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Such reverence for mortals! Then you should have left me as one!
— Lestat ‧ Queen of the Damned
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker challenges a professed reverence for mortals by asking why he was not left as one. The two statements expose an apparent contradiction between respect and action. The exclamation turns praise for mortality into a bitter objection about losing it.
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