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S. notices a list of locations and dates on each photograph. On each photo is a list of dates and places where presumably terrible events occurred.

Tangier, June 1905 – The beginning of the first Moroccan crisis.

B–––, October 1906 – Unknown city.

Los Angeles, December 1910 – LA Times was bombed on October 1st of that year.

Tripoli, September 1911 – Italo-Turkish War

Salonika, March 1912 – First Balkan War

Eric references the “barrel markings in Chapter 10” which are also dates and locations of terrible events.

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S. decides that these are the times and places where Vevoda’s agents have been. The person in each photo is “remarkable primarily in [his/her] failure to be remarkable, resisting all but the most general descriptions.” This seems to be the mark of Vevoda’s agents, those without description. They are but part of a whole, each without a unique identity.