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Buendia - Additional Info
Posted By: REBDate: 9/24/01 8:32 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Marathon Send-off Speech. (Hamish Sinclair)

: With a name like Buendia? I doubt it. ;-)
: The possible origin of Marcus Tiberius Buendia's name is discussed in the
: "Historical & Mythological References in Marathon" section.
: It's about half way down the page. See Angus McIntyre's submission.

: Cheers
: Hamish

Buendia is actually Gabriel Garcia Marquez's own ancestry. A lot of things that happened to him and his 16 brothers, his parents and uncles, his grandparents and great grandparents (and so on) are combined with fantasy on Cien Aņos de Soledad. The book is considered to be a fable that represents the story of Mankind.

On one chapter the military is sent to supress a strike. All the workers and their families are gathered on a park, surrounded by soldiers. The captain says to the crow they have 5 minutes to return to their homes. One of the member of the Buendia - and possibly the most stupid of all the bizarre characters in the novel - shout back: "We gave you that 5 minutes!", meaning that they can take their menace and shut it up their rear. The soldiers, in response, open fire.

When the guy regain conscience, he's on a train full of bodies to be trowed at sea. He manages to escape and return to Macondo, where he finds out he is the only survivor. Nobody belives him the workers have been killed, because they heard over the radio the strike ended and everyone went back to their homes peacefully.

I don't want to trow any relation between Garcia Marquez's work and the Marathon series, but have anybody read The Autumn of The Patriach? The book is set on a space-continuum with different timelines merging on the same place, and different voices taking over the narration. This technnique is know as the flow of conscience, and was crafted by William Faulkner - Garcia Marquez's most notable influence. Maybe Greg K. likes this kind of lecture.

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Marathon Send-off Speech.Dispatcher 9/23/01 10:20 p.m.
     Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.Speaker-To-Animals 9/24/01 8:58 a.m.
           Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.Hamish Sinclair 9/24/01 9:08 a.m.
                 Buendia - Additional InfoREB 9/24/01 8:32 p.m.
           Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.Claude Errera 9/24/01 9:10 a.m.
                 Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.Rincewind MoG 9/24/01 12:58 p.m.
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                       Re: Marathon Send-off Speech.Claude Errera 9/26/01 1:17 p.m.



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