From: "Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea@colby.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:20:59 

**** 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

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