MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami

[rich]

though GGM last few books have been less than great (one about the
young prostitute was embarrassing) but i think autumn of the patriarch
rivals absalom absalom in form, scope and imagination. sheer language
of that book is breathtaking. like it more than one hundred years
actually. mubarak should be reading it about now

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:56 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> All true, which is not to say, however, that Murakami is Garcia-Marquez's
> equal as a writer.
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> Remember that Zen is not South American Catholicism. South
> AmericanCatholicism is a deeply woven blend of pre-rational mythologies
> thatgives form to a complexity of archetypal forces in the mind. Zen looksat
> archetypal forces, becomes aware of itself looking at them,contemplates the
> looking, then the looker, and, eventually, arrives atthe negation of both,
> which negation is also identical with theaffirmation of both as arising in
> the same simple instant of a vast,complex impetus merely labeled as karma.
> The contemporary take is theone the beats liked so much: mu.They different
> kinds of magic.On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:54 AM, David Morris
> <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:> It's "magical" aspect come acreoss to me as
> leading nowhere, hinting> at a depth that is never delivered.  Gabriel
> García Márquez does that> magical thing, and with him it has resonance.
>  Maybe it's a Japanese> cultural thing that I just don't follow...>> On Fri,
> Jan 28, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:>> I like
> his stuff, particularly "Kafka on the Shore". There's an innocent magical
> quality to it that I find entertaining.>-- Klaatu barada nikto
>