In the midst of all the things he doesn’t know, S. thinks of the name Sola and who it could belong to. Thinking back to all the people he can remember from his short memory, S. thinks of “the innkeeper” and “the bartender”. Finally, his thoughts land on “the refined young woman with the enormous book.”

Jen claims that if you “read Sola as a stand-in for FXC, it becomes a much different book.” In this, the book becomes a means through which Straka is trying to communicate with FXC and she responds in the footnotes.

Much like the splitting of one’s self on page 47, Jen and Eric discuss the change people undergo as they grow. Jen asserts that we “separate ourselves from who we were to become who we want to be” but Eric looks at growth as more of a thing that happens in “shifts.” The reason they talk about this is S. realizes he looks at the unknown life he had before he woke up and the life he has now as being entirely separate.