#ondaatje

[vernicosa]

Touches me greatly.

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[andrasthehun]

What is Canadian Culture

February 7, 2024 During a lively discussion with friends, I asked: what is Canadian culture? After a surprising period of thoughtful quiet, someone suggested that Canada has musicians, authors, and artists who combine to define Canadian culture. But I said that many of these have made their career in the US. For example, Celine Dion, Joni Mitchell, and The Guess Who (Burton Cummings) have become…

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Ondaatje & Updike - Masters of Literary Fiction

There are popular writers. There are great writers. Updike and Ondaatje are both.

Preface: Though these books were both published in 2000, they have only one thing in common. They are both great examples of literary fiction, by masters: John Updike and Michael Ondaatje. These are writers who render good fiction into a new art form. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Born in Sri Lanka, it’s no surprise that Michael Ondaatje would write a novel about the long bloody civil war that tore his…

[thoughtkick]

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

Michael Ondaatje

[macrolit]

Find out how the people who inspired Katharine and Geoffrey Clifton really died in my latest deep-dive into The English Patient at mlbooks IG.

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Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

Michael Ondaatje

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I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

Michael Ondaatje

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... memory lane ...

" She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. "

- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

... the gift of beauty ...

[vernicosa]

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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[andrasthehun]

What is Candian Culture

February 7, 2024 During a lively discussion with friends, I asked: what is Canadian culture? After a surprising period of thoughtful quiet, someone suggested that Canada has musicians, authors, and artists who combine to define Canadian culture. But I said that many of these have made their career in the US. For example, Celine Dion, Joni Mitchell, and The Guess Who (Burton Cummings) have become…

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"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human."

— Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion

[chantssecrets]

Michael Ondaatje famously said, ‘If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.’