{"id":10431,"date":"2014-04-18T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=10431"},"modified":"2014-04-18T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T04:30:29","slug":"thursday-night-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/04\/18\/thursday-night-marquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night \u2013 Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Got home around midnight to hear that the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez had died at age 87. Like many high school students I fell in love with marquezs magic realism. I remember reading hundred years of solitude. It was like a right of passage. Like reading Carlos Castaneda or Hermann Hesse or Jack Carol wack. I remember thinking we were different for reading those books\u2026 Just like all<\/u> my friends. LOL.<\/p>\n

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But Marquez was special. He wrote about things that were almost<\/em> there. I didn't learn the term magic realism until many years later but I remember that reading Marquez reminded me of my own personal experience of wondering whether there was something completely different reality just underneath the reality we experienced.<\/p>\n

I remember how deep that felt reading his books.\u2026 Then I remember laughing at myself for thinking it was so deep\u2026 Now here I am again thinking it was deep. That's magic realism.<\/p>\n

I think I read everything he ever wrote\u2026 At least every novel. I can't even remember my favorites now. I remember reading hojascuras (leaf storms) using my faulty high school Spanish\u2026 And still getting it. I think that book might be within 10 feet of me right now. I loved his interpretation of crazy old men in books like autumn of the patriarch. And no one writes to the colonel .. Especially now that I am aspiring to be a crazy old man. Or at least approximating one<\/p>\n

We need I heard that he died\u2026 The first thing that came to my mind was the movie here erindira that he wrote back in the 80's. I remember it was so surreal. Here's a scene I found on YouTube. It reminds me of his writing<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZUmkmNSGWJA&sns=em<\/p>\n

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Here's to you Mr. Marquez. The guy that big me realize that you get to choose your own reality.
Night all, night Sam
\u2013 Me<\/p>\n

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