A good eye for art. Lestat's own updated wardrobe, and Claudia's too in the beginning, and that mentioned ransacking of the storehouses to furnish his townhouse, in which the only instinct for design he had was that of lavishness and luxury and maximalist clutter, gently harnessed and mitigated by the human man he was dating/hunting with more refined taste. A layman for music but ready to be moved by it, with the sensitivity of a person who understood its heart.
These are thoughts that swirl around, and Lestat deliberately sends them. Daniel did not have a keen telepathic ability when he was interviewing Louis, saddled with his own imagination. Here, the ephemeral sense of the lovely townhouse interior on the Rue Royale, the beautiful suits, the decor, Claudia's little sailor get up ("it's chiffon, it has movement"), an approval hand sliding across the shoulder of a sharp suit, an undercurrent of Louis that matches well the man he would become, or remain as, a century later.
Keen, anyway, for evidence of this, Lestat listing out of his slouch to be attentive.
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A good eye for art. Lestat's own updated wardrobe, and Claudia's too in the beginning, and that mentioned ransacking of the storehouses to furnish his townhouse, in which the only instinct for design he had was that of lavishness and luxury and maximalist clutter, gently harnessed and mitigated by the human man he was dating/hunting with more refined taste. A layman for music but ready to be moved by it, with the sensitivity of a person who understood its heart.
These are thoughts that swirl around, and Lestat deliberately sends them. Daniel did not have a keen telepathic ability when he was interviewing Louis, saddled with his own imagination. Here, the ephemeral sense of the lovely townhouse interior on the Rue Royale, the beautiful suits, the decor, Claudia's little sailor get up ("it's chiffon, it has movement"), an approval hand sliding across the shoulder of a sharp suit, an undercurrent of Louis that matches well the man he would become, or remain as, a century later.
Keen, anyway, for evidence of this, Lestat listing out of his slouch to be attentive.