S - Chapter 2

In this chapter we are told subtly yet repeatedly that Straka artefacts are going missing from museums. So this means someone else is either trying to hide evidence or find it before anyone else.

Eric cites fear as the reason he stood Jen up in the cafe. Jen is taking a page out of Eric's aloofness book, "remind me to tell you about the day I disappeared." I hope the two manage to meet in real life and am interested to see how that changes the way the two interact on the page.

Jen thinks FXC is warning VMS about Looper, the agent, Eric thinks VMS was Looper, and Jen has an amazing quote, "How nice that you all got to be wrong together." Jen finds evidence that FXC took a ship from NYC to Sao Paulo in 1959 and never came back. She'd be over 100 years old but could still be alive.

I'm still unsure of Eric's relationship with Ilsa, were they purely academic rivals competing for Moody's attention? We know she gave Eric's Summersby tape to Moody and it was insinuated that Ilsa and Moody's relationship was not strictly academic.

In Ship of Theseus, I definitely feel for S, he is lonely, desperate and confused and yet still worries about a young man on the ship who is injured. His escape plan is foiled only for a terrifying storm sequence to follow.  S. hears a voice telling him to swim and abandons the wrecked ship for land, where I hope he learns some answers.

We see Jen and Eric writing in black ink for the first time since the second page, they reference chapter 10, the chapter wrote (supposedly) by FXC. I'm mad at them for teasing like this, as for us the reader, chapter 10 still seems so far away.

Jen says she is going to NY in 2 months, this gives them a deadline. Assuming she actually goes, does this confirm that all the annotations made by Jen and Eric only span a few months?

The chapters are taking so much longer to read than I initially anticipated, there is just so much writing on one page! I am thoroughly enjoying this book, even though I know there will be so many more questions before we start getting any answers.


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Rebecca x