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- 作者：xiaoxiao
- 发表时间：2020-12-23 10:38
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I N T E R V I E W S W I T H T H E V A M P I R E S 1
I N T E R V I E W S W I T H T H E V A M P I R E S 1They violate one of our taboo-devouring culture's last prohibitions: drinking human blood. They sleep during the day and have their teeth sharpened into fangs. But what's really weird about today's high-IQ bloodsuckers is their perky rhetoric of personal growth. + + + + + + + + + + + BY CAROL LLOYD Photograph by Charles Gatewood + + + + + + + + + + + ?°i extract the blood and drink it on the spot." Lounging in tight black clothing on her black couch, self-styled vampire Danielle Willis displays an array of syringes and pamphlets on the "art of drawing blood." Breezily, the pale, icy-eyed woman offers to extract a little of her own and give it to me in a vial with a drop of anti-coagulant. In the vampiric underworld, I know this is a gesture of generosity, but I decline. + + + + + + + + + + + When Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in his Dublin home 100 years ago, chances are he never dreamed his monster would one day return as the godfather of a burgeoning youth subculture on the other side of the world. Yet in the past decade -- thanks in large part to Anne Rice and her millions of insatiable readers -- the vampire has beat his bloody trail across the Atlantic to become the preeminent mythological creature of late 20th century America. In literature, "live action" games like "Vampire: the Masquerade," films, magazines, fashion, rock music and academia, the vampire thrives as one of the most mutable and consuming symbols of our time. But beyond the well-worn paths of mass culture, a small clan stands apart. These people, who range in age from their late teens to their mid-30s, claim their passion for vampirism predates the fads inspired by Anne Rice. They sleep by day and work by night. Some of them have had their teeth revamped into permanent "fangs." And they engage in one of the last intact taboos of our taboo-devouring culture: blood drinking
