Okay, this is a continuation of the same written note. It's 904 am and it's January 22nd. I'm on the 101 heading south about to exit onto the 580 to go the Richmond center-fell bridge to go to work. It's a nice sunny day. Traffic was heavier than usual. I should be leaving Richmond right now. We're almost exiting the freeway. But yeah, it was very foggy this morning. So anyway, the note that I want to continue was something I wrote this morning as I woke up on how Rosa Alitia discovered Florence for the first time. Rosa Alitia Ra. That's interesting. Discovered Florence when she worked in the La Mesa High School Library. She was an assistant, a librarian assistant, you know, for her. Let's say, I don't know, junior year. I'm not really sure yet. And at the, she worked in the library after school for, you know, I'm guessing an hour after school or the last period of school. Right before the library closes about 20 to 30 minutes before it closes, you have to, you know, shelve all the books. Basically any book that's out yet to put back on the shelf, all the checked-in books you have to resheld. And you just, after all that's done, you have to in the shelving process you make sure that the shelf is tidy and all the spines are readable because that is how the patrons can actually see the call numbers. And on this particular day, as she was trying to align the call numbers, align the spines. One of the books peeked out. One of the books would not align. It was sticking out further than it should. And she knew that this book didn't have had the necessary dimensions to be on the shelf. So it wasn't an oversized book or anything like that. And so she thought perhaps that there was a misplaced book on the opposing shelf or the shelf behind that one. You know, as you know, the aisles are established by two rows of books facing outward that, you know, the book on the aisle, on the adjacent aisle, on the adjoining shelf adjacent aisle, might be pushing onto that book. I know you understand what I'm saying, but you describe it in words is not that easy because you can't say on the opposing shelf on the shelf behind. Well, maybe the shelf behind is the easiest way to say it. But anyway, she goes and what I need to consider are what are the subjects in these two books? What are two opposing subjects? Especially in consideration of Egypt. What is the most controversial topic of Egypt? Is it the origins of classical civilization? I mean one could argue that. Is it, is it, um, um, I have to think about it because that's really what I want this metaphor. It's not only a means by which Florence makes her letter known to the person who is looking. So yeah, let's put that aside and focus back on the actual events that follow. Um, so Rosa Alitia that that this book, there's, there's all that the books on the, the, the rear shelf are all in place and have dimensions that would not cause this to happen. So like they're, they're not pushing on that book. In fact, well, let's put it this way. To make this a little bit more comical, when Rosa Alitia pushes the book back in, that's when she goes to the other aisle and sees that another book has been pushed back out. And when she proceeds to push that book in, the same book gets pushed back out the, the, the first book. So what are these books and why do they oppose each other? And what is between them? Well, what is between them is a third book. And inside that third book, and that third book has to represent some kind of, um, middle path or, you know, some medium between these two subject matters. And if there were three books that could sum up this, perhaps the novel or this experience, what would those three be? And, and so that's what Rosa Alitia discovers. Now, what's interesting is, is that these books are at least one of these books is out of place. One or all, maybe, maybe all three are out of place and they've always been that way. Yeah, that's even better. They're out of place. And so because they're out of place, Rosa Alitia is confused. She's confused as to how they could have, for how long. So, so let's backtrack. What she discovers is this third book is there. She opens the third book to find a letter that Florence has never sent. It is either the last, and well, it has to have been during the time she was actively writing to a scene. And so, that is one thing. And it has to be, it could either be the last letter she was going to send and decided not to, and decided when she had decided she was never going to speak to in a scene again and decided that there was no point in actually sending a letter to someone you're never going to speak to again. That's probably the, you know, the best way of doing it. So, what is that story? What is the story behind that? The letter that was never sent. The unsent message. A message not received. And so, that is perhaps the next topic of notes here, but Rosa Alitia takes the middle book. Maybe she takes all three books. Not sure. But it is either the process of taking all three books that she discovers, the third book, or the third book. I am imagining some elaborate way right now. That's why it's silent. I'm imagining an elaborate way in which Florence might have arranged the books where the middle book is actually facing down. And the two side books are in normal position, but you could essentially, it creates almost like an envelope for the letter, an envelope, perfect word for the letter, and it's maybe even been sealed with wax, which caused the funny, which caused her initial confusion when she tried to align the books. And yeah, letter sealing wax. It could easily come off because of the nylon sleeves that the books were in. Yeah, maybe something like that. But when she finds the letter is when she realizes she discovers who Florence is for the first time. Come on, man. We can hear someone was creeping in my lane. And so anyway, that's a really creative way of describing it. So Rosa has the letter. She discovers the letter. Now, I had also suggested that perhaps the librarian at the time is in her, if she were in her, let's suggest that the librarian was, if you take 22 plus 18, that makes 40. She was 40. Well, her son was 17, so she was almost turning 40 when Florence was graduating. And her son was in Florence's class, and her son would become valedictorian by a narrow margin, a half a point, a grade point. And the only, and the reason why Florence was half a grade point behind was because she was because home economics was required. Thus forcing her to, well, obviously she had a choice at that point. She had a choice where she could have succeeded. And she could have worked hard at home economics and received an A or she could have protested. And she protested by not doing as good of a job. And thus her protest failed her. And forced her to become saluditorian. It was still something to be proud of, but she, but it hurt her so much that she had, it hurt her pride more than anything else and and affected her deeply. And it's kind of unusual how a woman like Florence would want to run off and to a country where women are treated so poorly. So that's another kind of irony in the novel. But anyway, I'm going to pause for a time here.