Tunggul-Tunggul Gerigis by Shahnon Ahmad

' ' Which of my cities will I die in? ' Jorge Luis Borges had asked in his poem ' La trama ' (' The Web ').

' To which his wife replies, ' If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die. ' A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. ' We have still not had a death, ' he tells her. ' We will not leave, ' his wife says, reminding him that Macondo was their son's birthplace. And, since no one else wants to go with him, he decides that he and his wife, Úrsula, and their son should leave by themselves. – At the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Macondo's patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, wants to move the idyllic yet isolated community he founded to another, more accessible location.

As a civilization that has taken its thousand-tongued silences, quite literally, to the grave, and thus to profound absurdity, we demand that the artist locate this laughter and these words in its most improbable context, death. And yet sometimes silence ululates full-throated and the melancholy burden of the passing moment can be shaken off like dew, dissolving in laughter. A good solitude precludes silence: the clamour of Babel that men jealously guard by biting their tongues. ISSNĪn ISSN is a standardized international code which allows the identification of a serial publication.Īn ISSN consists of eight digits in two groups of four, separated by a hyphen.A good rain is worth a hundred years, a good solitude a millennium. The twelfth digit is a check digit and usually appears at the bottom right of the symbol.Įnter all digits found on the item (e.g., 008817006925).The next ten digits encoded in the symbol are below the bars.The first digit is the Number System Character (NSC) which appears on the left side of the symbol outside of the bars.Hyphens or spaces usually separate the elements of the

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Tunggul-Tunggul Gerigis by Shahnon Ahmad