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Dick and Perry are like 400 miles away from the murder place, so they're pretty safe for the moment. However, I think a better idea would be to leave the country and come back with fake passports and identities. I still don't understand the motive since they didn't take anything other than a portable radio. Dick and Perry start to worry that they messed up since the left a connection to them, however I don't know what. Perry then goes to sleep and have some peculiar dreams and I don't really understand them. Perry has a dream and in it there's a giant bird and a snake guarding a tree. The giant bird saves him from reality but the snake eats him. In the dream, "Thus, the snake, the custodian of the diamond-bearing tree, never finished devouring him but was itself always devoured." I guess the giant bird symbolizes a savior for Perry while the Snake is like evil. The snake attempted to devour Perry in evil but couldn't finish him and the snake was all evil. Then it goes to Bobby and Nancy's friend, Susan, mourning over the Clutter deaths. When the story goes back to Dick and Perry, it talks of how they conned people like professionals. Perry would get a suit, a wristwatch, a camera, and a ring by pretending to be getting married while Dick talked and handed out fake checks. It seems like a pretty genius idea. At the end, Dick tells Perry that they will get rich in Mexico, I'm not sure how but ultimately, Dick is just using Perry.

My imagination as to what the yellow bird Perry's dreaming about. It's a phoenix but I think this clicked for me because it's big and it's kind of like a holy symbol.





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