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First published January 1, 1968
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Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez
887听books39.6k听followersGabriel Jos茅 de la Concordia Garc铆颅a M谩rquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc铆颅a M谩rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He studied at the University of Bogot谩 and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, Garc铆a M谩rquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien a帽os de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Garc铆a M谩rquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
(Arabic: 噩丕亘乇賷賷賱 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭) (Hebrew: 讙讘专讬讗诇 讙讗专住讬讛 诪专拽住) (Ukrainian: 覑邪斜褉褨械谢褜 覑邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Belarussian: 袚邪斜褉褘械谢褜 袚邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Russian: 袚邪斜褉懈褝谢褜 袚邪褉褋懈褟 袦邪褉泻械褋)
He studied at the University of Bogot谩 and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, Garc铆a M谩rquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien a帽os de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Garc铆a M谩rquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
(Arabic: 噩丕亘乇賷賷賱 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭) (Hebrew: 讙讘专讬讗诇 讙讗专住讬讛 诪专拽住) (Ukrainian: 覑邪斜褉褨械谢褜 覑邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Belarussian: 袚邪斜褉褘械谢褜 袚邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Russian: 袚邪斜褉懈褝谢褜 袚邪褉褋懈褟 袦邪褉泻械褋)
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April 12, 2023
You can read it free or to it. At first the story reminded me of the children in those medical documentaries where the child has a birth defect and doctors in the US, UK or Australia fly them over from India to fix them. Invariably these children are from very poor and backward villages and the child, with six limbs, an extra head or other appalling defect is worshipped as a god. People come to give them offerings and beg for miracles. Their minds cannot conceive of anything out of the ordinary that isn't to do with religion. And so it is with these poor Colombian folk on finding an old man with wings in their chicken coop.
They don't understand him and he makes no effort to involve himself with them, just choosing to live quietly until spring, the time of renewal, when his feathers will grow again and he can fly and be free once more.
Meanwhile his 'keepers' do whatever the Indians do too, they charge for viewings and grow rich on the proceeds. So whether or not the miracles of the teeth, the sunflowers and - my favourite - 'almost winning the lottery' are true or not, their rags to riches story certainly is.
People find it hard to accept that which is different from them, they invent reasons, they praise them, worship them, ridicule them, isolate and exclude them, but they just can't accept them and go about their daily business. You don't need wings or a deformity, you just need to be different enough that the tribe will say you are 'other'.
That's what happens with race, with immigrants, with people of different religions, even those that move to a neighbourhood that is distinctly unlike their own background. Our common humanity is ignored for the sake of tribal-bonding and the feelings of superiority it gives its members.
__________
Meaning? I have been thinking on the meaning of the story and think I have a clue. The peasants think he is a foreigner from far off lands and he sings himself sea shanties in Norwegian. He is an angel, or at least a being from another sphere or dimension, maybe he was one of the original ones maybe even a Magrethean like who got left behind before the mice settled on using humans. Just joking.
They don't understand him and he makes no effort to involve himself with them, just choosing to live quietly until spring, the time of renewal, when his feathers will grow again and he can fly and be free once more.
Meanwhile his 'keepers' do whatever the Indians do too, they charge for viewings and grow rich on the proceeds. So whether or not the miracles of the teeth, the sunflowers and - my favourite - 'almost winning the lottery' are true or not, their rags to riches story certainly is.
People find it hard to accept that which is different from them, they invent reasons, they praise them, worship them, ridicule them, isolate and exclude them, but they just can't accept them and go about their daily business. You don't need wings or a deformity, you just need to be different enough that the tribe will say you are 'other'.
That's what happens with race, with immigrants, with people of different religions, even those that move to a neighbourhood that is distinctly unlike their own background. Our common humanity is ignored for the sake of tribal-bonding and the feelings of superiority it gives its members.
__________
Meaning? I have been thinking on the meaning of the story and think I have a clue. The peasants think he is a foreigner from far off lands and he sings himself sea shanties in Norwegian. He is an angel, or at least a being from another sphere or dimension, maybe he was one of the original ones maybe even a Magrethean like who got left behind before the mice settled on using humans. Just joking.
November 15, 2022
Summary-
While killing crabs in the courtyard during a rainstorm,
A couple discovers a wearied, old and disoriented man,
He is peculiar and an outcaste,
Shabby with large wings, and unaware of the local language, Latin!
Concluding him to be an ANGEL,
as their sick daughter recovers, upon his arrival.
They decide to keep the old man alive and not butcher him!
But they butcher him in ways far more treacherous than a one-time slaughter! 鈽�
They throw him in the chicken coop, to suffer incessantly!
People from far-off places visit to see him,
The couple makes money from every visit,
Villagers pelt stones at him, pluck his feathers, and disregard him in every way possible! 鈽�
A day comes, when the coop collapses,
The old man starts wandering from room to room in the house,
infuriating the wife!
Finally, a day comes, when the old man stretches his wings,
And takes off, escaping the ceaseless cruelty imposed by the humans.
The wife sees him go, till he disappears over the horizon!!
My Views-
I would like to give an irksome and ruthless 4-stars to this relatable story on the savagery, brutality, wickedness and harshness of the human society. 鈽�
A magical-realism narrative, demonstrative of the barbarism and viciousness of humans. 鈽�
I found it a perfect malevolent story of yesterday鈥檚, today鈥檚 and forever鈥檚 cruel, non-compassionate, exploitative and inhumane reality!
It鈥檚 all about the grossness, selfishness, and the atrocious human society. How we humans end up using each other, without paying heed to each other鈥檚 needs and with utter selfish hearts throw out (use and throw) once the need/objective is over.
How once, you hold no longer significance (in someone鈥檚 life), are thrown out, exterminated, expelled from the place which you once burgeoned and flourished!
Humans are short-sighted and can鈥檛 comprehend the present events from a vantage point that helps them more of a futuristic approach!
We as humans, fail to treat the events/situations encountered with sanity when greed takes over. We don鈥檛 let wisdom take over, when greed intrudes and douses!
Another important point to be derived is we as a part of society, find it tough to absorb any outcaste/outsider into our lives. We become too much complacent with what we see in our daily lives, that when the villagers see a very old man with gigantic wings (supposedly an angel), for them he is an outsider, and people from far-off places are ready to pay just to catch a glance of him! He is kept in a chicken coop in the most ramshackle and decayed conditions. He is persecuted and treated cruelly. Instead of appreciating who he actually is, rules and expectations are imposed on him!
I didn鈥檛 find the villagers and the house members to be ignorant but utterly ghastly and exploitative!
They don鈥檛 take any trouble to learn about the old man or be empathetic towards him. Instead, they keep traversing in their own pool of expectations, and impose the same on this poor man!
For me the angel is emblematic of every ingenuous innocent-being who ends up being a sacrificial goat!
As a reader, our takeaways should be what we are supposed NOT TO BE! We shouldn鈥檛 be what the villagers turned out to be!
It鈥檚 a story not to be overlooked but to be perused in totality, to learn what not to be!!
While killing crabs in the courtyard during a rainstorm,
A couple discovers a wearied, old and disoriented man,
He is peculiar and an outcaste,
Shabby with large wings, and unaware of the local language, Latin!
Concluding him to be an ANGEL,
as their sick daughter recovers, upon his arrival.
They decide to keep the old man alive and not butcher him!
But they butcher him in ways far more treacherous than a one-time slaughter! 鈽�
They throw him in the chicken coop, to suffer incessantly!
People from far-off places visit to see him,
The couple makes money from every visit,
Villagers pelt stones at him, pluck his feathers, and disregard him in every way possible! 鈽�
A day comes, when the coop collapses,
The old man starts wandering from room to room in the house,
infuriating the wife!
Finally, a day comes, when the old man stretches his wings,
And takes off, escaping the ceaseless cruelty imposed by the humans.
The wife sees him go, till he disappears over the horizon!!
My Views-
I would like to give an irksome and ruthless 4-stars to this relatable story on the savagery, brutality, wickedness and harshness of the human society. 鈽�
A magical-realism narrative, demonstrative of the barbarism and viciousness of humans. 鈽�
I found it a perfect malevolent story of yesterday鈥檚, today鈥檚 and forever鈥檚 cruel, non-compassionate, exploitative and inhumane reality!
It鈥檚 all about the grossness, selfishness, and the atrocious human society. How we humans end up using each other, without paying heed to each other鈥檚 needs and with utter selfish hearts throw out (use and throw) once the need/objective is over.
How once, you hold no longer significance (in someone鈥檚 life), are thrown out, exterminated, expelled from the place which you once burgeoned and flourished!
Humans are short-sighted and can鈥檛 comprehend the present events from a vantage point that helps them more of a futuristic approach!
We as humans, fail to treat the events/situations encountered with sanity when greed takes over. We don鈥檛 let wisdom take over, when greed intrudes and douses!
Another important point to be derived is we as a part of society, find it tough to absorb any outcaste/outsider into our lives. We become too much complacent with what we see in our daily lives, that when the villagers see a very old man with gigantic wings (supposedly an angel), for them he is an outsider, and people from far-off places are ready to pay just to catch a glance of him! He is kept in a chicken coop in the most ramshackle and decayed conditions. He is persecuted and treated cruelly. Instead of appreciating who he actually is, rules and expectations are imposed on him!
I didn鈥檛 find the villagers and the house members to be ignorant but utterly ghastly and exploitative!
They don鈥檛 take any trouble to learn about the old man or be empathetic towards him. Instead, they keep traversing in their own pool of expectations, and impose the same on this poor man!
For me the angel is emblematic of every ingenuous innocent-being who ends up being a sacrificial goat!
As a reader, our takeaways should be what we are supposed NOT TO BE! We shouldn鈥檛 be what the villagers turned out to be!
It鈥檚 a story not to be overlooked but to be perused in totality, to learn what not to be!!
April 19, 2022
"He was lying in a corner drying his open wings in the sunlight among the fruit peels and breakfast leftovers that the early risers had thrown him. "
鈥淎 Very Old Man with Enormous Wings鈥� is a fantastic wildly strange short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This tale begins with a couple finding an old man face down in the mud of their courtyard.
What marks the man as extraordinary here is his decrepit wings. The couple take him in (to their chicken coop) and charge admission for others to see this curiosity. Even though many believe he is an angel, he is soon competing with oddities that are part of traveling carnival sideshows. He might be an angel, but it might be that 鈥渉e was just a Norwegian with wings.鈥� In this way, his unique nature is turned into the mundane. Will he overcome this new condition? This quick and engaging story was lots of fun!
鈥淎 Very Old Man with Enormous Wings鈥� is a fantastic wildly strange short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This tale begins with a couple finding an old man face down in the mud of their courtyard.
What marks the man as extraordinary here is his decrepit wings. The couple take him in (to their chicken coop) and charge admission for others to see this curiosity. Even though many believe he is an angel, he is soon competing with oddities that are part of traveling carnival sideshows. He might be an angel, but it might be that 鈥渉e was just a Norwegian with wings.鈥� In this way, his unique nature is turned into the mundane. Will he overcome this new condition? This quick and engaging story was lots of fun!
June 12, 2023
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I read better stories by Marquez. Maybe I was not paying enough attention to the audiobook but it failed to impress me. A family finds an old battered angel in the shed while their son was ill.
I read better stories by Marquez. Maybe I was not paying enough attention to the audiobook but it failed to impress me. A family finds an old battered angel in the shed while their son was ill.
October 14, 2022
What would you think if you discovered an angel in the chicken shed - your son is very ill - has the Angel come to take him away? Fear would be my best guess. This isn鈥檛 what you鈥檇 expect a normal Angel to look like though, but a very broken, very old, miserable, ill looking creature. Find out what our family did with him! Free link
April 14, 2023
Roll up, roll up, there鈥檚 a freak show in town.
See the bearded woman, the two-headed man, seven dwarfs, a giant, a mermaid - and an angel!
It鈥檚 easy to think such things stopped soon after the Victorian era, but nowadays we avoid the embarrassment of face-to-face encounters and stare through the safe, anonymising, and hypocritical distance of a small screen instead.
Image: Poster for Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" ()
Omens?
The story opens with a sense of vague superstitions linking bad weather, a plague of crabs, and a sick newborn baby.
鈥�The world had been sad since Tuesday.鈥�
Pelayo, the baby鈥檚 father, and whose home is inundated with crabs, discovers a very old man on the beach: dirty, injured, with 鈥渁ntiquarian eyes鈥�, and winged. He speaks an 鈥渋ncomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor鈥檚 voice鈥�.
News spreads. Some think he鈥檚 an angel, but the priest disagrees because the old man doesn鈥檛 understand the language of God (Latin). Maybe he's literally a fallen angel?
Nevertheless, the baby improves, the old man is cooped up with the hens, and people are charged to see (and taunt) him.
鈥�The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act.鈥�
A profitable freak show, exposing human greed and the cruelty of crowds - but it's complicated by the fact that the family are poor and Elisenda, whose idea it is, is herself is somewhat disabled (not that that excuses his appalling living conditions).
This continues for years, by which time, another unusual person has eclipsed the old man.
鈥�His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience.鈥�
What does it mean?
The child plays in the chicken coop with the old man and they both contract chicken pox at the same time. Maybe a feeble play on words, or maybe something more, given their health and fate seems connected. The bigger question is at the end:
Image: A very old man with enormous wings, at The Playground Theatre in 2012 ()
GGM others
Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote this short story in 1968, set in a rural Columbian village of the time. He鈥檚 often cited as the father of magical realism, but this has a stronger feel of myth and allegory than his novels - though it鈥檚 years since I read them.
The title made me wonder if it would overlap in any way with Mervyn Peake's whimsical Mr Pye (see my review HERE), which fits more in the magical realism genre than his more famous Gormenghast books. Beyond the wings and some religious questions, it鈥檚 not at all like Peake鈥檚 Pye.
There's no shortage of stories, fact and fiction, of profiting from and mocking those who are different. Killing them, even. The passivity of the old man marks this out, and perhaps the enduring mystery of what he is and how he came to be where he is.
Perhaps I'm too estranged from the religion I was raised in (Protestant Christian), but links to the angelic mythos didn't really resonate with me.
Quotes
鈥淎 poor woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers.鈥�
鈥淎 Portuguese man who couldn鈥檛 sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.鈥�
鈥淭he few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental disorder, like the blind man who didn鈥檛 recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn鈥檛 get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers.鈥� [so he DID have some supernatural powers after all]
Short story club
I read this as one of the stories in The Art of the Short Story, by Dana Gioia, from which I'm aiming to read one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 2 May 2022.
You can read this story .
You can join the group here.
See the bearded woman, the two-headed man, seven dwarfs, a giant, a mermaid - and an angel!
It鈥檚 easy to think such things stopped soon after the Victorian era, but nowadays we avoid the embarrassment of face-to-face encounters and stare through the safe, anonymising, and hypocritical distance of a small screen instead.
Image: Poster for Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" ()
Omens?
The story opens with a sense of vague superstitions linking bad weather, a plague of crabs, and a sick newborn baby.
鈥�The world had been sad since Tuesday.鈥�
Pelayo, the baby鈥檚 father, and whose home is inundated with crabs, discovers a very old man on the beach: dirty, injured, with 鈥渁ntiquarian eyes鈥�, and winged. He speaks an 鈥渋ncomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor鈥檚 voice鈥�.
News spreads. Some think he鈥檚 an angel, but the priest disagrees because the old man doesn鈥檛 understand the language of God (Latin). Maybe he's literally a fallen angel?
Nevertheless, the baby improves, the old man is cooped up with the hens, and people are charged to see (and taunt) him.
鈥�The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act.鈥�
A profitable freak show, exposing human greed and the cruelty of crowds - but it's complicated by the fact that the family are poor and Elisenda, whose idea it is, is herself is somewhat disabled (not that that excuses his appalling living conditions).
This continues for years, by which time, another unusual person has eclipsed the old man.
鈥�His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience.鈥�
What does it mean?
The child plays in the chicken coop with the old man and they both contract chicken pox at the same time. Maybe a feeble play on words, or maybe something more, given their health and fate seems connected. The bigger question is at the end:
Image: A very old man with enormous wings, at The Playground Theatre in 2012 ()
GGM others
Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote this short story in 1968, set in a rural Columbian village of the time. He鈥檚 often cited as the father of magical realism, but this has a stronger feel of myth and allegory than his novels - though it鈥檚 years since I read them.
The title made me wonder if it would overlap in any way with Mervyn Peake's whimsical Mr Pye (see my review HERE), which fits more in the magical realism genre than his more famous Gormenghast books. Beyond the wings and some religious questions, it鈥檚 not at all like Peake鈥檚 Pye.
There's no shortage of stories, fact and fiction, of profiting from and mocking those who are different. Killing them, even. The passivity of the old man marks this out, and perhaps the enduring mystery of what he is and how he came to be where he is.
Perhaps I'm too estranged from the religion I was raised in (Protestant Christian), but links to the angelic mythos didn't really resonate with me.
Quotes
鈥淎 poor woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers.鈥�
鈥淎 Portuguese man who couldn鈥檛 sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.鈥�
鈥淭he few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental disorder, like the blind man who didn鈥檛 recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn鈥檛 get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers.鈥� [so he DID have some supernatural powers after all]
Short story club
I read this as one of the stories in The Art of the Short Story, by Dana Gioia, from which I'm aiming to read one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 2 May 2022.
You can read this story .
You can join the group here.
October 19, 2022
"You can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you react." ~Anonymous
"He was lying in the corner drying his open wings in the sunlight among the fruit peels and breakfast leftovers that the early risers had thrown him. Alien to the impertinences of the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured something in his dialect when Father Gonzaga went into the chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin."
Was the very old man with enormous wings an angel or something else? I'm still pondering ...
This captivating short story can be finished in the blink of an eye, and it's free .
"He was lying in the corner drying his open wings in the sunlight among the fruit peels and breakfast leftovers that the early risers had thrown him. Alien to the impertinences of the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured something in his dialect when Father Gonzaga went into the chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin."
Was the very old man with enormous wings an angel or something else? I'm still pondering ...
This captivating short story can be finished in the blink of an eye, and it's free .
August 25, 2023
I was once again struck by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez鈥� imaginative mindset that he can perfectly articulate in prosaic narrations. He鈥檚 a genius! Period.
The more humankind thinks of having evolved surpassing its ancestors, the more basic are the behavioural patterns in crises or any abstract situations that we cannot grab by simple logic. M谩rquez鈥� rich narration inducing the reader into the superstitious and emotional lifestyle of South America is poignantly criticising the actions of humankind.
A satire embedding magical realism is a joy to read with its perfectly lined up sentences with precious vocabularies and a plot that challenges the ordinary human brain. ;)
Happy reading 馃摎!
Did you know that M谩rquez labelled this short story a children鈥檚 tale first? Yes, why not, I thought and read it out loud to my little man. He was fascinated by me mimicking enormous wings and crabs and what have you not in the story. Concluding, I don鈥檛 think it could serve as a children鈥檚 tale though 馃槈.
The more humankind thinks of having evolved surpassing its ancestors, the more basic are the behavioural patterns in crises or any abstract situations that we cannot grab by simple logic. M谩rquez鈥� rich narration inducing the reader into the superstitious and emotional lifestyle of South America is poignantly criticising the actions of humankind.
A satire embedding magical realism is a joy to read with its perfectly lined up sentences with precious vocabularies and a plot that challenges the ordinary human brain. ;)
Happy reading 馃摎!
Did you know that M谩rquez labelled this short story a children鈥檚 tale first? Yes, why not, I thought and read it out loud to my little man. He was fascinated by me mimicking enormous wings and crabs and what have you not in the story. Concluding, I don鈥檛 think it could serve as a children鈥檚 tale though 馃槈.
September 2, 2016
Have you ever consider the possibility that even if something divine did exist, it must be something very different from what representatives of various religions represent it to be? Here is an angel that is not anywhere as glorious as religions will have us believe. Like in other Marquez story I have read 'The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World' the centeral character himself never utters a word, we only get reactions from other people.
There are also the themes of ficklish sensationalism in general and the way religion is often reduced to entertainment for purposes of money.
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There are also the themes of ficklish sensationalism in general and the way religion is often reduced to entertainment for purposes of money.
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April 8, 2023
Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses magical realism in a story about an old man with battered wings who is stranded in a village during stormy weather. He doesn't speak their language so he cannot communicate with the villagers. Some wonder if he is an angel, but he does not have the elegance, beauty, and grandeur usually associated with angels. He becomes an attraction similar to a circus sideshow, and the sick came to visit "the angel" in search of a cure.
The story has impossible happenings, ambiguity, magical phrases, and humor. The reader must leave their sense of disbelief at the door before reading, enjoy the satire and imaginative writing, and just go with the flow for a fun experience.
"The most unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor woman who since childhood had been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn't sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake; and many others with less serious ailments."
The story has impossible happenings, ambiguity, magical phrases, and humor. The reader must leave their sense of disbelief at the door before reading, enjoy the satire and imaginative writing, and just go with the flow for a fun experience.
"The most unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor woman who since childhood had been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn't sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake; and many others with less serious ailments."
April 16, 2023
4鈽�
鈥淗e reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary. He argued that if wings were not the essential element in determining the difference between a hawk and an airplane, they were even less so in the recognition of angels.鈥�
What? You may well ask. A peasant family has been trying to clean out their house, thinking it鈥檚 the filth making their newborn child sick. When they return home in a storm, they discover an old man groaning, lying in the mud behind their house. He has huge wings, but they are so stunned by his presence and his manner, that they don鈥檛 know quite what to make of him.
鈥淭hen they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor鈥檚 voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
鈥楬e鈥檚 an angel,鈥� she told them. 鈥楬e must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.鈥�鈥�
The child recovers, and feeling grateful, the family considers setting the winged man free, sending him off to sea on a raft. Maybe he鈥檚 a Norwegian sailor. But the locals have come to look at him, like a circus animal, and the priest warned them about him being a trick of the devil.
Whatever he is, he鈥檚 different, foreign, and decidedly odd, so into the chicken coop he goes (like other winged creatures, although nobody鈥檚 suggested he鈥檚 a bird). The 鈥榟ost鈥� family decides to charge people to see him. Some bring invalids.
鈥淭he curious came from far away. A traveling carnival arrived with a flying acrobat who buzzed over the crowd several times, but no one paid any attention to him because his wings were not those of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat.鈥�
Whether they believe the old man is a freak of nature, a foreign intruder, or a religious phenomenon (for good or evil), his treatment is inhumane and eventually commercial.
I don鈥檛 pretend to know the meaning of the story. Marquez usually leaves me with an overall feeling, even if I can鈥檛 pinpoint why. This one reminds me of how intolerant I can be of intolerance (including my own) - the fear of the unfamiliar, the initial negative reaction against someone we perceive as different.
It鈥檚 all about the perception. What would they have thought if he鈥檇 arrived with a winged wife and cheerful children? What if he had spoken their language 鈥� clearly and kindly?
I am aware that I am reading a translation from a country very different from my own. I鈥檇 like to think I would be equally stunned, but not intolerant or cruel. Easy to say - it hasn鈥檛 happened to me 鈥� yet.
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鈥淗e reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary. He argued that if wings were not the essential element in determining the difference between a hawk and an airplane, they were even less so in the recognition of angels.鈥�
What? You may well ask. A peasant family has been trying to clean out their house, thinking it鈥檚 the filth making their newborn child sick. When they return home in a storm, they discover an old man groaning, lying in the mud behind their house. He has huge wings, but they are so stunned by his presence and his manner, that they don鈥檛 know quite what to make of him.
鈥淭hen they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor鈥檚 voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
鈥楬e鈥檚 an angel,鈥� she told them. 鈥楬e must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.鈥�鈥�
The child recovers, and feeling grateful, the family considers setting the winged man free, sending him off to sea on a raft. Maybe he鈥檚 a Norwegian sailor. But the locals have come to look at him, like a circus animal, and the priest warned them about him being a trick of the devil.
Whatever he is, he鈥檚 different, foreign, and decidedly odd, so into the chicken coop he goes (like other winged creatures, although nobody鈥檚 suggested he鈥檚 a bird). The 鈥榟ost鈥� family decides to charge people to see him. Some bring invalids.
鈥淭he curious came from far away. A traveling carnival arrived with a flying acrobat who buzzed over the crowd several times, but no one paid any attention to him because his wings were not those of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat.鈥�
Whether they believe the old man is a freak of nature, a foreign intruder, or a religious phenomenon (for good or evil), his treatment is inhumane and eventually commercial.
I don鈥檛 pretend to know the meaning of the story. Marquez usually leaves me with an overall feeling, even if I can鈥檛 pinpoint why. This one reminds me of how intolerant I can be of intolerance (including my own) - the fear of the unfamiliar, the initial negative reaction against someone we perceive as different.
It鈥檚 all about the perception. What would they have thought if he鈥檇 arrived with a winged wife and cheerful children? What if he had spoken their language 鈥� clearly and kindly?
I am aware that I am reading a translation from a country very different from my own. I鈥檇 like to think I would be equally stunned, but not intolerant or cruel. Easy to say - it hasn鈥檛 happened to me 鈥� yet.
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September 29, 2021
亘丕賱鈥屬囏� 丌賳鈥屬傌� 亘乇 丕爻賱賵亘賽 鬲賳賽 丕賳爻丕賳蹖賽 賮乇卮鬲賴 胤亘蹖毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屫藏� 讴賴 丿讴鬲乇 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賮讴乇 賮乇賵 乇賮鬲 讴賴 趩乇丕 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏й� 丿蹖诏乇 亘丕賱 賳丿丕乇賳丿責
爻鬲丕蹖卮鈥� 賳丕賲賴
倬蹖卮 丕夭 賴乇 趩蹖夭 賱丕夭賲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 賳丕夭賳蹖賳賲(讴鬲丕蹖賵賳) 亘禺丕胤乇 賲毓乇賮蹖 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賯爻賲鬲鈥屬囏й� 亘乇賳丕賲賴鈥屰� 芦讴鬲丕亘 亘丕夭禄 讴賴 亘賴 胤賵乇 禺丕氐 丕禺鬲氐丕氐 丿丕卮鬲 亘賴 芦诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 賵 賴賲趩賳蹖賳 丕夭 禺賵丿 丌賯丕蹖丕賳 芦爻乇賵卮 氐丨鬲禄貙 芦丕賲蹖丿 乇囟丕蹖蹖禄貙 芦丕丨爻丕賳 乇囟丕蹖蹖禄 賵 芦爻毓蹖丿 賯胤亘蹖鈥屫藏ж嚶� 亘丕亘鬲 丕蹖賳 亘乇賳丕賲賴 鬲卮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
鬲卮讴乇 亘丕亘鬲 賲毓乇賮蹖 诏丕亘賵責!
禺亘 賱丕夭賲賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賲賵乇丿 賴賲 爻乇鬲賵賳 乇賵 丿乇丿 亘蹖丕乇賲 賵 趩賳丿 禺胤蹖 亘賴 爻蹖丕賴賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿賲 丕賮夭賵賳 讴賳賲.
賲賳 亘丕 芦氐丿爻丕賱 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖禄 毓丕卮賯 诏丕亘賵 卮丿賲 賵 丕賵 亘丕 芦毓卮賯 丿乇 夭賲丕賳 賵亘丕禄 賲賳 乇丕 亘賳丿賴 賵 賲乇蹖丿 禺賵丿 賳賲賵丿貙 丕賲丕 趩賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 賳蹖夭 亘賴 賵丕爻胤賴鈥屰� 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屫з� 亘賴 丕賵 禺賵丕賳丿賲 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 禺賵丿賲 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 讴丕卮 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏� 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丿丕卮鬲 賵 賴乇趩賴 诏賵丿乇蹖丿夭 乇丕 亘丕賱丕 倬丕蹖蹖賳 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 趩蹖夭蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屰屫з佖�!
鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丕蹖賳 賯爻賲鬲 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘鈥屫ㄘж� 乇丕 鬲賲丕卮丕 讴乇丿賲 賵 丿乇 蹖讴 爻讴丕賳爻 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賴賲丕賳丕賳 亘乇賳丕賲賴貙 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 讴乇丿 賵 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 丌賳 诏卮鬲賲 賲鬲賵噩賴 卮丿賲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 丨噩蹖賲 亘賴 賳丕賲鈥� 芦亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 亘賴 丕賴鬲賲丕賲 丌賯丕蹖 芦丕丨賲丿 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖禄 鬲乇噩賲賴 賵 鬲賵爻胤 芦賳卮乇 賳诏丕賴禄 趩丕倬 賵 賲賳鬲卮乇 诏乇丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賳讴鬲賴鈥屰� 賲賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 鄄鄯 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 诏丕亘賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 卮丿賴 讴賴 賮賯胤 趩賳丿 賲賵乇丿 丕賳诏卮鬲 卮賲丕乇 丌賳鈥屬囏� 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 倬爻 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 鬲賲丕賲 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀з� 亘賴 诏丕亘賵 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
诏賮鬲丕乇 丕賳丿乇 賲毓乇賮蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丌賳鈥屬傌� 讴賵鬲丕賴 丕爻鬲(郾郯氐賮丨賴) 讴賴 亘賴 賴蹖趩賵噩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 噩夭 丿賵 禺胤 丕夭 丌賳 讴賴 丿乇 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖 乇蹖賵蹖賵蹖 禺賵丿 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屫з� 賳賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 賵 賮賯胤 亘賴 亘蹖丕賳 賲禺鬲氐乇蹖 丕夭 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 賲蹖鈥屬矩必ж操�.
丕诏乇 卮禺氐蹖 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з� 讴鬲丕亘鈥� 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 亘賴 诏丕亘賵 丕乇爻丕賱 讴賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丌賳 趩賳丿 亘乇诏 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 倬丕乇賴 讴賳丿 賵 亘蹖鈥屬嗀з� 亘賴 丕賵 賴丿蹖賴 丿賴丿貙 亘蹖鈥屫蹿� 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 趩賳丿 爻胤乇 丕夭 丌賳 賲鬲賵噩賴 賳丕賲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵丕賴丿 卮丿 趩賵賳 丕賲囟丕蹖 诏丕亘賵 丿乇 爻胤乇 爻胤乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴讴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲!
丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖 诏丕亘賵 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 毓丕丿蹖鈥屫池� 賵 賳亘丕蹖丿 丕夭 毓噩丕蹖亘 卮讴賵賴 讴乇丿 趩賵賳 丕氐賵賱丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 毓噩蹖亘 丕爻鬲 禺賵丿 賲丕蹖蹖賲 賵 賳賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵.
禺丕胤乇賴鈥� 賳丕賲賴
亘賴 蹖丕丿 丿丕乇賲 夭賲丕賳蹖鈥屭┵� 丿乇 丕賵蹖賳 賲丨亘賵爻 亘賵丿賲貙 卮禺氐蹖 亘賴 丕鬲賴丕賲 賲丨丕乇亘賴 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲鈥屬呝堎傌� 亘賵丿. 丕賵 亘丕 鬲賲丕爻 趩賳丿鬲賳 丕夭 爻丕讴賳蹖賳 卮賴乇讴 睾乇亘 鬲賵爻胤 讴賱丕賳鬲乇蹖 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 诏乇丿蹖丿賴 亘賵丿貙 诏賵蹖丕 賱亘丕爻 爻亘夭蹖 倬賵卮蹖丿賴 賵 亘丕 卮賲卮蹖乇蹖 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賵 爻賵丕乇 亘乇 蹖讴 丕賱丕睾 丿乇 卮賴乇讴 睾乇亘 倬乇爻賴 賲蹖鈥屫藏� 賵 丕夭 賲乇丿賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 蹖丕 賵賱丕蹖鬲卮 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇賳丿 賵 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 倬賵賱貙 胤賱丕貙 爻丕毓鬲貙 诏賵卮蹖 賵 賴乇 趩蹖夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 賲賵噩賵丿 亘賵丿 丿乇 乇丕賴 丕爻賱丕賲 丿乇 禺賵乇噩蹖賳卮 賯乇丕乇 丿賴賳丿 賵 蹖丕 胤毓賲 爻乇丿蹖 鬲蹖睾賽 卮賲卮蹖乇 乇丕 亘趩卮賳丿!
亘乇禺賵乇丿 賲乇丿賲丕賳 賵 丕胤乇丕賮蹖丕賳 亘丕 倬蹖乇賲乇丿 亘丕賱鈥屫ж� 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屰� 賮賵賯 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 讴乇丿 賵 丕蹖賳 爻賵丕賱 讴賴 丕氐賱丕 賲賳 睾蹖乇賲毓鬲賯丿貙 丕诏乇 丌賳鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 倬蹖鬲夭丕貙 讴亘丕亘貙 倬賵賱 賵 賳丕賲賴 亘賴 趩丕賴 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж操嗀� 賵 賴乇 賴賮鬲賴 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬嗀� 卮丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 噩賲毓賴 亘蹖丕蹖丿 卮丕蹖丿... 丕诏乇貙 丕诏乇貙 亘丕夭 賴賲 丕诏乇 乇賵夭蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丕鬲賮丕賯蹖 丕賮鬲丕丿 趩賴 亘乇禺賵乇丿蹖 亘丕 丕賵 禺賵丕賴賳丿 丿丕卮鬲責
丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丿乇 趩賳蹖賳 乇賵夭蹖 蹖讴 讴蹖爻賴鈥屰� 亘蹖爻鬲 讴蹖賱賵蹖蹖 鬲禺賲 丌賮鬲丕亘鈥屭必з� 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賲 鬲丕 鬲賯丕亘賱 丕賵 賵 賲乇丿賲 乇丕 鬲賲丕卮丕 讴賳賲 ;)
讴丕乇賳丕賲赖
鬲賳賴丕 蹖讴 爻鬲丕乇賴 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴爻乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 亘丕亘鬲 丕蹖賳讴賴 诏丕亘賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀池� 讴賲蹖 卮丕禺 賵 亘乇诏 亘賴卮 亘丿賴 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇賵 丨噩蹖賲鈥屫� 讴賳賴.
鬲丕 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 爻乇丕睾 鬲禺賲賴 亘乇賲 丿蹖丿賲 鬲賲丕賲 卮丿! 亘丕 丕蹖賳丨丕賱 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲 賵 趩賴丕乇爻鬲丕乇賴 亘乇丕蹖卮 賲賳馗賵乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
丿丕賳賱賵丿 賳丕賲賴
噩賴鬲 爻賴賵賱鬲 丿乇 賲胤丕賱毓賴貙 氐賮丨丕鬲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 丕夭 賮丕蹖賱 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з� 讴丕賲賱 讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 賲毓乇賮蹖 讴乇丿賲 噩丿丕 賳賲賵丿賴 賵 丿乇 讴丕賳丕賱 丕賱诏乇丕賲 丌倬賱賵丿 賳賲賵丿賴鈥屫з呚� 丿乇 氐賵乇鬲 賳蹖丕夭鈥� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃屫� 丌賳鈥屫必� 丕夭 賱蹖賳讴 夭蹖乇 丿丕賳賱賵丿 賳賲丕蹖蹖丿:
賴賮鬲賲 賲賴乇賲丕賴 蹖讴鈥屬囏藏ж� 賵 趩賴丕乇氐丿
爻鬲丕蹖卮鈥� 賳丕賲賴
倬蹖卮 丕夭 賴乇 趩蹖夭 賱丕夭賲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 賳丕夭賳蹖賳賲(讴鬲丕蹖賵賳) 亘禺丕胤乇 賲毓乇賮蹖 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賯爻賲鬲鈥屬囏й� 亘乇賳丕賲賴鈥屰� 芦讴鬲丕亘 亘丕夭禄 讴賴 亘賴 胤賵乇 禺丕氐 丕禺鬲氐丕氐 丿丕卮鬲 亘賴 芦诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 賵 賴賲趩賳蹖賳 丕夭 禺賵丿 丌賯丕蹖丕賳 芦爻乇賵卮 氐丨鬲禄貙 芦丕賲蹖丿 乇囟丕蹖蹖禄貙 芦丕丨爻丕賳 乇囟丕蹖蹖禄 賵 芦爻毓蹖丿 賯胤亘蹖鈥屫藏ж嚶� 亘丕亘鬲 丕蹖賳 亘乇賳丕賲賴 鬲卮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
鬲卮讴乇 亘丕亘鬲 賲毓乇賮蹖 诏丕亘賵責!
禺亘 賱丕夭賲賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賲賵乇丿 賴賲 爻乇鬲賵賳 乇賵 丿乇丿 亘蹖丕乇賲 賵 趩賳丿 禺胤蹖 亘賴 爻蹖丕賴賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿賲 丕賮夭賵賳 讴賳賲.
賲賳 亘丕 芦氐丿爻丕賱 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖禄 毓丕卮賯 诏丕亘賵 卮丿賲 賵 丕賵 亘丕 芦毓卮賯 丿乇 夭賲丕賳 賵亘丕禄 賲賳 乇丕 亘賳丿賴 賵 賲乇蹖丿 禺賵丿 賳賲賵丿貙 丕賲丕 趩賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 賳蹖夭 亘賴 賵丕爻胤賴鈥屰� 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屫з� 亘賴 丕賵 禺賵丕賳丿賲 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 禺賵丿賲 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 讴丕卮 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏� 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丿丕卮鬲 賵 賴乇趩賴 诏賵丿乇蹖丿夭 乇丕 亘丕賱丕 倬丕蹖蹖賳 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 趩蹖夭蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屰屫з佖�!
鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丕蹖賳 賯爻賲鬲 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘鈥屫ㄘж� 乇丕 鬲賲丕卮丕 讴乇丿賲 賵 丿乇 蹖讴 爻讴丕賳爻 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賴賲丕賳丕賳 亘乇賳丕賲賴貙 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 讴乇丿 賵 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 丌賳 诏卮鬲賲 賲鬲賵噩賴 卮丿賲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 丨噩蹖賲 亘賴 賳丕賲鈥� 芦亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 亘賴 丕賴鬲賲丕賲 丌賯丕蹖 芦丕丨賲丿 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖禄 鬲乇噩賲賴 賵 鬲賵爻胤 芦賳卮乇 賳诏丕賴禄 趩丕倬 賵 賲賳鬲卮乇 诏乇丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賳讴鬲賴鈥屰� 賲賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 鄄鄯 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 诏丕亘賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 卮丿賴 讴賴 賮賯胤 趩賳丿 賲賵乇丿 丕賳诏卮鬲 卮賲丕乇 丌賳鈥屬囏� 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 倬爻 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 鬲賲丕賲 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀з� 亘賴 诏丕亘賵 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
诏賮鬲丕乇 丕賳丿乇 賲毓乇賮蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丌賳鈥屬傌� 讴賵鬲丕賴 丕爻鬲(郾郯氐賮丨賴) 讴賴 亘賴 賴蹖趩賵噩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 噩夭 丿賵 禺胤 丕夭 丌賳 讴賴 丿乇 丕亘鬲丿丕蹖 乇蹖賵蹖賵蹖 禺賵丿 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屫з� 賳賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 賵 賮賯胤 亘賴 亘蹖丕賳 賲禺鬲氐乇蹖 丕夭 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 賲蹖鈥屬矩必ж操�.
丕诏乇 卮禺氐蹖 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з� 讴鬲丕亘鈥� 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 亘賴 诏丕亘賵 丕乇爻丕賱 讴賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丌賳 趩賳丿 亘乇诏 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 倬丕乇賴 讴賳丿 賵 亘蹖鈥屬嗀з� 亘賴 丕賵 賴丿蹖賴 丿賴丿貙 亘蹖鈥屫蹿� 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 趩賳丿 爻胤乇 丕夭 丌賳 賲鬲賵噩賴 賳丕賲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 禺賵丕賴丿 卮丿 趩賵賳 丕賲囟丕蹖 诏丕亘賵 丿乇 爻胤乇 爻胤乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴讴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲!
丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖 诏丕亘賵 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 毓丕丿蹖鈥屫池� 賵 賳亘丕蹖丿 丕夭 毓噩丕蹖亘 卮讴賵賴 讴乇丿 趩賵賳 丕氐賵賱丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 毓噩蹖亘 丕爻鬲 禺賵丿 賲丕蹖蹖賲 賵 賳賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵.
禺丕胤乇賴鈥� 賳丕賲賴
亘賴 蹖丕丿 丿丕乇賲 夭賲丕賳蹖鈥屭┵� 丿乇 丕賵蹖賳 賲丨亘賵爻 亘賵丿賲貙 卮禺氐蹖 亘賴 丕鬲賴丕賲 賲丨丕乇亘賴 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲鈥屬呝堎傌� 亘賵丿. 丕賵 亘丕 鬲賲丕爻 趩賳丿鬲賳 丕夭 爻丕讴賳蹖賳 卮賴乇讴 睾乇亘 鬲賵爻胤 讴賱丕賳鬲乇蹖 亘丕夭丿丕卮鬲 诏乇丿蹖丿賴 亘賵丿貙 诏賵蹖丕 賱亘丕爻 爻亘夭蹖 倬賵卮蹖丿賴 賵 亘丕 卮賲卮蹖乇蹖 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賵 爻賵丕乇 亘乇 蹖讴 丕賱丕睾 丿乇 卮賴乇讴 睾乇亘 倬乇爻賴 賲蹖鈥屫藏� 賵 丕夭 賲乇丿賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 蹖丕 賵賱丕蹖鬲卮 乇丕 亘倬匕蹖乇賳丿 賵 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 倬賵賱貙 胤賱丕貙 爻丕毓鬲貙 诏賵卮蹖 賵 賴乇 趩蹖夭 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 賲賵噩賵丿 亘賵丿 丿乇 乇丕賴 丕爻賱丕賲 丿乇 禺賵乇噩蹖賳卮 賯乇丕乇 丿賴賳丿 賵 蹖丕 胤毓賲 爻乇丿蹖 鬲蹖睾賽 卮賲卮蹖乇 乇丕 亘趩卮賳丿!
亘乇禺賵乇丿 賲乇丿賲丕賳 賵 丕胤乇丕賮蹖丕賳 亘丕 倬蹖乇賲乇丿 亘丕賱鈥屫ж� 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屰� 賮賵賯 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 讴乇丿 賵 丕蹖賳 爻賵丕賱 讴賴 丕氐賱丕 賲賳 睾蹖乇賲毓鬲賯丿貙 丕诏乇 丌賳鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 倬蹖鬲夭丕貙 讴亘丕亘貙 倬賵賱 賵 賳丕賲賴 亘賴 趩丕賴 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж操嗀� 賵 賴乇 賴賮鬲賴 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬嗀� 卮丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 噩賲毓賴 亘蹖丕蹖丿 卮丕蹖丿... 丕诏乇貙 丕诏乇貙 亘丕夭 賴賲 丕诏乇 乇賵夭蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丕鬲賮丕賯蹖 丕賮鬲丕丿 趩賴 亘乇禺賵乇丿蹖 亘丕 丕賵 禺賵丕賴賳丿 丿丕卮鬲責
丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丿乇 趩賳蹖賳 乇賵夭蹖 蹖讴 讴蹖爻賴鈥屰� 亘蹖爻鬲 讴蹖賱賵蹖蹖 鬲禺賲 丌賮鬲丕亘鈥屭必з� 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賲 鬲丕 鬲賯丕亘賱 丕賵 賵 賲乇丿賲 乇丕 鬲賲丕卮丕 讴賳賲 ;)
讴丕乇賳丕賲赖
鬲賳賴丕 蹖讴 爻鬲丕乇賴 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴爻乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 亘丕亘鬲 丕蹖賳讴賴 诏丕亘賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀池� 讴賲蹖 卮丕禺 賵 亘乇诏 亘賴卮 亘丿賴 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇賵 丨噩蹖賲鈥屫� 讴賳賴.
鬲丕 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 爻乇丕睾 鬲禺賲賴 亘乇賲 丿蹖丿賲 鬲賲丕賲 卮丿! 亘丕 丕蹖賳丨丕賱 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲 賵 趩賴丕乇爻鬲丕乇賴 亘乇丕蹖卮 賲賳馗賵乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
丿丕賳賱賵丿 賳丕賲賴
噩賴鬲 爻賴賵賱鬲 丿乇 賲胤丕賱毓賴貙 氐賮丨丕鬲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 丕夭 賮丕蹖賱 倬蹖鈥屫屸€屫з� 讴丕賲賱 讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 賲毓乇賮蹖 讴乇丿賲 噩丿丕 賳賲賵丿賴 賵 丿乇 讴丕賳丕賱 丕賱诏乇丕賲 丌倬賱賵丿 賳賲賵丿賴鈥屫з呚� 丿乇 氐賵乇鬲 賳蹖丕夭鈥� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃屫� 丌賳鈥屫必� 丕夭 賱蹖賳讴 夭蹖乇 丿丕賳賱賵丿 賳賲丕蹖蹖丿:
賴賮鬲賲 賲賴乇賲丕賴 蹖讴鈥屬囏藏ж� 賵 趩賴丕乇氐丿
March 1, 2021
賯氐丞 賯氐賷乇丞 賲賳 賯氐氐 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞 丕賱爻丨乇賷丞 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲賱丕賰 爻丕賯胤 賵賴賵 賮賷 賯賲丞 囟毓賮賴 賵 卮賷禺賵禺鬲賴
賮賰賷賮 爻賷鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓賴 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱賲丨賷胤賷賳 亘賴責責責
賮賰賷賮 爻賷鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓賴 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱賲丨賷胤賷賳 亘賴責責責
March 16, 2016
This short story was very confusing and we had a lengthy discussion during class. Short review to come.
August 23, 2019
This book was an accidental pick up from the bookshop.
It is a small booklet containing just two short stories barely covering 25 pages. The cover and the name on the cover and the price caught my attention and I went for it.
I read the stories in two sittings - one sitting per one story. And my verdict is that I loved the second story better.
THERE MAY BE SPOILERS:
The first story is title of this collection. It is a sarcastic look at the belief in miracles and the extra ordinary (supernatural) happenings. For instance, we find an angel visiting(?) a family (father, mother and a baby son). The arrival of an angel is looked with much apprehension and it is put in a cage and used as a showpiece with the entrance ticket. The small poor family slowly gains riches and flourishes. Later the angel departs for it has become an annoyance to the family. To me it looked like a scathing attack on religion. Religion is used mostly as something like that of a showpiece to gain financial riches or else it ends in useless and baseless theological discussions (In the story there we see a priest analyzing the celestial nature of Angel by speaking to it in Latin, the language of Gods!). And each religion is the same (in the story we see the diminishing enthusiasm among people to see the angel for in the town a woman changed into spider had come newly. Besides Marquez also takes a dig at the human nature in the presence of a helpless creature and its ever temporary enthusiasm for something new.
The second story is titled as The Sea of Lost Time. Outwardly this is also a simple story. The setting is a seaside village where the dead are not buried but are tossed into the sea. Then the story goes on to detail few more interesting episodes. When I read, the story had its effect on me. The magical realism created by Marquez created magic. I too lived in that village. When some characters delved into the sea I too delved in with them. I saw the dead bodies (plenty of them) floating. But I could not get the meaning exactly or I was confused with many images that emerged.
But later, while ruminating the story struck me as primarily talking about the memory. The title of the story made it clear to me. Now certain dialogues in the story had a special meaning. For instance, a dying lady confides that it is her last wish to be buried alive. When she is dead she is tossed into the sea. Her husband everyday fondly remembers her and weeps in his solitude. Later when some characters delved into the sea to search for turtles they see the sea of lost time where they find numerous dead bodies floating under the sea with their faces up. Among them is the old lady she was tossed up and she is younger and very beautiful and her body is followed by rows of roses. This event struck me heavily. For it is one's desire to leave traces of one's memory - the longing for immortality. As long as one remembers the dead ones the dead ones live. The fonder the memories the more beautiful and younger one grows in the Sea of Lost Time.
This story also speaks many other themes. But the idea of memory and the way it revealed itself to me stays with me and will stay with me for many more days.
It is a small booklet containing just two short stories barely covering 25 pages. The cover and the name on the cover and the price caught my attention and I went for it.
I read the stories in two sittings - one sitting per one story. And my verdict is that I loved the second story better.
THERE MAY BE SPOILERS:
The first story is title of this collection. It is a sarcastic look at the belief in miracles and the extra ordinary (supernatural) happenings. For instance, we find an angel visiting(?) a family (father, mother and a baby son). The arrival of an angel is looked with much apprehension and it is put in a cage and used as a showpiece with the entrance ticket. The small poor family slowly gains riches and flourishes. Later the angel departs for it has become an annoyance to the family. To me it looked like a scathing attack on religion. Religion is used mostly as something like that of a showpiece to gain financial riches or else it ends in useless and baseless theological discussions (In the story there we see a priest analyzing the celestial nature of Angel by speaking to it in Latin, the language of Gods!). And each religion is the same (in the story we see the diminishing enthusiasm among people to see the angel for in the town a woman changed into spider had come newly. Besides Marquez also takes a dig at the human nature in the presence of a helpless creature and its ever temporary enthusiasm for something new.
The second story is titled as The Sea of Lost Time. Outwardly this is also a simple story. The setting is a seaside village where the dead are not buried but are tossed into the sea. Then the story goes on to detail few more interesting episodes. When I read, the story had its effect on me. The magical realism created by Marquez created magic. I too lived in that village. When some characters delved into the sea I too delved in with them. I saw the dead bodies (plenty of them) floating. But I could not get the meaning exactly or I was confused with many images that emerged.
But later, while ruminating the story struck me as primarily talking about the memory. The title of the story made it clear to me. Now certain dialogues in the story had a special meaning. For instance, a dying lady confides that it is her last wish to be buried alive. When she is dead she is tossed into the sea. Her husband everyday fondly remembers her and weeps in his solitude. Later when some characters delved into the sea to search for turtles they see the sea of lost time where they find numerous dead bodies floating under the sea with their faces up. Among them is the old lady she was tossed up and she is younger and very beautiful and her body is followed by rows of roses. This event struck me heavily. For it is one's desire to leave traces of one's memory - the longing for immortality. As long as one remembers the dead ones the dead ones live. The fonder the memories the more beautiful and younger one grows in the Sea of Lost Time.
This story also speaks many other themes. But the idea of memory and the way it revealed itself to me stays with me and will stay with me for many more days.
January 18, 2024
How would people react to the sudden presence of a miracle in their lives? Read these five pages to see what the master GGM has to say about what鈥檚 likely. The mirror he holds up is so believable it鈥檚 painful.
I鈥檓 gobsmacked. Thanks to Mark Andr茅 for pointing me to this story. The writing (and Rabassa鈥檚 translation) is incredible. It鈥檚 made my day.
I鈥檓 gobsmacked. Thanks to Mark Andr茅 for pointing me to this story. The writing (and Rabassa鈥檚 translation) is incredible. It鈥檚 made my day.
April 11, 2023
What a fun exercise in deconstructing a few religious and other cultural tropes, while at the same time making a few satirical jabs at ecclesiastic bureaucracy, human short-sightedness and other foibles, all set in a comical mash-up of surrealism and the often dirt-besmeared quotidian hum-drum of village life.
Nowhere have I seen GGM's delightful sense of humor more at play than in this story where a man cannot fall asleep due to the noise of the stars and a woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers. Pure unadulterated GGM goodness!
Nowhere have I seen GGM's delightful sense of humor more at play than in this story where a man cannot fall asleep due to the noise of the stars and a woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers. Pure unadulterated GGM goodness!
April 9, 2023
鈥淗is only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience.鈥�
A couple is visited by an odd creature--a smelly, dirty, very old man with bug-infested wings--and everyone around them makes guesses at his origins. Instead of being curious and open-minded, they proceed to exploit him for their own purposes.
I don鈥檛 know what to make of this story. The creature isn鈥檛 easy to love, and all the characters are pretty nasty.
It did set my imagination going with possibilities. The Bible tells us to be kind to strangers because we may be entertaining angels unawares. No one says they have to come to us dressed in white and glowing with goodness. Mysteries abound in our practical, earth-bound lives. Perhaps we shouldn鈥檛 assume the point of these mysteries is for them to fall into the little boxes we have created, into the order we have chosen to make of life. Perhaps they have a different, bigger purpose, that we don't yet understand.
And perhaps we can enjoy a story that also doesn't fit into our boxes.
A couple is visited by an odd creature--a smelly, dirty, very old man with bug-infested wings--and everyone around them makes guesses at his origins. Instead of being curious and open-minded, they proceed to exploit him for their own purposes.
I don鈥檛 know what to make of this story. The creature isn鈥檛 easy to love, and all the characters are pretty nasty.
It did set my imagination going with possibilities. The Bible tells us to be kind to strangers because we may be entertaining angels unawares. No one says they have to come to us dressed in white and glowing with goodness. Mysteries abound in our practical, earth-bound lives. Perhaps we shouldn鈥檛 assume the point of these mysteries is for them to fall into the little boxes we have created, into the order we have chosen to make of life. Perhaps they have a different, bigger purpose, that we don't yet understand.
And perhaps we can enjoy a story that also doesn't fit into our boxes.
August 13, 2020
亘賷賱丕賷賵 賵兀賱爻賷賳丿丕 賮賷 賱賷賱丞 賲胤賷乇丞 賰丕賳賵丕 賲賳 兀賰鬲乇 丕賱賳丕爻 丨馗賸丕. 賲卮 賱廿賳賴賲 賱賯賵丕 賰賳夭 兀賵 賵乇孬賵丕 鬲乇賰丞 賰亘賷乇丞貙 賱賰賳 賱廿賳賴賲 賱賯賵丕 賲賱丕賰!
賲賱丕賰 胤賷亘 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 賲賳 兀賲乇賴 卮賷卅賸丕 賮賷 丿賳賷丕 丕賱亘卮乇 賳馗乇賸丕 賱廿賳賴賲 毓丕賲賱賵賴 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 噩賳賷 賲氐亘丕丨 毓賱丕亍 丕賱丿賷賳.
賲購鬲賳丕爻賷賳 丨賯賷賯丞 廿賳賴 賲丕賷賯丿乇卮 賷卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩匕賵亘 賱賰賳 賷賯丿乇 賷賳亘鬲 夭賴賵乇 毓亘丕丿 丕賱卮賲爻 賮賷 鬲賯乇丨丕鬲賴貙 賵賲毓 廿賳 丿丕 賮毓賱 賮賷 睾丕賷丞 丕賱賱購胤賮貙 丕毓鬲亘乇賵賴 爻購禺乇賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賲購毓噩夭丕鬲 丕賱賲購賳鬲馗乇丞.
賯氐丞 毓賳 丕賱胤賲毓 賵丕賱廿爻鬲睾賱丕賱 賵賲購賯丕亘賱丞 丕賱噩賻賲賷賱 亘丕賱噩丨賵丿 賵丕賱賳賰乇丕賳貙 賵賰丕賱毓丕丿丞 丕賱亘卮乇 賲禺賱賷賷賳 乇賯亘鬲賳丕 兀丿 丕賱爻賲爻賲丞 賲毓 賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 丕賱賱賴 丕賱兀禺乇賶 :(
賲賱丕賰 胤賷亘 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 賲賳 兀賲乇賴 卮賷卅賸丕 賮賷 丿賳賷丕 丕賱亘卮乇 賳馗乇賸丕 賱廿賳賴賲 毓丕賲賱賵賴 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 噩賳賷 賲氐亘丕丨 毓賱丕亍 丕賱丿賷賳.
賲購鬲賳丕爻賷賳 丨賯賷賯丞 廿賳賴 賲丕賷賯丿乇卮 賷卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩匕賵亘 賱賰賳 賷賯丿乇 賷賳亘鬲 夭賴賵乇 毓亘丕丿 丕賱卮賲爻 賮賷 鬲賯乇丨丕鬲賴貙 賵賲毓 廿賳 丿丕 賮毓賱 賮賷 睾丕賷丞 丕賱賱購胤賮貙 丕毓鬲亘乇賵賴 爻購禺乇賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賲購毓噩夭丕鬲 丕賱賲購賳鬲馗乇丞.
賯氐丞 毓賳 丕賱胤賲毓 賵丕賱廿爻鬲睾賱丕賱 賵賲購賯丕亘賱丞 丕賱噩賻賲賷賱 亘丕賱噩丨賵丿 賵丕賱賳賰乇丕賳貙 賵賰丕賱毓丕丿丞 丕賱亘卮乇 賲禺賱賷賷賳 乇賯亘鬲賳丕 兀丿 丕賱爻賲爻賲丞 賲毓 賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 丕賱賱賴 丕賱兀禺乇賶 :(
June 13, 2018
A short story...with evocative and magical words...that warmed my heart...and left me enchanted.
April 25, 2023
What is funny to me about my experience in reading this story is that, although I have been raised a Catholic and am very familiar with the Spanish and Hispanic milieus, I did not immediately think of an angel when first encountering this old winged man. I thought of Daedalus.
It is a while since I have read any works by Gabo. In general I am not a great fan of Magic Realism, but I hold him as the king of the genre, and the writer whose way of creating a magic reality appeals to me the most - he has a peculiar way of mixing irony, humour and social criticism that is unmatched in its gentleness and originality.
Then what struck me most in this story were the mob reaction (somewhat depressing in its cruelty), the reaction of the church (hilarious 鈥� in the line of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian"), and also the peculiar indifference that this old angel shows for humanity - not what is expected of angels.
And finally, the enigmatic ending. We are left with so many unanswered questions.
Once I accepted that this man with wings was closest to the figure of an angel, I then thought of the German film 鈥淒er Himmel 眉ber Berlin鈥� (Wings of Desire) and of the peculiar statue of the Fallen Angel in the Madrid Retiro park.
February 25, 2024
賴賲蹖卮賴 诏賮鬲賲 讴賴 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲蹖 讴賴 賲丕乇讴夭 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟囏� 鬲賵蹖 讴賱 丿賳蹖丕蹖 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 亘蹖鈥屫ㄘ屬� 賵 亘蹖鈥屬囐呚ж池� 丕賲丕 賴乇 亘丕乇 讴賴 乇賲丕賳/丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴/賲噩賲賵毓賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 丕夭 賲丕乇讴夭 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁呚� 亘丕夭 賴賲 丕夭 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖賽 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲卮 賲鬲毓噩亘 賵 睾乇賯 賱匕鬲 賲蹖卮賲.
賲孬賱丕 丿乇 丕賵丕蹖賱 賴賲蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃屬�: 芦丿乇蹖丕 賵 丌爻賲丕賳 亘賴 卮讴賱 趩蹖夭蹖 蹖讴鈥屫池� 賵 禺丕讴爻鬲乇蹖 丿乇 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 賲丕爻賴鈥屬囏й� 爻丕丨賱貙 讴賴 丿乇 卮亘鈥屬囏й� 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 賲孬賱 亘乇丕丿賴鈥屬囏й� 賳賵乇 賲蹖鈥屫必篡屫� 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 丕夭 诏賽賱 賵 丨賱夭賵賳賽 诏賳丿蹖丿賴 丿乇 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿.禄
賵 蹖丕 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲蹖 丿蹖诏乇: 芦亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰屬� 丕賵貙 亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰� 賯賴乇賲丕賳蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 丨丕賱 丕爻鬲乇丕丨鬲 亘丕卮丿 亘賱讴賴 亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰屬� 爻蹖賱丕亘蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賮乇賵賳卮爻鬲賴.禄
趩賴 亘爻丕 讴賴 丕蹖賳 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲貙 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴蹖 10 氐賮丨賴鈥屫й� 丌賲丿賴 賵 丿乇 賲賯丕蹖爻賴 亘丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賲丕乇讴夭 鬲賵蹖 乇賲丕賳鈥屬囏й屰� 賴賲趩賵賳 "毓卮賯 爻丕賱 賴丕蹖 賵亘丕" 讴丕賲賱丕 賳丕趩蹖夭賴.
讴噩丕 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗃屬� 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丿賯蹖賯 賵 夭蹖亘丕 倬蹖丿丕 讴賳蹖賳
亘賴 賳馗乇賲 爻亘讴 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屬囏й� 賲丕乇讴夭貙 乇卅丕賱蹖爻賲 噩丕丿賵蹖蹖 賳蹖爻鬲. 亘賱讴賴 爻亘讴蹖 賲禺鬲氐 禺賵丿卮 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賴蹖趩鈥屭┴� 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 趩賳蹖賳 夭蹖亘丕 亘賳賵蹖爻賴. 賲孬賱丕 爻亘讴賽 賲丕乇讴夭蹖!
丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 乇賵 亘丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 爻賴蹖賱貙 亘蹖賳賽 丿賵 鬲丕 讴賱丕爻賲 禺賵賳丿賲 賵 毓賱丕乇睾賲 讴賵鬲丕賴 亘賵丿賳卮 禺蹖賱蹖 亘賴賲 趩爻亘蹖丿 賵 賲賳賵 丿賱鬲賳诏 賯賱賲 噩丕丿賵蹖蹖 賲丕乇讴夭 讴乇丿.
蹖賴 丨爻蹖 亘賴賲 賲蹖诏賴 讴賴 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 亘乇賲 爻乇丕睾 "氐丿 爻丕賱 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖"
賲孬賱丕 丿乇 丕賵丕蹖賱 賴賲蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃屬�: 芦丿乇蹖丕 賵 丌爻賲丕賳 亘賴 卮讴賱 趩蹖夭蹖 蹖讴鈥屫池� 賵 禺丕讴爻鬲乇蹖 丿乇 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 賲丕爻賴鈥屬囏й� 爻丕丨賱貙 讴賴 丿乇 卮亘鈥屬囏й� 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻 賲孬賱 亘乇丕丿賴鈥屬囏й� 賳賵乇 賲蹖鈥屫必篡屫� 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 丕夭 诏賽賱 賵 丨賱夭賵賳賽 诏賳丿蹖丿賴 丿乇 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿.禄
賵 蹖丕 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲蹖 丿蹖诏乇: 芦亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰屬� 丕賵貙 亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰� 賯賴乇賲丕賳蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 丨丕賱 丕爻鬲乇丕丨鬲 亘丕卮丿 亘賱讴賴 亘蹖鈥屫ж关嗀й屰屬� 爻蹖賱丕亘蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賮乇賵賳卮爻鬲賴.禄
趩賴 亘爻丕 讴賴 丕蹖賳 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲貙 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴蹖 10 氐賮丨賴鈥屫й� 丌賲丿賴 賵 丿乇 賲賯丕蹖爻賴 亘丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賲丕乇讴夭 鬲賵蹖 乇賲丕賳鈥屬囏й屰� 賴賲趩賵賳 "毓卮賯 爻丕賱 賴丕蹖 賵亘丕" 讴丕賲賱丕 賳丕趩蹖夭賴.
讴噩丕 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗃屬� 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲蹖 趩賳蹖賳 丿賯蹖賯 賵 夭蹖亘丕 倬蹖丿丕 讴賳蹖賳
亘賴 賳馗乇賲 爻亘讴 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屬囏й� 賲丕乇讴夭貙 乇卅丕賱蹖爻賲 噩丕丿賵蹖蹖 賳蹖爻鬲. 亘賱讴賴 爻亘讴蹖 賲禺鬲氐 禺賵丿卮 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賴蹖趩鈥屭┴� 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 趩賳蹖賳 夭蹖亘丕 亘賳賵蹖爻賴. 賲孬賱丕 爻亘讴賽 賲丕乇讴夭蹖!
丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 乇賵 亘丕 賲毓乇賮蹖 爻賴蹖賱貙 亘蹖賳賽 丿賵 鬲丕 讴賱丕爻賲 禺賵賳丿賲 賵 毓賱丕乇睾賲 讴賵鬲丕賴 亘賵丿賳卮 禺蹖賱蹖 亘賴賲 趩爻亘蹖丿 賵 賲賳賵 丿賱鬲賳诏 賯賱賲 噩丕丿賵蹖蹖 賲丕乇讴夭 讴乇丿.
蹖賴 丨爻蹖 亘賴賲 賲蹖诏賴 讴賴 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 亘乇賲 爻乇丕睾 "氐丿 爻丕賱 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖"
October 6, 2024
4.5 猸愶笍
鈥炐曅葱感� 屑薪芯谐芯 褋褌邪褉 褋械薪褜芯褉 褋 芯谐褉芯屑薪懈 泻褉懈谢械鈥� 械 芯褔邪褉芯胁邪褌械谢械薪 褉邪蟹泻邪蟹, 懈蟹锌褗谢薪械薪 褋褗褋 褋懈谢薪懈 械屑芯褑懈懈 懈 屑芯褉邪谢薪懈 锌芯褍泻懈! 袦邪褉泻械褋 锌芯 褌褉芯谐邪褌械谢械薪 薪邪褔懈薪 械 褉邪蟹泻邪蟹邪谢 蟹邪 褋褌褉邪薪薪芯褌芯 锌芯褟胁褟胁邪薪械 薪邪 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌械薪 邪薪谐械谢 褋褉械写 芯斜懈泻薪芯胁械薪懈 褏芯褉邪 懈 褌褟褏薪芯褌芯 卸械褋褌芯泻芯 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械 泻褗屑 薪械谐芯...
鈥炐曅葱感窖佈傂残敌叫狙傂� 屑褍 褋胁褉褗褏械褋褌械褋褌胁械薪芯 泻邪褔械褋褌胁芯 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 斜械褕械 褌褗褉锌械薪懈械褌芯.鈥�
鈥炐曅葱感� 屑薪芯谐芯 褋褌邪褉 褋械薪褜芯褉 褋 芯谐褉芯屑薪懈 泻褉懈谢械鈥� 械 芯褔邪褉芯胁邪褌械谢械薪 褉邪蟹泻邪蟹, 懈蟹锌褗谢薪械薪 褋褗褋 褋懈谢薪懈 械屑芯褑懈懈 懈 屑芯褉邪谢薪懈 锌芯褍泻懈! 袦邪褉泻械褋 锌芯 褌褉芯谐邪褌械谢械薪 薪邪褔懈薪 械 褉邪蟹泻邪蟹邪谢 蟹邪 褋褌褉邪薪薪芯褌芯 锌芯褟胁褟胁邪薪械 薪邪 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌械薪 邪薪谐械谢 褋褉械写 芯斜懈泻薪芯胁械薪懈 褏芯褉邪 懈 褌褟褏薪芯褌芯 卸械褋褌芯泻芯 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械 泻褗屑 薪械谐芯...
鈥炐曅葱感窖佈傂残敌叫狙傂� 屑褍 褋胁褉褗褏械褋褌械褋褌胁械薪芯 泻邪褔械褋褌胁芯 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 斜械褕械 褌褗褉锌械薪懈械褌芯.鈥�
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April 4, 20237.5/10
An interesting spin on the age old question:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see ...
(Lyrics by Eric Bazilian)
Do you believe in god or angels? And if you do, would you recognize them if you met them?
Most people wouldn't.
They would come to us, by necessity, as strangers.
And each time we encounter a stranger, we show our true colours ...
A sad indictment of our species.
An interesting spin on the age old question:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see ...
(Lyrics by Eric Bazilian)
Do you believe in god or angels? And if you do, would you recognize them if you met them?
Most people wouldn't.
They would come to us, by necessity, as strangers.
And each time we encounter a stranger, we show our true colours ...
A sad indictment of our species.
March 20, 2017
El cuento relata el pobre estado de un ser alado muy viejo, el cual suponen que era un 谩ngel.
Durante una tormenta, es encontrado en el patio de una casa. Los propietarios de la casa abusan de este ser incre铆ble, y lo llevan para un gallinero trat谩ndolo como una atracci贸n de circo. El visitante causa entre todos un gran revuelo; se forman largas filas de curiosos que pagan por verlo.
Sin embargo, la aparici贸n de un nuevo fen贸meno, una mujer con cuerpo de ara帽a, hace que todo el mundo pierda el inter茅s en el 谩ngel.
Durante una tormenta, es encontrado en el patio de una casa. Los propietarios de la casa abusan de este ser incre铆ble, y lo llevan para un gallinero trat谩ndolo como una atracci贸n de circo. El visitante causa entre todos un gran revuelo; se forman largas filas de curiosos que pagan por verlo.
Sin embargo, la aparici贸n de un nuevo fen贸meno, una mujer con cuerpo de ara帽a, hace que todo el mundo pierda el inter茅s en el 谩ngel.
November 1, 2022
A very old man with wings 鈥榙ressed like a ragpicker鈥� appears in the courtyard of Pelayo and Elisenda. Is he an Angel? I really liked this story, there鈥檚 the typical human behaviour of the villagers hoping for miracle cures or blessings, the local priest who has to wait for a decision from Rome, the couple making money out of visitors to their smelly chicken coop where they keep the poor old man and then disinterest when a new attraction arrives. There鈥檚 a bit of humour mixed in with the magical mystery. A nicely written quick read.
December 7, 2021
It's been years since I read this masterpiece, and I recommend it. G.G. Marquez in one of a kind
July 29, 2021
丕爻賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘: 乇噩賱 毓噩賵夭 亘噩賳丕丨賷賳 賰亘賷乇賷賳 "賯氐丞 賯氐賷乇丞"
丕爻賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘: 睾丕亘乇賷賷賱 睾丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭
毓丿丿 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲: 5氐賮丨丕鬲
賳亘匕丞 毓賳 丕賱賯氐丞貙貙
賳卮乇鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 毓丕賲 1955賲 亘丕賱廿爻亘丕賳賷丞 孬賲 鬲賲 鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 賱丕丨賯丕賸 賱賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞 毓丕賲 1972賲.
賲賱禺氐 丕賱賯氐丞貙貙
賷噩丿 丕賱夭賵噩丕賳 亘賷賱丕賷賵 賵兀賱賷爻賳丿丕 乇噩賱丕賸 毓噩賵夭丕賸 亘毓丿 兀賷丕賲 賲胤賷乇丞 賮賷 亘丕丨丞 亘賷鬲賴賲 賵賴賵 亘丨丕賱丞 爻賷卅丞 噩丿丕賸 賵賲丕 賰丕賳 賷賲賷夭 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱毓噩賵夭 兀賳 賱賴 噩賳丕丨丕賳 賰亘賷乇丕賳 賵賱丕 賷鬲賰賱賲 賰賱丕賲丕賸 賲賮賴賵賲丕賸貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賵噩丿丕賴 兀賱賷賮 賵馗賳丕 廿賳賴 乇亘賲丕 爻賯胤 賲賳 爻賮賷賳丞 兀噩賳亘賷丞 亘爻亘亘 丕賱毓丕氐賮丞貙 賷爻鬲丿毓賷 丕賱夭賵噩丕賳 噩丕乇鬲賴賲丕 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲禺亘乇賴賲 亘丿賵乇賴丕 廿賳賴 賲賱丕賰貙 賵噩丕亍 賱兀噩賱 胤賮賱鬲賴賲丕 丕賱賵賱賷丿丞. 鬲亘丿兀 丨卮賵丿 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丕賱賯丿賵賲 賱賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賲賱丕賰 丕賱匕賷 賵賯毓 兀爻賷乇丕賸 賱丿賶 亘賷賱丕賷賵貙 賵賲賳 囟賲賳賴賲 丕賱兀亘 睾賵賳夭丕賰丕 丕賱匕賷 賷禺亘乇賴賲 亘毓丿 丕賱賮丨氐 賱賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲噩賳丨 亘廿賳賴 賱賷爻 賲賱丕賰丕賸!
鬲兀鬲賷 賱賱賲丿賷賳丞 丕賲乇兀丞 丕賳賯賱亘鬲 毓賳賰亘賵鬲丕賸 賮賷鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賳丕爻 賱賲卮丕賴丿鬲賴丕 賰賲丕 丨丿孬 賲毓 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲賱丕賰貙 賵賴賰匕丕 賷禺賱賵 亘賷鬲 亘賷賱丕賷賵 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻貙 賵賱賰賳賴賲丕 丕爻鬲胤丕毓丕 亘賳丕亍 亘賷鬲丕 噩賲賷賱丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱鬲賷 賰爻亘丕賴丕 賲賳 乇爻賵賲 賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賲賱丕賰! 賷賲乇囟 丕賱賲賱丕賰 賲乇囟丕賸 卮丿賷丿丕賸 賵賱賰賳賴 賷鬲毓丕賮賶 賲賳賴 賵賷亘丿兀 丕賱乇賷卮 丕賱噩丿賷丿 亘丕賱馗賴賵乇 賵賷亘丿兀 亘鬲毓賱賲 丕賱胤賷乇丕賳 賲噩丿丿丕賸 賵賴賰匕丕 賷胤賷乇 賲睾丕丿乇丕賸.
~賲乇丕噩毓鬲賷貙貙 賯氐丞 禺賷丕賱丞 爻丕丨乇丞 鬲亘賷賳 爻賱賵賰 丕賱亘卮乇 賲毓 亘毓囟 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲禺鬲賱賮 毓賳賴! 鬲賲賳賷購 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賯氐丞 兀胤賵賱 賱匕賰乇 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱貙 賰丕賳鬲 鬲亘丿賵 賱賷 賰匕賰乇 乇丐賵爻 兀賯賱丕賲 賱賲丨鬲賵賶 賰鬲丕亘 兀賵 賯氐丞 兀禺乇賶! 賵賱賰賳賴丕 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲 噩賷丿丞 噩丿丕賸 賵賲賳丕爻亘丞 噩丿丕賸 賱賱兀胤賮丕賱 賱兀賳賴丕 鬲毓賱賲賴賲 丕賱賰孬賷乇.
词丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲貙貙
1- 賵賯毓鬲 丨賰賲鬲賴 毓賱賶 賯賱賵亘 毓賯賷賲丞.
2- 賰丕賳鬲 賲賷夭鬲賴 丕賱禺丕乇賯丞 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 賴賷 丕賱氐亘乇.
3- .... 丨鬲賶 兀賰孬乇賴賲 毓胤賮丕賸 毓賱賷賴 賰丕賳賵 賷乇噩賲賵賳賴 亘丕賱兀丨噩丕乇 賲丨丕賵賱賷賳 廿賷賯丕賮賴 賱賷賳馗乇賵丕 廿賱賷賴 賵賴賵 賲賳鬲氐亘丕賸.
4- .... 賲卮賴丿 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 賲賱賷亍 亘丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵亘丿乇爻 賲乇賵毓 賰丕賳 毓賱賶 賵卮賰 兀賳 賷賯囟賷 毓賱賶 賲卮賴丿 賲賱丕賰 賲鬲毓噩乇賮 賳丕丿乇丕賸 賲丕 賰丕賳 賷鬲賱胤賮 亘丕賱賳馗乇 廿賱賶 丕賱賳丕爻.
5- 賰丕賳 丕賱賲賱丕賰 賮丕鬲乇丕賸 賲毓賴丕 賲孬賱賲丕 賰丕賳 賲毓 亘丕賯賷 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲貙 賱賰賳賴 鬲丨賲賱 兀亘卮毓 爻賱賵賰 亘乇賷亍 亘氐亘乇 賰賱亘 賱丕 兀賵賴丕賲 賱丿賷賴.
丕爻賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘: 睾丕亘乇賷賷賱 睾丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭
毓丿丿 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲: 5氐賮丨丕鬲
賳亘匕丞 毓賳 丕賱賯氐丞貙貙
賳卮乇鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 毓丕賲 1955賲 亘丕賱廿爻亘丕賳賷丞 孬賲 鬲賲 鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 賱丕丨賯丕賸 賱賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞 毓丕賲 1972賲.
賲賱禺氐 丕賱賯氐丞貙貙
賷噩丿 丕賱夭賵噩丕賳 亘賷賱丕賷賵 賵兀賱賷爻賳丿丕 乇噩賱丕賸 毓噩賵夭丕賸 亘毓丿 兀賷丕賲 賲胤賷乇丞 賮賷 亘丕丨丞 亘賷鬲賴賲 賵賴賵 亘丨丕賱丞 爻賷卅丞 噩丿丕賸 賵賲丕 賰丕賳 賷賲賷夭 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱毓噩賵夭 兀賳 賱賴 噩賳丕丨丕賳 賰亘賷乇丕賳 賵賱丕 賷鬲賰賱賲 賰賱丕賲丕賸 賲賮賴賵賲丕賸貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賵噩丿丕賴 兀賱賷賮 賵馗賳丕 廿賳賴 乇亘賲丕 爻賯胤 賲賳 爻賮賷賳丞 兀噩賳亘賷丞 亘爻亘亘 丕賱毓丕氐賮丞貙 賷爻鬲丿毓賷 丕賱夭賵噩丕賳 噩丕乇鬲賴賲丕 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲禺亘乇賴賲 亘丿賵乇賴丕 廿賳賴 賲賱丕賰貙 賵噩丕亍 賱兀噩賱 胤賮賱鬲賴賲丕 丕賱賵賱賷丿丞. 鬲亘丿兀 丨卮賵丿 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丕賱賯丿賵賲 賱賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賲賱丕賰 丕賱匕賷 賵賯毓 兀爻賷乇丕賸 賱丿賶 亘賷賱丕賷賵貙 賵賲賳 囟賲賳賴賲 丕賱兀亘 睾賵賳夭丕賰丕 丕賱匕賷 賷禺亘乇賴賲 亘毓丿 丕賱賮丨氐 賱賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲噩賳丨 亘廿賳賴 賱賷爻 賲賱丕賰丕賸!
鬲兀鬲賷 賱賱賲丿賷賳丞 丕賲乇兀丞 丕賳賯賱亘鬲 毓賳賰亘賵鬲丕賸 賮賷鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賳丕爻 賱賲卮丕賴丿鬲賴丕 賰賲丕 丨丿孬 賲毓 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲賱丕賰貙 賵賴賰匕丕 賷禺賱賵 亘賷鬲 亘賷賱丕賷賵 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻貙 賵賱賰賳賴賲丕 丕爻鬲胤丕毓丕 亘賳丕亍 亘賷鬲丕 噩賲賷賱丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賳賯賵丿 丕賱鬲賷 賰爻亘丕賴丕 賲賳 乇爻賵賲 賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賲賱丕賰! 賷賲乇囟 丕賱賲賱丕賰 賲乇囟丕賸 卮丿賷丿丕賸 賵賱賰賳賴 賷鬲毓丕賮賶 賲賳賴 賵賷亘丿兀 丕賱乇賷卮 丕賱噩丿賷丿 亘丕賱馗賴賵乇 賵賷亘丿兀 亘鬲毓賱賲 丕賱胤賷乇丕賳 賲噩丿丿丕賸 賵賴賰匕丕 賷胤賷乇 賲睾丕丿乇丕賸.
~賲乇丕噩毓鬲賷貙貙 賯氐丞 禺賷丕賱丞 爻丕丨乇丞 鬲亘賷賳 爻賱賵賰 丕賱亘卮乇 賲毓 亘毓囟 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲禺鬲賱賮 毓賳賴! 鬲賲賳賷購 賱賵 賰丕賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賯氐丞 兀胤賵賱 賱匕賰乇 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱貙 賰丕賳鬲 鬲亘丿賵 賱賷 賰匕賰乇 乇丐賵爻 兀賯賱丕賲 賱賲丨鬲賵賶 賰鬲丕亘 兀賵 賯氐丞 兀禺乇賶! 賵賱賰賳賴丕 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲 噩賷丿丞 噩丿丕賸 賵賲賳丕爻亘丞 噩丿丕賸 賱賱兀胤賮丕賱 賱兀賳賴丕 鬲毓賱賲賴賲 丕賱賰孬賷乇.
词丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲貙貙
1- 賵賯毓鬲 丨賰賲鬲賴 毓賱賶 賯賱賵亘 毓賯賷賲丞.
2- 賰丕賳鬲 賲賷夭鬲賴 丕賱禺丕乇賯丞 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 賴賷 丕賱氐亘乇.
3- .... 丨鬲賶 兀賰孬乇賴賲 毓胤賮丕賸 毓賱賷賴 賰丕賳賵 賷乇噩賲賵賳賴 亘丕賱兀丨噩丕乇 賲丨丕賵賱賷賳 廿賷賯丕賮賴 賱賷賳馗乇賵丕 廿賱賷賴 賵賴賵 賲賳鬲氐亘丕賸.
4- .... 賲卮賴丿 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 賲賱賷亍 亘丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵亘丿乇爻 賲乇賵毓 賰丕賳 毓賱賶 賵卮賰 兀賳 賷賯囟賷 毓賱賶 賲卮賴丿 賲賱丕賰 賲鬲毓噩乇賮 賳丕丿乇丕賸 賲丕 賰丕賳 賷鬲賱胤賮 亘丕賱賳馗乇 廿賱賶 丕賱賳丕爻.
5- 賰丕賳 丕賱賲賱丕賰 賮丕鬲乇丕賸 賲毓賴丕 賲孬賱賲丕 賰丕賳 賲毓 亘丕賯賷 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲貙 賱賰賳賴 鬲丨賲賱 兀亘卮毓 爻賱賵賰 亘乇賷亍 亘氐亘乇 賰賱亘 賱丕 兀賵賴丕賲 賱丿賷賴.
June 14, 2024
I recently got a list of the top 10 short stories to read, and quite a few of them were by authors I loved. I haven't read anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was very happy to see this one the list. I really enjoyed his special brand of magical realism and writing. I didn't realise how extremely short the story is - only 12 pages - and as always with any short story I ended up wishing it was longer.
July 29, 2021
丕丨丿 賰鬲亘 丕賱賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷丕 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇丞 賰鬲亘鬲 亘賯賱賲 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賵鬲毓鬲亘乇 賲賳 丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 噩丿丕
賮丨賵賶 丕賱賯氐丞 毓賲賷賯 噩丿丕 賵賷乇賷賳丕 賰賷賮 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賳 賷睾鬲賳賷 賱丕賳賴 賱丕丨馗 馗丕賴乇丞 睾乇賷亘丞 賳賵毓丕 賲丕 賵丕爻鬲禺丿賲賴丕 賱賷氐亘丨 睾賳賷丕 丕賵 賰賲孬丕賱 丕賷丕賲 丕賱丨乇賵亘 賵丕賱賳丕爻 丕賱鬲賷 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賳 鬲噩賳賷 丕賲賵賱丕 胤丕卅賱丞 賱丕賳賴丕 鬲卮鬲乇賷 賰賲孬丕賱 丕賱丕卮賷丕亍 丕賱孬賲賷賳丞 亘孬賲賳 亘禺爻 丕賵 鬲賴噩賲 毓賱賶 丕賱亘賷賵鬲 丕賱禺丕賱賷丞 賵鬲爻乇賯 賲丕 賮賷賴丕 賵鬲亘賷毓賴丕 亘丕爻毓丕乇 賲囟丕毓賮丞.
賰匕賱賰 賷乇賷丿 丕賳 賷乇賷賳丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賳 丕賱賳丕爻 賷氐賷亘賴丕 丕賱賲賱賱 賲賳 賲卮丕賴丿丞 卮賷卅賸丕 賵丕丨丿丕 賵賷禺賱賵賳 丕賱鬲睾賷賷乇 賮亘賲噩乇丿 馗賴賵乇 卮禺氐 賲禺鬲賱賮 毓賳 丕賱賲賱丕賰 (丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱毓賳賰亘賵鬲) 亘丿兀 丕賱鬲賴丕賮鬲 毓賱賶 乇丐賷鬲賴 賷賯賱 賵賱賲 賷毓丿 亘丕爻鬲胤丕毓丞 丕賴賱 丕賱亘賷鬲 賲賳 胤賱亘 丕賱賳賯賵丿 賱賲賳 賷乇賷丿 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿丞.
賲賳 賳丕丨賷丞 丕禺乇賶 賱丕 丕毓鬲賯丿 (賵賯丿 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 亘兀賳 丕賷 卮禺氐 賯丿 毓賱賯 毓賱賶 馗丕賴乇丞 丕賱爻乇胤丕賳丕鬲 丕賱亘丨乇賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 睾夭鬲 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵丕賱亘賷賵鬲責 賱賲丕匕丕 賳鬲噩丕賴賱 亘毓囟 丕賱馗賵丕賴乇 賵賳鬲噩丕賴賱 亘毓囟賴丕 丕賱丕禺乇責 賰賲孬丕賱 亘爻賷胤 賱賳賮鬲乇囟 賴賳丕 亘兀賳 賱賷 胤賮賱丕賳! 丕丨丿賴賲丕 亘賰鬲亘 賯氐氐丕 賵丕賱丕禺乇 賷毓夭賮 丕賱賲賵爻賷賯賶! 乇亘賲丕 爻丕卮噩毓 丕賱賲賵爻賷賯丕乇 賵丕丨囟乇 賱賴 賲毓賱賲丕 賵丕鬲噩丕賴賱 丕賱胤賮賱 丕賱丕禺乇責
丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 亘胤亘賷毓鬲賴 賮囟賵賱賷 賵賱賰賳 賴賱 賷爻鬲丿毓賷 丕賱丕賲乇 丕賱賶 丕賳 賳丿禺賱 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 賮賷 賰賱 丕賲乇 賲賳 丕賲賵乇賳丕責
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賲賳 賳丕丨賷丞 丕禺乇賶 賱丕 丕毓鬲賯丿 (賵賯丿 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 亘兀賳 丕賷 卮禺氐 賯丿 毓賱賯 毓賱賶 馗丕賴乇丞 丕賱爻乇胤丕賳丕鬲 丕賱亘丨乇賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 睾夭鬲 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵丕賱亘賷賵鬲責 賱賲丕匕丕 賳鬲噩丕賴賱 亘毓囟 丕賱馗賵丕賴乇 賵賳鬲噩丕賴賱 亘毓囟賴丕 丕賱丕禺乇責 賰賲孬丕賱 亘爻賷胤 賱賳賮鬲乇囟 賴賳丕 亘兀賳 賱賷 胤賮賱丕賳! 丕丨丿賴賲丕 亘賰鬲亘 賯氐氐丕 賵丕賱丕禺乇 賷毓夭賮 丕賱賲賵爻賷賯賶! 乇亘賲丕 爻丕卮噩毓 丕賱賲賵爻賷賯丕乇 賵丕丨囟乇 賱賴 賲毓賱賲丕 賵丕鬲噩丕賴賱 丕賱胤賮賱 丕賱丕禺乇責
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