Thanks for clarifying that for me. For some reason, I always thought he had jumped the guy and cut HIS earlobe off. What you show me makes much more sense. I mean, there would have been a dungeon or mental asylum for Vinnie if he had followed through with his impulses. It is good for him, I think, that he used restraint.
Passion is a double-edged sword ... I heard that suicide might be repressed homicide ... where one wants to attack an enemy but turns it inward instead. I don't know ... so many theories, so few brain cells.