Ep 229 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, we return to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” to his friends) for the first time since our second-ever episode. This time around we get to dive deeper into “magical realism,” the sort of dreamy heightened reality that Marquez employs so successfully, and we also touch on the book’s relationship with Colombian history and our relationship with our own hometowns.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
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| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
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| 0:57.5 | We're on the cutting edge of language. |
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| 1:04.0 | Last week we tried a lot of turquish to light for our book podcast, which is called... |
| 1:08.4 | Overdo it's a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 1:11.4 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:12.4 | My name is Andrew. |
| 1:13.4 | That was a trick that you played on me who were taking a drink and I had to just stretch |
| 1:18.0 | that syllable out. |
| 1:19.6 | We tried some turquish to light, which if you remember is a gross candy that's made |
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| 1:39.9 | Most people agreed with us and thought it was pretty funny. |
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