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  "thread": {
    "id": 1146,
    "subject": "Silk's so called-suicide",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-13T00:14:53+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-13T00:14:53+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0201@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-13T00:14:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re:  Silk's so called-suicide",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Robert Borski wrote:\nWoo-hoo! I finally found the passage I was looking for in IGJ."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "What seems to have thrown many of us off in RTTW is that only\nHorn/Silk's arm injuries are mentioned when the farmer's wife\nattempts to clean him u= p, whereas this is how Horn describes the\nsituation upon waking up after transfusion into Silk:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"[I] found myself upon my knees besides the open coffin of a\nmiddle-aged woman. My hands and arms and face and neck were all\nbleeding, and an old, worn knife covered with blood was by my\nhand. There was no one else in th= e poor little house in which I\nknelt, and almost nothing in it that was not torn or broken.\"\n(p. 127)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "To Adam Stephanides and vizcacha: are you now still going to argue\nthat Silk has suffered a failure of nerve and cut himself not only\non the arms, but his hands, his face and his neck too? Good grief;\nif so, it has to be one of the strangest suicide attempts in\nfiction. And how also do you account for the torn and broken nature\nof the manse's appurtenances? That Silk, while he was cutting\nhimself all over, decided to trash the place?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It occurs to me that a bomb might have caused both the injuries to\nSilk and the devastation to the manse--we know, after all, that\nsomeone has tried to assassinate Calde Mint--but this does nothing\nto explain the blood-covered knife Horn finds near his hand, as if\ndropped at the moment he shuffles o= ff his mortal coil."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In other words I still aint buying the suicide theory, and even if\nyou don't buy my Pig-as-assassin alternative, I think you have to\nadmit your argument is strained."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Indeed.  Silk the suicide I can buy, but not Silk the clumsy,\nvandalistic, self-mutilating suicide.  I'm not convinced yet of Pig as\nassassin, but I think _someone_ must have attacked Silk, and we should\nbe able to figure out who.  My first guess was the group from Gaon,\nwhen we were told they'd gone that way and hadn't found him there, but\nthat seemed less reasonable once they encountered him later in RTTW."
        },
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          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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