Dear Sofia,
Some time ago, I thought to write a story about Quigley, I made some notes, but later on dropped the idea. Than I thought: a strange fate, it seems to be impossible to find out what happened to him, as I tried to figure it out, I failed.
One of the oldest tricks in the business is to omitt something, to leave it blank. The "Arthur Gordon Pym" is a wonderful book; Jules Verne thought he had to write a sequel, a rather funny idea. Somebody during the Renaissance figured out to leave the persons on a painting out of focus, in a sfumato; I guess it was Leonardo. I don't like it very much, I prefer the clear lines of Lippi, Botticelli or de Chirico, but undoubtly, it has some effect. Or remember Kafka's "Castle": I worked out the theory that Kafka intentionally invented a world with an uncertain ontology, where the question wether the castle is allmighty or powerless, good or evil or wether K. loves Frieda or just uses her for his plans cannot be settled (to find out that other people had the same theory before me). So I would disagree with Max Brod that the omitted pages of Kafka are of the same quality than the non-omitted: mostly, the omitted pages are just such pages that were too clear, that allowed to settle one of those questions (for example, one of those omitted pages lead most of those interpreting the book to the opinion that K. certainly was just using Frieda; by the way, not everything is uncertain in the story: for example, it is quite clear that K. isn't a land surveyor, although most people claim it to be certain that he is one).

Yours,
John