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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 43 of 307 afternoon. I would have put that on the application but there wasn't an appropriate space for it." "Are you on drugs? Do you take drugs, Nephi?" "No, I'm sleeping. It's what sane people do in the morning." "Not in Sanpete." "I didn't mention this either and you don't seem to have noticed, but I don't fit in with Sanpete very well!" It usually takes a good deal to rile Normally Good Natured Nephi but this was too much. I mean, eight in the morning? Saints preserve us! I had accepted this nonsense once but twice was simply way too much.- "You got spunk. Good for you. Now get over here." He hung up. Students of literature know things. Or at least we are supposed to. We recognize motifs. And this was the classic vampire motif if ever there was one. Almost every great vampire story makes mention of the fact that vampires must be invited in to your home. (Like televisions for instance.) Think of home as a symbol for heart here, heart a symbol for life and bingo you got it. Vampires must be invited into your life. Thanks mucho to Sehora Anne Rice for destroying this as a convention in her own very charismatic, blood thirsty characters because now we have an entire generation of people who have no idea how to recognize a vampire. But if people had started with the folklore and moved onto Stoker and continued on from there, everyone would know that |