June 2013
“[I]t was established that I would go through here without leaving any traces; instead, every minute I spend here I am leaving more traces. I leave traces if I do not speak with anyone, since I stick out as a man who won’t open his mouth; I leave traces if I speak with someone because every word spoken is a word that remains and can crop up again later, with question marks or without. Perhaps this is why the author piles supposition on supposition in long paragraphs without dialogue, a thick, opaque layer of lead where I may pass unnoticed, disappear.”
—Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather: that man is called “I” and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only “station” and beyond it there exists nothing except the unanswered signal of a telephone ringing in a dark room of a distant city.”
—Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
4 years and I still have never de-lofted my fucking bed
…also, when the nerd you’re hooking up with is too skinny to lift you into bed, and it is impossible to climb into a lofted bed in a sexy way. #StanfordGirlProblems
My roomie. Summer 2009. I WILL NEVER STOP LAUGHING. <3
First of all: for those of you who desperately need a distraction from thinking srs thoughts about Hannibal, may I recommend Wikipedia’s list of cheeses. I could spend hours looking at Wikipedia’s list of cheeses. And at the end of it I would know so much about cheese. That way if I ever needed to practice tyromancy, I would not find myself in a quandary
(Though: you will hate me for this: I don’t really suffer from suspense. I don’t know why. It’s just one of those things.)
Ahem. So. This week, I want to explore what I see as two interlinked themes in “Releves:” truth and wrongness.
Read-more cut for spoilers and length!
You know why everything went to shit in this episode?
Because somebody had jury duty.
THIS IS THE LEGIT REASON WHY
I can see it now
“I was gone for one episode. ONE EPISODE.”
I get that this is kind of a joke but it’s also really, really true.
She may have stepped in to defend Will’s theory about the copy-cat killer.
She may have slammed the brakes on Jack’s theory about Abigail.
She would have stepped in to defend Will.
AND THAT WOULD HAVE CHANGED QUITE A BIT.
The Invisible Game Piece: Beverly Katz
We don’t talk enough about Beverly Katz. We should talk about Beverly Katz. I need to talk about Beverly Katz. I was going to wait until the next episode aired, but I can’t (I think writing this show has become a borderline compulsion.) Okay, let’s talk about Beverly fucking Katz because she is being underestimated by the audience and Hannibal himself.
There are actually a couple distinct things about Bev that I want to serve up in a 3-course meal: her competence, her friendship with Will, and her ability to fuck up Hannibal’s plans.
(Spoilers through 1x10 & synopses for 1x12 & 1x13)
