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Patsy T. Coy
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Posted: 10 August 2022 at 01:13 \| IP Logged

The newspapers files and floppy disks in Starling's small
office were on the verge of collapse She applied for more
space but she couldn't get an answer Enough She broke the
pot and commandeered a large basement at Quantico That
room was supposed to be a darkroom for the behavioral
science division No windows but lots of shelves It was
originally built for a darkroom so there are double
shades but no doors An unknown neighbor had printed a
sign in italics for the office Hannibal Room and nailed
it to the entrance where she hung the curtain She was
afraid of losing the house so she hung the sign in the
house Almost immediately
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she found a trove of useful personal data in Columbia's
criminal trial library There they maintained a special
room for Hannibal Lecter where they had the original
medical and psychological counseling files of Dr Lecter
transcripts of interrogations and copies of the civil
case against him The first time Starling went there the
custodian kept her waiting for 45 minutes to find the key
to Lecter's room but the key was not found The second
time she went she found that the person in charge was an
indifferent graduate student and that the materials were
not catalogued Starling is still impatient in her
thirties

With the support of Chief Jack Crawford at the US
Attorney's office she obtained a court order to put the
university's collection in her basement at Quantico where
a couple of federal officers had brought it to her in a
van Just as she feared the court's order caused a great
uproar which finally led to Krendler It took Starling two
long weeks to sort out most of the library materials at
her temporary Lecter Center Late on Friday afternoon she
washed the dust and dirt from her face and hands turned
off the light and sat down on the floor in the corner of
the room staring at the shelves of books and papers She
probably dozed off for a while A smell awakened her and
made her realize that she was not alone That's the smell
of shoe polish The room was half dark and Assistant
Deputy Inspector General Paul Krendler moved slowly
around the bookshelves looking at books and pictures He
did not knock there was no door to knock on and Krendler
did not like to knock especially on the door of his
subordinates He had come to Quantico in the basement to
look up to her On one wall of the room were Lecter's
papers from Italy and a large photograph of the outflow
of Rinaldo Pazzi's viscera hanging from the window of the
Palazzo Vecchio On the opposite wall is Lecter's crime in
the United States dominated by a large photograph of the
police department a bowhunter Lecter killed years ago his
body hanging on a poster his body poked with wounds
according to the medieval illustration of "The Wounded
Man" On the shelves are a large number of case documents
and civil petitions filed by the victim's family accusing
Lecter of unlawful killing

Dr Lecter's private medical books are arranged as they
were in his counseling office after Starling examined
police photos of Lecter's office with a magnifying glass
On the wall was a light box with X-rays of Dr Lecter's
skull and neck bones This is where most of the light
comes from in this dark room
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plate Another light came from a computer
workstation on a desk in the corner of the room The theme
of the screen is "dangerous creatures" The computer
whines twice from time to time Stacked beside the
computer was the information that Starling had obtained
the pieces of paper receipts and classified bills that
she had painstakingly collected These things reveal the
private life of Dr Lecter in Italy and in the United
States before he was sent to an insane asylum and can be
used as a list of his favorite items for the time being
Starling used a scanner platform as a table to put
together the remnants of Dr Lecter's Baltimore home —
China silver crystal glassware a snow-white tablecloth
and a candlestick — four square feet of elegant interest
against the strange things hanging in the room Krendler
picked up the tankard and flicked it with his fingernail
Krendler never touched the body of a criminal never
wrestled with a criminal on the ground He saw Dr Lecter
as a media bogeyman and an opportunity He could see that
Dr Lecter's own picture after his death was on display
with these things in the FBI Museum's exhibit He could
see the huge value of this in the campaign

Krendler brought his nose close to the X-ray profile of
the doctor's massive skull Starling spoke to him startled
him and put the grease on his nose on the X-ray Can I
help you Mr Krendler "Why are you sitting in the dark"
"I'm thinking Mr Krendler" "People
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steel on Capitol Hill want to know what we're doing
on the Lecter case" "This is what we do" "Give me a brief
report and let me keep up with the pace" "You'd better go
to Mr Crawford" "Where is Crawford" "Mr Crawford has gone
to court" "I think he's going to lose Do you feel that
way" "No sir I have not" What are you doing here After
you removed these from the university library we got a
complaint from them It could have been done more
thoughtfully "We gathered all the material we could get
from Dr Lecter here" Physical objects and documents have
been brought

The weapon is in the firearms room but we have a replica
We have all the personal papers he left behind "What is
the purpose" Do you want to catch criminals or publish
books Krendler paused to incorporate the rhyming epigram
into his lexicon Suppose a senior Republican judicial
malpractice official were to ask me "What are you Agent
Starling doing to get Hannibal Lecter" ① The original
text rhymes Starling turned on the light She could see
that Krendler's coat was still expensive while his shirt
and tie were cheap with hairy wrist bones peeking out of
the sleeves Starling looked through the wall looked
through the wall looked forever and for a moment she
calmed down allowing herself to see Krendler as a lesson
at the Academy
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