The Furtive Glance And The Pretence

 

In itself the glance is of no substance, so to speak, but still it may be very, very offensive, maybe even like a fist to one's face, a slap or a punch. As an action it's a combination of borders crossed by somebody who were not invited and thus had no right to ignore those borders. He - or she - is an intruder who should have staid away, but didn't.

These three people are in the public area, where both the man and the women have a right to be. He is special as he is supposed to be blind or weak-sighted, but obviously isn't. Actually, the cane may be part of a disguise, making it possible for him to mask both himself and his more or less sinister designs upon the young ladies passing by. One might say that his cane is sort of an alibi: "I'm blind, yes, I'm disabled and therefore not dangerous ...." However, the very idea of someone not visually impaired who pretends to be blind makes me think of the serial killer who scored many of his female murder victims by using a similar decoy: Ted Bundy.

When he, dressed in a fake plaster casket, approached a well bred and polite, young woman and she, out of kindness, set out to help the poor, but rather charming, wounded and seemingly disabled man he moved in and killed her. In many instances he also did unspeakable things to her dead body which to me makes everything much worse because it proves the contempt he felt for his victims. What had they done to him to deserve being treated like that? Nothing, except existing .... 

 

It starts with a glance that may - or may not - be intruding, but one thing is for sure: The eye of someone like e.g. Bundy sees something that men or women who don't feel the urges he felt would be able to see. The glance leads to a lethal fantasy that most people don't understand and which may cost the life of many others, including themselves ....