I'm still digesting the poem information..He must have been really tickled about that little touch of disdain for the searchers.
His pathological lies and mind games are very detailed..He lacks the emotional IQ to know or care what his words and behavior will reveal about him...It's the game, the fantasy, the risk that keeps him going...
He needs to have her telling him he was so important to her...The reporters say he really can't keep his eyes off her when she is on the stand.It isn't that he loved her..It's all about his narcissistic needs..She played a role for him.
He was even watching with fascination (and some sort of gratification?) as the two mothers were suffering.
When I heard him talking about the spectacle of Jackie "drooling" under morphine in the hospital because of the whole situation, it reminded me of how one of the Columbine shooters was said to have stood calmly and interestedly over the body of one of their victims, and said something like, "Dude, hey, look at this black kid's brain." Totally detached, like he was watching some sort of specimen on a slide instead of witnessing the pain he himself had caused.
Good post Meg. And I sure agree about the low to missing Emotional IQ. He completely lacks the ability to feel the pain of anyone but himself. I don't mean pain as in conscience, he has none, but rather inconvenience to himself or the lack of ability to get what he wants, when he wants it. He demonstrates that very well, However to us it is completely transparent.