is surely the one to be pitied, the outcast among outcasts. Yet, they had their versin of untouchables in their caste system the mumbling, noncognizant distant relatives. How easy it is to forget, to create a victim, when one has been victimized themself and
how luxurious to have others to generate stored, simmering for centuries.

Finally, it imortality appears to have its drawbacks, just survivng, rather like a junkie itcing for a fix eliminates qualities such as compassion, love and trust. If there is a fountain of youth I believe I would settle for a local watering hole.