you continued : `` apparently each century yields a new kind of vampire , or let us say that our course of growth was not set in the beginning any more than the course of human beings , some night perhaps i will tell you everything i see - these spirits who were never clear to me when i was mortal - i 'll tell you about something armand confided to me , about the colors he saw when he took life , how the soul left body in waves of radiating color ! ''