Jeff Lindsay Quote

By noon, we had run almost every test we could do in our own small lab, and found one or two useless things. First, the basic broth was made from one of the commercially popular high-octane energy drinks. Human blood had been added in and, although it was difficult to be absolutely certain using the small and badly degraded sample, I was reasonably sure it had come from several sources. But the last ingredient, the organic something, remained elusive. Okay, I said at last. Let’s go at this a different way. What, Vince said, with a Ouija board? Almost, I said. How about we try inductive logic? Okay, Sherlock, he said. More fun than gas chromatography any day. Eating your fellow humans is not natural, I said, trying to put myself into the mind of someone at the party, but Vince interrupted my slow-forming trance. What, he said, are you kidding? Didn’t you read any history at all? Cannibalism is the most natural thing in the world. Not in twenty-first-century Miami, I said. No matter what they say in the Enquirer. Still, he said, it’s just a cultural thing. Exactly, I said. We have a huge cultural taboo against it that you would have to overcome somehow. Well, you got ’em drinking blood, so the next step isn’t that big.