mao has come out of a long winter's hibernation and a long thaw with spring. with the temperature and humidity rising, sacredmao is again, awake with curiosity for the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the world.
one early summer morning, mao's ears came across the sounds of literary genius from the likes of most favored writer, jeffrey eugenides.
with 'my mistress's sparrow is dead', comrade eugenides has curated a collection of short stories on the love story, culled from well known giants of words such as joyce, kundera and chekov to rising wordmasters such as denis johnson and the knockout writer david bezmozgis.
mao is no romantic when it comes to love, thereby, this reservoir of heartache appeals to those who have faced obstacles to their heart's desires. if anything, read eugenides introduction, where he fully defines and outlines the scope of his efforts to bring to light the difference between love....and a love story.
“Love stories depend upon disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.”
To further set your heart-a-racing, sacredmao suggests viewing the suspenseful and gripping 'infernal affairs', the sweaty, gritty and yes, you can almost taste the salty fear in the players of this dire blindfolded chess match.
'infernal affairs' is the film scorsese based his 'the departed' on--and while mao reveres mr. scorsese, it would have been difficult for any master to expand upon a masterpiece that had no language barriers.
to round out your tastebuds for suspense and those shots through the heart, sacredmao thought a familiar sound would alight your further endeavors forward by taking a magic ride.
