by Et in Arcadia ego » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:09 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>What strikes me about Karr is his obsession with the whole case, but particularly his attempting to connect up personally with the family, with Patsy before she died. I could see that kind of obsessed person feeling as if conducting this atrocity in the family home would be "intimate", which is what Karr appears to have been attempting with his pushing for contact--intimacy. Creepy!<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Why not try looking at it this way:<br><br>Say you have a person, right? Even a really screwed up one, let's say. Now..This person is all banged up and fails at everything he's *supposed* to succeed at in the manufactured, indoctrinated American Dream. <br><br>He never quite makes the grade, BUT..<br><br>He still has desire to succeed at _something_<br><br>So a person like that might latch onto something evil. wicked, mean and nasty. Not because he IS Evil, Wicked, Mean, and Nasty, but becuase he's failed at everything else and is STILL trying to succeed at something..anything..<br><br>I don't empathize <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>AT ALL</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, but I can at least partyially understand why an innocent person would seek to be assigned notoriety for something they failed to commit themselves..<br><br>And when you have people <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>THIS</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> sick, it's US, collectively, that have failed..<br><br>We create our own Demons. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>