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Hannibal rising thomas harris7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() In the second Lecter book, “The Silence of the Lambs,” the sanguinary shrink broke out of both his literal confinement to a mental institution and the tight constraints of his original status as a minor character. And Thomas Harris, who dreamed up the pre-eminent fictional boogeyman of our time, seems to recognize that Hannibal Lecter, the homicidal epicurean psychiatrist he brought into being as a plot device and a good sick joke in his 1981 thriller, “Red Dragon,” isn’t quite his anymore. ![]() At a certain point, great pop-culture creations tend, like Frankenstein’s monster, to slip their bonds and escape from the control of their progenitors. ![]()
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