Anodyne
Friday, February 22, 2013
 

The character Barney, from Thomas Harris' novel Hannibal, 1999, whose goal is to see every Vermeer painting in the world before he dies.

Barney brings [a] pigeon into his home. Pigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerines. The Holy Spirit is sometimes represented in art by a dove. This injured or dead pigeon is a metaphor....


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