50, WG26, M30, E47

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

Ich brauchte ein bißchen um mich zum wiederlesen dieses Buches zu entschließen - einige Passagen, vor allem am Anfang mit Starlings Laufbahn beim FBI, fand und finde ich eher unangenehm zu lesen, und der Schluß des Buches erscheint mir immer noch unglaubwürdig, gelinde gesagt. Aber die Teile in Florenz und über Mason Verger überwogen meine Abneigung denn doch. Und es gehört einfach zu der Serie. Ich denke aber, dass ich mir 'Hannibal Rising' doch erst einmal sparen werde.

Overall, the affect was disappointing. The cell was as empty of its former occupant as a snake's shed skin. Starling thought then that she came to understand something: Death and danger do not have to come with trappings. They can come to you in the sweet breath of your beloved. Or on a sunny afternoon in a fish market with "La Macarena" playing on a boom box.
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We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.
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What do you look at while you're making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do not raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

(Thomas Harris, Hannibal, 1999)