ICB pp. 224-254

p. 230 "Hickock said, 'Perry Smith killed the Clutters.'"  Irony at it's best!  Dick was so worried about Perry putting them in the Corner; then, Dick himself blurts out the info the detectives were so waiting to hear.  Perry was right--Dick's "'guts' were unreliable."  Throughout the book, Dick's "talk" has always been bolder than his actions (spray "hair on them walls" yet not directly killing the Clutters--instead holding the flashlight on them as Perry took their lives.).

ICB pp. 224-254

p. 226  "She would have been seventeen."  Capote uses Dewey's comment to Perry to transition from the questioning of Perry to Perry's thoughts later as he lies in bed awake wondering what the cops' motives really are. It seems as if to avoid thinking about Nancy as a person, Perry is quick to revert to somebody being out to "get him."  Perhaps that's how criminal minds work; instead of empathizing with others, they quickly look at how they are being victimized.

ICB pp. 224-254

p. 224 "But this chunky, misshapen, child-man was not pretty; the pink end of his tongue darted forth, flickering like the tongue of a lizard."  This is an example of Capote's great word choice--he uses a simile to compare Perry to a lizard--why not a serpent?  The description reminds me of a snake, chunky and misshapen as he swallowed the lives of a family, whole.