[What is it with people telling Dorian he needs meaning in his life? Life has no inherent meaning. It's a continuous revolving door of changing faces who make very little impression on the world and are almost always forgotten in the end. The ones who do make an impression often make a bad one. Dorian attached himself to more than one monster throughout the centuries simply because there was something about them that would last in the world after they were gone. People like Louis (not Pointe du Lac), of whom the bloodthirsty Lily was only a pale shadow.
But it wasn't really meaning Dorian took issue with--it was determinism. He did indeed make his own meaning out of life, as much as he claimed life was meaningless. He'd just chosen a meaning that pleased him and no one else. Was that wrong?
His thoughts are racing, folding in on themselves, a mile away before he can catch up to them. He takes a deep breath and nods.]
I will...consider it. [He hesitates.] And I am truly sorry.
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But it wasn't really meaning Dorian took issue with--it was determinism. He did indeed make his own meaning out of life, as much as he claimed life was meaningless. He'd just chosen a meaning that pleased him and no one else. Was that wrong?
His thoughts are racing, folding in on themselves, a mile away before he can catch up to them. He takes a deep breath and nods.]
I will...consider it. [He hesitates.] And I am truly sorry.