Vampiric Duality
[Excerpt from Telshum Ver Condle's Vampiric Duality] Now look, the thing is: your basic vampire has two instincts, right? Feed and make little vampires. Nonsense. Utter crap. No such thing as a basic anything. The personality of a vampire has as many facets as a schizophrenic diamond. [This statement seems contradicted only a few paragraphs later] Naturally, when you come down to it, the unidimensional qualities inherent to the vampire make them ideal predators. Their minds are narrow scarlet threads of cruelty spooled over a yarnball of ravenous hunger. [And only a few paragraphs later...] Yet who doesn't adore the darkly romantic complexity of the vampire, the gusto of their love, the wildness of their passion!