"This is just a mugging," Finkelman told National Public Radio.
Even if none of this points toward a larger occult truth — even if her death was just a mugging gone wrong — the existence of such a figure says something about the weave of American experience.
Two years ago Francine Prose showed just what a mug's game it was in an essay in Harper's Magazine in which she asked, in essence, why is it perceived that in serious fiction male writers have grander thoughts and themes and more muscular and crisp styles?
I was just a fucking mug".
Just a half mug to get your day going.
"And what makes you think it wasn't just a random mugging?
It took just a few mugs in each company to open the attached "love letter" to generate thousands upon thousands of messages that overwhelmed systems round the world.
It's just a glorified mugging, in other words, conducted by people who ask not what they can do for themselves, but what other people should have done for them, and who may have mugged before, on a smaller scale, and found it to be without consequence.
