Even people who’ve never seen Silence
of the Lambs know that Hannibal Lecter knocks back human liver with fava
beans and chianti. This always struck me
as slightly tame for a super villain but I’ve never claimed to have much grasp
of the popular imagination.
I admit I’ve never read a word by Thomas Harris – author of the “source
material” - but I did just re-read Martin Amis’s review of Hannibal, the third novel in the series,
this one featuring the evil Mason Verger, which
somehow looks like an anagram. (Martin Amis is of course an anagram of Sam
Martini, a pseudonym I have been known to use once in a while).
Amis writes, “When the child cries, a nurse wipes the tears away and
puts 'the wet swatches in Mason’s martini glass, chilling in the playroom’s
refrigerator beside the orange juice and cokes.’ What a Terrible guy. What a terrible martini.”
Well yes, I totally agree with Martin here, but I know there are people
who like their martinis dirty, with a
splash of olive brine. Personally I’m far
you mean to pay good money for the leavings from a jar of olives, but if you’re
into that whole dirty thing then maybe salt tears would be just the ticket.
And here’s another martini-related thing:
Now, to be honest I’m not sure what’s going on here, whether the snake
is drinking the martini, which seems a little unlikely, or whether the snake is
being “milked” so that its venom goes into the drink. If the latter then OK, that’s a super-villain trick if ever I saw one.
Of course these days some people will put anything in a martini. Even Dita
Von Tease.
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