p. 225

In this page, S is questioning Osfour about himself wondering if he can find out any more information about himself.”No one’s giving me any answers, And yet everyone seems to know who I am.” Osfour and S have a dialog where S is told that he is known as the man who escaped from Vevoda and is being hunted. S, still unsatisfied, questions his real identity. Osfour indicates that S’s identity is only based on his present but his past, however, is unknown. Osfour suggests that S try to solve this problem by himself and not bug Osfour about it after S insists that he must know. FXC hints in the footnote that this could be a way of Straka presenting his idea to the readers of the story of S in Ship of Theseus that “artistic and personal lives of the writers, must be kept perfectly separate”, as said by the japanese writer Fukuzawa Yukichi.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Jen and Eric normally only talk about Ekstrom diaries and if there are anything else that could be about S. Eric warns Jen that they have to be careful about everything they tell other people, including Moddly and Ilsa. It might be because Eric didn’t want people to steal his ideas.

JEN-WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT EVERYTHING WE TELL ANYONE– NOT JUST MOODY,  NOT JUST ILSA.