“You cannot stop people, once they start. You cannot stop people, once they start creating.”
This is a completely truthful narrative and it also tells about murder. Here it is told about love, all the strange things that take place at the end of the century. Yes, it is about murder, but it has not happened yet. The murderer and the victim are known. The author cannot stop them, even if he wants to do it. Nicola, who is a victim, will die. It is impossible to stop her, because she always aspires to death. Her aim is to be killed young, because Nicola does not want to grow old. Her preparation for death is art – everything must be done carefully and beautifully. And if other main characters stop the girl, her whole creative world will disappear – Nicola will survive, but she will suffer.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Which is fun for the beholder; but what about the owner, the tenant?”
Beauty is extreme, but ambiguously available. Nicola’s beauty informs Keith of her appearance in the pub “Black Cross”. However, he does not know the nature, does not know the grade of its accessibility. Keith Talent is a beholder of Nicola’s beauty and he can enjoy it without touching. Nicola, who is an owner of her beauty, doubts that her gift to be beautiful will be able to give her a fleeting pleasure. Even at the age of sixteen, when she became aware of what she was endowed (imagining that her beauty will last forever), Nicola still realized that she will be aging. She understands that sooner or later her beauty will say goodbye to her in the mirror. It will be the saddest moment of her life.
“So the murderer must find a victim.”
Most types have their opposite numbers. We can say that bolts have their own nuts. For any man there will be a woman and vice versa. Each professional has a field for the application of forces. Groups have groupies. Those, who like to be angry, find those, whom they can pour out their anger. The same concerns those people, who are able to stand unsociability, quarrels and cruelty. Therefore, the major heroine of the failed suicide should find her killer. From the very outset, Nicola is destined to be killed and it is impossible to change the planned action. She has a choice between life and death. And now, choosing death (only to be young forever), Nicola must wait for her killer.
