Part 1, Chapter 5 Summary

Lestat and Nicholas become inseparable. They continue their "conversation" and give the name the "Golden Moment" at that moment of drunkenness when everything makes sense. They discuss the theatre in Paris and debate whether art is good or evil. Nicki offers to take his violin out and play it in the woods for Lestat. It reminds Lestat that he is a prisoner in his own life and he begins to cry again.

Days later, Nicki proposes to Lestat that they run away to Paris and spite their families. It is during another drunken conversation that Lestat realizes that he will never know the meaning of life, even after he has lived it. This begins to take the meaning out of life and he has a difficult time understanding this. Death to Lestat meant finality, not an enlightenment. Although Lestat considered Nicki's...