In the helicopter""s send-up of billowing red dirt, a few bare-chested soldiers rushed to its open door to remove heavy wooden boxes of ammunition.Sebastian guessed that possibly only a hundredth of 1 percent of heir number would escape to the sea.Underwater, in a forest of undulating water plants that becomes a harem, exotic gold and black fish with long flowing tails create beautiful patterns in an aqua ballet." He felt that he had achieved immortality, although she had deceived him into believing he was invincible.To recall his own repressed past memories, Hannibal injected himself with sodium thiopental while listening to a phonograph record playing the Goldberg Variations in his apartment, and viewing six pencil sketches he had made of the Lithuanian soldiers who had cannibalized his sister.