Tag: Hannibal

Hannibal Lecter

We are currently watching CD boxset of the Hannibal which we are enjoying tremendously.

The series is based on the Anthony Hopkins and Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter. This telly series is a prequel to the movies and novels. I think the series was not written by Thomas Harries but based on the characters of his novels.

It is of course fiction, all the same the characters were well-developed. Even Hannibal was rather likeable.

There was a lot of cooking and eating going on and I must say, the food looks so appetising despite knowing that the meat might have been of human origins (fiction!!!) LOL. Hannibal is most elegant and precise in food preparation 😉

A couple of times I was shouting on the screen for the actor not to touch the food as it was cannibalism. 🙂

The only irritating character was the woman Korean/Chinese Crime scene, examiner. She was everywhere but her character was rather superfluous!
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen plays Dr Hannibal Lecter and Hugh Dancy is Will Graham
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Shaving

Betweem the cradle and the grave lies a haircut and a shave.
– Samuel Hoffenstein (1890 – 1947)
Russian- American Author and composer

Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus

Apparently around 296 B.C., when a young man reached the age of 21, he was ready to shave. The first shave was a great celebration and a time to party, a ritual party that is, where friends were invited. The hair from the first shave was then given as an offering to the man’s favourite god – they had many.

Being clean-shaven became the de rigueur at around 202 BC. It was popularised by the clean-shaven Scipio Africanus after returning from his battle against the Carthage warrior, Hannibal. With Scipio’s 30,000 men they tactically defeated the 50,000 strong men of Hannibal. He became a hero in the Roman world and his clean-shaven appearance became a fashion statement that swept the city.