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“It is not the repetitive, turgid pornography in de Sade’s books that are believed to be dangerous and corrupting by the censors and rulers of the status quo. Rather, it was his ideas, pushing existentialism, nihilism and relativism to that tightrope between sanity and madness. His writings have been perennial since the eighteenth century for this reason. As for his pornography itself, I was bored rigid by it.”

— Ian Brady, quoted in The Untold Story of the Moors Murders by Dr Alan Keightley

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Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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leopold and loeb (c.1924) // swoon (1992) // compulsion (1959)

iansbradys

Look who’s back in the news…

thebeastisyou-deactivated202001

Leopold being interrogated about the Hamlin Buchman incident in 1960:

London: Now, turning to page 105, there is a reference there to your having been discovered in an embrace, or while you were embracing Loeb, by another boy. Is that – was that statement true in fact?

Leopold: I don’t like the exact wording. We certinley were discovered by another boy in a compromising situation.

London: What would you describe as a compromising situation?

Leopold: In bed together.

…

London: I merely asked you whether or not it wasn’t true that you were discovered in a situation that you described as compromising. You were in bed together and nude; isn’t that correct?

Leopold: I don’t remember whether we were – we were certainly very lightly clad. I wouldn’t swear that we were completely nude. We might have been.

London: And that a person - whatever his name was - came and saw you.

Leopold: Yes.

London: And thereafter he spread the rumor that the two of you were homosexuals.

Leopold: Yes.

jeffreycombs

Compulsion 1959 || Swoon 1992

Where are your glasses, babe?

nanamifart

Rope (1948) but-

nem0c

“As I left a cinema during the final credits one night, to miss having to stand for the national anthem, a man in the aisle stood in my way as the anthem began. In a rage, I lifted him from the ground by his lapels and threw him between the seats amongst the litter. I stared at him, waiting for any justifiable excuse to murder him. I was furious at my crassness later, not for wanting to murder a patriotic cretin but for risking losing my liberty for such a trivial reason. I mentioned the incident to Myra. She guffawed at the surreal spectacle I would have presented, strangling him to death in the ice-cream cartons to the tune of the national anthem.”

— Ian Brady, quoted in The Untold Story of the Moors Murders by Dr Alan Keightley

kirtlandswarbler

“If I do what you want…” – “…I’ll do what you want.”

Swoon (1992), dir. Tom Kalin

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Swoon (1992)

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Swoon (1992, dir. Tom Kalin)

thebeastisyou-deactivated202001

The captain addressed them: “And now boys, you are to be separated. If you wish to say anything to each other-“ Again, Loeb took the lead. “Goodbye Babe.” He said and held out his hand. Leopold’s hand lingered in Loeb’s for a long moment. “Good luck, old man,” he said hoarsely and turned away to follow the keeper who tapped him on the shoulder. Loeb was led off in the other direction.

-Chicago Evening American, September 13, 1924