not here, not there

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman,

some kind of abstraction,

hut there is no real me,

only an entity, something illusory,

and though I can hide my cold

gaze

and you can shake my hand

and feel flesh gripping you

and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles

are probably

comparable:

I simply am not there."

American Psycho - Intro Scene