The laughing skull, emblem of the victim to be. There's always one of these, grimly and dimly imaged by the proto-killer lurking in the heartwaters of everyone you know... a picture in an instructional story that plays over and over again, teaching it how to do what it will do if it ever gets the chance to do it.     Quand j'ai eu cette pensée, j'ai vu des images. J'ai vu un homme que je n'avais jamais rencontré.