Again themes from the novel itself are continued in the Author's Note, in this case narrative complexity. We are shortly to hear quotes from this book, from both the seaman and his criminal interlocutor, but by the time we reach them we are likely to forget that we are getting them "second-hand" and probably altered. Compare the narrator of Nostromo, who briefly admits that he is relating the story from hearsay , and Decoud's letter in Chapter 2-7, with its obscuring depths of hand-me-down information (see ). Nostromo's unreliable narration conveys its theme that the accurate receiving of facts is impossible due to the distorting lens of human interpretation.