Remedios the Beauty, die hard Márquez fan if corsets made ladies, neither one's convinced save those ladies publicly and privately, save them more begone erroneous constructs grant them time for nibbles Remedios the Beauty fond of her cassocks, nibbling naked-fiend corsetless floats to heaven *** © 2022 selmamartin.com blogs
Hey, Mish, and all at dVerse, so glad quadrille prompts run long. Thanks so much. Use “Nibble” in a Quadrille? Got it. I hope you like these 44 words I chose to nibble
away at those restricting thoughts that might hold you back.
I started working on this little ditty that I extracted after revising a section from
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. If you read the book,
you’ll recall how “Remedios the Beauty” is how she was referred to in the novel.
Márquez made Remedios the Beauty a calm character in the novel. She was not interested in the formalities of her culture, was indifferent to malice, and content in the realities she created for herself. In the middle of the novel, she ups and floats to heaven. Weird, very weird, I still think. But hey, Márquez could do no wrong by me.
Thanks so much for reading.
Image of ‘floating’ balloons by Kristina Paukshtite on Pexels.com
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t\hank you for this free floating Remedios during my hum-drum-stick day Selma, Reminding me that soon I want to get back to quadrilling – and trilling like a cheeky Wren, who won the altitude race by clawing a lift on the Eagle’s back…
Hey, writing presence. The pleasure you got from this is mine multiplied. Glad Something I did could give you something to carry you forward. And a reminder too.
Quadrilling IS fun.
A cheeky wren 😂 funny how animals do that (metaphorically or otherwise) the rat did the same for the Great Race too. It’s the rat that starts the 12-year cycle in the Chinese Zodiac. 😆
Be well. Looking forward to reading your quadrilles and other. Thanks for commenting. I bless you.
Ahh, I concur, he could do no wrong. I line him next to Milan Kundera, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins as those whose books I Had To Buy. This novel I read and reread and could read again right now. Just love. When I studied for my Syntax exam during my English university studies, I grabbed One Hundred Years and practiced sentence analyses with his long-winding sentences. Good practice. I endorse the stance in your poem. Freedom!
My sweet friend. Gracias for concurring with me. I appreciate you.
Kundera’s Lightness of Being, yes! That I read. Of the others, gosh, you’re way ahead of me in what you studied. Bravo!
Thanks for reading. Loving. And commenting. I appreciate you. Stay warm. xoxo
Beautiful!
Thanks, Raj
I love the whimsy, it made me smile
Love to be able to gift you a smile. Looks good on you. Keep it 😉 on… bless you.
Great use of the word ‘nibble’. I like your quadrille, dear 🤗💞
Oooh, lovely words. Thanks for telling me. xoxo
You are welcome, dear Selma!❤️