What peeved Izzie was this constant bleating and pity party games. She goes through the motions about responsibility for her actions and stuff but everything she says contradicts it. She is only ever concerned about herself and her own suffering and how this tragedy (as she likes to call it) has affected her own life and plans. And of course - hides behind the excuse of mental illness.
Izzie first heard the interview with her before reading the account from Helen Garner. So one would expect the Izzie sympathy to be with the first account of the story. But Iz found that she oozed such a callous coldness and indifference to the consequences of her actions insofar as they affected anyone but her own pretty little self.
Helen Garner made a comment about this business of not even attempting to interview Anu. Let's hope copy and paste works because the quote keeps appearing at this nasty net cafe with Korean characters interspersed in the text
"Helen Garner: Yes. I should perhaps say, as many of you will know, Anu Singh is now out of jail and she maintained that I have never tried to contact her, and this in fact is not true. I have copies of the letters that I sent to her that she didn뭪 reply to, and I thought, 멟kay, well, it뭩 in the book, I뭢 not going to get out there and defend myself because the book covers this.?It뭩 all clearly set out in the book. But then when she was interviewed by The Sydney Morning Herald the journalist actually went to her house and Anu Singh was stating confidently that I had never contacted her since she had got out of jail, since she was paroled. She뭩 got a younger brother who obviously rather tactlessly said, 멊ut Anu, there was a letter, don뭪 you remember? I remember you talking about it. Yes, I saw the letter.?And so he said this to her in front of a journalist, and so that position kind of collapsed for her and she couldn뭪 maintain it. But I noticed that when she was speaking on Late Night Live the other night, she뭗 reverted to the position of saying that I had not tried to contact her since her release on parole, so I would like to say that I did, and that it뭩 in the book. So, this is about ?well, I뭠l just read it and you뭠l see what it뭩 about. (seems this computer does not like apostrophes)
Iz also has the sneaking suspicion that as a law student, Anu knew exactly what to do in order to firstly get herself a judge only trial instead of a jury and to play the girlie charms and what sort of defence to use to get a homicide rather than murder charge. It's almost like - I did it to see if I could get away with it. Apart from the book "Kommandant in Auschwitz" which was written by the boss of that Godforsaken place (Rudolf Hoess)- this was one of the few times ever that Iz has ever heard a murder story told from the point of view of the perpetrator. There's just something so fascinating and compelling but also chilling about this woman.
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Re: Boo, hissssss!
Date: 2004-10-13 09:01 am (UTC)Izzie first heard the interview with her before reading the account from Helen Garner. So one would expect the Izzie sympathy to be with the first account of the story.
But Iz found that she oozed such a callous coldness and indifference to the consequences of her actions insofar as they affected anyone but her own pretty little self.
Helen Garner made a comment about this business of not even attempting to interview Anu. Let's hope copy and paste works because the quote keeps appearing at this nasty net cafe with Korean characters interspersed in the text
"Helen Garner: Yes. I should perhaps say, as many of you will know, Anu Singh is now out of jail and she maintained that I have never tried to contact her, and this in fact is not true. I have copies of the letters that I sent to her that she didn뭪 reply to, and I thought, 멟kay, well, it뭩 in the book, I뭢 not going to get out there and defend myself because the book covers this.?It뭩 all clearly set out in the book. But then when she was interviewed by The Sydney Morning Herald the journalist actually went to her house and Anu Singh was stating confidently that I had never contacted her since she had got out of jail, since she was paroled. She뭩 got a younger brother who obviously rather tactlessly said, 멊ut Anu, there was a letter, don뭪 you remember? I remember you talking about it. Yes, I saw the letter.?And so he said this to her in front of a journalist, and so that position kind of collapsed for her and she couldn뭪 maintain it. But I noticed that when she was speaking on Late Night Live the other night, she뭗 reverted to the position of saying that I had not tried to contact her since her release on parole, so I would like to say that I did, and that it뭩 in the book. So, this is about ?well, I뭠l just read it and you뭠l see what it뭩 about.
(seems this computer does not like apostrophes)
Iz also has the sneaking suspicion that as a law student, Anu knew exactly what to do in order to firstly get herself a judge only trial instead of a jury and to play the girlie charms and what sort of defence to use to get a homicide rather than murder charge. It's almost like - I did it to see if I could get away with it.
Apart from the book "Kommandant in Auschwitz" which was written by the boss of that Godforsaken place (Rudolf Hoess)- this was one of the few times ever that Iz has ever heard a murder story told from the point of view of the perpetrator. There's just something so fascinating and compelling but also chilling about this woman.