"Even at the risk of it leading to modern-day Paris, with cars and burger restaurants?" Dr. Lecter says, with a look of disapproval at the latter. "Whoever opened that place made a very deplorable choice."

He puts the books and maps he has brought on a nearby table.

"I should send them some money," he muses. "We have technically robbed their bargain basement. I hope they're in the same version of Earth as I am."