I can verify that Negative 11 is in the Hebrew translation of the book.
It's on page 184, printed on a black page.
I can scan it, but it's in Hebrew so I doubt it will be really helpful :)
The translation by Oren pretty much sums it up though.

thanks ehudros!

that negative makes me wonder which clio he was talking to, because we can't tell if it's a dream or a memory.

if it was the clio in his dreams, then he's probably the second eric sanderson, whose memories we do know have been eaten by the ludovician.

if it was the real clio, and he said this while she was still alive... then that is a different matter entirely. were the first eric's memories already being eaten by the ludovician before clio's death? if so, then uh-oh. that means he didn't sic the ludovician on himself because of her death. so why? could this possibly be more "memento"-like than we think?

ALSO ALSO:

with regards to negative 8:
http://forums.steven-hall.org/yaf_postst97_Negative-8--Letter-175.aspx

at the very end of the letter, according to the translation, eric1 dreams of "five red wardrobes". but i looked up the actual word for "wardrobe" in the original portuguese text ('armario') and as i suspected, it can also be translated as "cabinet".

does this mean there are five red cabinets, and we've only seen one of them?

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addendum: remember the fragment we got from eva signet's blog decryption?
http://rawsharktexts.com/yaf_postst26p2_Eva-Signets-Blog-Decryption.aspx

"a thought about the CABINETS came"

so yes. multiple red cabinets.

On evas myspace page, with her friends photos, there is a photo of an electrical junction box with a poster on it that says lostenvelope.com if you go to that website there is an animation of a phone, the letter eric sanderson gets when he wakes up, and a photo of the yellow jeep. You press the button and Dr. Randle. Says a message which says to go to the Merck manuals (medical diagnosis site)and look up memory loss and your disorder. Then use your condition to look up her photos on Flickr. But when I went to flickr I can't find anything, I've tried typing in the disorder and subsequent variations as well as Dr.Randle nothing. Any thoughts?

Right this is weird both the websites I posted earlier, the information has changed! first the merck manual link has different info and now the red cabinet addresses are different, yesterday they were US addresses now they are UK

hey tinman,

i googled all the addresses in the pdf file from theredcabinet.com/usa/ (http://www.theredcabinet.com/usa/pdf/SharkFlickBookStevenHall.pdf) and they're names and addresses of u.s. bookstores!

is this another book tour?

some of the names are neither related to TRST or the bookstore name, though.
i took the liberty of google-stalking them all, and came up with some interesting results.

anyone care to heckle the following poor souls?

- ellen jarrett in cambridge
she seems to be the contact for porter square books: ellen@portersquarebooks.com

- alison k in austin
possibly an associate professor at ut-austin: akfrazier@mail.utexas.edu

- aislin delaney in pittsburgh
the only thing that comes up is for "aisling delaney", someone who founded some real estate company in dublin. http://www.delaneyestates.ie/
anyone else got any leads?

...oh, wait, was this from the 2007 game? if so, it's been up for a long time.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=300923
buuuuuut it's in the usa? why doesn't the site have any dates?;_;

anyway, i'm going to look things up in amazon (the "electronic rainforest") just to make sure.

darn, i knew it! thanks benedict!

Hello everyone

I'm brand new here. I just finished the novel last night. I felt drained after reading it. One of the marks of a great novel that - I felt the same after reading House Of Leaves.

Anyway let me cut to the chase. Last night I found this forum and my jaw dropped when I heard about the existence of these un-chapters. I instantly thought two things - "genius!" and "irritating b*st*rd!" ;-)

Can anyone help me out with what has been found thus far? Via a PM maybe. I'm a book reader rather than a crytologist freak, so really I just want to read the un-chapters, and not have to work so hard at solving clues to do so. Is that horribly wrong of me? Or just lazy? Anyway, big thanks to anyone who can help.

Of course if I start getting a taste for how these things work, I may be able to start helping out in a more active way.

Thanks. Oh, and what a great book!

Jules

Thanks MiaVRO, most helpful and I'm most grateful.

Except that I can't seem to access any version of The Aquarium Fragment.

Does anyone have this as an attachment they could send me?

Email address is julesalexgray (at) yahoo.com

Cheers,

Jules

Thank you Steven. Keep us all posted (I'm sure you will).

Jules