Posted on 07/27/2012 9:26:47 AM PDT by chatter4
Thank you, it makes sense to me now.
There are two problems with the argument that there is an entire page to the left and that these handwritten markings must relate to that other page:
First, there is no crease along the supposed dividing line between the two pages.
To the contrary, we can see a bend or curl in the page that clearly indicates that whatever the original image was, it was scanned or photocopied from a book, as opposed to the page being removed from the book and then scanned or photocopied.
If you take a paperback or other tightly-bound book and photocopy pages from it, you will see this same "curling effect" of the page on the side of the inner margin.
So there is no large space to the left of what we see - there is maybe a half-inch or inch that would have disappeared into the binding.
The second reason that these do not relate to another supposed page to the left is that the printed boxes on that left margin are logically related to the information that appears to the right.
For example, the first box on the left corresponds to details about the infant on the right, the second box on the left corresponds to the various boxes 6a, 6b, etc. on the right and the third box on the left corresponds to details of the various boxes 7a, 7b, 7c, etc.
So because we see a curl in the page that undoubtedly went into the binding, and because the boxes on the left are logically related to the boxes on the right, that would appear to rule out the idea that the left side continues into an entire page that we cannot see.
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