Yeah, in Red Dragon, Will is actually explaining to someone that (well, the book's right here, let me look it up) "he has no remorse or guilt at all. And he had the first and worst sign--sadism to animals as a child" (there's that line). "But he doesn't have any of the other marks [of a sociopath].... He wasn't shallow and exploitative in small things, like most sociopaths are. He's not insensitive.... He's a monster. I think of him as one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don't put it on the machines and it dies. Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell."
The "pitiful things born in hospitals" actually turns out to be part of the other killer's background, so that may be a little "coincidentally" pointed there. And kind of insensitive on Will's part, but there you are.
I liked that he ?loved? his sister. It's hella scary to think of that cold intellect, cruel as a cat and even more callous, tied to all the passions of love.
The "pitiful things born in hospitals" actually turns out to be part of the other killer's background, so that may be a little "coincidentally" pointed there. And kind of insensitive on Will's part, but there you are.
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