Millions might scoff, but only because they
failed to realize how pervasive the influence of art - even of such a
degenerate sort as popular fiction - could become. Maybe Im going to punch out,
but I swear to God Im not going to do it until I get a chance to show my
number-one fan just how much Ive enjoyed getting to know her. Then he thought
of what would happen to him - what could happen to him - if he only hurt her,
and put the ashtray where it had been with his shaking thumbless hand. Miss
Wilkes, who had been studying, rushed onto the third-floor landing and saw Miss
Saint James lying on the landing below, "sprawled in a very unnatural
position".