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December 19, 2024 - January 11, 2025
MANY YEARS LATER, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
It was a truly happy village where no one was over thirty years of age and where no one had died.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedrooms like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bothers about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.
“Homo iste statum quartum materiae invenit.”
This man has discovered a fourth state of matter. But there are four states - solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
The Dagger of the Fox, which was really Zorrilla’s play with the title changed by order of Captain Aquiles Ricardo, because the Liberals called the Conservatives Goths.
The Dagger of the Goths, 1843 play written in 24 hours after a bet.
“We’ll call him José Arcadio,” he said.
FFS not another male with this name!
As had happened with the death of his wife, as had happened to him so many times during the war with the deaths of his best friends, he did not have a feeling of sorrow but a blind and directionless rage, a broad feeling of impotence.
Her life was spent in weaving her shroud. It might have been said that she wove during the day and unwove during the night, and not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it.
Compare and contrast Penelope in The Odyssey
“What shocks me about you,” she said, smiling, “is that you always say exactly what you shouldn’t be saying.”
the banana company did not have, never had had, and never would have any workers in its service because they were all hired on a temporary and occasional basis.
she felt that doors had been invented to stay closed and that curiosity for what was going on in the street was a matter for harlots.
Canon Twenty-seven of the Synod of London.”
Is this a reference to The Westminster Confession, Chapter 27 On Sacraments? The Westminster Confession is an extreme Protestant text that labels the Pope "that antiChrist".
the man who, more than any other, has been hailed as the twentieth century’s greatest and most-beloved writer.
Is there evidence for this claim? Where do Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway rank?
