23-06-26 Chapter 100 Mr. Okamoto, in his letter to me, recalled the interrogation as having been difficult and memorable. He remembered Piscine Molitor Patel as being very thin, very tough, very bright. His report, in its essential part, ran as follows: Sole...

23-06-26 Chapter 99 Mr. Okamoto: Mr. Patel, we dont believe your story. Sorry - these cookies are good but they tend to crumble. Im amazed. Why not? It doesnt hold up. What do you mean? Bananas dont float. Im sorry? You said the orang-utan came floating on a...

23-06-26 Chapter 98 Mr. Okamoto: Very interesting. Mr. Chiba: What a story. [translation]He thinks were fools.[/translation] Mr. Patel, well take a little break and then well come back, yes? Thats fine. Id like another cookie. Yes, of course. Mr. Chiba: [tra...

23-06-26 Chapter 97 The story. 第九十七章 故事。...

23-06-26 Chapter 95 Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired, told me that he and his junior colleague at the time, Mr. Atsuro Chiba, were in Long Beach, California - the American western seaboards m...

23-06-26 Chapter 94 When we reached land, Mexico to be exact, I was so weak I barely had the strength to be happy about it. We had great difficulty landing. The lifeboat nearly capsized in the surf. I streamed the sea anchors - what was left of them - full o...

23-06-26 Chapter 93 I grew weary of my situation, as pointless as the weather. But life would not leave me. The rest of this story is nothing but grief, ache and endurance. High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I...

23-06-26 Chapter 92 I made an exceptional botanical discovery. But there will be many who disbelieve the following episode. Still, I give it to you now because its part of the story and it happened to me. I was on my side. It was an hour or two past noon on...