Look at war. Look at it this way. Suppose there’s a patrol of guys, guerrillas, the guys they drop behind the lines in Vietnam, right? They’re trained killers. Their whole function is to kill. Well, what if one guy in the squad that night just dug killing too much? So much that even they couldn’t handle it. He just dug killing with such relish, the other guys would say, “Hey, we all dig killing, but that’s going too far.” I think that character has been examined in books and movies several times. There are some guys who are great killers, but they get court martialed because they go beyond the grounds their fellow killers can tolerate. Anyway … that’s just a metaphor for what I was trying to say: it’s just a matter of timing. … [Read more...] about The Rolling Stone Interview: Jim Morrison
