‘It is not at all the same... «Evil under the Sun»
Tayafenix27 августа 2013‘It is not at all the same thing. The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things. If in your bedroom instead of a little wax figure you had had your stepmother bound and helpless and a dagger in your hand instead of a pin, you would not have pushed it into her heart! Something within you would have said “no”. It is the same with me. I enrage myself at an imbecile. I say, “I would like to kick him.” Instead, I kick the table. I say, “This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.” And then, if I have not hurt my toe too much, I feel much better and the table it is not usually damaged. But if the imbecile himself was there I should not kick him. To make the wax figures and stick in the pins, it is silly, yes, it is childish, yes-but it does something useful too. You took the hate out of yourself and put it into that little figure. And with the pin and the fire you destroyed-not your stepmother-but the hate you bore her. Afterwards, even before you heard of her death, you felt cleansed, did you not-you felt lighter-happier?’
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