by Robert Anton Wilson
They found this victim in a small church in Virginia, nude except for a high silk hat, with a child's bubble pipe in his mouth. Dr Lecter had only removed two glands --the "sweetbreads"
Near the end of the third volume of the Lecter trilogy, Hannibal remarks to Clarice, "Events which appear gross or offensive in the instant may become, with a slight change of perspective, somewhere between droll and riotously funny."
I wonder if ole Doc Lecter planned the kiddie bubble pipe when he planned the murder, or if that came to him as a last minute inspiration while packing his surgical tools? In either case, I still regard him with less fear and loathing than I have for Dubya; at least Hannibal didn't claim that he only wanted to Liberate the patient.....
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