Um... well. We can see Anne Rice's origins as a writer of some pretty extreme erotica here. And everyone's allowed to have their own sexual imaginings, but when they're not labeled as such and are this fetishizing... ick.

I feel like there are a few chapters missing on how Quinn founded the town library, joined the Peace Corps, and set up stable liberal democracies in the Middle East. Nothing else explains this adoration. Also where's Goblin through all this?

This chapter feels like it was the first thing Anne Rice wrote from the book. Maybe it was intended to be a short story at first. Because none of the endless faffing up to this point matters in the slightest.