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• 21:30 Almost time to break out Charles Williams' "All Hallows Eve" again! #
• 21:31 @ParrotKnight I haven't seen that, shockingly. I really ought to try to get to Doc Soc (though I get a free formal hall on Thursdays, ...) #
• 22:24 I dislike telling people I care about things they don't want to hear, but sometimes it has to be doneto avoid ending up in a false postiion #
• 22:25 Though I have a suspicion they may find it less of a shock than I think.... #
• 22:28 Also, next door is playing bizarrely loud piano music again. #
• 22:52 And I don't think the Death-Eaters in Oxford fic works, but I don't know how to fix it :( #
• 00:25 Actually, wouldn't it be great if Philip Glennister played the Doctor? #
• 10:55 And suddenly the MCR is full of philosopher rowers from other colleges.... describing it as 'classy'. Of course! #
• 11:15 Now one philosopher is talking about 'Ze purity of ze intellectual argument', and arguing engaging with the history of thought. Berk. #
• 11:37 "It's not just about drinking, I'm looking forward to making some civil libertarian arguments, too..." #
• 11:38 And now they've moved on to the Rothenburg cannibal... "The worst of it is, I wouldn't want to put that in my mouth." #
• 17:31 @GMWWemyss I've never had quince jelly with pheasant, but it sounds promising. The chestnuts are certainly good in combination. #
• 17:32 Note to self: do not attempt to explain the Facebook group 'every time you say mass without a maniple, God kills a kitten' to supervisor. #
• 18:11 Blimey, gel is harder to use than you'd think. Regret laughing at teenage boys! #

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Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No, I mean the cannibal. There were some other particularly gruesome crimes there in recent times - like the couple who decided to starve their six-year-old daughter to death, and did so; and the woman who murdered each of her seven children soon afteer birth, and buried them in the back yard.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, I realised what you meant just after I'd replied (it's been a long day...)

I'm not sure you can lump all those cases together, though; the infanticide, in particular, is a more familiar phenomenon than consensual cannibalism....

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you this: there is plenty of crime in Italy, including plenty of inter-family violence, but I have never come across, or even conceived of, a couple of people who would decide to starve their own six-year-old child to death, and do so coldly and without remorse. I call it inconceivable. And the seven dead babies have a refinement of brutality which, in this age of abortion, shows a special and incomprehensible pleasure in personal killing that takes the breath away. One, perhaps. But seven?

[tree_and_leaf]

I was thinking of the babies rather than the six-year old. And I agree, it's awful - but I don't think from what I remember of the case that 'pleasure in killing' came into it, as far as anyone can tell... Though the human heart can be a pretty dark and unknowable place at times.