The Scavenger Hunt
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Last published Sat, Apr 6, 2013
A Jack The Ripper Story. (His son's pov.)
'List, list, O list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.'- Shakespeare.
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'I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.'- Stanley Kubrick
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'My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man,
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not.'- Shakespeare
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