# IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk *The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 08 Aug 2000* > 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *08 Aug 2000, 10:06* My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by himself next to Hyacinth in her coffin. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Fernando Q. Gouvea *08 Aug 2000, 13:20 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* **** On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:06:21 -0700, mantis said: mantis> My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by mantis> himself next to Hyacinth in her coffin. That's how I read it too. But what do we then make of the "searching for Silk" passages? Fernando ``` Fernando Q. Gouvea Department of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online Colby College Mathematical Association of America Waterville, ME 04901 http://www.maa.org fqgouvea at colby.edu ========================================================== The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. -- Alexander Haig *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` --- ### Tim Boolos *08 Aug 2000, 10:45 · follows Fernando Q. Gouvea* > --- Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: > My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with > knife) by himself next > to Hyacinth in her coffin. > > =mantis= I pretty much agree with Mantis on this one. Although I think that Silk was at the point of suicide and had not actually committed the act. The blood mentioned was from the final sacrifice ala Orpine. IMO this is the Occam's razor: one transference, two despondent spirits attempting to cope, some things happen (to be revealed to some extent or other in RTW), then Silk's body containing Horn's and Silk's spirit is abducted by Hari Mau. ---