cloud atlas : Oran Pamuk

[Mark A. Douglas]

 Nice!  
And it's funny, or a testament to your work, but reading Pamuk currently and
looking at your bowl(?) ('cause it could be a plate from the photograph -
believe me, no insult intended)(although the description calls it a
plate...), I would've put the too together.  It reminds me of Osman in the
Sultan's treasury, looking at all of the manuscripts, trying to determine
from the drawing of a horse who killed Enishte.
 
Very good.
 
 
Peace
 
Mark


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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:00 AM
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Subject: cloud atlas : Oran Pamuk





Mark wrote
(currently reading Pamuk's _My Name is Red_: any thoughts on this
book, or this writer, from anyone? Can't recall that I've read his
name a lot here...)
 
I design and make stained glass windows(www.brooksideglassworks.com)  and
several years ago was commissioned by an Iranian couple to make a widow
based on Persian miniatures.  I  bought and checked out some books on the
subject which initiated a continuing fascination with this branch of Middle
Eastern art.
 
So when I saw "My Name is Red"in my local library I got it. I had no Idea
what a beautifully crafted work of fiction I was in for: the personification
of the colors as  characters at work in the  psyche, the way the different
voices seem to build up a lenslike clarity to see into the story and the
world. As an artist/craftperson involved in the difficult and painstaking
details of a demanding medieval craft I think Pamuk got the interior and
exterior lives of the characters correct to a fine degree.  Also, the clear
delineation of the fascination/ disagreement between Islamic culture and
Eurpean culture and the resulting alchemy are a genuine tonic for the thick
headed culture wars of today.  I think this writer may be due for a Nobel
prize, but definitely a major talent. He has something new I wish to read.
 
2 of my own works were inspired by this reading.  One, called "Race ", is on
my website www.brooksideglassworks.com/Page_16.html
 
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at earthlink.net
Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
 



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