Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26647040-20190331200109/@comment-2605:3E80:800:0:0:0:0:233B-20190401015155

Ignore above comment. it's completely wrong and cannot be more wrong.

To give you your answer :

There is no confirmation in the novel about if Eugeo or Quinella ever had actual sex. you can think of it as whatever. but it's most probably just Quinella seducing Eugeo and not really having any relationship.

Why Quinella died is because she was almost dead. she had very small life left. all her body was broken and she could not even heal herself. so she simply was trying to leave.

But Chudelkin, The clown who was also almost dead and could not move. probably driven by his extreme burning passion to be with Quinella start burning himself in order to move and hug Quinella who was about to leave.

He wasn't in his right mind or thinking much anymore, He just wanted to go along with Quinella to the real world.

but Both he and Quinella did not had much life left and with him burning and hugging Quinella, both of them simply exhaust the remaining part of their life and died.