Showing posts with label Garcia Marquez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garcia Marquez. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 September 2012

One of the many gods that Dr. Juvenal Urbino wrote with a small g

the Revered Jonathan B. Lynch, a lean black Protestant minister who rode on a mule through the poverty-stricken settlements in the salt marshes, preaching the word of one of the many gods that Dr. Juvenal Urbino wrote with a small g to distinguish them from his own.

G. Garcia Marquez, Love in the time of Cholera (1985), tr. E.Grossman (1988), 241

Saturday, 11 August 2012

They like command better than power

military men are the opposite of you, general, they're men of quick and easy ambition, they like command better than power and they're not in the service of something but of someone, and that's why it's so easy to make use of them, he said, especially one against the other,

G. Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), 160

Thursday, 26 July 2012

The Liberals were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests

The Liberals ... were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce,  to recognise the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate ones, and to cut up the country into a federal system that would take power away from the supreme authority. The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. They were the defenders of the faith of Jesus Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities.

G. Garcia Marquez, One hundred years of solitude (1967), 98