Lecter Knows Worst: Justice as Marginal Value and the Law of Series in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs

July 5, 1999

The Lion looked at Alice wearily. Are you animal – or vegetable – or mineral? he said, yawning at every other word. "It's a fabulous monster!" the Unicorn cried out, before Alice could reply. – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass The dangerous and uncanny point has been reached where the...