The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.
P198 Describe John Moore’s brother’s death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I’d stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result.
Lawyers like that, as I’ve told you, generally think they have nothing to learn from Jesus Christ himself when it comes to being saviors with a mission. Annoying them is like falling off of a log, really.
John!” my grandmother blared as Harriet nodded in confusion. “Is that you?” “No, Grandmother,” I said, trotting down the thick Persian carpet on the stairs. “It’s Dr. Holmes.
A man can be a bachelor, and still be a man – because of his mind, his character, his work. But a woman without children? She’s a spinster, Stevie – and a spinster is always something less than a woman.
We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.
Whatever poor team of maidservants had to stuff her into the kind of tight-waisted gown she was wearing that evening earned their pay as sure as any coal miner, that much was certain. The.
As you walked down the hallway you were likely to be tripped, spat at, cursed, and otherwise maltreated, particularly by those children whose only mental deficiency was that they’d been overindulged, and whose parents clearly could and should have saved themselves the trip to Kreizler’s office.
I had never been able when there to fully elude the awareness that I was surrounded by thieves and killers, each of whom had a very good explanation for his or her acts but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.
All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place in those shadows all the more difficult.
The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;.
Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us – accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose salient characteristics were nothing like those of our case – but which were so morbidly fascinating on their own merits that I had to see how they turned out.
The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.
It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society – more important, even, than honest or decent – is identifiable.
He’s a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.
You know, Mr. Moore, you wouldn’t figure a stinkhole this city to have so many start over it. Seems like the smell’d be enough to drive ’em away...
Precisely – the bodies were a mirror image of some savage set of experiences that were central to the evolution of our man’s mind.
There are certain things a man cannot control.
Well, you just catch me where I go wrong,” I shoot back, “but a Harvard education hasn’t done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.
There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essential y the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.