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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Writing Technique
I am happy to say that I think I have incorporated a couple more layers of understanding into my reading. I can follow story, relate to it from some form of experience, find philosophical meaning, dig deeper into metaphor, still … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: More on History
Fiction is fiction, not fact. Yet it is as well a sign of society in the time it is written. Think Candide and how Voltaire needed to cloak his political views within a fable. It tells us not only what … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Input & Output
As much as we put into reading and make it what it becomes for us, we draw a certain amount out and it becomes us as well. Aureliano goes through his childhood home, removing himself from it in bits and … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Words of History
Neha, Cristopher, Steve, and Gabriel have gotten me thinking on words and history and context and time. We were explorers, invaders, discoverers, pilgrims, slaves and immigrants, refugees, boat people, and illegal aliens. Time has a say in how we are … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years
I must say, I’ve come a bit down off my high since Jose died. I’m in the second half of the book, and besides some catching up on the new generation, there appears to be a political bend to the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
Well, a few weeks into the fall semester and once again, The Swimmer is the biggest hit of my weblog (I’m not linking to it here–let them dig!). What astounds me is the number of times a yahooer comes back … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Symbolism or Suspension of Belief?
Regardless of method of control, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is writing for the reader to give him/her the most opportunity to create. As I’ve mentioned, there is little color, and what is offered is intense: white houses painted blue or red, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years and a Month
Well, I helped start a writers group and now I think I need to form a book club. Or maybe just mosey on up to the library and join one. I’m stuck on the rainfall of yellow flowers after the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Among the Pats, a Pan
On the writing, as in most of my reviewing, I tend to post on a positive note–notwithstanding the fact that the books have been excellent overall–that it must appear I am fickle, even unreliable perhaps in falling in love with … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & WRITING: New Media Additives
Intense meeting of the writers group last night, focusing on narrative and specifically environment as determined by written word, sound and graphics. Using Half Life 2, Facade, Deus Ex, and Voompt a text story by one of our stellar writers, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Grounding & Narrative Structure
One thing I have noticed in this book is that Marquez chooses his words for a purpose. As I’ve posted before, the word "begonia" struck me the first time it was used, and then I realized it appeared several times … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Meaning
Colonel Aureliano Buendia sends his mother Ursula a note: Take good care of Papa because he is going to die. Ursula trusts her son’s prescience and gets help bringing Jose Arcadio Buendia back into the house: "A smell of tender … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Questioning Existence
Last night, I read beyond the point of Jose Arcadio Buendia’s death, but I keep coming back to it. There are things here that must be thought about. And too, this morning I consider replacing the tub caulking, and try … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – The Force Behind the Character
The old gypsy, Melquiades, is an important character to this story. He brings the wonders of the outside world to Macondo, and to Jose Arcadio Buendia. Because of this, Buendia holds him in the highest esteem, it seems to me, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Years – Catching up with Background
I laid this book aside a day, knowing that a war was imminent and both for need to prepare myself for battle here and in reality, as well as a decided lack of interest in the politics of yet another … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology