whereby we discuss the book’s introduction

friesel writ:

• 7/1 - my copy is missing the cover - also other pages (starts with Foreword)

(tinnitus starts when I start Truant’s Introduction)

• Foreword’s typeface?
  • this is the editor writing
• @todo Ch.21? Apx II & III? Index?
  • “not included”
    • (all Truant)
• c. ‘96 Truant -> Lude -> “old man” (Zampanó)
  • @todo nom de guerre
• [ crackhouse is 1st ]

xv “…until I stood at the end of the hall facing the last door on the left…”

xviii-xix “…this wasn’t about smell, this was about space…”

fogus writ:

• xi fate, nightmares, Lude, nuthouse, the “old guy” (Zampanó)
• xii &
• xv what happened to the cats?
• xvii i like the idea that a segment was written on the back of a postage stamp
• xviii rolling stones reference (man on the radio… useless information)
• xx L@@k 1973 skylab mission

Johnny Truant appears to be covered in blood and in possession of guns. The date, October 31, 1998 lies just before the culmination of his life. The Navidson Record’s existence (and that of Navy) is put into doubt from the start.

Beautiful “found document” fiction.

fogus and friesel

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intro....................xi years...................... muss es sein..............? I.......................... II......................... III........................ IV......................... V.......................... VI......................... VII........................

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