The following excerpt is from the remarkable essay The Serial Killer as a Type of Person by Mark Seltzer, a professor of English at Cornell University. (The highlighting is my own.)
Obey your thirst!
There is an empty circularity in the notion of the kind of person called the serial killer lifting itself by its own bootstraps: the …
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