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The speaker hopes that the abyss has not already been called. The page also contains sketches around the three-line handwritten fragment.

The writer crossed out God, leaving the first line incomplete and the agent of the calling unspecified. The retained wording supports apprehension about the abyss; it does not support supplying the cancelled word or interpreting the sketches as a definite scene.

A diagonal handwritten fragment: 'I hoped had / not already cAllEd / thE Abyss'.

The cancelled word before had leaves the sentence incomplete; the surrounding marks are stains.