I have written a number of terrible things with no motive save to get them down on paper, Henri. But I never did to a woman what I wrote about; I have only survived long enough to see other men do it instead. Before I died, I had a daughter, and I cannot reconcile myself to what sort of rages and sorrows I would have been given to if I had been told that a man had harmed her in similar fashion.
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I have written a number of terrible things with no motive save to get them down on paper, Henri. But I never did to a woman what I wrote about; I have only survived long enough to see other men do it instead. Before I died, I had a daughter, and I cannot reconcile myself to what sort of rages and sorrows I would have been given to if I had been told that a man had harmed her in similar fashion.