Good points! One of the things I love about this series is that there's such a real sense of life and community going on outside of the books themselves. That is, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Hannibal and Shaw did regularly hang out together without Ben, or with Ben, but he just hadn't had any need to mention it in his narration.
Shaw's formality with names is interesting. I wish I knew more about the class/race/propriety/I-don't-even-know rules that let Ben and Hannibal use each other's first names, but keep Ben and Shaw at Maestro and Sir.
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Re: An exercise in making a mountain out of a anthill
Date: 2014-03-10 07:21 pm (UTC)Shaw's formality with names is interesting. I wish I knew more about the class/race/propriety/I-don't-even-know rules that let Ben and Hannibal use each other's first names, but keep Ben and Shaw at Maestro and Sir.