Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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Read between June 5 - June 22, 2024
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Do you think there’s any way to push him in a self-destructive way by what we say to him?” “Push him toward suicide?” “Suicide would suit me fine.”
Bashie
EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LMAO
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.”
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Not bad psychology. To use on a fucking idiot.
Bashie
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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You worried I don’t have the onions for it since that with Lecter?”
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I don’t like walking around in a Kevlar vest with my butt puckered up.
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You’ve decided to play ball with Freddy Lounds, haven’t you? You and little Freddy have cut a deal.”
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“You talk to Lounds. I don’t have to do that.” “He needs to interview you, Will,” Crawford said gently. “He has to take your picture.”
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He seemed willing to meet Lounds halfway and his expression was affable beneath the cold blue eyes.
Bashie
I love that he has blue eyes in the book, too.
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he answered Lounds’s questions in a civil tone.
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listened like karate students at an anatomy lecture.
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In the interview with Lounds, Graham made statements no investigator would make and no straight newspaper would credit.
Bashie
YEAH HE DID 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, I'm glad the show decided to intersperse the trash-talking with the honest theories. It was even more hilarious!
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the Tooth Fairy obviously was not as intelligent as Hannibal Lecter.
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showed Graham in a bathrobe at a desk, studying late into the night.
Bashie
It's a damn shame the show didn't have that ;) although I think it was Girl Freddie who suggested it. (Love the chem between them in the show)
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Graham even consented to have his picture taken with Lounds interviewing him. They did it in front of the vast gun racks in Firearms and Toolmarks. Lounds held a nine-millimeter automatic
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Graham put a comradely hand on Lounds’s shoulder
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curiously jerky time. The minutes dragged and the hours flew.
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telling it made him feel as greasy as old currency.
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She could hold a moment by its stem.
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lies, guns, and groceries,
Bashie
That's the name of my next album.
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the operator is required to take a certain amount of trash.
Bashie
Required? I didn't know that was a thing!
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Dr. Lecter had been right, of course, in saying that he was beautiful and it was thrilling to read. He was beautiful.
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Lecter did not understand much better than the public.
Bashie
Ohohohoho HONEY.
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was a good organizer
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All contracts and memos would be postdated after the capture to cover that up.
Bashie
Clever!
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There were polyps of honesty in Lounds; he had few illusions about the nature of his work.
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there was tremendous pressure around his neck and the air was shut off.
Bashie
kinky ;)
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Keep cool and think, he whispered. Cool and think.
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Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens.
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Graham were expecting him. Certainly he had been missed by now.
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I’ll staple your eyelids to your forehead.”
Bashie
Do we really have to take this to a Clockwork Orange place?
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I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust. Your life to mine is a slug track on stone.
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God, I’m wet all over.
Bashie
*cackles in Girl Freddie RPer*
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“Do you like being Graham’s pet, Freeeeedeeeee?”
Bashie
I mean...
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The cunt knew it.
Bashie
😮 LANGUAGE!
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Now the other papers adopt him like he was their own.
Bashie
Feels like justice to me.
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“Lounds was a ballsy little guy, you have to give him that. Remembering the license number and spitting it out, the shape he was in.
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Cunt put his hand on me in the picture like a fucking pet.’”
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The Tooth Fairy kills the pet first,
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He heard the rifle breech close behind him, but he continued to read and gave no sign that he knew Chilton was there.
Bashie
Fuckin love Hannibal's power moves.
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It’s not the sort of thing Will Graham would request.”
Bashie
🤣🤣🤣♪You were always on my mind♪
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Dr. Lecter put on the restraints as though they were dinner clothes.
Bashie
Kinky ;)
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Lecter watched from the shadowed corner of his cell. There was a curious grace about him, even in restraints.
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Lecter had written his age at the top: forty-one.
Bashie
Wow so he and Will really aren't as far-apart in age as the show made it seem.
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She had looked at so many samples that she could distinguish brands without searching through the manual.
Bashie
Nice!
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he told the press he was “grieved at the loss of his friend Frederick Lounds.”
Bashie
As much as I know that's a blatant lie, it's still weirdly heartwarming? idk.
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the killer would come to see Graham grieve.
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Actually he felt nothing he could name, just cold nausea and an occasional wave of sickly exhilaration that he had not burned to death instead of Lounds.
Bashie
OMG THAT SOUNDS ALMOST LIKE *MY* WILL (as in, someone i RP with who plays Will)
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“Maybe you can get down to Oakland and watch the A’s.”
Bashie
Ew, why? (I'd have been supportive if it was the Raiders)
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Molly was gone.
Bashie
Well at least we know in the book SHE was the one to leave. Kind of makes him leaving her in the show more bearable.
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he looked “more like a leaf-nosed bat than a baby,”
Bashie
Insult to bats.