Wallet Island, John's name for a White River island, appears on Google Maps (2020)
story · status: followed over 2 videos (2020) · last event: update (2020-07-21)
Wallet Island, John's name for an island in the White River, appeared on Google Maps; in 2020 John said a place that only sometimes exists becoming real on a map would be a lovely coda to Paper Towns.
About: Wallet Island, Google Maps
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) | told | John named it Wallet Island because he once found a wallet there; it is not its official name, and he doesn't know if it has one. | a cool place 00:01:21 |
| 2020-07-21 | update | Wallet Island being on Google Maps feels lovely: it would be a wonderful coda to Paper Towns if a place that only exists sometimes became real by being named on a map. | Somebody Once Asked . . . 00:02:52 |
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What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: Wallet Island, John's favorite place, is both very loud and very quiet, very private, with nobody else there, and also very public. — 00:01:21
- 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: The island feels natural but isn't: most of its plants are invasive, and it is deeply shaped by the phenomenally dirty floodwater rolling over it. — 00:01:21
- 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: The island has many trees, mostly sycamores and some oaks, and floods every few weeks, becoming a completely new island with new driftwood and trash. — 00:01:50
- 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: Each visit John feels he is discovering a new place; he can sit there for hours and write on his computer, but critically can't get online. — 00:01:50
- 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John calls Wallet Island a place of contradictions but also of beauty. — 00:01:50