So, click on the moody, strong-foreheaded David Boreanaz to get started.
Click on 'The Cell' to go there!
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| This Illumination is dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." Old Men with Wings, Yes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| I was a bit surprised to see "Old Man" was going to be one of the stories to be read this semester, because I'd read it before. In and of itself that isn't such hot news, but I hadn't read it as part of a previous English class. I'd read another story by Marquez, "Death Constant Beyond Love" for Freyda Libman, and between then and now I looked through my various anthologies, saw the title and author of Old Man, and just read it. I read it a few times, because I was so enamored with it I decided it should be one of the stories that I remember and tell to friends during low points in conversation. The last time I told it I was with my friend Dave at the Ta'boun grill on the North side of Chicago, at Devon and California. The Ta'boun grill is not a sponsor, by the way, but they are recommended by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Chicago Rabbinical Council: your guide to Kosher Living in Chicago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| So, what of the story? I was at the gym last night, thinking about it, and I decided that what the story needed was a character sketch of the angel. Just what does Marquez write about the Old Man? So much of the text is given over to other characters and the damned-fool things they it's worth the time to get a very speicifc look at the angel. What would we think of him if we were to read nothing else of the story except "the angel"? As I was wrapping up my expanded chest set I thought, Yes-a character sketch. So, click on the moody, strong-foreheaded David Boreanaz to get started. |
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| The womanizing, kung-fu vampire, TV's Angel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| And since it wouldn't be fair to have done looking at only one side of the coin, a comparison examination deserves to be done, looking at how the rest of the world acts in the story. Click on 'The Cell' to go there! |
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| It's a White Sox World. Get over it, cubbies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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