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Apr. 6th, 2022 11:25 am
i. folktale collected by Alexander Afanasyev, “The Fiend” (translated by W.R.S. Ralston)
ii. Hannibal (2013-2015) created by Bryan Fuller


You can be merry with [him], you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it’s like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
CHIYOH: He was charming the way a cub is charming, a small cub that grows up to be like one of the big cats.
WILL GRAHAM: One you can’t play with later.
“I am what I am. I know of no others like me; though why should I be the only one? Perhaps there are others, many others: I simply don’t know of them yet. So I live and die and live again, and learn nothing—” the word was bitterly pronounced, “– of myself. Understand? You know what you are because you see others like you. If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that’s all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.”
You are alone, because you are unique.





“The place in the egg, Yaichka, is a very elaborate place, a place to hide a death from its owner, and also to lead him to it. It is a perfect world, a world which could not survive outside the jeweled egg of Alkonost and Koschei, no matter how many permutations of this story the world might cycle through. (For of course you know the world tries on this story over and over, trying to make it work out differently, trying to make it perfect as an egg.) The world that is left behind when you forget what sorrow looks like, and death, too. A prophetic world that can never come true.”
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
FREDERICK CHILTON: The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. This is your best possible world, Will. Not getting a better one.
— Hannibal 3x04, ‘Apertivo’, written by Nick Antosca, Steve Lightfoot, & Bryan Fuller
HANNIBAL: Do we talk about teacups and time and the rules of disorder?
WILL GRAHAM: The teacup is broken. It’ll never gather itself back together again.
HANNIBAL: Not even in your mind?
— Hannibal 3x07, ‘Digestivo’, written by Steve Lightfoot & Bryan Fuller














