Let us not entirely abandon Occam’s Razor! The possible, no matter how unlikely, is always to be preferred to the impossible, however appealing. - Adam Roberts

The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy.

Jack considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things, too.

“The devils,” Billiard-Fannon wept, struggling upward. “They’re all about the ship! They want to break in! A cursed vessel, a haunted vessel...we must pray to God! Let us pray!”
“I pray you to shut up,” grunted Capot.