Importance of textuality in the novel.

• Hundreds of love letters that Bayardo keeps from Angela--these create expectation of receiving correspondence; also ironic because he doesn't read them
• Why does he keep the letters but not read them?
• Letters for Angela are a way to express her frustration with her life and especially with her mother
• Flora's letters from Santiago--these are thrown back at him.
• Narrator's mother writes to him and her letters also foretell, in a way, what is going to happen to the town.
• Magistrate writes the brief--500 pages, 300 of which are rescued and some of which seem to be written in blood
• Magistrate is unsettled by the allowance made to real life that is denied in literature
• Knives are sheathed in newspaper--this also suggests the relationship between murder and news
• Autopsy--emphasizes the supernatural (stigma of Christ--his innocence)
• Narrator's association with encyclopedias and medical knowledge
• The warning slipped underneath the front door of Placida Linero's home