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Quote #10
In that letter he talked about his investigations and the new book he was writing, a book that he was sending under another cover. Told her to watch out for a second package. This contains everything I've written on this journey. Everything I think you will need. You'll understand when you read my conclusions. (It's the cure to what ails us, he scribbled in the margins. The Cosmos DNA.)
Only problem was, the f***ing thing never arrived! Either got lost in the mail or he was slain before he put it in the mail, or whoever he trusted to deliver it forgot. (3.final letter.2-3.final letter.3)
Of course, the secret of the universe—the Cosmos DNA, as Oscar puts it—never arrives. Remember how that evil Dominican dictator Balaguer left a few pages in his memoir blank? Those were the pages that would have explained the journalist Orlando Martínez's death. Oh, and remember how the man that keeps haunting Oscar and Beli and others has no face? Maybe, whether you're writing a novel, a historical textbook, or a cross between the two, you always leave the most important stuff unsaid. No one and no thing has all of the answers in this life. Not fact, not fiction, not any person or piece of art.