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  "thread": {
    "id": 1143,
    "subject": "Silk's so-called suicide",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-12T21:37:26+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-12T21:37:26+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0198@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-12T21:37:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk's so-called suicide",
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          "text": "Woo-hoo! I finally found the passage I was looking for in IGJ.\n\nWhat seems to have thrown many of us off in RTTW is that only Horn/Silk's\narm injuries are mentioned when the farmer's wife attempts to clean him up,\nwhereas this is how Horn describes the situation upon waking up after\ntransfusion into Silk:\n\n\"[I] found myself upon my knees besides the open coffin of a middle-aged\nwoman. My hands and arms and face and neck were all bleeding, and an old,\nworn knife covered with blood was by my hand. There was no one else in the\npoor little house in which I knelt, and almost nothing in it that was not\ntorn or broken.\" (p. 127)\n\nTo Adam Stephanides and vizcacha: are you now still going to argue that Silk\nhas suffered a failure of nerve and cut himself not only on the arms, but\nhis hands, his face and his neck too? Good grief; if so, it has to be one of\nthe strangest suicide attempts in fiction. And how also do you account for\nthe torn and broken nature of the manse's appurtenances? That Silk, while he\nwas cutting himself all over, decided to trash the place?\n\nIt occurs to me that a bomb might have caused both the injuries to Silk and\nthe devastation to the manse--we know, after all, that someone has tried to\nassassinate Caldé Mint--but this does nothing to explain the blood-covered\nknife Horn finds near his hand, as if dropped at the moment he shuffles off\nhis mortal coil.\n\nIn other words I still aint buying the suicide theory, and even if you don't\nbuy my Pig-as-assassin alternative, I think you have to admit your argument\nis strained.\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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