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...something of a surprise, then, when it comes time to listen to the music. Why, this is no hitman or rapist perverting the meaning of Christmas! Instead, it sounds like someone held a microphone to your father as he shoveled snow one day last Janaury and sung a few tunes under his breath. You get the feeling that someone called Slim one day and said, "Slim, if you're not busy, why don't you take a half-hour or so and come on down to the studio and record a Christmas album?" And Slim...
...distinct personalities within him, each one motivating him in different directions--a case of multiple personality never before diagnosed. Some of his personalities were harmless, others just bizarre. But when one, Ragen (Milligan had different first names for each personality) surfaced, Milligan became "the keeper of hate"--and a rapist...
...central personality, Billy--a year-long struggle between prosecutors and psychiatrists ensued. No one suspected the extent of his mental disorder at first; as Keyes tells it, a chorus of citizens' groups and police, spurred on by sensationalist reporters, called for life imprisonment for Milligan, who appeared a stereotypical rapist: a lonely young man with family problems and a history of trouble with women...
...often did allude to feelings of his other personalities (to whom he referred as a detached observer); his memory of actions those other "Milligans" took was, however, murky at best. Increasingly, the doctors came to feel it would be grossly unjust to imprison Billy Milligan like a common rapist. Milligan had been unaware of the actions he had committed as madman "Ragen," almost as if he were under the influence of a potent drug...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian; Bobby, the daydreamer; and some 14 others. By securing the confidence of Milligan's main incarnation, Billy, the doctors elicited from the defendant information about each of his personalities...