The notes numbered more than twenty entries, spanning about forty-horned pages. Dated from 1990 to 1995, they were discontinuous and lacked coherence.
Clearly, these were transcribed excerpts. Given the two men's limited understanding of Chen Wenjin, if these were work logs, even minor details would at least have been glossed over rather than skipped entirely.
Finishing the logs took little more than ten minutes, yet their contents left both men dumbfounded for a long time.
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