It was at precisely 5.47am on the morning of Friday 31 of December 1999 that a dark spirited pluralist began the dissection of 14-year-old Baby Grace. The arms of the victim were pin-cushioned with 16 hypodermic needles, pumping in four major preservatives, colouring agents, memory information transport fluids and some kind of green stuff. From the last and 17th, all blood and liquid was extracted. The stomach area was carefully flapped open and the intestines removed, disentangled and re-knitted as it were, into a small net or web and hung between the pillars of the murder-location, the grand damp doorway of Oxford Town Museum of Modern Parts, New Jersey. The limbs of Baby were then severed from the torso. Each limb was implanted with a small, highly sophisticated, binary-code translator which in turn was connected to small speakers attached to far ends of each limb. The selfcontained mini amplifiers were then activated, amplifying the decoded memory info-transport substances, revealing themselves as little clue haikus, small verses detailing memories of other brutal acts, well-documented by the ROMbloids. The limbs and their components were then hung upon the splayed web, slug-like prey of some unimaginable creature. The torso, by means of its bottom-most orifice, had been placed on a small support fastened to a marble base. It was shown to varying degrees of success depending upon where one stood from behind the web but in front of the Museum door itself, acting as both signifier and guardian to the act.

[A] man who robs would always be an object to be rejected by the poet who wishes to present serious pictures. But suppose this man is at the same time a murderer, he is even more to be condemned than before by the moral law. But in the aesthetic judgment he is raised one degree higher and made better adapted to figure in a work of art. Continuing to judge him from the aesthetic point of view, it may be added that he who abases himself by a vile action can to a certain extent be raised by a crime, and can be thus reinstated in our aesthetic estimation.

Убийство, к примеру, можно рассматривать с позиций морали (по преимуществу с кафедры проповедника или же в здании Олд-Бейли); в этом, надо признаться, заключается его уязвимая сторона; однако оно же вполне может рассматриваться согласно терминологии немецких философов и как эстетическое явление - то есть подлежащее суду хорошего вкуса.
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Когда убийство грамматически находится еще в футурум перфектум, пока оно еще не свершено и даже (согласно новомодному пуристическому обороту) не находится в процессе свершения, но лишь предполагает быть свершенным - и слух о замышляемом покушении только достигает наших ушей, давайте всенепременно подходить к нему исключительно с моральной точки зрения. Однако представьте, что убийство уже осуществлено, приведено в исполнение, ... если злосчастная жертва уже избавлена от страданий, а повинный в этом негодяй удрал неведомо куда; допустим даже, что мы не пожалели сил, стремясь его задержать, и подставили ему подножку, но тщетно: "abiit, evasit, excessit, erupit, etc." - какой прок тогда, спрошу, от добродетели? Морали отдано должное; настает черед Тонкого Вкуса и Изящных Искусств.