What is Bateman feeling in this excerpt? Is he bored? Or is the excerpt highlighting your lack of empathy and humanity? It’s the rat scene. Another question, what does Bateman mean by “distilled”/”It seems distilled”? “I can already tell that it’s going to be a characteristically useless, senseless death, but then I’m used to the horror. It seems distilled, even now it fails to upset or bother me. I’m not mourning, and to prove it to myself, after a minute or two of watching the rat move under her lower belly, making sure the girl is still conscious, shaking her head in pain, her eyes wide with terror and confusion, I use a chain saw and in a matter of seconds cut the girl in two with it.”
I’m Asperger, I have serious problems interpreting texts.
by wickedandsick