Interesting quote from from of todays pieces: Since then there have been literary and dramatic Jack the Ripper interpretations too numerous to count: our understanding of what Victorian London looked and smelled like and how a serial killer thinks and what he wants are determined by these fictions. They all meld. When Thomas Harris created the cannibal killer Lecter, who likes to report on how he sautéed his victims’ organs, he was consciously or not echoing the “From Hell” letter that claimed “I fried and ate [her kidney] it was very nise.” This then retroactively informs our conception of all serial killers’ – even Jack the Ripper’s – supposedly brilliant-yet-twisted minds.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:54:19 +0000
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