He realized then that his notebook—his catalog of anomalies, the ledger of retrieved things—was part of what they wanted back. It had become a thing with a life of its own: pages with corners rubbed flat, annotations that seemed to lace together like the seams of a quilt. It had tracked debts and exchanges and small catastrophes and small mercies.
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He realized then that his notebook—his catalog of anomalies, the ledger of retrieved things—was part of what they wanted back. It had become a thing with a life of its own: pages with corners rubbed flat, annotations that seemed to lace together like the seams of a quilt. It had tracked debts and exchanges and small catastrophes and small mercies.