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  "thread": {
    "id": 930,
    "subject": "Suicide [SPOILER]",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-10T18:06:28+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-10T18:06:28+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0094@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-10T18:06:28+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Suicide [SPOILER]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Jim Jordan wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "What in the text leads the suicide believers to believe so?\n\nDennis/Endy"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "        At the moment I'm on your side here. The fact that Silk is bleeding might\nmean that he had cut himself, but it might also mean he's been defending\nthe house. Not only is Silk bleeding, but the house is completely torn up.\nMy first guess would be the Silk is dying from wounds he has received in\nsome conflict, and that Hyacinth is already dead from the same."
        },
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          "text": "It's not explicitly stated that Silk committed suicide (or even that it\nis Silk and Hyacinth), but to me, the combination of Silk's bleeding,\nthe fact that Hyacinth is in her coffin and the bloodstained knife is by\nSilk's hand, and the Neighbor's reference to Silk as \"someone whose own\nspirit is dying\" make suicide, or at least self-mutilation, probable. \nIf Silk had been defending himself and Hyacinth, he surely would have\nbandaged his wounds before putting her in a coffin; nor would there be\nany reason for the knife to be by his hand now.  It may be, though, that\nSilk has slashed himself in a frenzy of grief rather than purposefully\ncommitting suicide; this would fit the Neighbor's words as well, and his\nfrenzy could also explain the destruction in the house.\n\n--Adam\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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