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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
I’m not completely happy with the idea of the “inevitable prophecy” as a way of handling the problem of why Jack leaves the toddler to last. I think that Jack’s own personality has something to do with it. He regards murder as a kind of art form and I believe that in his pride he decides to start with the parents first because they are the source. He then goes to the daughter and finally to the son. Thus, I think he likes the inverse progression of murder as aesthetically satisfying.
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No, I didn't attribute any sense of inverse progression, but the simple fact that Bod was on the third floor. He killed them as he got to them, and Bod was on the top floor.