The Last Three Pages by Sofia Ramirez https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy Made with a warm hug en-us 2020-06-11 02:14:02 UTC 2020-06-11 02:49:52 UTC hello@padlet.com "Because that wind (like everything else in the Book) is made of words and is enclosed in a solid object made of pages that one can turn back to begin (once more and so on to infinity) the reading. What really ends on the last page of the Book is only the first reading" (Rodriguez Monegal 6). srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621705040 The book ends on a similar note to the beginning of the book; linear time isn't considered. Like Rodriguez Monegal mentions, the readings of Melquiades work is when the real story begins, and traps the reader in a similar cyclical pattern of time as the family. ]]> 2020-06-11 02:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621705040 "In other words, every performance - every reading, consititutes a wave function" (Trauvitch). srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621708760 To expand on my previous point, the act of reading, and the progression of the novel itself, act like waves. From my observations, the book ends in (what seems to be) the middle of a wavelength; therefore, we must go back to the beggining to finish the function. Although Aureliano is stuck in a room in which he does not feel the effects of time, it is the reader who is brought back into the cyclical time warp. ]]> 2020-06-11 02:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621708760 Time Warp srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621716775 2020-06-11 02:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621716775 Stages In Reading srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621717874 To paraphase Dr. Trauvitch's work, when we enter into the second or third reading of the novel, although the pages and the words are unchanged, it is the interpretation and the information from the past "wave function"/reading that helps develop the new ideas in the current reading. Each time a book is read, new information is discovered, which essentially creates a new timeline of events that wouldn't have been possible without the previous read. The reader has also affected the text itself, giving it the element of mise en abyme.]]> 2020-06-11 02:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621717874 Mise en Abyme srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621721740 2020-06-11 02:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621721740 "It has already been insinuated, I think, that Melquiades has a role in relation to the author that is similar to the one Aureliano occupies in relation to the read" (Rodriguez Monegal 5). srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621723026 Rodriguez Monegal implies that in the last three pages, Aureliano is playing the role of the reader, while Melquiades is Marquez himself. This makes sense, since Melquiades wrote the history a century before Aureliano reads it, while Aureliano and the reader switch roles in the sense that he is now in a place where the progression of time isn't affecting him, while the reader feels the impact of the cyclical pattern of the Buendias family. ]]> 2020-06-11 02:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621723026 We are more involved than ever in the last three pages of the book. srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621728387 2020-06-11 02:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621728387 We will never be able to truly say we finished this book, we are just starting the next cycle. srami108 https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621730470 2020-06-11 02:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/srami108/9rc94vq2grop0fqy/wish/621730470