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his own, as you will discover.

A few more explanatory comments before I launch into my
account of that fateful day.

Because of Maximilian's loyalty to me, I had a nurse (one
Nelly Washington) who stayed with me constantly (in the
beginning, anyway), providing those attentions I could not
request but obviously requiredтАФeating and elimination to
the fore.

Nelly was no Venus but she had an inner beauty of com-
passion, a good deal of patience, and (luckily for her as well
as for me) an abundant sense of humor. Most of all. God
bless her giant heart, she never allowed me to remain de-
feated or helpless. She was a rock of reassurance on which I
wobbled constantly until some semblance of hope oozed
back into my brainтАФalong with a few restorative drams of
blood.

I'm glad she happened to be absent on the day it all took

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place/ although in retrospect, I realize that it probably was
no accident

After all. she would have been an obviously sentient wit-
ness to the mania which occurred.

One thing about residing in a useless body in the sole com-
pany of one's brain: it gives one time to appraise said brain,
appreciate its true capacities, and, eventually, train it to per-
form. In this way I was able to educate my brain to remem-
ber everything I saw around me, thus enabling me to write
down this event in full detail.

This is fortunate because the events I will describe took
place fourteen years ago. I will explain, in due course, why I
had to wait so long to disclose them-

But first, let me sketch in me environment for the play,
orтАФmost appropriatelyтАФIhe setting for the magic show.
For magic is me dark thread which binds together me tapes-
try of mis crazed and homicidal episode, this lethal interval
of time.

This period of total lunacy.

This happened in the home where my son had lived for