[Magdalen] Cosby.

[Marion Thompson]

Sort of, in the sense that Patty was a child who like to kill, but the young man schemed and killed to achieve his goal.  Both had the ganglion gone awry, but its expression was different.

Marion, a pilgrim
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From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: April 28, 2018 5:49 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cosby.

I never saw it, but wasn’t that the premise of “The Bad Seed,” starring Patty Duke?

> On Apr 28, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyone but me remember a 1968 British psychological thriller  Twisted Nerve with Haley Mills?  I quote “The lines of poetry quoted by the professor, "No puppet master pulls the strings on high / Proportioning our parts, the tinsel and the paint / A twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry / Predestines the sinner or the saint" come from "Slaves" by George Sylvester Viereck.
>  A young man pretends he is intellectually impaired to get close to the girl played by Hayley Mills.  To advance his chilling schemes he kills a lot of people who get in his way.
> 
> Some people, sadly, are damaged beyond repair in some way from the start, as per the lines above.  Somewhere in the movie the young man is described as a narcissistic sociopath.  
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
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> From: Marion Thompson
> Sent: April 28, 2018 3:10 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: RE: [Magdalen] Cosby.
> 
> The Christ light shines within us all, even though it may be buried under a mountain of evil deeds or often lie concealed by dreadful experiences and defences that may have shaped us.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
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> From: ME Michaud
> Sent: April 28, 2018 2:56 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cosby.
> 
> I probably told you this before.
> 
> Several years ago I was called to jury duty.
> A man who’d been judged to be sexually dangerous had been sentenced to the
> state hospital for the criminally insane. He’d already served a couple of
> decades and was now petitioning to be declared NOT sexually dangerous and
> therefore eligible for parole.
> 
> He admitted to having raped somewhere upwards of forty boys.
> 
> I had written (on the jury form) that I believed that in some cases people
> could be rehabilitated.
> 
> I’m not sure I still believe that today.
> -M
> 
>