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October 12 (Ría de la Raza)
-Bayardo San Román and Angela Vicario meet "during a charity bazaar at which she was in charge of singing out the raffle numbers." (pg. 31, paperback)
-He buys all the raffles to ensure that he gets the music box and to impress her.
-That night, Angela finds the music box gift-wrapped for her.
-Her twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, take the gift to return the Bayardo. -
October 13
-The twins, Pablo and Pedro Vicario, went to Bayardo San Román's hotel to return the music box to him, but they were captivated by his charm and returned drunk with him at dawn. -
October 11AM
-Bayardo introduces his family
-"They arrived in a Model T Ford with official plates, whose duck-quack horn aroused the streets at eleven o'clock in the morning." (36, paperback)
-His mother is a big mulatto woman
-His sisters are rather provocative and restless
-His father is the hero of the civil wars of the past century, a general of high regards. -
February, Monday
Faustino Santos saw the Vicario brothers at the meat market. (3, 51) -
6:00 pm
Clotilde Armenta’s husband, Don Rogelio de la Flor, opens their store as a bar at six in the evening. (3, 53) -
February, 3:30 am
- Clotilde Armenta opens her store to sell milk at dawn and provisions during the daytime.
- The policeman Leandro Pornoy was the first person in her store.
- The Vicario brothers were waiting there for her at 3:30 when she came to open the store.
(3, 53)
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February, 4:10 am
- The Vicario brothers came into the store at 4:10, and because only food was sold at that time Clotilde Armenta sold them a bottle of cane liquor.
- They sat and drank two bottles, and also told her their intentions. (3, 53)
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February, 3:20 am
- Faustino Santos (butcher friend) saw them come into the meat market at 3:20.
- It was unusually early for a Monday morning. He thinks the brothers are drunk, but they are sober.
- They say “We just came to sharpen our knives” (51). They sharpened their knives on the grindstone. (3, 51)
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February, after 3:00 am
Don Rogelio de La Flor went to bed after a long night at his bar, and he didnt close the shop.
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February, a little before 4:00 am
- Colonel Lázaro Aponte got up a little bit before four.
- He had just shaved when officer Leandro Pornoy told him about the Vicario brother’s plans. (3, 55)
- Santiago Nasar gets the idea, “at almost four o’clock, to go up the widower Xius’s hill and sing for the newlyweds.” (3, 76)
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February, after 4:00 am
Clotilde Armenta saw lights go on in Plácida Linero’s house, and when the beggar woman came by that morning she asked her to tell Victoria Guzmán what was happening.
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February, 5:00 am
“It was almost five o’clock and it was beginning to rain” Colonel Lárazo Aponte told me ”
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February, before 6:00 am
“The Vicario brothers had told their plans to more than a dozen people who had gone to buy milk, and these had spread the news everywhere before six o’clock”
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6:00 pm, night before the trial
Pg. 44
-The newlyweds appear and they make their way through the tumult
-Bayardo San Roman shot rockets, drank liquor, and got out of the car with Angela Vicario
-Did the cumbiamba dance with the rest of the guests -
11:00pm, night before the trial
Pg 46
-Pura Vicario beats Angela till dawn out of rage after finding out about her lost virginity
-Held Angela by the hair with one hand and beat with the other (46).’” -
5:30pm
“At five-thirty she [Victoria] followed his orders to wake him[Santiago Nasar], but she didn’t send Divina Flor and went up to the bedroom herself with the suit of pure linen, because she never missed a chance to keep her daughter away from the claws of the seigneur” (3,68) -
February, a little before 4:00 am
"He’d been carousing with Santiago Nasar and me until a little before four; he hadn’t gone to sleep at his parents’, but stayed chatting at his grandparents’ house." (18) -
5:00
“They had been told it by a woman who had passed by after five o’clock to bed a bit of milk, and who in addition had revealed the motives and the place where they were waiting.” (12-13) -
6:00
“It had struck six and the street lights were still on. In the branches of the almond trees and on some balconies the colored wedding decorations were still hanging and one might have thought they’d just been hung in honor of the bishop.” (14) -
6:00
“It had struck six and the street lights were still on. In the branches of the almond trees and on some balconies the colored wedding decorations were still hanging and one might have thought they’d just been hung in honor of the bishop.” (14) -
6:05
“When Nasar left his house, several people were running toward the docks, hastened along by the bellowing of the boat” (14) -
6:05
“They had barely awakened with the first bellow of the boat, but instinct awoke them completely when Santiago Nasar came out of his house” (Vicario twins) (15) -
6:20
This is when “Santiago Nasar was dreaming aloud.” He talks about his wedding and the costs for “the wildest party the town had ever seen.” This is also when Margot decides to invite Santiago over to breakfast at the narrator’s house. Apparently she did so often, and since the narrator’s mother was making manioc fritters, naturally “Santiago Nasar accepted [the invitation] with enthusiasm.” (18) -
End of the civil war
“By the time Ibrahim Nasar arrived with the last Arabs at the end of the civil wars, seagoing ships no longer came there because of shifts in the river, and the warehouse was in disuse.” (17) -
1 February 1954, 7:00 a.m.
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14:00pm
- “At two in the afternoon, when the heaviness of the heat should have melted them, Pedro Vicario couldn’t stay there on lying on bed, but the same weariness prevented him from standing.” (80)
- “Pablo Vicario, for his part, ate a little bit of everything they brought him, and fifteen minutes later unloosed a pestilential diarrhea.” (80)
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February 1, 1954 4:20
- Santiago Nasar goes into the house to take a nap for an hour (3, 73)
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February 1, 1954 4:20
- Santiago Nasar goes into the house to take a nap for an hour (3, 73)
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10 pm, night before the trial
Pg 45
-Angela Vicario sends for a suitcase filled with her everyday clothes
-Pura Vicario had fallen into a very deep sleep
-There were then three knocks at Pura’s door and Bayardo San Roman was standing there "with Angela Vicario in the shadows (45)."
-She was naked and he tossed her at Pura angrily, having found out that she is not a virgin
-Angela blames this on Santiago -
Around midnight
Pg 45
-"The public spree broke up into fragments at around midnight, and all that remained was Clotilde Armenta’s establishment on one side of the square (45)."
-The narrator, Luis Enrique, and Cristo Bedoya go to Maria Alejandra Cervantes’s house of mercies to drink and sing
