Re: The family in the cellar

In article <memo.20080511195131.3240B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> In article <K0M6vJ.7x2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J
> Heydt) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've read about it.  And now the guy is saying, "I'm not a
> > monster!  After all, I could have killed them if I wanted to."
> 
> It's things like this that makes the story so horribly fascinating for
> me.  Usually, I have some inkling of the thought processes of another
> person resulting in their behaviour, even if I wouldn't behave that way
> myself, even if I don't understand it fully.  But in this case, it's so
> alien.

Oh, he's just a screwed up selfish bastard who doesn't let the fact that 
something is wrong stop him from doing it. Lots of people like him all 
over the place.

What I don't get is the _mother_. There's no way she lived there all 
these years and did not know. There's just no way. And doing nothing 
when she did know.. that really boggles.

And so far no one has even intimated that they don't believe her when 
she says so. 

rgds,
netcat