Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neglected Lives starts badly, but the persistent reader will be oddly charmed as the individual plot strands begin to weave together, strangely at first, glancing off and crossing each other in deep and surprising ways...
Marquez is not a true philosopher; his stories do not probe deep truths and profound metaphysical concerns. Instead, he is a cataloguer of everyday feelings and attitudes. He realizes, however, that everyday feelings are more complicated than they may seem and are best dealt with by pulling one step away from the commonplace. He has said that the ideal novel should "perturb not only because of its political and social content, but also because of its power of penetrating reality, and better yet, because of its capacity to turn reality upside down so we can see the other side...
...Perhaps no one else on the ship could understand why Shelley and I felt such a deep surge of excitement. We were back in China. Like nearly everyone else who has lived there, we felt it was a delight to return...
People of all ages stop to buy rice porridge or yu-t'iao, a deep-fried cruller that sells for 20. Others, in every available space, are somberly engaged in t'ai-chi-ch'uan, the balletic, trancelike exercise that is supposed to tone all muscles and compose the soul...
...barge and dumped in the ocean. However, when all the garbage began to gather in the middle of the ocean some people began to care. It was a thick, black, foul-smelling mass of sludge--described as "black mayonnaise"--perhaps 100 square miles in area. No one knew how deep. It came drifting back to the New York shoreline with a number of noxious odors and bacteria. Fortunately, disease and severe hardship was avoided because the threat was detected early. We may not be so lucky again...