Thursday, December 7, 2006
Who Knew Garcia Marquez's dad had previous LTL's before he met his wife?
Today I learned about Garcia Marquez's life on themodernword.com which also happens to be the site i found last night. Go figure. So, i started to read about his life (while listening to what Nora calls my "hippie music" but what in reality is just a little Umphrey's Mcgee...Nora just doesn't know music I guess)when I discovered that I had run out of time to go get my car's taillight fixed (I had to be at the place by 5 and it was too late) so i had to call the place and reschedule for tomorrow. Then I got back to reading about Marquez, who probably didn't worry too much about broken taillights when he was born in Colombia, as he happened to be born in 1928 (though his parents claim it was 1927...imagine never knowing how old you are?) which was the year of the banana massacres. So seeing as people were being murdered near his town when he was born, broken taillights must have been very arbitrary to him. Not that he had a car, but you get the point. Anyway, it is pretty interesting that Love in the Time of Cholera happens to parallel the relationship of his parents (his mom was in love with his dad because his dad sent her all these crazy love letters, but his grandpa didnt approve for a long time because his dad had 4 illegit. children...no wonder Marquez had a thing about writing about LTL's) Fastforward like, a long time, and Marquez is living in NYC with his family, and then they move to Mexico City and are denied entrance to the USA until 1971. Rude, right? Thank God for Bill Clinton lifting his travel restriction to the US so he can come back here without these crazy visas. As of 2001 when this bio i read was written, he was/is still alive with lots of houses all over the place (except for in the USA) although he is suffering from cancer. I guess now I just need to go turn all this information I just learned into an essay. Long story short, taillights and Nora's dislike for "hippie music" is pretty irrelevent compared to things in the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (aka Gabito).
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Lauren, I think this is the perfect blend of the facts and the story of your life. You rival Nora quite nicely.
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