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.
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.
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