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I went back to see him.
We were talking and he was making this polite effort to help me
maybe my face changed, I don’t know. I knew it and he knew I knew it.
He courted the feeling that precedes an idea. It would not come.
Despair went around like the flu.
Graham was a natural procrastinator, and he knew it. Long ago in school he had made up for it with speed.
There was an opinion he wanted. A very strange view he needed to share; a mindset he had to recover after his warm round years in the Keys. The reasons clacked like roller-coaster cogs pulling up to the first long plunge, and at the top, unaware that he clutched his belly, Graham said it aloud. “I have to see Lecter.”
“I might have to show him some material that could stimulate him,”
“It may seem gratuitous to warn you, of all people, about Lecter. But he’s very disarming.
No shit, Sherlock!
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he’s trained in psychiatry . . . and he’s a mass murderer. He seemed cooperative, and we thought that he could be a window on this kind of aberration.
“He’s very familiar with you. He’s given you a lot of thought.”
Too sophisticated about the tests for them to register anything.
the only person who has demonstrated any practical understanding of Hannibal Lecter is you, Mr. Graham.
Graham stood up. “Thank you, Doctor. I want to see Lecter now.”
Graham knew that Lecter slept most of the morning.
Graham wanted to see Dr. Lecter asleep.
If he felt Lecter’s madness in his head, he had to contain it quickly,
Dr. Lecter’s eyes are maroon and they reflect the light redly
“Christmas, yes,” Lecter said. “Did you get my card?” “I got it. Thank you.”
Graham felt that Lecter was looking through to the back of his skull. His attention felt like a fly walking around in there.
you say you’re a layman. But it was you who caught me, wasn’t it, Will? Do you know how you did it?”
he fumbles at your head like a freshman pulling at a panty girdle,
a Thematic Apperception Test. He was sitting there just like the Cheshire cat waiting for Mf 13 to come up. Ha. Forgive me, I forget that you’re not among the anointed. It’s a card with a woman in bed and a man in the foreground. I was supposed to avoid a sexual interpretation.
“Passion. And you’re insane.”
as though he were screwing an auger of curiosity into your face.
“You just came here to look at me. Just to get the old scent again, didn’t you? Why don’t you just smell yourself?”
my dear Will,
Have you seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black. Of course, it keeps the distinctive sheen.
“The reason you caught me is that we’re just alike”
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
he could hear his blood like a hollow drumming of wings.
He had the absurd feeling that Lecter had walked out with him.
Freddy Lounds got a nice profile shot of Graham in the doorway and the words in stone above him: “Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.” As it turned out, The National Tattler cropped the picture to just Graham’s face and the last two words in the stone.
Graham would not give him his home telephone number; the bitter green smell of cut cocklebur and teaweed.
the Overholser book, The Psychiatrist and the Law, to Will Graham,
“Graham. Will Graham.” “All right, his home number is
Lecter felt much better. He thought he might surprise Graham with a call sometime, or if the man couldn’t be civil, he might have a hospital-supply house mail Graham a colostomy bag for old times’ sake.
“Random” wasn’t accurate, though. Graham knew that mass murderers and serial murderers do not select their victims at random.
squirted on the front of Graham’s shirt
He gave the horse a Life-Saver
Is it okay for horses to eat those?!
He always felt a curious embarrassment when people looked at his pistol.
😉
“I love it,” Graham whispered into the bark. “Oh sweet Jesus yes.
like a rabid mongoose.
“Hannibal the Cannibal Helps Lawmen—Cops Consult Fiend in ‘Tooth Fairy’ Murders.”
INSANE FIEND CONSULTED IN MASS MURDERS BY COP HE TRIED TO KILL
the most savage killer in captivity
ace investigator William (Will) Graham.
bizarre meeting of two mortal enemies?
Graham, former instructor in forensics at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., was once confined to a mental institution for a period of four weeks.
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
