Update: We are going to read Jose Saramago's Blindness for our next book this summer. We will read the entire book, for discussion on Wednesday, July 18. We'll read an article for the next week, July 11. The schedule for the next few weeks and readings is located here . The article I mentioned about […]
We had suspected for a long time that the man Gabriel was capable of
miracles, because for many years he had talked too much about angels
for someone who had no wings, so that when the miracle of the printing
presses occurred we nodded our heads knowingly, but of course the
foreknowledge of his sorcery did not release us from its power, and
under the spell of that nostalgic witchcraft we arose from our wooden
benches and garden swings and ran without once drawing breath to the
place where the demented printing presses were breeding books faster
than fruitflies, and the books leapt into our hands…
We are meeting to discuss the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude Thursday night at 7:30, in the usual location. Our next book will be Jose Saramago's Blindness.
For Wednesday's discussion group, we will be reading to page 200 of One Hundred Years of Solitude, rather than the whole book. I hope to see a lot of you there.