Right

... spring of 1940, and so he's not using a beautiful new notepad.

He has his sister there sometimes typing things up for him, and she typed one of the copies of the theses.

But the original copy, he keeps with him.

He doesn't mail it away, and it's that copy that ultimately, after he's fled Paris, he spends time in Lourdes, and then he makes his way to Marseille, and it's in MarseilleThat he meets up with Hannah Arendt in, in Marseille, 'cause Marseille, you know, very in fry, and this-- it becomes this city of exiles where lots of German Jewish and European Jewish artists, intellectuals are fleeing to this transit point from which they might get to Spain, get to North Africa, and from Spain get to Portugal and make their way across the Atlantic.

So it's when they meet in Marseille for what, you know, he can't know, but he likely fears is going to be the last time they see one another.

It's at that moment that he presses this bundle of repurposed newspaper mailers on the backs of which he has written the first draft of the theses.

Yeah.