The Butterfly Effect on Love

What never fails to turn me and my wife on is the butterfly effect of ”One Hundred Years of Solitude,‘’ a novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

Once opened, every page instantly morphs into a multitude of paper-thin wings.

Before we know it, countless yellow butterflies have already been fluttering around a character who must be Márquez's avatar. Yes, that happens in the novelist's world of magical realism.

In the story, all these mysterious butterflies come from South America. In fact, everywhere else can also be a dreamland for Márquezian butterflies.

Speaking of which, once done with reading, this young couple can't help but start making each other feel fuzzy and warm inside --- idiomatically, we're giving each other butterflies.

Let butterflies own magical realism. Let us own butterflies.


Author: renqiulan 

 

 

 

 

百年孤独里那只黄蝴蝶是属于梅梅的吧？有些记不清了。魔幻现实主义的巨著。。关于这部小说，我还乱写过一首诗。

https://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/76564/202109/25958.html

 

Oh my dear! Reading and loving go together.

谢谢盈盈！梅梅？我错过了中译本。你读谁的译本呢？

‘’它经过百年孤独之后，留下的是荒芜。‘’盈盈的读后感精句，欣赏！

Thanks, 蓝灵! I love to read books about love. Hahaha!

Such a bibliophilia.

That would be the pot calling the kettle black.

such a poetic prose, maybe i need pick up its English versio

And see if it grows on me

Thanks, 颤音! I am a prose person when it comes to English.

Take it as the butterfly effect on reading.

That's my idiomatic cup of tea. I like it hot.

I like it cool. I mean every classic is cool.

So you are a cool guy.

I doubt it. Are butterflies cool?

You bet. Every butterfly is a cool thing.

Have you ever seen a cool butterfly on a dog day afternoon?

Yes, I have. Have you?

You bet I have.

Thanks for drawing my attention to "return of useful idiots"

you used earlier. After looking it up, I found it is very amusing, and sad, cynically speaking.

Cool. Good night!

Take care. Goodnight!

Thanks, dhyang_wxc! Did you by any chance check out the

the origin of the term "useful idiot?"

I somehow read only 70-80 pages before I returned the book.

Once opened, every page instantly morphs into a multitud喜欢这句

Good writing and points! Own butterflies, definitely, but

in time...

 

before that, enjoy the fuzzy butterfly efffect, to make every moment counts 

 

: )

Good morning, 暖冬cool夏! Thanks for stopping by. Frankly,

I like Cervantes better. His Don Quixote, in my opinion, is

谢谢秋兰如约在周日晚上发表读书沙龙的文章，以巨著百年孤独为起点，让人惊艳。中译本见内

https://m.100niangudu.com/18.html

 

a breakout & breakthrough classic in every sense of the word

哈哈，多谢鼓励。2年前写完这首小诗很不满意。现在看看，也没那么难看哈。等以后笔力增强后，再做修改吧。：）

I am humbled. As a reader of "100 years," I couldn't help

唐吉柯德？

catching a magical butterfly or two in my little real world.

Yes. It is very intersting. But this term can be applied to

a much larger group (or many groups) with any sort of specious independent thinking. It is essential(or funny) to see through the usefulness and find out what it is really about, especially like these days when misinformation is overwhleming (and welcomed by some). It is sad the only one you can help usually is only yourselves. 

 

 

Good morning, 天玉之! Thanks for sharing the Márquezian

butterfly effect with me.

盈盈早安！对呀，正是这位“千古风流”的武士小说迷兼攻略风车的高手。

What you said is what I feel about those geniuses otherwise

known as useful idiots. BTW, do you think that it's Lenin

who coined the term "useful idiot?"

Have a great week!

再谢盈盈！每逢周日晚上谈书论典，虽乏睿见，也可自娱，更可抛砖引玉。

鲁迅晚年还不忘‘’少作‘’，修改在青年时代所写的旧体诗呢。

秋兰早安！再谢你的佳作美文！

可以在标题前，加上【读书沙龙】吗？

这样可以将这活动继续下去！

赞秋兰对中国文坛如数家珍！欣赏！

谢谢秋兰！下一篇你不会就写唐吉柯德吧？：）

I am not sure. Useful idiot is not equal to useful innocent,

as I see it. They are more useful. They could be (highly) educated, able, smart, with degrees, or even with achievements. But they are still tools, machines, or instruments, highly useful, but not yet qualifiable to be a human with a soul. In this sense, I guess Lenin very likely got it first.  

Wish you a good week, too.

     

Geniuses can be useful, harmful, or sometimes useless. :)

Haha, indeed. AI might qualify as a genius who/which could

be an incredibly useful idiot, now that disinformation is

part an parcel of today's deal.

盈盈“果酱”了。

哪里呢？拾人馀唾而已。

Orwell may be at a loss seeing people believing

in a GOOD "1984". We are getting there, to some looking-up, to some heads-up. Anyway, there is good news like "Matrix" the movie.  :)

我写的书话篇幅不长，恐难详论“堂.吉诃德”。不详又待之不公不允。还是随情随说的好，况且我是个杂览派，不囿于文史的。

这样就好。秋兰自由发挥，无须拘泥。：））

Happy Monday, 秋兰！谢谢分享世界名著《百年孤独》读后感。

I'm not a bookworm, but I'm definitely a book review lover!

I love bufferflies, your book review is one of the most

beautiful ones. Thanks for sharing.

盈盈上午好，谢谢分享。

Yours truly is quite determined to look on the

bright side. I have faith in humanity.

谢谢。自由谈，谈自由。

Happy Monday, 小西！They burned books because of

百度关于《百年孤独》的介绍 ，详见里面：

 

 

百年孤独（哥伦比亚作家加西亚·马尔克斯创作的长篇小说）_百度百科 (baidu.com)

 

 

 

 

《百年孤独》最震撼人心的15句话，详见里面：

 

《百年孤独》最震撼人心的15句话，句句都是人生真相，值得深读！_生命 (sohu.com)

 

Happy Monday, 蓝灵！以前在书坛见过你，问好。

呵呵，心死则神生， purely positive。

You don't find gloom and doom on my side of the equation.

book maniacs like you. I'm still dreaming of throwing books

at the Great Firewall. Hahaha!

The very first line moved me most. I never looked back.

百度介绍里有什么微言大义呢？有的话，我看不到。

That's why it's on the top :) Let it go, so to go forward.

Hahaha, I doubt it.

百度的介绍只是一个简介而已，仅供参考。

对，谢谢小西！

Actually, I meant the beginning sentence of the novel, which

was and still is a stroke of genius.

问好小西！bear hugs～～

谢谢分享！受小西提醒，我想起了以前看过的百年孤独开场白的独特之处。发在楼上了。