The margins of this work are chock full of handwritten annotations, in half a dozen different colored inks and two recognizable hands: one a man's (we discover he is called Eric), all caps the other a woman's (Jen), a more elegantly lower-case script. The text of the novel-supposedly the nineteenth and last production of its reclusive European writer, translated into English by a certain "F. Straka" called Ship of Theseus (1949), complete with a peel-off sticker with a catalog number on the spine and a much-stamped "Return On or Before Latest Date Stamped Below" sheet on the inside back cover. represent a meticulously faked University Library copy of a novel by "V. My thought as I took this book from its slipcase was: "by Paxman's Beard, this must have cost a royal ransom to produce!" I mean, the book itself, the actual artefact.
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