His lucid commentary from last fall can be found at The Nation Online. This is the case even when the motives are laid out right on the surface. In, for example, the serial bomber called Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto, the links between word counts and body counts , hacking information and bodies, are clear enough. That same month he mailed a fatal package bomb to a California timber lobbyist whose body parts had to be collected in 11 separate bags.
Serial killing is murder by numbers.
It is as if he had already left his body behind. The letter bomber dreams of words with a direct physical impact. In order to get our message before the public, with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people. My Air Force Academy ring shot six feet through the air and bounced off a wall. Three different reporters have asked FEED contributor Mark Slouka if he was the Unabomber.