Saturday, November 24, 2007, 1:14 AM
Got inspired by Ben, so anyway, I've finished a book as well, in the lab =P
Its' Velocity by Dean Koonitz.
Let me ask you a question, what to you is ART? But keep that in mind first, we're just gonna go through the plot of the story...
One day, you recieve a note, it says...
If you DO NOT take this note to the police, I WILL kill a lovely blonde schoolteacher somewhere in your neighbourhood
If you DO take this note to the police, I will INSTEAD kill an elderly woman
You have 6 hours to decide...
You think is a prank, but the next day, a schoolteacher goes missing... And then, you get another note...
If you still DO NOT involve the police, I'll kill an unmarried man who won't be much missed by the world
If you DO involve the police, I'll kill a young mother of 2.
The choice is yours, you have 5 hours....
The next day your best friend goes missing. In this case, the story revolves round a sadist and a innocent man, let me re-enact one of the scenes in the story.
" ...I'll kill a pretty redhead. If you say WASTE THE BITCH, I'll kill her quickly. Otherwise, she will suffer much torture. You have 1 minute to say WASTE THE BITCH... "
Finally, let's take a look at a extract of the climax.
" ...Each jar was lighted by fiber optics filaments under it, so the contents glowed against the backdrop of the black silk holding it. Each of these small glass worlds contained a memory of murder. In a preservative fluid held a face and hands.
Every face was ghostly, each like a pale mantis, perpetually swimming, the features of one hardly distinguishable from the other
'Aren't they beautiful?', Valis' voice echoed through the speakers.
The artist did not deform his work with the gaudy or grotesque, no eyeballs or internal organs, just faces and hands, strangely ethereal. Although perverse, here's an asthetic mind at work. A work by the master artist, yet a sadist as well... "
So basically, the serial killer sees the whole killings with a goal in mind, aiming to form an exsquisite piece of work, but with the media being human. Very much a good read...
