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"The idea of making the century's great crime look dull is not banal. The banality was only camouflage. What better way to get the curse out of murder than to make it look ordinary, boring, or trite? [...] The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. To defy that old understanding is not banality. There was a conspiracy against the sacredness of life."