49, WG25, M29, E46

Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

Das ist vermutlich der Band der Lecter-Serie, den ich am öftesten gelesen und am besten in Erinnerung behalten habe. Trotzdem oder gerade deswegen war das Wiederlesen eine echte Freude. Das neue Vorwort anläßlich des 25jährigen Jubiläums war noch ein extra Bonus.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or an graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the café curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom. Starling was old enough to know that; she didn't let the room affect her.

(Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, 1988)