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Awww...Did we hurt the widdle sniper-baby's feelings? Did we make the widdle sniper-baby cry? What nasty men we are...
Thoughts:
- 'The Sniper', in a strange way, actually sounds like a Tarot card in itself. Imagine that: a Qlipothic tarot made up of modern archetypes of fear: The Sniper, The Terrorist, The Paedophile...It sounds pretty cool, in an awful, Filth kind of way.
- it does seem like a movie, doesn't it? Taunting the police, the vague 'occult' connection, the eerie, deathly sexiness of the sniper rifle as murder weapon (cf. Leon, any other film about assassins). All this after last September, and the terribly cinematic destruction of the Towers and the Pentagon. Strange days, indeed. Also interesting to note that all this seril killer hoo-ha is taking place at around the same time as the opening of the Red Dragon remake, but I'll chalk that one up to coincidence.
- the lack of a witch-hunt, IMHO, is a result of two things. One, the sniper has only left one tarot card: if he was leaving different, significant cards at each site, the anti-magic brigade would be in a frenzy immediately. But he's not. It seems a one-off, random thing. There's even doubt as to whether this was the sniper at all, and not some copycat, like the guy who made the Yorkshire Ripper tapes.
Secondly, the method of killing is too cold and clinical to really get people scared enough to start talking about occult explanations. Something like the Jack the Ripper murders, with lots of blood and gore, is needed to really excite the darker corners of the human mind.
- having said that, though, it must also be said that, in the view of at least one man, the sniper is, indeed, a magickal figure. 'The sniper's bullet is an extension of his eye. He kills with injurious vision.' - Jim Morrison
- finally: if he really does know anything about the tarot, then there's one thing I want to know - which way up was the card where he left it? Is there any indication of whether it was upright or reversed? Because that could tell us more... |
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