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ritual_ -- driven, perhaps, by the nonentity's longing to be noticed, to rise out of the. ruck and become, for a moment, a star. -- Or by a kind of transposed deathwish: to kill the beloved and so destroy the self. -- _Which is the Granny Ripper?_ a questioner asks. _And what about Jack?_ -- The true outlaw, the head insists, is a dark mirror-image of the hero. -- _These rioters, perhaps?_ comes the challenge. _Aren't you in danger of glamorizing, of "legitimizing"?_ -- The head shakes, laments the materialism of modern youth. Looting video stores is not what the head has been talking about. -- _But what about the old-timers, then? Butch Cassidy, the James brothers, Captain Moonlight, the Kelly gang. They all robbed -- did they not? -- banks_. -- Cut. -- Later that night, the camera will return to this shop-window. The television sets will be missing.
-- From the air, the camera watches the entrance to Club Hot Wax. Now the police have finished with wax effigies and are bringing out real arrested persons: a tall albino man; a man in an
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