Pages 563-566

This page-by-page annotation is organized by sections, as delineated by the seven squares (sprockets) which separate each section. The page numbers for this page-by-page annotation are for the original Viking edition (760 pages). Editions by other publishers vary in pagination — the newer Penguin editions are 776 pages; the Bantam edition is 886 pages.

Contributors: Please use a 760-page edition (either the original Viking edition with the orange cover or the Penguin USA edition with the blue cover and rocket diagram — there are plenty on Ebay for around $10) or search the Google edition for the correct page number. Readers: To calculate the Bantam edition use this formula: Bantam page # x 1.165. Before p.50 it's about a page earlier; as you get later in the book, add a page.

Finally, profound thanks to Prof. Don Larsson for providing the foundation for this page-by-page annotation.

Page 564

564.37-38 si mi quieres escribir you already know where I’ll be staying
The first words are from a song of the Spanish Civil War, sung by a Loyalist fighter:

If you want to write to me

You know where you can always find me. (Repeat)

On the broad front of Gandesa

The front line of every battle. (Repeat)

See the note at 605.37-38.