So I'm re-reading Memnoch the Devil (my favorite of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles) and
HsIcddbxnmc. The name Renfield didn't mean anything to me when I read this book before, but seeing Lestat say this after having read Dracula (thanks Dracula Daily!) I am laughing my head off. It's actually funny for 2 different reasons, and I'm not even sure Rice intended the second one: 1. Lestat, a vampire, has asked his friend to make some arrangements for him, then feels like he's treating him like a servant. Like Drac was Renfield's master (though having read the original text we all know Renfield wasn't really his servant, just his way into the building, but it seems like a lot of adaptations change that). 2. At this point in the story, Lestat thinks he may be losing his mind, and even David said during the course of their conversation that he was "on the verge of being truly mad." So using the name of a famous patient in a mental institution would be a way of saying "yup, you're crazy."



















