![]() In fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever did exist. In fact, things are only going to get worse: ![]() Psychopaths versus sociopaths: what is the difference?Īs Bateman himself acknowledges about two-thirds of the way through, his “rages at Harvard were less violent than the ones now and it’s useless to hope that my disgust will vanish – there is just no way.” It soon becomes apparent that Bateman simply cannot help himself. Again, we know because Bateman tells us – in graphic and nauseating detail. So, too, are unspeakable acts of torture, sexual assault and homicidal violence. ![]() The Art of the Deal, Huey Lewis and the News, the original British cast recording of Les Misérables: these are a few of Patrick Bateman’s favourite things. We know because he tells us this repeatedly – in excruciatingly detailed, tonally flat prose. ![]() ![]() Patrick Bateman is obsessed with 1980s Donald Trump. ![]()
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