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“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
A beautiful story where a dead man washes ashore at a village, but he isn’t like any other drowned man. The village is positively transformed through their sympathies and empathies and when he is sent back out again he is one of their own. I love the passage where Esteban’s humility in death wins over the previously bemused men in the village.
— May 05, 2024 09:49AM
A beautiful story where a dead man washes ashore at a village, but he isn’t like any other drowned man. The village is positively transformed through their sympathies and empathies and when he is sent back out again he is one of their own. I love the passage where Esteban’s humility in death wins over the previously bemused men in the village.
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“Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait…”
It’s painfully obvious early on between the title and the opening that Nabo is somewhere on the borderline between life and death but the Why of the story has something of a fairytale and Nabo’s literal and figurative passing bearing its effect on the mute girl is a strange, bittersweet moment.
— May 06, 2024 07:54AM
It’s painfully obvious early on between the title and the opening that Nabo is somewhere on the borderline between life and death but the Why of the story has something of a fairytale and Nabo’s literal and figurative passing bearing its effect on the mute girl is a strange, bittersweet moment.
Jesse
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“Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo”
This story takes place during the history of Macondo, some time after Martín disappears but before Isabel births her son. It’s a torrential downpour that starts out welcome but becomes a malaise and a flood, reminding me in some ways of Bradbury’s insane Venusian downpour in “The Long Rain”.
— May 06, 2024 07:39AM
This story takes place during the history of Macondo, some time after Martín disappears but before Isabel births her son. It’s a torrential downpour that starts out welcome but becomes a malaise and a flood, reminding me in some ways of Bradbury’s insane Venusian downpour in “The Long Rain”.
Jesse
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“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”
Wow. This is a ghost story with an aside about the orphan boy’s mother, who buys a cursed rocking chair, but it’s mostly about the boy seeing the ghost ship and being maltreated by his village. This thing that they mocked and beat him for trying to tell them about, he guides to them, a cataclysmic force of supernature.
— May 06, 2024 07:07AM
Wow. This is a ghost story with an aside about the orphan boy’s mother, who buys a cursed rocking chair, but it’s mostly about the boy seeing the ghost ship and being maltreated by his village. This thing that they mocked and beat him for trying to tell them about, he guides to them, a cataclysmic force of supernature.
Jesse
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“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”
This one has the ring of a Tall Tale and is the account of two street hustlers, one of whom is falling in prowess while the other is transformed into a Christ-like figure who is capable of the very miracles that his confederate cannot. There is a very morbidly funny twist to the end that is the payoff for what was basically a picaresque temptation of Christ in the desert.
— May 06, 2024 06:52AM
This one has the ring of a Tall Tale and is the account of two street hustlers, one of whom is falling in prowess while the other is transformed into a Christ-like figure who is capable of the very miracles that his confederate cannot. There is a very morbidly funny twist to the end that is the payoff for what was basically a picaresque temptation of Christ in the desert.
Jesse
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“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
I THINK that I may have read the previous story in college but I KNOW that I read this one back then. I love Marquez’s tone of magical realism here and there; it is “A Tale For Children” and has the ring of a beautiful fable that illustrates something that may or may not be an angel and how the Spanish Catholic townsfolk react to his existence.
— May 06, 2024 06:30AM
I THINK that I may have read the previous story in college but I KNOW that I read this one back then. I love Marquez’s tone of magical realism here and there; it is “A Tale For Children” and has the ring of a beautiful fable that illustrates something that may or may not be an angel and how the Spanish Catholic townsfolk react to his existence.
Jesse
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“Leaf Storm”
A lovely tragic story that centers around the death of a man as seen by a grandfather the colonel, his daughter, and her son. The first two see the past through different lenses, based on their experiences with the doctor. The “child” is free from the emotional history of the boom and collapse of the town and the passages of him recognizing his developing sexuality are beautiful.
— May 05, 2024 07:47AM
A lovely tragic story that centers around the death of a man as seen by a grandfather the colonel, his daughter, and her son. The first two see the past through different lenses, based on their experiences with the doctor. The “child” is free from the emotional history of the boom and collapse of the town and the passages of him recognizing his developing sexuality are beautiful.
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May 05, 2024 09:51AM
“They only had to take the handkerchief off his face to see that he was ashamed, that it was not his fault that he was so big or so heavy or so handsome, and if he had known that this was going to happen, he would have looked for a more discreet place to drown in, seriously, I would even have tied the anchor off a galleon around my neck and staggered off a cliff like someone who doesn’t like things in order not to be upsetting people now with this Wednesday dead body, as you people say, in order not to be bothering anyone with this filthy piece of cold meat that doesn’t have anything to do with me.”
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