〔1〕: His spidery hands flew over Zach's skin as if trying to memorize
its warmth and texture. Drawing Blood. Chapter Five.
〔2〕: The shoulder moved beneath his hand, and Trevor felt muscles shifting
liquidly, bones rotating in their sockets, the smooth texture of skin under
his palm. He felt the spine arch and ripple against his chest. He realized
he had never thought about how much anatomy you could learn by touching
someone. Drawing Blood. Chapter Thirteen.
〔3〕: Then they were kissing again, carefully at first, learning the
shape and texture of each other's lips, testing the sharpness of the teeth
behind them. Drawing Blood. Chapter Thirteen.
〔4〕: "[...] They were like anatomy lessons. The body is a puzzle
of flesh and blood and bone... you understand?" Trevor nodded. He
thought of the times he had wanted to keep biting Zach, to keep pulling
and tearing at Zach's flesh just to see what was under there. Drawing Blood. Chapter Twenty One.
〔5〕: It's because you love them, because you want all their secrets,
not just the ones they decide to show you. Drawing Blood. Chapter Twenty One.
〔6〕: Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach's heartbeat throbbing
between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled
beneath the surface. The head was as smooth as satin, as rose petals. Drawing Blood. Chapter Thirteen.
〔7〕: "That's okay. I don't actually want to drink any." Zach
crossed to the coffee maker, pulled the pot out of the metal apparatus
that kept it at sub-boiling point, and passed it slowly back and forth
beneath his nose. Hot bitter steam wafted into his face, moistened his
tired eyes. He felt microscopic particles of caffeine traveling up his
nostrils [...]. Drawing Blood. Chapter 5
〔8〕: All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as
smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer
through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure
instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at
your thrall. Drawing Blood. Chapter Thirteen.
〔9〕: Trevor rubbed his thumb across it, squeezed gently, heard Zach
suck air in through his teeth and moan as he let it out. He could see blood
suffusing the tissue just beneath the translucent skin, a deep dusky rose
delicately purpled at the edges, crowned with a single dewy pearl of come.
It was as intimate, as raw as holding someone's heart in his hands. Drawing Blood. Chapter Thirteen.
〔10〕: "[...] black clothes, black eyes, dead white skin. What
are you doing?" "I'm in mourning," she said. "I'm mourning
the death of a relationship." Lost Souls. Chapter 12.
・『絢爛たる死体』(1996) ポピー・Z・ブライト著
Exquisite Corpse / Poppy Z. Brite
【仏訳】 Le Corps exquis
(J'ai Lu, Nouvelle génération 5295, 2005).
・『ラザロの心臓』(1998) ポピー・Z・ブライト著
The Lazarus Heart / Poppy Z. Brite
【仏訳】 Le Coeur de Lazare (Editions Fleuve Noir, 2000).
【書誌 (その他文芸作品)】
・「ヴァンパイア・クロニクルズ」連作 アン・ライス著
The Vampire Chronicles / Anne Rice
[Interview With The Vampire (1976) - The Vampire Lestat (1985)
- The Queen of the Damned (1988) - The Tale of the Body Thief
(1992) - Memnoch the Devil (1995) - The Vampire Armand(1998)
- Merrick (2000) - Blood and Gold (2001) -
Blackwood Farm (2002) - Blood Canticle (2003) ]
・「ヴァンパイア・ハンター」連作 ローレル・K・ハミルトン著
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter / Laurell K Hamilton
[ Guilty Pleasures (1993) - The Laughing Corpse (1994) -
Circus of the Damned (1995) - The Lunatic Cafe (1996) -
Bloody Bones (1996) - The Killing Dance (1997) -
Burnt Offerings (1998) - Blue Moon (1998) -
Obsidian Butterfly (2000) - Narcissus in Chains (2001) ]
・『サン・ジェルマン・クロニクル』 チェルシー・クイン・ヤーブロ著
The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983) / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
・『パーディド・ストリート・ステーション』 チャイナ・ミーヴィル著
Perdido Street Station (2000) / China Mieville
・『パターン・レコグニション』 ウイリアム・ギブスン著
Pattern Recognition (2003) / William Gibson