But if you are a... «The ABC Murders»

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    Tatyana_Ivanova
    18 июня 2014

    But if you are a sufficiently great and important person, it is necessary that you should be spared small annoyances. If a fly settles on your forehead again and again, maddening you by its tickling — what do you do? You endeavour to kill that fly. You have no qualms about it. You are important — the fly is not. You kill the fly and the annoyance ceases. Your action appears to you sane and justifiable. Another reason for killing a fly is if you have a strong passion for hygiene. The fly is a potential source of danger to the community — the fly must go. So works the mind of the mentally deranged criminal.

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