 Short iconographic survey
It looks sort of like a big four (4) at first, but it's actually a Roman fifteen (15); (XV) slightly offset to the observer's right. The map, see? It's a date. The ides of Marchhare. The warren(t) officer. Great Caesar's ghost! Sixty-day's in the hole, that's what they give you. Sorry, matey. Davey Jones's Locker Bunny Club Key. Lefty loosey, righty tighty. It's down and to the left to put her back together, Whitey. Titian in Venice.
Most who have looked at this case seem to find the killers tableau on Norton Av. arresting to the point of hyperdulia. They see exoteries and surrealism in the posing of the two disjointed halves of Elizabeth Short that move them in gyra to all sorts of bizzare conclusions, mostly to impleach that their own father's had committed this awful thing wherein one case, the offspring is driven to sadly misquote and impracate his father for the rest of his miserable life.
The actual crime scene itself betrays an absolute minimum of evidence that the body was part of some elaborate staging at the dumpsite, as there is no evidence the body was moved around the site to make inevitable corrections to any complex compositioning of data. Disjecta membra just isn't there, with the exception of a single guttula. The postion of the two severed portions is remarkable only for being a mere ten inches separate and offset a few inches to the observers right, given a north-south overall bearing.
He dropped her off and was gone in moments, he had a plane to catch.
As for a more pornographic staging, much more could have been done at the scene, but the killers plan just didn't allow for it. Wood if 'e could, eh? He had drawn the plan, and he stuck to the plan, executed the plan as planned, and it didn't call for anything too fancy on Norton, the location of the body was more important to the plan than it's relative postiton atop the dallis grass, on the morning of the 15th. of January, 1947. He knew exactly how he wanted to the scene to appear, he got there on time, he did his thing and got away clean. The plan next called for him to suicide upon the bay of Santa Monica. But that vacant lot was to be her Taj Mahal im pri mis. Her dreamscape dreary, driftway. His driftweed and dressaged to kill. Dumpage. Dusky woman, who are you? Dusty answer. Concuitent, corkage, corkscrew, Dutch courage. Condign noncomcremet.
 Titian, The Assumption of Mary
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