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...might not be persuaded. Unknown to many, the bombs had yielded bits of hair and fiber, but the cops could not be sure they were the perpetrator's. Nor were they sure they had collected enough DNA from the bomber's stamps and parcels to match the suspect's saliva...
...California, showing clerks pictures of their suspect, hoping to place him in the city at the time when bombs were postmarked there. One of two typewriters found in the shack appears to match the one that produced the manifesto and will be subjected to comprehensive tests; the dna from saliva found on the stamps may be compared to Kaczynski's. The most daunting task, and one that may never be complete, is to determine how he chose his victims--how, in his omnivorous reading of magazines, newspapers, journals and academic texts, particular names caught his attention and sparked his rage...
...bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look at the town's depraved boss and such little clues as lizard saliva found on a body...
...could I have known it would be so easy for me to be propositioned online for sex? Well, not real sex, which to my old-fashioned way of thinking still involves tangible saliva and sweat, possibly leavened with some actual affection. I'd heard about those kinky Internet newsgroups with names like alt.sex.bondage. I'd read about the use of online services to transmit pornography, including illegal kiddie porn. But no one had warned me that I might log onto AOL for the innocent purpose of, say, perusing the online encyclopedia and wander off for a minute, only...
...that the plot is inherently hard to believe; it's that Carcaterra's prose manages to make it seem preposterous. Here, for example, is a description of a football game between the guards and inmates at the correctional facility: "The two front lines banged at each other hard, blood, saliva and tiny pieces of flesh flying through the air." The watching crowd of upstate locals "sat stunned into eerie silence, stilled by the sight of a field filled with red-tinged grass. The spectators were left with little else to do but watch the drama play itself...