Word: psychopaths
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...Rather, this England approaches death with sensual pleasure and smacks its lips over every phase and bears every humiliation and every cynicism if only it can hope that, in dying, it may also drag its enemy into the abyss. The psychopath knows that in such cases pleasure in destruction parallels pleasure in self-destruction...
...town coroners last week, Dr. Wadsworth sounded off on "pseudo-experts, damned-old-fool judges, tissue-grabbing pathologists, psychopath lawyers." He gave a lecture on ballistics which mocked many a detective-story cliche. Salient points...
...White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
...Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases. At the end of an investigation the accused will go to an insane asylum if he is a proven psychopath, or be prosecuted for felony...
...morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front Line where the panic and stampede of some ghastly experience was re-enacted among the livid faces of the dead...