Clerihew for GGM

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Thinking of what Karl Marx says,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gave to all of those who read
Each according to his need.

Anti-Falangist Clerihew

JAVIER CERCAS

Javier Cercas,
Drawing near us,
Wants to tell us thrilling stories
Of betrayals, love, and glories.

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From The Farm, by Hector Abad, translated by Anne McLean

ALSO

"He was also a womanizer, more than by vocation, by a strange magnetism he held over women. He didn't have to ask them, they asked him, and maybe this got him accustomed to intimacy and to an almost unconscious flirtation with them all, young and old, ugly and pretty. He was flirting until the day of his death, in the last week, with the nurses who took care of him in the clinic, and who liked to go into his room and look after him and laugh with him, a dying man."

Daily Dose

From The Time of the Doves, by Merce Rodoreda, translated by David Rosenthal

SOMETIMES

"Sometimes I'd heard people say, 'That person's like a cork,' but I never understood what they meant. To me a cork was a stopper. If I couldn't get it back in the bottle after I'd opened it I'd trim it down with a knife. Like sharpening a pencil. And the cork would squeak. It was hard to cut because it wasn't hard or soft. And finally I understood what they meant when they said, 'That person's like a cork...' Because I was like a cork myself. Not because I was born that way but because I had to force myself to be like a cork to keep going because if instead of being a cork with a heart of stone I'd been like before, made of flesh that hurts when you pinch it, I'd never have gotten across such a high, narrow, long bridge."

From page 138

A Caricature

Clerihew para el viajero

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Federico Garcia Lorca
Brought with him to New York a
Few poems and a slight mustache
And a vivacidad even the Crash couldn't dash.

A Caricature

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From The General in His Labyrinth, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman

DAY

"'The day I die the bells in Caracas will ring in jubilation.'
That was not all that happened."

From page 194

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett

NEVER AS YET

"'I have never as yet seen, in any book of chivalry, an intire body of a fable, with all its members so proportioned, as that the middle corresponds with the beginning, and the end is suitable to both; on the contrary, one would think the author's intention is commonly to form a chimera or monster, instead of a figure well proportioned in all its parts.'"

From Volume 1, Book IV, Chapter XX

Daily Dose

From One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

RIGHT

"'How are you, Colonel?' he asked in passing.
'Right here,' he answered. 'Waiting for my funeral procession to pass.'"

From page 199

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From Literature Class: Berkley 1980, by Julio Cortazar, translated by Katherine Silver

BECAUSE

"Because there is something we are sensitive to it is profound intuitions, irrational things; we really are, even if our intellect often goes on the defensive and forbids them, denies us access to them."

From Fifth Class, Musicality and Humor in Literature

A Caricature

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From 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno, translated by Andrea G. Labinger

CONFESS

"I must confess: it embarrassed me to go after a truth in my underwear."

From 14

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From The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian, by E. F. Granell, translated by David Coulter

IF THE

"If the Greeks invented destiny, that doesn't explain why it is still merciless towards the gypsies."

From Chapter 12 The Unknown Hunter