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Uncle Jimmy was there too, and he [James Hogue] stuck his head into the burning trash and came back out and his hair was all singed up and smoking and his eyebrows were burned off and all that and—he had some like second-degree burns on his face and that sort of thing and everybody was asking him like, ‘What? What did you do?’ and he’s like, ‘I wanted to see the trash burn.’
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Madison Salters (Scams and Cons: A True Crime Collection: Manipulative Masterminds, Serial Swindlers, and Crafty Con Artists (Including Anna Sorokin, Elizabeth Holmes, ... Issei Sagawa, John Edward Robinson, and more))
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The silence of metaphor accompanies the act of cruelty, as for example with the cannibalistic Japanese who moved directly from the metaphor of love to devouring that marvellous Dutch girl. Or the woman who made a present of her eye to the man who said he was so in love with her gaze. The effacement of metaphor is characteristic of the object and its cruelty. Words are left with only a literal, material tenor. They are no longer signs in a language. This is the silence of pure objectality.
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Jean Baudrillard (Cool Memories)