And now for something completely different...

[Monte Davis]

MK> we should believe he was reading Marquez

Indeed we should:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/books/the-heart-s-eternal-vow.html

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, we now know Pynchon translated at least one of Cortazar's stories
> (in Blow-Up and other stories and we should believe he was reading Marquez
> and we know Borges, etc.
>
> I recently read in some literary biography--Heller/bellow ? --about how
> the whole international
> Literary community was unanimously excited about 100 Years of Solitude in
> the late sixties as everyone worked to get it translated and known and
> read. Worked.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 5:18 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice. I'll see you that link and go you one on the same subject from 1991.
>
> https://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/Kultur/Drogen/Drogen+Computernetz/Silicon_Valley.html
>
> entheogens have been central to the development of mathematics and Comp
> Sci over the last few decades.
>
> The great pivotal period of the 60's, where so many locate the birth/
> emergence of "postmodernism" could perhaps better be seen as what post wwII
> chemistry was doing to the predominant paradigm: first comes Kerouac, bebop
> and speed and just when that was asimilated and defanged came an even
> bigger shift - LSD. The so-called collective conscious would never be the
> same again; minds were being blown open and testing the ramparts of the old
> regime.
>
>    (Go check out that Blue Boy episode - 1967 and the first episode in
> color! -  of Dragnet to get an idea of how the whole thing was shaking up
> society.)
>
>   And then comes this stuff from Latin America, crazy fiction that has
> people turning into fish! Notice how many people get turned onto Borges at
> the same time: it was as essential for Barths as a writer as it was for
> Foucault as a thinker. Now what about Cortazar and Pynchon? Where do they
> fit in all this?
>
> ciao
> mc otis
> ps. If you travel, have a safe trip. Bom Shankar.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thought you might find this interesting...
>>
>>
>> http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/how-lsd-microdosing-became-the-hot-new-business-trip-20151120
>>
>> --
>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
>>
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