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I recently read Gene Wolfe’s novella The Death of Dr. Island and listened to the excellent Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast series

A smudge of ashes And back in the car to work You learn how to die

Although I haven’t been able to find a first-person account of Endo saying so, it’s widely understood that Endō felt Silence had failed to effectively communicate  the message he intended. However, in this post I would like to defend Endo