From: jules
Category: Amis
Date: 7/1/99
Time: 11:56:43 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.192.57
Make that TAD FRIEND! But isn't that a LITTLE TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT? "The New Yorker" July 5 issue (it has a picture on the front of the New York skyline lit up with fireworks for you's that just look at the cartoons) has a review by "Tad Friend" on Page 81.
Friend begins his aptly titled, "Acquired Tastes," with: "Martha Stewart has always terrified me, and at last I know why. This small EPIPHANY (James?) occurred as I was reading Thomas Harris new novel, "HANNIBAL." He quotes a page where Dr Hannibal Lector carefully prepares brains- fresh from the a victim's skull. "Dr Lecter lifted the top of Krendler head, put it on the salver, and removed to the sideboard" as he asks his guest to "keep an open mind."
"Dr Lector removed a slice of Kendler's prefrontal lobe, then another, until he had all four. Kendler eyes looked as if he were following what was going on... He grated a gresh black truffle into his sauce and finsihed with a squeeze of lemon juice. Quickly he sauteéd the slices until they were brown on each side."
"Remind you of anyone?([sic]asks Tad) My point is not that Martha Stweart fries up human flesh but that it's alwasy an error to focus on technique alone. Lecter's guest, aspiring to learn how to prepare fresh brains, fails to notice whose brains they are being prepared."
This Tad Friend's reading materials sound like they relate to Tad Friendly's past in *Time's Arrow*.