20210403 - Greatly Exaggerated

How the Trojans fell!\ The original prankster\ died on a Friday.

HAIKUPRAJNA - (Greatly Exaggerated)

Happy Easter! Hope everyone has a good April Fool's Day long weekend.

(Sorry if this was at all offensive, but poor Troy was the butt of the best pranks in literary history!)

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Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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20210401 - Review "The Invention of Morel"

The reconstruction;\ a synthesis of dead sound.\ The eternal form.

HAIKUPRAJNA - ("The Invention of Morel")

Adolfo Bioy Casares's "The Invention of Morel" is regarded by many to be a perfect novel. The story follows a fugitive who falls in love while hiding on a deserted island plagued by a fatal disease. To the narrator's horror, tourists arrive and disappear, leading the fugitive to believe that he is suffering from the island's illness, that his unrequited love is working with the authorities, or that he is already dead. The narrator overhears Morel explaining his invention to the other tourists, how his photographic recording machine will repeat their past week for them for all eternity, which helps the narrator understand the causes of the apparent disease and mysteries of the island. "The Invention of Morel" tackles the philosophical problem of consciousness, and presumes one's soul to be a result of one's senses working in harmony; Casares takes this method and has his fugitive narrator experience the death of their body in the hope that his soul will live on as re-pieced fragments beside another reconstruction that he had fallen in love with. In other words, Casares indeed managed a perfect novel which encapsulates the fibres of its own being.

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Information can be found in the link at the top of the page, along with more poetry and stories to read like "Hector Blake"!

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Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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