"Wayne Throop" <throopw@sheol.org> wrote in message
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> From: Wildepad <noreplies>
> Message-ID: <8cp6m3p5j3qa1qvd7pd6u354dlif7imvjn@4ax.com>
> Inside the ship is an alien, quite dead and with an oddly-shaped
> but
> very efficient knife stuck in its back.
>
> "What did he die of?"
> "Shot twenty-five times in the back with a shotgun."
> "Ah. Suicide then."

Is that a quote from a book? Don't recognize it. Anyone recognize this
one:

"Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever
saw?"

Who said it and in which book?

--
Dan Tilque

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:49:37 -0800, "Dan Tilque" <dtilque@comcast.net>
wrote:

>"Wayne Throop" <throopw@sheol.org> wrote in message
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>> From: Wildepad <noreplies>
>> Message-ID: <8cp6m3p5j3qa1qvd7pd6u354dlif7imvjn@4ax.com>
>> Inside the ship is an alien, quite dead and with an oddly-shaped
>> but
>> very efficient knife stuck in its back.
>>
>> "What did he die of?"
>> "Shot twenty-five times in the back with a shotgun."
>> "Ah. Suicide then."
>
>Is that a quote from a book? Don't recognize it. Anyone recognize this
>one:
>
>"Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever
>saw?"
>
>Who said it and in which book?

Look up Billie Sol Estes and the guy who died while investigating him
-- of shooting himself a half-dozen times in the chest with a
bolt-action rifle, according to the local coroner at the time. Talk
about *determined*.

--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank.]

"Dan Tilque" <dtilque@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Wayne Throop" <throopw@sheol.org> wrote in message
> news:1197945876@sheol.org...
>>
>> "What did he die of?"
>> "Shot twenty-five times in the back with a shotgun."
>> "Ah. Suicide then."
>
> Is that a quote from a book? Don't recognize it. Anyone recognize this
> one:
>
> "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever
> saw?"
>
> Who said it and in which book?


Surprised no one answered this one. Ivan said it in _Cetaganda_.

--
Dan Tilque