# Digest whorl.v012.n087 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Mar 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Parmenter *28 Mar 2001, 11:22* >> From: "Kevin J. Maroney" >> I wouldn't rule out that Silk may not have been thinking >> clearly and simply thought "slash my wrists" without thinking about >> the proper technique (this is apparently quite common in failed >> suicide attempts). I think Silk the Augur was more accustomed to >> cutting the jugular vein. > Yes, but Silk is a Wolfe hero who knows everything. :-) Also, wouldn't he > have slashed his own throat? Yes, that seems right, but if Silk associates the cutting of the jugular solely with performing a sacrifice he might be disinclined to use that method for a suicide attempt. Shellac *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---