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Originally Posted by paola
I wish I could quote you all, but I am travelling from Japan, and can't quite get the hang of an ipad!(...)
Caleb, I had not thought at all about the Venetian not existing at all, but in fact it is also very very possible. The main voice is the grand master of all unreliable narrator, and I found that once I let myself go with the flow, I could thoroughly enjoy it.(...)One final bit of information: according to the extract below (from Adam Shatz's review of Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence in the London Review of Books), Darvinoglou means "son of Darwin": I am not too sure what to make of this yet...
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I agree with Issybird that Pamuk is messing with (the minds of) his readers, although he tries to warn them as well in his preface.
Paola, on my iPad I have the iAwriter app and there I copy the lines of texts I want to use from iBooks(after having emailed the book as epub to myself and opened in iBooks, or any other program). From the iAwriter I can email the annotations to myself and edit them in my mail etc...
Yes, I agree that Caleb has had some original thinking there
At the moment I'm going with the hypothesis that the Turkish Hoja was in fact on the ship that captured some Venetian, but on this ship was not the Venetian young man that is written about in the book. Hoja must have been intrigued and perplexed by the contact with the Western world through the books and instruments they captured and started a dialogue with himself about the sciences and culture of the East and the West.
I did read the
Museum of Innocence and it is quite a haunting book about an obsession. The book
My name is Red is also very interesting; in between a mystery one gets educated about the history of Islamic illumination in the days that it was dangerous to deviate from usual practices; worth while! The book
Snow was disappointing as I visited the town it speaks about, Kars, just in the days that I was reading the book, and I kept looking for the streetviews Pamuk described although this isn't that important for the book.