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[Aaron Yeater]

> 
> BTW, since Aaron signs off with a quote from Garcia Marquez, does anyone know
> if GGM has mentioned reading Conrad's NOSTROMO before writing ONE HUNDRED
> YEARS OF SOLITUDE?  There are some remarkable parallels (as well as profound
> differences) between the two.  And just to take us back to movies, note the
> names of the space freighter in the first ALIEN film and its escape pod--
> the Nostromo and the Sulaco (setting for Conrad's novel)!
> 
Sorry, Don and folks, I know not NOSTROMO...can somebody brief me?

aaron 
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"Look at the mess we've got ourselves into," Colonel 
Aureliano Buendia said at that time, "just because we 
invited a gringo to eat some bananas."
                           --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
                             "One Hundred Years of Solitude"