![]() ![]() ![]() While doing research for my presentation, however, I learned that the Whalestoe Letters weren’t originally included in first editions of the book. In Pelafina’s previous letter (September 14, 1985), she mentions receiving news of this shipwreck and offers her condolences, which links the letters and the checkmark together. Footnote 119, which fell on page 103 and extended until 106, described Johnny’s experience on the fishing boat and losing the Haitian man in the shipwreck. ![]() Of course, after I started reading and approached the footnote which directed the reader to the Whalestoe Letters, and then read the Septemletter which instructs Johnny to “place in your next letter a check mark in the lower right hand corner,” everything fell into place. I was, of course, intrigued by this seemingly random mark on a page that described mundane details about the beginning of the crew’s exploration of the hallway. While flipping through the book before starting to read, I came across the checkmark on page 97. ![]()
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