THE ASYLUM - Emilie Autumn's Official Forum

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I will Swallow... </3

^I think that costume you linked to is for the devils carnival

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I will Swallow... </3

I really liked the ending of the book because it was "The Art of Suicide" in literary form rather than music form.

Also, another thing I just realized about the end after hearing "Fight Like a Girl". That song is the part in the book where the girls are taking back the asylum.

I suppose it makes sense in the context of her delusions dying at the same time almost (the "letters" going back to being trash). The characters die, her belief in them dies... (anyone else here watch that episode of Buffy where she's convinced that reality is the delusion? kinda like what the bad guys were trying to convince her to do on purpose)
Except then the very ending doesn't exactly confirm that idea, so idk.

I know this is bad cause i should jus go get the book ( woe as meee it is so expensive!!) but the thought is like boom boom vroooooom so i ask of those who are willing to spill me summ dirt as to-
"What was the ending of the book?"

I know the ending of the alternate universe deal but what about the present day 'Emilie' story? Did she jus walk out all dandy and everyone was cool? (doubtingly) or was there some big climax or was her story like "Girl, Interrupted'? Does it end when she leaves? when does it end?

All questions i have for you, whoever is kind enough to answer. thank you!

Ok, but you know that this is a huge huge SPOILER!
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We don't know when she left the asylum, it's not described in the book. You know that the reality and Emil-y's world were ... melting together and EA couldn't seperate them anymore. I don't have the book in front of me and I don't know when exactly she finds out but ... at some point, I think, EA finds out that she wrote the Asylum letters (the letters "Emil-y" wrote). And she also finds out that the asylum staff reads her notebook entries which makes her furious. At the end she gets a massive breakdown, she has to be strapped down and when she looks into the face of Dr. Sharp she sees Dr. Stockhill. When she wakes up she's completely alone in a room, isolated. EA is very thin so she can free herself from the straps, again she freaks out, screams, and begins to peel of the plaster of the wall, hurts her fingers and smears her blood over the wall. Then under the white plaster she sees black and white stripes. The last sentence in the book is handwritten, faded (you can barely read it) and mirror-inverted ... and it says "I am the Asylum".

Hope I could help you

yargh. thank you dearly dear child of dearness. it took me around three times to read through the tiny writing all squinty eyed but i got the answer! hurrah. sounds like the ending is >.>...<.< spoooooookyeeee. a cliff hanger. not so plain and straight forward as i imagined. hurrah. thank you again. hurrah.

If you want it in a larger size you can click on the button "quote" and then you'll see the writing bigger

Oh that's no problem and I can really understand that a lot of muffins can't afford the book. With the shipping costs it was expensive as hell for me so I'm always glad that I can help other PRs if they want to know something.

I am not sure if I remember properly, but I think I recall something being mentioned once about Multiple Personality Disorder? I took the ending to be she had written the notes while in another mindset, and didn't recall writing it when she returned to her normal self. Having a friend with Multiple Personality, I know that sometimes they don't recall things they did in their other personality. So maybe Emilie wrote a story as Emilie and didn't remember as Emilie, therefore thought she was finding notes? Then she finally came to her senses at the end and realized there was no notes that weren't in her handwriting, as the nurse pointed out.

I was just sad it all was over, and kinda mad at it being a kind of ''cliffhanger'' xD

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I quite agree with you. I believe the point of the book is to be taken as one big allegory. So maybe all of the things in the book never really physically happened... but then again who is to say that they didn't happen at all? Looking at the book philosophically and with an open mind really helps you see in-between the lines. It doesn't matter if any of it "really" happened because it is all true, yes?

On another note, perhaps this is an unpopular opinion but I felt a sense of relief when the girls jumped. I never felt so much emotion than I did when the Captain said they were going on an entirely different journey... it was comforting...

Also at the very end when Emilie peels back the wallpaper, I think this is supposed to be a representation of the moment that she realizes she is the Asylum, she cannot get out, but she must embrace it. Also I think that finding the wallpaper is when she knows that Emil-y was real because here is the Asylum....

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Really? In mine, it's bright red. You know, bloody. What printing is your book? Mine is from the first, perhaps she changed it afterwards?

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I got mine for xmas, and mine is faded, so yeah x)

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