... lacks love and cannot survive the world. A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. "Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their ... was a terrible horizon in him beyond which he couldn't leap. Something hollow, so when alone, when not aligned with another- whether it was Ambrose or Clara or Alice- he could hear the rattle within that suggested a space between him and community. A gap of love,"" (Ondaatje, pg.157) suggests ...

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... death and then dissected their bodies and examined their internal organs, and then took pictures. After, he put their bodies into plastic bags and buried them in the mountains in Santa Cruz. He would also take the victims heads and throw them out along roadsides on his way to bury them. However, Kemper's methods changed. He shot one and suffocated another ... ...

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