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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Wanting to Kill (from The New York Times)

"I knew that my brother's killer was serving a life sentence in an Arizona state prison. I didn't want to confront him. I was in truth scared to death at the possibility, however remote. Here I was being sent to the same prison system as the man I wanted killed....
"It's easy enough to think about vengeance, even to declare a desire for it, but being confronted with the mechanics of murder is a different matter entirely. It forced me to examine my motives more closely, and to think about the sheer intimacy inherent in acts of violence."

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