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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 529
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 9:16 pm: | 
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Jack,or whatever your real name was,
I am writing to disabuse you of any notion you may have that you were a star. Yes, your nom de plume is on the website, and yes thousands of pages have been written, and yes every day posters talk and talk and talk about you. But it isn't because you were important. We just enjoy the intellectual puzzle. If you had been caught, you would have been a nine days wonder and then you would have been hanged, if a Whitechapel mob didn't get to you first. And today you would be forgotten. We don't admire you. You were not bigger than life you were smaller than life. Only a hopelessly ineffectual person would do what you did. You were not more than the rest of us but less, a child having a tantrum in a man's body. I would not have chosen Martha, Polly, Annie, Liz, Cathy, or Mary to babysit my kids, but they were human beings. Perhaps they had lost their way, but they didn't deserve what you did to them. A lot of our fascination with you is born of the fact that we want to find out what made you the way you were. If we learn that, maybe we can prevent the possibility of there ever being anyone like you again. You remind us of the darkest parts of ourselves, the parts we hope to overcome and if we have any fascination with you it is a fascination born of horror and disgust. Don't assume that the time and energy spent on you has anything to do with admiration because it doesn't. |
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