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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…

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[Kissing the stomach], Michael Ondaatje

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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

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"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 my 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. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps."

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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hi! i was wondering if u have any poems about cinnamon or that mention cinnamon? thank u i hope ur having a wonderful day/night 🤎🤍

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

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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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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

~ Michael Ondaatje

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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…

[thehopefulquotes]

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

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The English patient, 1996