# The Cuts on Silk's Arm

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Feb 2001*

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### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
*21 Feb 2001, 15:23*

do not indicate a suicide attempt or, I fear, even a fight (with
Pig or anyone else). Check out Orpine's funeral in, I believe, 
LAKE; the mutes hired for the occasion cut their arms as a sign
of grief. Silk was doing likewise.


*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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