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After your summary of the excerpt, apply the following quote in response to your reading so far of American Psycho: "Literature's endless murders and disasters are there for contemplative pleasure, not moral lesson. ... The ritual of art is the cruel law of pain made pleasure" (Paglia 29-30).
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Pick your own approach to response, such as character analysis or interpretation of key images in Bret Easton Ellis' novel.