![]() ![]() Alone in the office, he spent his time copying details from the official record cards onto new ones that eventually formed his personal collection. He abused his right by using the key in his possession that opened the communicating door between his house and the Central Registry after office hours. ![]() As a clerk who had been working at the Central Registry of Births, Marriages, and Deaths for twenty-five years, Senhor José spent his evenings working as a voluntary biographer, building profiles of famous people in his city. She committed suicide two days after he broke into the school where she studied as a child, and later taught mathematics. I almost had no recollection that Senhor José did not meet the unknown woman all the way through. ![]() My second reading of Saramago’s “All the Names” makes me realise how little I remember of the story. ![]()
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