This woman
sleeping down the hall, it is my duty to kill her. It
is true that I live in a house filled with murderers and evildoers, and
it is true that we take turns torturing our guests, and when there are
no guests, we play games such as Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit to pass
time. We are a family, and I have never killed a woman. Before I was an
adolescent, I had seen scores of beggar men die, and I mounted their
dead heads on my wall for decoration, but I did this only because my
parents left me with no paintings when they deserted me.
But now I must do what I must do, and I wish to do it without an
audience, so if you please.