Library Books
Many people have speculated that Eric and Dylan died in front of the bookshelf where Shakespeare's Macbeth was housed, but careful investigation from a dedicated researcher, Sarin Gas Attack, has proven this to be false. This is likely a rumor that was conflated with the fact that Cassie Bernall was studying Macbeth in the library before she was killed.
Here you will find SGA's detailed analysis on this subject.
In front of what book section were Eric and Dylan's bodies discovered?
Books with bullet holes and fragments
To start, I used the sketch notes to find all books listed by name that had bullet holes or
fragments (parentheses is the full title):
● JCSO #1082 - Deep Song (almost certainly Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12674)
● JCSO #1088 - W.R. Leigh (W.R. Leigh Illustrated Biography)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12675)
● JCSO #1089 - Vivien (most likely (Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12727)
● JCSO #1108 - Volumes 3 and 4 of A History of English-Speaking Peoples
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12734)
● JCSO #1133 - Kramer vs. Kramer
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12734)
● JCSO #1160 - Distant Neighbors (Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12741)
● JCSO #1161 - Van Gogh's Diary (Van Gogh’s ‘Diary’: The Artist’s Life in His Own Words and Art)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12675)
● JCSO #1162 - Grace (Possibly Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12741)
● JCSO #1163 - Woody Gunthrie (Multiple possible; unsure which Woody Gunthrie biography)
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12741)
● JCSO #1083 - Emma Lady Hamilton
(Library Teams 1 & 2: Sketch Notes, p.12726)
The books on the shelf behind Eric & Dylan's bodies
The seven books on the 5W side are all biographies (Gogh, Graham, Grace, Guthrie, Hamilton, Leigh, Leigh), which are organized by the subject's last name. The two on the 6E side (Churchill, Rider) are regarding a specific country.
According to the sketch notes for #1108 (p.12734), the call number for A History of English-Speaking Peoples is 942. There are at least two posters in the library showing the Dewey decimal system, and 942 is in the "History of England and Wales." This shows that, indeed, the system was set up in the DDS.
In using this sub-classification, Distant Neighbors—which is about Mexico—should have the number 972, and all of the biographies should have the number 920. This indicates an ascending pattern going south on row 5W and north on row 6E.
Because #1133 was fiction (Corman), and because the Dewey Decimal system ends at 999, this indicates that the fictional books were outside of the Dewey Decimal classification (which is a common practice in libraries), and row 6aW—the row Eric and Dylan committed suicide next to—was also fiction; Shakespeare would generally not be included in the fiction, and would have the number 822, "English drama."
Books in the 7W row
To further narrow down the books near their bodies, using an old thread, and trying to decipher some books in the suicide picture, 4 more books can be identified in the 7W section:
● The Paragon (Knowles)
● A Century of Science Fiction (Knight)
● Traverse of the Gods (Langley)
● What I Really Think of You (Kerr)
Book row 7W contained fiction books with authors A-C
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These are also all fiction, organized by author’s last name (K–L). So, row 6aW contained fiction books, which extended to the entirety of row 7. Also, due to the author's name on #1133 (Corman), and the amount of shelves between #1108 and #1160, row 6bW was likely the last section of nonfiction, which subsequently means row 6aW would be the start of the fiction section. Because of this, the section Eric and Dylan killed themselves next to must have been fiction books with the author names of A–C. |