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What is odd about this statement is not the sense of guilt embedded in it—Victor, we will learn, has much to acknowledge on that score—but how unpenitent is the language that expresses it. Victor's "not . . . altogether" phrase so strongly hedges the confession that it calls attention to his rhetoric as self-serving, less than candid, and perhaps not to be wholly trusted.