It ' s true , he might have stopped and couldn ' t do it . Although that would not make much sense considering he went through with killing Theresa and she was much closer to him than Elsie . But maybe the plan was just to knock her out after all , he was behind her so she would not have seen his face . <| sep |> I wish I knew , I wasn ' t in her class . I think that ' s why I like the story . At the time I assumed she wrote with her mouth but she probably just used an apparatus and wrote with her stub . She was also a great dancer . <| sep |> I was a regular watcher of the Young Turks until one of her pissed off crazy rants was a final straw in waking me up to the fact that the channel was rubbish and no better than watching fox news .