A Conversation

A Dialogue between Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Special Agent Will Graham.

Dr. Lecter: Observing or participating?


Graham: What.


Dr. Lecter: Are you, at this very moment, observing or participating?


Graham: Observing- No. Participating.


Dr. Lecter: Good for you. Clever boy, you are. Definitively far superior to the second raters from the Ivy Leagues they keep sending to try to pick away at my oh-so-fragile mind. They’re prescribing me antipsychotics, you know. Did you know that Dr. Chilton, at this very moment, is dotting his socks away in the night, working on his own free time of his own volition, to file a legal petition to ensure he remains within his Legal Rights to restrain me chemically with the very antipsychotic medication that in my own research I definitively proved has a strong correlation to psychiatric patients later developing dementia? Well, say what you will about that imbecile, he certainly rocks that Sigma Male Grindset.


Graham: What medication.


Dr. Lecter: Oh, nothing too controversial, at least not by medical standards. The common antihistamine, diphenhydramine. Benadryl is its common trade name.

Graham: Well, then by that rational, you have induced a chemical restraint upon me, have you not?


Dr. Lecter smiles.


Lecter: Oh, Will. There you go again, blaming your proclivity towards substance abuse on others. Do you know why you use drugs?


Graham: I don’t have time, I really-


Dr. Lecter: Do you know why you rely upon medications, psychotropic or otherwise, that have a propensity to impair your judgment?

Silence.

Dr. Lecter: Dear Will, do you still believe yourself to meet the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Graham: Goodbye, Dr. Lecter.

Dr. Lecter: Anyhow, its incidental. You know that you, no doubt, statistically speaking alone as a pseudo-Law Enforcement Officer, meet the criteria for developmental Post-Traumatic Stress. I could cure that, you know.

Graham: No.

Dr. Lecter: No you don’t believe me or no you refuse to accept psychiatric treatment?

Silence.

Dr. Lecter: Dear Will. Please don’t despair. Suicide is the enemy, after all.


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