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LITERATURE: Reading as Editor
While I’m reading, I’m also putting together our group literary journal, otto #2, for the fall/winter publication. Without the time to gather more submissions, we’ve got a small issue, but it’s all top quality and still involves a lot of … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY & LITERATURE: Understanding
In embarking on a third year of Spinning, I may redesign the format, or even split off again into separate weblogs. It would be fun to redesign the logo, and in taking a more literary direction, I found that while … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Thunderbolt
Nothing like sitting in a dark garage to get the mind absorbing, turning over what has been read. Ursula said it, in speaking of Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo, the twin sons of Arcadio (son of Jose Arcadio, Aureliano’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Deeper Yet
In a former post, Reading Deeper, there was some discussion on the meaning of Remedios the Beauty, her oddness even amidst a rather strange family, and what she may stand for in the overall complexity of 100 Years of Solitude. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Character
Just when I thought I had it knocked, Marquez in his helpful way has just told me I am wrong. These characters do have thoughts and emotions whereas I found them delightful, intriguing, but rather cold. Through the dimming vision … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Literary Critique
Excellent post today at Pedablogue, Professor Mike Arnzen’s (Seton Hill, PA) on the academic methods of teaching Literary theory and understanding critique. Read Comfortably Objective. Since sending Spinning into the realm of literary analysis of sorts, in my own bumbling … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Subtlety in Symbolism
Of which Marquez wants nothing to do with. He prefers to make his intrigueing symbols and metaphors bold and strong. Remember the indelible crosses of ash on the seventeen sons of Aureliano? Here’s what they were for: "During the course … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Secrets
Needless to say, this book shall live on my shelves forever. May indeed, be crispy-fried along with me and buried in a tiny cherrywood coffin neath a rock out in the woods beyond my home. Or not really this one, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Reading Deeper
I am feeling clownish and ridiculous in my interpretations, unworthy of analysis of this great book that I in ignorance somehow justify in applying to my own small self. My thoughts are amateur and self-serving, and I am missing the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Reflection
Admittedly there are realities that have kept me from breezing through this novel at a quicker pace, but those same realities are simultaneously changing my perception of what I am reading. Just as a reader brings the past to his … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Ice
I had been wondering about the ice that fascinated Jose Arcadio Buendia when the gypsies brought it to Macondo. And the reference to it in the first sentence of the novel. I am not satisfied that it had no more … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Transitioning
There is no doubt that with one hundred years to play with, Marquez need be a master at timeline in sequential, foreshadowing, backplay (my own term), and tieing everything in so that it runs as smoothly and accurately as a…well, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – On Solitude
The terms solitude or solitary have been coming at me fast and furious, no longer hinted at by Marquez, but given us with small examples: "Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Symbols of Symbols
"Then Colonel Aureliano Buendia took down the bar and saw at the door seventeen men of the most varied appearance, of all types and colors, but all with a solitary air that would have been enough to identify them anywhere … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Subliminal Thinking
A thought occurred to me this morning that as we become what we experience, and what immediate choice we make (accept-reject-modify) in response to each sensory stimulus, one of the most powerful resources offered us as babes is story as … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology