Two questions: What's with the note, and what were those white things?


1) One morning after Jost's arrival, Fontaine sneaks over to a coat hanging by the side of the room and plants a note in the pocket. When questioned about it by Le Pasteur and the others he says, "I have to do this to escape." What was the note?

2) After Terry comes and sticks writing materials in Fontaine's bindle and Fontaine pulls it up and opens it, there are these rectangular white things among the paper and other stuff. I think it was food because we then see Fontaine macking on something while he's writing his letters. Then again when Terry goes up to cell 107 to say goodbye to Fontaine and give him the latest news he sticks some of the same stuff under the door. What were those things?

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1. The subtitles on my version (I don't speak French) say they were his last wishes in case he didn't manage to escape. Which was why they were so tense when the guard started checking the jacket pockets as the note would have given him away.

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2) Looked like sugar cubes (prisms) to me.

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But I haven't seen sugar cubes in the grocery for 30 years.

Really? They are still of very common use in France. And I'm going to put some in my cup of coffee rght now.

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Common in the US also. When I travel I often carry them with me because sometimes the hotel room has more fake sweetener than actual sugar. Look for a yellow Domino's box in the States. The rectangular ones aren't as common, but a crepe place near us has them at their coffee station.

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