okay, i got the comparison
garcia marquez is like the latin american mark twain-- or walt whitman
you know how you go through the literary history of the united states and you say "yeah whatever" (save poe, who was from another planet) and suddenly there appears mark twain and it really is something that couldn't come from any other place and you say--this-- this is american literature?
like that.
but maybe it was melville who did it before him. i just haven't read him ha ha ha ha.
i should! uff. i should.
but no, see, twain.
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