tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post8061439742473440203..comments2023-03-25T12:59:10.834-07:00Comments on welcome to the museum of joy: Things in My Cabinet: Magical Realism is Actually Just RealismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-62342761086130684652012-07-16T09:20:05.515-07:002012-07-16T09:20:05.515-07:00This will be like that game "Mastermind"...This will be like that game "Mastermind" I have one black peg, and nothing else. . . bananas, and pavlov's dog?<br /><br />Have you read Kafka on the Shore? That's a decent example of the genre. <br /><br />I'm "reading" (it's an audiobook, so really the author is reading it to me) "Aegypt". The author makes the point that what's really amazing is not the concept of magic itself (he uses the example of lay lines and stone circles, but of man's insistence on magically interpreting what might otherwise be considered mundane occurrences, of his ability to interpret the normal world through magical eyes. I'm not sure I agree with either of you.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538573774184028004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-7768051429746619452012-07-12T22:15:56.320-07:002012-07-12T22:15:56.320-07:00Ooo, look at you go. Yes. No. No.Ooo, look at you go. Yes. No. No.jerichashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313710420089008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-75404069870632113902012-07-12T18:51:39.858-07:002012-07-12T18:51:39.858-07:00How many of the three scenes involve fecal sex, li...How many of the three scenes involve fecal sex, light bulbs, or spam?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538573774184028004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-26906665113321095212012-07-12T11:24:45.405-07:002012-07-12T11:24:45.405-07:00I don't think you ever blather, even when you ...I don't think you ever blather, even when you are.<br /><br />I am now internally conflicted about what I'm working on. I did not intent magical realism with it, but I can see how it could be classified as such. At least the part up to where I am now in it.<br />bahAndrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-68961845925307511632012-07-12T10:46:30.717-07:002012-07-12T10:46:30.717-07:00Oxford Dictionary defines it as ""...a k...Oxford Dictionary defines it as ""...a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the 'reliable' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance. The fantastic attributes given to characters in such novels—levitation, flight, telepathy, telekinesis—are among the means that magic realism adopts in order to encompass the often phantasmagorical political realities of the 20th century."<br /><br />If that helps.jerichashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313710420089008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-46848617266255905612012-07-12T10:28:45.830-07:002012-07-12T10:28:45.830-07:00I've tried to understand what is defined as ma...I've tried to understand what is defined as magical realism, but I can't seem to grasp it. Speaking of In the Time of the Butterflies...someone gave me a copy a few years ago. I tried to read it but couldn't get into it. I still have the book, so I think I'll try again. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-77785167047866601172012-07-11T22:32:18.414-07:002012-07-11T22:32:18.414-07:00Flashy sounds like how memory actually works. I...Flashy sounds like how memory actually works. I'd rather you think about your writing than mine, actually. That makes me feel like I Said Something Of Worth instead of just Blathering On.jerichashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313710420089008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-39477668535463381792012-07-11T22:31:13.828-07:002012-07-11T22:31:13.828-07:00I never picked up Love in the Time of Cholera, so ...I never picked up <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i>, so I don't know. I do know <i>Solitude</i> is supposed to be his masterpiece, so maybe <i>Cholera</i> just doesn't stand up? I have a weird thing where I like to gripe about the books everybody else says are So Great Zomg, which just makes me sound like a hipster (although I DID TOTALLY finish <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>, even if I can only remember about three scenes out of thousands of pages.)<br /><br />Tell me what you decide you think about my point when you've made up your mind. I'd like to know.jerichashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313710420089008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-46255495858562492692012-07-11T22:27:22.264-07:002012-07-11T22:27:22.264-07:00Hey, Kate, if you want to be a beta reader, I'...Hey, Kate, if you want to be a beta reader, I'd LOVE it.jerichashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313710420089008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-29698303922014265232012-07-11T15:18:14.998-07:002012-07-11T15:18:14.998-07:00miracle or Miracle Whip? That's awesome!
I do...miracle or Miracle Whip? That's awesome!<br /><br />I don't even know where to begin in responding to everything in this post except that now I'm stuck thinking about my own writing and in particular this bit I recently wrote about an evoked memory but it's all flashy and not a sequence of events about being held in a towel by a woman the boy suddenly realizes was not his mother.<br />And how much of the rest of this story fits within this description?<br /><br />bah...Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-48404712179241409382012-07-11T13:18:08.756-07:002012-07-11T13:18:08.756-07:00sheesh. . . what the. . . you write all fancy-like...sheesh. . . what the. . . you write all fancy-like. I like it!<br /><br />I've never read "Solitude", but I read the first hundred or so pages of "Love in the Time of Cholera" and just put it back in my drawer and said, "I'll read it when I'm out of other books." "Midnight's Children" I actually really enjoyed, but I guess maybe I should try "Solitude" because although I really disliked "Love in the Time of Cholera", I also really disliked "Satanic Verses". . . so I suppose Marquez could be like really enjoying one book then really being disappointed by another by the same author, only in reverse, and I just haven't read the one I really like yet.<br /><br />And although I've never read Proust, your description of his memory reminded me of the entire book "To the Lighthouse" where each gnat's ass detail of the hosts recollection was drawn out. . . I longed for death as I read that assignment.<br /><br />Regardless. . . what do I think about your actual point?. . . hmmm. . . I don't really know. I'll have to think more about it. You're welcome.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538573774184028004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544951123263949275.post-50711457880521124012012-07-11T13:16:50.149-07:002012-07-11T13:16:50.149-07:00I'll comment more thoughtfully after sleep has...I'll comment more thoughtfully after sleep has happened, but I just want to say, I want to read YOUR novel, Jericha, someday, please.Kate Sherrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.com