And now for something completely different...

[Mark Kohut]

And LOOK! what just popped up in my newsmagazine feed, by an FS & G
editor and writer. I haven't even read it yet.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/12/gabriel-garcia-marquez-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-history

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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