MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami

[malignd at aol.com]

I'm a big fan of Autumn of the Patriarch too.  Mubarak, indeed.  Not 
sure I like it better than 100 Years of Solitude;  Love in the Time of 
Cholera is pretty nifty as well.


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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
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Sent: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 4:29 am
Subject: Re: MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami


though GGM last few books have been less than great (one about theyoung 
prostitute was embarrassing) but i think autumn of the patriarchrivals 
absalom absalom in form, scope and imagination. sheer languageof that 
book is breathtaking. like it more than one hundred yearsactually. 
mubarak should be reading it about nowOn 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.>>> -----Original 
Message-----> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>> To: David 
Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>> Cc: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>; 
John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>;> Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>; 
Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>> Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 7:46 am> 
Subject: Re: MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami>>> 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>