p. 77

On this page Eric notes in pencil:

writing as key to identity. echoed later.

Although S. still doesn’t know what goes in the lower decks, the theme of writing to express oneself is already evident. S. feels like he must write everything he “knows and suspects” to “then, maybe then, start piecing together who [he] is.”

Although there is no particular relationship with the Feuerbach in the book and Ludwig Feuerbach, here is a link to the Wikipedia page of the german philosopher and anthropologist.

Anyhow, the main focus of Jen and Eric’s notes is the candidacy of the German anarchist and polemicist Reinhold Feuerbach. Eric thinks it possible for Feuerbach to be Straka and that chapter 3 “shows he was involved in Haymarket Square bombing” but Jen refuses to entertain this argument due to Feuerbach’s homosexuality.  She does not believe that FXC would have fallen for Straka like she did if Straka was not in love with her.