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Blue didn't want any of it, but I needed bucks to get out of there

"We split up I never saw Blue again I never saw Ollie or Ted, the other two I think they went to L A tocrazy I'm not sure I went on I was totally different froain "

"What made you different?" I asked "What was the source of the change in you, I mean, what in particular? That you'd enjoyed it?"

"No, not at all It was no fun It was a success But it wasn't funI've never found it fun It's work, killing people, it's messy It's hard work It's fun for you to kill people, but then you're not human No, it wasn't that It was the fact that it had been possible to do it, to just walk up to that son of a bitch and un fro he ever expected could happen, and then to kill them both without hesitation They must have died with surprise "

"They thought you were kids "

"They thought ere dreamers! And I was a drea, I do have a great destiny, I areat, and this power, this power to sith!"

"From God, this epiphany "

"No, from fate, fro for God You know they say in the Catholic Church that if you don't feel a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, well, they fear for your soul I never had any devotion to her I never had any devotion to any real personal deity or saint I never felt it That's why Dora's development surprised me in that particular, that Dora is so absolutely sincere But we'll get to that By the tiot to New York, I knew my cult was to be of this world, you know, lots of followers and power and lavish comforts and the licentiousness of this world "

"Yes, I see "

"That had been Wynken's vision Wynken had communicated this to his wo until the next world You had to do everything now, every kind of sin this was a common conception of heretics, wasn't it?"

"Yes, of some Or so their enemies said "

'The next killing I did purely for money It was a contract I was the ain, a bunch of no-accounts, eren't ht I was into dope again, and was being a hell of a lot s a personal distaste for it This was the real early days, when people flew the grass across the border in little planes, and it was almost like cowboy adventures

"And the word came down that this particular man was on the shit list of a local power broker who'd pay anyone thirty thousand dollars for the killing The guy himself was particularly vicious Everybody was scared of hi around in broad daylight and everyone was scared to make a move

"I guess everybody else figured that somebody else would do itHow connected these people were to what and to whoame, you know? I made sure

"I figured a way to do it I was nineteen by then - I dressed up like a college boy in a crew-neck sweater, a blazer, flannel slacks, had my hair cut Princeton style, and carried a few books withIsland, and walked right up to hi, and shot hi dinner inside "