Comments | azalaisdep: Writer's Block: The start of something wonderful

azalaisdep

Writer's Block: The start of something wonderful

Feb 05, 2011 15:04

writer's block, reading, jane_austen, books

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wormwood_7 February 5 2011, 15:27:28 UTC

Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Gabriel Marcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Extraordinary book and reading experience.

azalaisdep February 5 2011, 16:14:42 UTC

That's a corker, isn't it? Very Marquez in the way it foreshadows, encapsulates, somewhat misleads, and grabs your attention all at once :-)

wormwood_7 February 5 2011, 16:56:56 UTC

That's an excellent way of putting it!