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Transcripts of the boat writings, discussed by Fick as a means of presenting and reviewing the words
Fick argued that photographs, transcripts, and testimony could communicate the boat writings without removing panels from the boat. He maintained that detached panels would separate the words from the circumstances needed to evaluate the defendant's state of mind.
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Fick proposed transcripts as a way to present and revisit the words while arguing that the intact boat should remain available to preserve the physical context of the writings.