QUOTE : You speak of eternal life. You speak of indulging the mind and body,” said Abe. “But what of the soul?”<br /><br />“And what use is a soul to a creature that shall never die?”<br /><br />Abe couldn’t help but smile. Here was a strange little man with a strange way of seeing things. Only the second living man he’d ever met who knew the truth of vampires. He drank to excess and spoke in an irritating, high-pitched voice. It was hard not to like him.<br /><br />“I begin to suspect,” said Abe, “that you would like to be one of them.”<br /><br />Poe laughed at the suggestion. “Is not our existence long and miserable enough?” he asked, laughing. “Who in God’s name would seek to prolong it?