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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 44 of 307 to have the life sucked out of you, you must first agree to have the life sucked out of you. This is the gamble we are all making: I agree to do life sucking work for you in exchange for money, and my gamble is that you will not completely suck the life out of me before payday. I have not read a ton of scholarship on vampire themes and motifs, but if they have failed to investigate this line then we are truly doomed because the essential truth about vampires has nothing to do with fangs and blood. It has to do with power and how people get it by using money. In my case it was obvious that Steve knew I needed the money more than the slumber. The title of the movie that got Stanley Kubrick murdered in his sleep, Eyes Wide Shut, came to me. A perplexing seeming oxymoron, it suddenly made perfect sense to me. We walk into our biggest mistakes with our eyes wide open. CHAPTER 7 I was knocking on the door of Steve's toasting tin can about an hour later. I had not hurried, but I had shown up when I still should have been floating around underwater in some classroom wondering how I could breathe but convinced that it was just the best thing ever. |