Has any other Iron & Wine fan read "One Hundred Years of Solitude?" I've been a fan of this song for awhile, and just tonight began reading that book. I only got to page eight when I stopped dead at the words "It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time..."
Upon further investigation I found that these lyrics are taken from pages seven and eight (in my edition) of the book. The book reads "donkeys" not "monkeys," but I don't think this alters the meaning.
To understand the lyrics you'd have to know what they mean in the context of the story:
The character thinking these thoughts lives in a remote town composed of twenty houses that is visited annually by gypsies hawking the wonders of the world, like magnets and false teeth, that are so foreign to the inhabitants of the remote village they seem magical. The character is frustrated that all these things are already boring/established/history to the rest of the world, hence the "across the river... monkeys" comment.
The one thing I have yet to understand is the song's title.
yeah I actually am latinamerican and ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez is nobel prize winner Author, "Cien Años de Soledad," as it was originally named, transalted to english a "Hundred Years of Solitude", is one of the best books ever written, I Own a spanish copy and is practically a must read in my culture before you graduate highschool(yeah we 3rd world country people have schools). ya damn Yanks. but yeah I din't know about this
yeah I actually am latinamerican and ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez is nobel prize winner Author, "Cien Años de Soledad," as it was originally named, transalted to english a "Hundred Years of Solitude", is one of the best books ever written, I Own a spanish copy and is practically a must read in my culture before you graduate highschool(yeah we 3rd world country people have schools). ya damn Yanks. but yeah I din't know about this
I AM TOTALLY just reading that book.!! . again.. only on page 8. I too, am a huge fan of this song, and I started reading that and I was like.. holy shit -- it mean it's pretty much word for word from Peng! 33. So I started looking around online -- I'm SO glad that we made the same discovery! I love when connections like this are found. This really makes the song more special for me because I love literature. ! SO cool!!! : )
I AM TOTALLY just reading that book.!! . again.. only on page 8. I too, am a huge fan of this song, and I started reading that and I was like.. holy shit -- it mean it's pretty much word for word from Peng! 33. So I started looking around online -- I'm SO glad that we made the same discovery! I love when connections like this are found. This really makes the song more special for me because I love literature. ! SO cool!!! : )
Woah I too just had my mind completely blown when I read that. Such an amazing connection. What a song, What a cover! and my God what an amazing book. I'm almost euphoric right now...
Woah I too just had my mind completely blown when I read that. Such an amazing connection. What a song, What a cover! and my God what an amazing book. I'm almost euphoric right now...
@wanderlove just did the exact same thing! been listening to this song for years and was on page 8 of 100 years of solitude and stopped at the word prodigious, found peng 33 playing in my head and the following words were the lyrics to the song as well! i don't understand the title either.
@wanderlove just did the exact same thing! been listening to this song for years and was on page 8 of 100 years of solitude and stopped at the word prodigious, found peng 33 playing in my head and the following words were the lyrics to the song as well! i don't understand the title either.
Has any other Iron & Wine fan read "One Hundred Years of Solitude?" I've been a fan of this song for awhile, and just tonight began reading that book. I only got to page eight when I stopped dead at the words "It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time..."
Upon further investigation I found that these lyrics are taken from pages seven and eight (in my edition) of the book. The book reads "donkeys" not "monkeys," but I don't think this alters the meaning.
To understand the lyrics you'd have to know what they mean in the context of the story:
The character thinking these thoughts lives in a remote town composed of twenty houses that is visited annually by gypsies hawking the wonders of the world, like magnets and false teeth, that are so foreign to the inhabitants of the remote village they seem magical. The character is frustrated that all these things are already boring/established/history to the rest of the world, hence the "across the river... monkeys" comment.
The one thing I have yet to understand is the song's title.
yeah I actually am latinamerican and ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez is nobel prize winner Author, "Cien Años de Soledad," as it was originally named, transalted to english a "Hundred Years of Solitude", is one of the best books ever written, I Own a spanish copy and is practically a must read in my culture before you graduate highschool(yeah we 3rd world country people have schools). ya damn Yanks. but yeah I din't know about this
yeah I actually am latinamerican and ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez is nobel prize winner Author, "Cien Años de Soledad," as it was originally named, transalted to english a "Hundred Years of Solitude", is one of the best books ever written, I Own a spanish copy and is practically a must read in my culture before you graduate highschool(yeah we 3rd world country people have schools). ya damn Yanks. but yeah I din't know about this
I AM TOTALLY just reading that book.!! . again.. only on page 8. I too, am a huge fan of this song, and I started reading that and I was like.. holy shit -- it mean it's pretty much word for word from Peng! 33. So I started looking around online -- I'm SO glad that we made the same discovery! I love when connections like this are found. This really makes the song more special for me because I love literature. ! SO cool!!! : )
I AM TOTALLY just reading that book.!! . again.. only on page 8. I too, am a huge fan of this song, and I started reading that and I was like.. holy shit -- it mean it's pretty much word for word from Peng! 33. So I started looking around online -- I'm SO glad that we made the same discovery! I love when connections like this are found. This really makes the song more special for me because I love literature. ! SO cool!!! : )
I was reading the book on an airplane yesterday and had the same experience: "wait, where do I know that from?"
I was reading the book on an airplane yesterday and had the same experience: "wait, where do I know that from?"
Woah I too just had my mind completely blown when I read that. Such an amazing connection. What a song, What a cover! and my God what an amazing book. I'm almost euphoric right now...
Woah I too just had my mind completely blown when I read that. Such an amazing connection. What a song, What a cover! and my God what an amazing book. I'm almost euphoric right now...
Magical Realism
Magical Realism
@wanderlove just did the exact same thing! been listening to this song for years and was on page 8 of 100 years of solitude and stopped at the word prodigious, found peng 33 playing in my head and the following words were the lyrics to the song as well! i don't understand the title either.
@wanderlove just did the exact same thing! been listening to this song for years and was on page 8 of 100 years of solitude and stopped at the word prodigious, found peng 33 playing in my head and the following words were the lyrics to the song as well! i don't understand the title either.