DDT - Deambulações DeMentes Teóricas 30

The Serial Killer - Part XXI
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Anna Maria Zwanziger was employed, from 1801 until 1811, as a housekeeper at the home of several judges in Bavaria. She poisoned her employers with arsenic, and then nurse them back to health to gain their favour. She referred to the poison as "her truest friend". She poisoned three people, and attempted to poison several others, killing four people, one of whom was a baby. Four others survived her attempts.
Zwanziger was judged guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Before she was beheaded, she said it was probably a good thing she was to be executed, as she did not think she would be able to stop - "It is perhaps better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to give up the practice of poisoning people."
I particularly like Anna because she represents another emblematic feature of any true serial killer - the fact that she couldn't make herself stop. Serial killers live to kill, which is something most people don't understand. We need to kill. It is more than a compulsion, or a mission, it is something as natural as breathing. Killing is our way of being in this world, not even as a second nature, but the real one. There are people, like Anna, who do not live well with that nature, others, such as me, who embrace and cherish it.

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Ai se as nossas letras preferidas fossem na nossa língua querida, seriam assim. Um pouco pimbas, sei lá.

Prince - Kiss

Não tens de ser bonita
Para me excitares
Só preciso do teu corpo, bebé
De madrugada ao crepúsculo
Não precisas de experiência
Para me virares do avesso
Deixa tudo comigo
Vou-te mostrar como é
Não precisas de ser rica
Para seres a minha miúda
Não precisas de ser cool
Para mandares no meu mundo
Não há nenhum sinal
Com o qual eu seja mais compatível
Só quero o teu tempo extra
E o teu
Beijo
Não podes ter conversa suja, bebé
Se me queres impressionar
Não podes ser demasiado atrevida, mamã
Eu sei como me hei-de despir
Quero ser a tua fantasia
Talvez pudesses ser a minha
Deixa tudo comigo
Podiamos passar um bom bocado
Sim, acho que quero dançar
Mulheres, não meninas, mandam no meu mundo
Eu disse que mandam no meu mundo
Comporta-te de acordo com a tua idade
Não com o teu tamanho de sapato
Talvez pudéssemos rodopiar
Não tens de ver o Dinastia
Para teres atitude
Deixa tudo comigo
O meu amor será o teu alimento
Não precisas de ser rica
Para seres a minha miúda
Não precisas de ser cool
Para mandares no meu mundo
Não há nenhum sinal
Com o qual eu seja mais compatível
Só quero o teu tempo extra
E o teu
Beijo

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Tunes for Travelers 15
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No carro, no comboio, no autocarro, no avião, no barco. Façamo-nos às estradas deste mundo, mas que seja com estilo e energia.
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Get your motor runnin', Head out on the highway

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Macro Secrets 161

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OS ATLETAS DE ANDRÓMEDA

Edwin Moses
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O maior corredor de barreiras que o mundo conheceu.

Como o próprio dizia, não ganhava por ser alto ou comprido,

mas por ser mau e estar em boa forma.

Nesta fotografia podemos ver essas duas características

que o destacaram dos outros e o fizeram o enorme campeão que foi

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"I was always a mean and lean athlete -

not tall - not large."

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Edwin Moses bateu o record quatro vezes e venceu 122 finais,

107 das quais consecutivas, num período de 10 anos.

A sua técnica infalível era dar sempre 13 passadas entre cada barreira,

ao contrário das 14 que habitualmente os outros atletas dão,

conseguindo afastar-se dos seus rivais a partir da

segunda metade da corrida, enquanto mudavam a passada.

O senhor das barreiras ganhou duas medalhas olímpicas de ouro

e 2 Campeonatos do Mundo de Atletismo.

Reformou-se aos 32 anos, com uma medalha de bronze em Seul.

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DDT - Deambulações DeMentes Teóricas 29

The Serial Killer - Part XX
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Considered to be the first real american serial killers, my colleagues, the Harpe Brothers operated between the 1780s and the 1790s. They prefered the roads and the rivers, murdering people in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi. They weren't vulgar robbers and they seemed to enjoy the killing more than the money they stole.
Their blood lust seems to have started with the influence of the renegade Creek and Cherokee Indians with whom they lived and who committed atrocities against white settlers and their own tribes. Their killing method was to rip open the bodies of their victims and drown them with the aid of stones. They butchered anyone at the slightest provocation, even babies. R.E. Banta in The Ohio claims that Micajah Harpe even bashed his infant daughter's head against a tree because her constant crying annoyed him. This was the only crime for which he would later confess genuine remorse, though.
In July 1799 John Leiper raised a posse to avenge the murder of Mrs. Stegal, including Moses Stegal, the victim's husband. Leiper reached Harpe first, and managed to shoot Big Harpe. After a scuffle with a tomahawk, Leiper overcame Harpe. When Stegal arrived, he decapitated Harpe and stuck his head on a pole, at a crossroads still known as "Harpe's Head" or Harpe's Head Road in Webster County, Kentucky.
By the end of their reign of terror, the "Bloody Harpes" were responsible for the known murders of no less than 40 men, women, and children. Little Harpe eluded the authorities for some time, using the alias John Setton, until allegedly being caught in an effort to get a reward of his own on the head of an outlaw, Samuel Mason. He was captured in 1803, tried and hanged on February 8, 1804.

Of course the Harpe Brothers are much more similar to the modern serial killers, such as me, than the majority of the previous killers presented here. There is a distinguishable feature in their crimes, apart from the sadistic nature of their killings, that is unmistakably common to all modern serial killers - the randomness and the geographical mobility.

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Oh! The canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see
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