tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post8477486121280543523..comments2023-06-06T08:36:19.228-05:00Comments on Unbeached Whale: War Of Time by Alejo CarpentierLittlemilkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-35248172312829207572008-05-22T16:40:00.000-05:002008-05-22T16:40:00.000-05:00Thanks Jo-An.I have been running around so much th...Thanks Jo-An.<BR/><BR/>I have been running around so much that I have not had time to even think about my blog.<BR/><BR/>I will have to re-read the chapter. And don't worry, I did not take your observation to seriously.<BR/><BR/>I am most appreciative.<BR/><BR/>Ciao,<BR/>UnbeachedLittlemilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-7332960964055452462008-04-08T18:56:00.000-05:002008-04-08T18:56:00.000-05:00Dear blogger,I have greatly enjoyed reading your b...Dear blogger,<BR/>I have greatly enjoyed reading your blog as stumbled upon it by accidence. I was instructed to write an essay about Carpentier's "Like the Night" and I was struck by your wrong interpretation of the love scene. Carpentier jumps in his book from time and culture: from the Trojan War through WOI or WOII. It is true that the opening and closing chapters are in the setting of Iliad's Trojan war, however the second and third chapter are about the Spanish and French crusades and the fourth about some country of the Allied forces. Thus the lover is not Penelope (it would not be possible anyway, since the perspective is from the unnamed soldier and Penelope was the wife of...Odysseus), but another anonymous woman who is willing to offer her viriginty to soldiers who are about to depart for the battlefield. <BR/>Don't take my comment to serious..I'm just a college girl finding your blog interesting and in need of purging the overload of literary analyzing on you. Sorry and Thanks!<BR/>Jo-AnJ.A.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15171126823570939861noreply@blogger.com