A nervous public wonders, Is the sniper one bar stool over? from the NYT. The abstract reminds me of a playground game we played:
With no physical description available of the elusive sniper, who the police say may have struck again tonight, some spooky questions are rippling through the minds of many here: Are you the sniper? Are you or you or you?
Each round a "killer" is selected, and all the players wander around, linking up in pairs and staring at each other. The "killer," though, winks while staring. If you're winked at, you walk around a bit like normal, but then have your big, quick death scene. So it's up to everyone to figure out who the "killer" is.
This reminiscing would have a technical term from psychology if I were close enough to the murders to have diagnosable trauma. Maybe it does anyway.
Does the latest victim fit with #7 of Pascale Soleil's theory? I wonder.
