The Great Columbian Writer

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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, General Aureliano
Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to
discover ice."
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez (opening sentence of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude')



What would i give to have the same feeling when i first read Marquez's work, th OneHUndred Years of Solitude. I was easily swept by the first few pages of the book, i let myself be enveloped in the mystical world of Macondo. I finished the book feeling a lil bit sad, but truly in awe by this genius author. Sorry i need to brag, but i read it yearssssssss before oprah put it on her book club.

Wanting more, i scrimp on my allowance so that i can buy and read on his other books. (second hand books shops are not that nice in Manila or probably i am just not aware of one). I didn't even mind eating the same meal day after day, truly a Love in the time of Egg Sandwich. Anyway, i read from another blog that this great Columbian novelist celebrated his 80th birthday, with his hometown marking it with 80 canon shots ....wow!


sigh...i wonder if i can still meet him personally to sign my book (>.<)

and so i will end this entry with:

"He [Aureliano II ] had already understood that he would never leave
that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would
be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the
precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the
parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time
immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years
of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
~One Hundred Years of Solitude, last words

to Gabirel Garcia Marquez, happy birthday and thank you for giving us the 'One Hundred years of Solitude'