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jwhouk:
Took me a while to figure out which strip you were referring to, then suddenly the words, "TWO DAYS? TWO FRIGGIN' DAYS???" came to mind.
Is it cold in here?:
The absence of explanation is true to life and good art.
Carl-E:
I only know of a few suicides IRL, and most of them had obvious reasons (money, health, love). But there wa one where no one knew why.
It is very disturbing.
I had the impression a while back (on my first re-read) that, as a baptist sneaking bourbon with his daughter, there were probably other times he snuck it as well, and that he was a closet alcoholic. He made a (probably drunken) decision to save his family from himself. That was just my take, based on what little info there was.
But it also may explain Faye's attraction to liquor as well, since alcoholism, whether genetically transmitted or not, can easily be passed on to the next generation...
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Oct 2011, 07:25 ---The absence of explanation is true to life and good art.
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No one was questioning that. ;)
@Carl-E:
Hm... if he was a closet alcoholic and made the decision to shoot himself (btw. I was trying to avoid spoilers before, but y'all ruined it :-D) while drunk I think the autopsy guys would have easily found a lot of alcohol in his system. (alcoholics need a much higher dosage to actually be drunk enough to make "drunken decisions" than normal people might, so it would have been easily simply smelled on him).
And if the autopsy revealed him to be a closet alcoholic, I think one way or another Faye would have come to know about the results.
(Damn, English subjunctive is hard.)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 20 Oct 2011, 08:09 ---(Damn, English subjunctive is hard.)
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So you were going for:
--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 20 Oct 2011, 08:09 ---Hm... if he were a closet alcoholic [...]
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were you?
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