Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Catfight

Well, I thought I’d  be pulling out a Toni Morrison as my next novel selection, but two ladies stepped into my path through the piles and are begging my attention.  It is so neat to be looking for something to … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Finale

"If we’re going to do it, let’s do it," she said, "but let’s do it like grownups." At long last, Fermina and Florentino are about to make love.  She, realizing that this love is not the same as what she … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Underlying Theme

I’m sensing within Marquez’s narratives a continuity of low-level conflict that is a constant beneath the layers of ongoing story.  Perhaps because this novel, as well as 100 Years of Solitude is based upon his own country of birth, there … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Character and Conflict

I am realizing that Marquez’s love story is not about sex, and not really about love.  It is about relationships but, I think, in the individual sense of what a character is seeking and how he/she goes about it and … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION & NEW MEDIA: A Revelation

All sorts of breakthroughs in writing and in reading these past few days, but even more in understanding and more than that, in further questioning. Separating myself as a writer from the reading, yet that is contradictory to the very … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: S/Z – Comprehension

I was all set to spar with Barthes, prepared for this bible of interactive insight.  Even with the reluctant acceptance of readers’ rights to write and the understanding of readerly/writerly, I was up for the fight.  It is a self-defeating … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA & STORYTRON: Attitude

In learning new media methods and means via both background technical aspects in order to write to it, and by addressing it as a reader, I am beginning to suspect that not only writer consideration of the diversity of potential … Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Reading Deeper

I’m having a less than ideal experience with Marquez in this novel in that I am not having those moments of awe and elation that I recall from 100 Years of Solitude.  Just when I am writing it off to … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez on Sex

Obviously, what Florentino Ariza discovers about women through his liaisons with prostitutes is never applied to ladies such as his beloved Fermina Daza, but this observation is interesting: It was in those days that he devised his rather simplistic theories … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Philosophy

Marquez slips in some food for thought: His (Florentino Ariza’s) uncle was angry with him because of the manner in which he had thrown away the good position of telegraph operator in Villa de Leyva, but he allowed himself to … Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Reading Downtime

No surprise, I’ve too much on my plate and haven’t been able to zip through any readings and reviews lately.  Once more, just as with food, my huge appetite has forced me to take smaller bites of each genre in … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume – Progress Report

Well, surprisingly enough with my horrible sense of direction, I’ve managed to get to four out of five servers and rebooted them successfully–my original task.  But I have not as yet stumbled upon the final server which is somewhere in … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Drama

Marquez touches upon a sensitive topic here with Florentino Ariza, who has just discovered that Fermina Daza has decided upon wedding the persistent Dr. Juvenal Urbino.  Urbino may not have had the dedication to the affair from Fermina, but he … Continue reading Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA, IF & STORYTRON: More on Story

One of the things that is helpful in mixing media forms and exploring them simultaneously is that it focuses on the means and method and necessarily questions the purpose. What then, is the lure of the story in text only … Continue reading Continue reading

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NEW MEDIA, INTERACTIVE FICTION & STORYTRON – Reality & Interactivity

I’ve mentioned this before, but after working a bit more in the IF piece, Book and Volume, it appears that we’re on the right track towards seeking drama through relationship rather than action alone if we are indeed seeking to … Continue reading Continue reading

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