| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The murderers Thomas de Quincey considered in his essay ???On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts??? are artists operating ???to cleanse the heart by means of pity and fear??? (38) Part of the aesthetic quality of the murder is the lack of emotion involved. de Quincey???s ideal victims are strangers; Swinburne???s potential murderers are usually lovers and/or poets such as Sappho who suggest
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