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Kogito taught at the Free University twice a week, and on the other weekdays he went there to eat lunch with his colleagues. But he spent the majority of his time in Berlin by himself, and one of the things he thought about in his solitude was how many times his conversations with Goro had turned, over the years, to the subject of suicide. That topic cropped up frequently in the Tagame talks, as well. Of course, ever since Goro jumped to his death Kogito hadn’t had the slightest desire to talk about suicide—indeed, avoiding that subject was one of the cardinal Rules of Tagame. On the other hand, Goro himself had freely discussed that very topic on the tapes.