“But at the same time he felt sad, because his age was getting the better of some of his abilities, and revitalizing some of those he’d already lost, even at the pace his great talent would allow was, nevertheless, not part of his plans as a serial killer.”
From “The Serial Killer”, the first publication by Mikhail Kuzmichev in an English translation from the Russian by Krystyna Anna Steiger.
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Photo – Georgi Taratorkin as Raskolnikov in Lev Kulidzhanov’s adaptation of Crime and Punishment (and I know Raskolnikov is not a serial killer but I googled serial killer to find a photo for this and almost threw up.)
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