And now for something completely different...

[Mark Kohut]

yes, 100 Years of Solitude before it was translated. I meant to imply.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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