Whilst at the Palazzo/Venetian this week, Bauman's had a copy of Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude in the window. The heady magical realism of his prose is unmatched. Here is a short work entitled 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' hosted by North Dakota State.
"The curious came from far away. A traveling carnival arrived with a flying acrobat who buzzed over the crowd several times, but no one paid any attention to him because his wings were not those of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat. The most unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn’t sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake; and many others with less serious ailments. In the midst of that shipwreck disorder that made the earth tremble, Pelayo and Elisenda were happy with fatigue, for in less than a week they had crammed their rooms with money and the line of pilgrims waiting their turn to enter still reached beyond the horizon."
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| Quote from 'One Hundred Years' |
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