Transcription: Parasites generally have common features which derive from the logic of the act itself. The parent or parents, though reduced to victims, retain an enormous psychological power over their assailants. It's extremely uncommon for a child to confront a parent and dispatch them with a single fatal wound. Usually the crime takes the form of an ambush. The assailant strikes unexpectedly from hiding. Parasites are usually committed with multiple wounds far excess of what would be merely fatal. The victims are shot or stabbed or bludgeoned again and again, suggesting either an uncontrollable rage on t ...
