After some searching I found a reference to "...the black water of death polished like onyx..." (Nooteboom 107). The Amazon, in Nooteboom, bears an undeniable likeness to the river that is Finnegans wake. Beginning, or ending, or middling, from the first page, and ending, beginning or middling in the same place. This river winds and wends and winds again. Just as night "Falls again" (Nooteboom 106). The night falls again so a character can begin or end or middle thier story, but they are always on the river, in the beginning and the end and the middle. As they relive thier story they relive thier twenty, or thirteen, minutes of life. "Thirteen minutes--of course Captain Dekobra still remembered precisely--had elapsed between the moment that the first of his four engines had failed and the moment he touched the surface of the sea." Earlier on that page, page 108, Dekobra recalls "...he had been able to store his entire life in that instant..." On the damazon, recalling, reliving his story, Dekobra lives his lifetime, begins, ends and middles his story. Just as Peter Harris mentions on page 98 "...you depart from Belem, you arive in Belem. There's something cyclical about it, something of eternal recurrence."
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