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You will immortalise for the exquisite pleasure of your readers.
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This, your very own "Descent into the Maelstrom"
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which shall appear in serial form in the "Baltimore Patriot",
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know that I will kill again, and on that new corpse
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I will leave you clues that will lead to Emily.
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If I do not read a vivid accounting of this convergence
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of fact and fiction,
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then dear Emily will die.
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Your only hope is to imagine a way to save her.
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I dare you to try to conceive of the painstaking care
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I have taken to secure her,
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and the elegant means leading inexorably to her end.