Then again, if Bruno likes being bad, he may just enjoy taking the hyperbole as fact, all the while recognizing it for what it is.
You know, in this instance I honestly can't tell. He might really assume that when other people talk about murder, they mean it as much as they mean train tickets or dinner parties. He does.
Bruno is not supernatural—I really enjoy that his stalking of Guy, uncanny though it feels, is nothing that couldn't be accomplished with enough money—but there are ways in which he behaves narratively like a vampire or the Devil in a folktale; once invited in, however inadvertently, insincerely, or on a technicality, he's very hard to get out again. The combination with Guy's sense of having somehow asked for it is predictably hazardous.
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You know, in this instance I honestly can't tell. He might really assume that when other people talk about murder, they mean it as much as they mean train tickets or dinner parties. He does.
Bruno is not supernatural—I really enjoy that his stalking of Guy, uncanny though it feels, is nothing that couldn't be accomplished with enough money—but there are ways in which he behaves narratively like a vampire or the Devil in a folktale; once invited in, however inadvertently, insincerely, or on a technicality, he's very hard to get out again. The combination with Guy's sense of having somehow asked for it is predictably hazardous.