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From: Jasper
Date: 8/31/03
Time: 1:00:48 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.193.95
Charlie,
I’m sure that Fuhrman would make that claim but there is a vast difference between “sweet” and “sickly sweet.” Sounds to me like anther example of “Fuhrman talk.” Miss Marple coined the phrase. She knows what I mean.
This sort of thing shows up repeatedly in Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie…
Weeks to Fuhrman: Put yourself in their shoes. Fuhrman to Weeks: “I can’t afford their shoes.” Carroll to Fuhrman: “You’re the only one here that cut and ran.” Fuhrman to Weeks describing Martha Moxley’s murder: “This was a rage killing.” No it wasn’t. He just made I look like one in his movie the way the killer in his first big case made the Bundy murders look like a rage killing.
I expected to see things like this in Fuhrman’s work because it’s the only way for him to approach the thrill of putting everything on the line in a physical life/death struggle. Fuhrman got a big charge out of putting himself in dangerous situations. It all a part of what I call a “combat high.” He wants somebody to see what he did, how much guts it took to do it and how clever he is in making that knowledge useless.
In the madness of battle when the blood you smell is your deadly opponent’s there is nothing sickening about it. It’s euphoric. Every time you smell it you recapture a little bit of the high, which, incidentally, has the same level of emotional intensity as murderous rage. The difference is, it feels wonderful.
When I returned to a comparatively sane environment the “sickly sweet” odor of blood was unimaginably horrible. Here in “the world” there was no good-guy blood and bad-guy blood. It was the same. I couldn’t even get my nose close to a freshly butchered chicken. It got so bad that I lost my sense of smell altogether for over ten years. I’m sure that guilt about ever having felt so good about the smell of blood had something to do with the loss, like a man who does something with his that he can’t forgive himself for suddenly finding that he can’t walk.
Some people don’t feel guilt. I think that Mark Fuhrman is one of them. –Jasper