tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445962.post114426732702524790..comments2024-03-10T04:22:39.340-05:00Comments on The White Rhino Report - “A Marketplace Where Many Diverse Ideas Meet for Coffee!”: Understanding Turkey's Soul: "Snow" by Orhan PamukThe White Rhinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08510080328755228237noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445962.post-1144763620995132662006-04-11T08:53:00.000-05:002006-04-11T08:53:00.000-05:00Snow fascinates me—the existential overtone pulled...<I>Snow</I> fascinates me—the existential overtone pulled me in, but the nostalgic loss of what was once good and innocent, not unlike <I>Kite Runner</I>, kept me engaged. It is hard for me to imagine how people endure in such times of loss—that fact that so many countries have experienced this type of decimation, including our own Gulf Coast, perplexes me, leaving me to question whether or not we are annihilating our own being or if God is going to ring the doorbell for dinner tonight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445962.post-1144543052007834212006-04-08T19:37:00.000-05:002006-04-08T19:37:00.000-05:00I found this book impossible to put down, even tho...I found this book impossible to put down, even though I was in my last semester of law school when I read it and should have been briefing cases. A part of the book that I find haunting is when a resident of the town announced that a poem entitled "Snow" would be read by the protagonist on a certain date, although he had not written such a poem. However, by the date announced for the reading, aware of the announcement, he has completed and publicly recites the poem. It made me consider the often under-acknowledged impact of predictions on what ultimately becomes real, perhaps because of the predictions themselves. At the time I read the book, I considered this in relation to religious prophecy in particular and events in the Middle East, probably due to the theme in "Snow" of fundamentalism v. secularism. Pamuk is brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com