The SHIP OF THESEUS story is, itself, interesting and engaging–worth reading on its own. I’m happy to say that the reading plan worked. I found one that seemed reasonable and dug in. I bought a copy of the book for myself and took to the internet to see if anyone who’s read it could suggest a reading plan. Not only do you have the text of the novel, but you have the multi-colored marginal notes as well as beautifully reproduced inserts (postcards, newspaper clippings, handwritten letters, photocopies, etc.). It seemed to him like an interesting novel, but he was struggling over how to get into it. This book first came to my attention thanks to a friend at work. In the course of their dialog, it becomes apparent why Straka wanted to remain anonymous as the margin correspondents find themselves under extreme pressure to stop their inquiries… There’s also the possibility that the story contains coded messages the author was trying to communicate to a particular audience.

Thus begins a dialog as these two annotators try to unravel the mystery of the book’s author, V.

Someone has left penciled notes in the text, and someone else is responding to them.

In the margins of the book, another adventure unfolds. More than once his life is endangered, but is he willing to sacrifice everything for people he barely knows, especially when he doesn’t even know himself?īut that’s not the whole story. From there he runs into a group of protesters and joins their cause, all the while hoping he will find the woman from the tavern. Before he can find out more, he is rendered unconscious and wakes up on a ship. He meets a woman in a tavern whom he suspects knows something about him. SHIP OF THESEUS tells the story of “S,” a man with amnesia trying to discover his identity and becoming embroiled in a much larger plot along the way.

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