Saturday, September 09, 2006

Psychopaths and prisoners

I am reading The Collector by John Fowles, who also wrote the French Leiutenant's Woman. The book has suddenly come to the limelight after the Natascha episode in Austria. The Austrian girl who was kept captive by a man for 10 yrs. She was kidnapped when she was 10 and escaped just last week. The man killed himself after she escaped. Sends a shiver down my spine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Its sad something has to happen before every one becomes alert or goes and watches a movie/read a bk which they had already written about..
even real life when calamaties are predicted no one does anything till after wards ..they tell of they knew about it!
There was some news like this sometime back here too.. i watched on tv i think.. and they show the place etc..
its sad it takes people yrs before it is traced.. .if people used there talents for helping kids/other kidnapped/murdered.. by protecting them before .. it would be great..
God has other plans for all of us..I suppose!
god bless and keep each and everyone of us and our fly safe.
Amen
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