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Could we be after this?
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Could we be after this?
Author: lucky pierre
Monday, 17 June 2002 - 08:59 pm |        | Purely hypothetical and for EXAMPLE only:
Some intellectual chap who lost his mind? How about (just for conjecture) a learned individual who was a specialist on ancient Mexican civilization, maybe the Aztecs? PERHAPS they delved into the madness that they were the reincarnation of an Aztec priest? Aztec priests were into sacrificing victims and devouring human hearts...maybe JtR was along these lines as well. I just don't know what particular madness he was into...
Again, just a conjecture open for comment by the members of this board. |
Author: Clyde
Friday, 21 June 2002 - 04:32 am | | Hello Pierre,
Perhaps a real life Hannibal Lecter?
How about this....
A daralect wanting to be real life Hannibal Lecter.
What this person did was a true intellectual vision quest. To him I'm sure everything had a higher, although very personal, meaning. Isn't it not so much who did it, but the meaning of it all that draws people to this case after 120 years? By us studying his legacy after all this time, has he not in a sense become something of an intellectual? Almost a professor.
You bring up a point though. I think that everyone can agree that whoever did this was mad. Maybe all the time, maybe just when the killings took place. Are we to believe this madness just cleared up and was cured like a rash? If the killer did stop killing, did the madness manifest itself in another form? How could it not? |
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