Although the events in ny greatly overshadow the loss of hermetic, many of us here still wonder why, how, what could be going through his mind... Those who talked to him privately had a good idea. For the rest of you I thought i would post a link to a small note he left on masukomi.org a while ago. And, although it doesn't explain it all I think it's a good chunk of it.

http://www.masukomi.org/index.pl?id=2343