--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Nathan Cain <IndieCrime@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting story, but I'm surprised the writer missed the fact that
the quote below is an aphorism from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.
That's not the sort of thing a New Yorker writer should miss. In fact,
it should spark a 4,000 word digression from the story at hand.
"When you fight monsters, be careful that in the process you do not
become one."
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Particularly as Robert Ressler paraphrased it in the title of his seminal work on profiling serial killers: WHOEVER FIGHTS MONSTERS and distinctly attributed it to Nietzsche. I guess the New York Times is using nepotism to hire writers again!
Patrick King
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