Hypatia
Roman Egypt
- Where in Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives III, Cesárea Tinajero's notebooks — "the Greek woman's name was Hypatia"; foreshadowed in II, Flora Castañeda's account of Cesárea's black notebooks
- Why read them
- Neoplatonist mathematician, astronomer and teacher (c. 350/370–415) lynched by a Christian mob in Alexandria for thinking in public; every book she wrote is lost, which is why a vanished poet in the Sonoran desert would fill notebooks with her — the patron saint of work that doesn't survive.