I found myself in "Red Dragon"
Aug. 31st, 2006 03:42 pmNo, I'm not a homicidal maniac. (Red Dragon is one of the books in the series by Thomas Harris about the infamous and quite fictional Dr. Hannibal Lecter.) But what I did find was a description that fits me so well it's scary. I quote directly:
"Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgements were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking.
He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it."
~ Thomas Harris, Red Dragon chapter 2
This quote is about a character, Graham, who profiles serial killers for the FBI. And I'm not saying I'm him or that I could do his job (although it's been a random thought here and there)... but this is the closest thing I've seen to my problem with associations and making bad associations very quickly that affect things they shouldn't. And uh... yeah. There ya go. Now back to multitasking myself to death. =O
"Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgements were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking.
He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it."
~ Thomas Harris, Red Dragon chapter 2
This quote is about a character, Graham, who profiles serial killers for the FBI. And I'm not saying I'm him or that I could do his job (although it's been a random thought here and there)... but this is the closest thing I've seen to my problem with associations and making bad associations very quickly that affect things they shouldn't. And uh... yeah. There ya go. Now back to multitasking myself to death. =O