Posts Tagged ‘Mark Twain’
The 2006 movie Stranger than Fiction is proof positive that the fantastic is able to explore the depths of reality, a subject that realism never seems to be able to grasp. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday my good friend Rodrigo Chavarría died. A pleasant day out with my wife was suddenly changed as I checked our telephone messages. Rodrigo was dead a friend’s recorded voice told us. My wife wept, indeed howled, with grief. I remained silent. Later I wept, but the feeling throughout the day, and still this morning, is one of weight and numbness. Read the rest of this entry »