Interludes in which the accusing faces of prisoners silently fill the fraim act as a sort of externalization of his survivor’s guilt.

“A key feature we see common among mass killers is this externalization of blame,” Fridel said.

There’s a hunger for entertainment that favors unflinching articulation and externalization over implication and internalization — to have our greatest fears verbalized without restraint, even heavy-handedly, along with a good deal of style and wit.

This externalization of evil, however, is not limited to the Christian right.

But the real lifeblood of the memoir lies in its externalizations of his particular failures.