It seems to be highly unlikely that Chopin, at the time of adding 
in a proofreading of FE (→GE), wanted to indicate the scope of validity of the forte dynamics from the place it was put by the engraver. According to us, there are two possible explanations:
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the written with flourish mark (cf. the Etude in A minor, No. 2, bar 29) reached from the semiquaver to the minim and was supposed to concern the beginning of bar 35; the version with the sign in bar 35 was introduced in EE3 (→EE4);
- the sign, written more or less in the middle of the chordal motif, was supposed to embrace the entire motif with its range (cf. the Etude in C major, No. 1, bar 45). In the contemporary notation, it corresponds to the sign under the first out of three chords.
In the main text we suggest a solution stemming from the first possibility, as being closer to the source notation.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: EE revisions, Errors in EE, Centrally placed marks
notation: Verbal indications