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[...] one can assume that those that were not specifically identified thus were not meant to be part of the project. I disagree. There was no other project associated with Soares; as long as that heteronymic identification is secure, any such fragment is relevant to this project. I'll cede that it may have been background material, but whether Pessoa "meant to" integrate them or not, fitting them in to a design that Pessoa only outlined is surely to be preferred to segregating them into an appendix where all context is lost. Zenith's justification, "fits the tone and the mood", is appropriate to his ordering. It all becomes more problematic for fragments that are ambiguous, assigned to Soares instead of to one of the other known heteronyms, but Zenith wasn't just working off on his own in this. (Yes, I know you're not knocking Zenith, except in you're being unable to clearly differentiate amongst the above cases. As far as that goes, Margaret Jull Costa works from the selection of an Italian translator and includes the alternate ordering.)