Hello everyone. I am trying this blog page, but I suspect that no one will notice it or that it will reach no one. I was trying to reach Chris Groger to ask where he found the qupote from marquez he read at the beginning of the last discussion. Here is another: "What matters is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." Memory is pivotal in One Hundred Years of Solitude, though I would make a distinction between the narrator's memory of the stories and events he learns from his grandmother and the memory of the characters, or the lack thereof. How we recollect, and of course we are constantly remembering things without being fully aware of it, defines us not just as human beings but as individuals. It is a realm of both experience and existence which we are often not aware of, but which informs everything we do. I did not mean to overly criticize the other member for his negative attitude toward Solitude; I can understand his response. But it did feel we had an oblication to try to understand the novel on its own terms. Steven