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Note for The Hour of the Star not used. The handwriting is by Clarice.

Note for The Hour of the Star not used. The handwriting is by Clarice.

“And now — now all I can do is light a cigarette and go home. My God, I only remembered that we die. But – but me too?! Don’t forget that for now it is strawberries.”

Note used in the 495th and 496th paragraphs of The Hour of the Star. The handwriting is by Clarice.

“With her dead, the bells were ringing but without their bronzes giving them sound. Now I understand this story. It is the imminence in those bells that almost-almost ring.”

Note used in the 488th paragraph of The Hour of the Star. The handwriting is by Clarice and by Olga Borelli (observation between parentheses, up high, on the left).

“But do not mourn the dead: they know what they are doing. I was in the land of the dead and after such black terror I resurged in pardon. I’m innocent! Don’t consume me! I am not saleable! Woe to me, all is lost and it’s as if the great guilt was mine. May they wash my hands and feet and then — then may they daub them with oils sacred from so much perfume. Ah such will for happiness. I’m now forcing myself to laugh in a great burst. But I don’t know why I’m not laughing. Death is an encounter with oneself. Lying there, she was a big as a dead horse. The best thing is still this: not to die, because dying is insufficient, it doesn’t complete me, I who need so much.”

Note used in the 484th paragraph of The Hour of the Star. The handwriting is by Olga Borelli.

“What was the truth of my Maca? As soon as you discover the truth it’s already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is? Reply: it’s not.”

Note used in the 483rd paragraph of The Hour of the Star. The handwriting is by Clarice and by Olga Borelli (observation between parentheses, up high, and note below, on the left).