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A first version, entitled Beyond Thought: Monologue with Life, was already complete by July 12, 1971, when Clarice met Alexandrino Severino, a Portuguese professor at Vanderbilt University. She gave him a copy of the manuscript for translation into English, along with specific procedural instructions. He was not to budge so much as a single comma.  \nShe was still “drying out the book,” she told Severino, before handing it over to her publisher. But a year later, in June 1972, the book had not appeared, and Severino wrote to ask if she still wanted him to proceed.  \nWhen she answered, the manuscript had another name.“As for the book—I interrupted it—because I thought it wasn’t achieving what I wanted to achieve,” she wrote. “I can’t publish it as it is. Either I am not going to publish it or I am going to work on it. Maybe in a few months I will work on the Loud Object.”  \nThe process of “drying out,” Severino noticed when he finally saw the subsequent version, consisted mainly in removing its many explicit biographical references. But Loud Object, weighing in at 185 pages, was even longer than Beyond Thought (151) . The manuscript seems to capture an everyday voice utterly unrefined by literary or fictional artifice. Clarice reminisces about her pets and goes into great detail about her favorite flowers, one of which sends her back to her origins in Eastern Europe, a reference surprising because so rare: “The sunflower is the great child of  \nthe sun. So much that it is born with the instinct to turn its enormous corolla toward its creator. It doesn’t matter if it’s a father or mother. I don’t know. Is the sunflower a masculine or feminine flower? I think masculine. But one thing is for sure: the sunflower is Ukrainian.”  \nIf at times this manuscript is as brilliant and inspired as the mature work of a great artist, at other times it is as dull and uninspired as a housewife’s neighborly chitchat. Clarice often claimed that she was a simple housewife, and in this formless, plotless conversation, an unfiltered “brainstorm”—she uses the English word—in which she types anything and everything that pops into her mind, that is often exactly how she sounds.  \nShe complains, for example, about money, another constant topic: “I’m back. The day is still very nice. But things are very expensive—I say this because of the price the man asked to fix [the record player] . I have to work hard to get the things I want or need.” She defends herself against her mythology: “I mean to say that my house is not metaphysical. They can hardly forgive bad food. All I do is open and close my purse to hand out money to buy things. . . . Besides eating we talk a lot about what is going onin Brazil and in the world. We talk about what clothes are appropriate to different occasions.” And: “I sleep too and how! My readers think I am always an insomniac. But that’s not true. I sleep too.”  \nLoud Object’s direct and confessional tone, the sense it offers of Clarice’s unfiltered conversational voice—she frequently pauses to answer the phone, light a cigarette, or pour herself a drink of water—can distract the reader from the reality that it, too, is a fiction. In Beyond Thought she bluntly addresses the reader: “Here’s what’s happening. I had been writing this book for years, spread out in newspaper columns, without noticing, ignorant of myself as I am, that I was writing my book. That is the explanation for readers who recognize this: because they have already read it in the paper. I like the truth.”  \nShe apparently did not like the truth enough to refrain from retouching it in the second draft. 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