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Spaces devoted to hannibal lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where hannibal himself cannot go. but the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
-Thomas Harris
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Spaces Devoted To Hannibal Lecter’s Earliest Years

Thomas Harris
Spaces devoted to hannibal lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where hannibal himself cannot go. but the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
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