Douglas E. Richards

Nick, no matter what, we’ll find a way to cure you of your

unpredictable. No conscience; no remorse.

when you didn’t know what you didn’t know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

Who cares if you know for sure that many millions will ignore the law, and thousands will die each year because of it. Same thing with this. The danger of addiction and traffic fatalities will be gladly overlooked and accepted. Cell phones still cause numerous deaths, but nobody has the nerve and audacity to suggest we stop using them. No one spoke for several long seconds.

It’s impossible to say. Normal motives don’t necessarily apply to psychopathic personalities. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and cannibalized seventeen people, three of whose skulls were found in his refrigerator. That’s perfectly rational behavior, said Desh sarcastically. He just didn’t want them to spoil.

Unless you truly believed in something to the deepest depth of your being, as did Delamater, all men were whores in the end. There was an old joke that had always struck Delamater as defining of the human species. A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. What kind of woman do you take me for? she asks. To that, the man responds, We have established what you are, madam. Now we’re just haggling over the price.