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The death of Maurice Gibb has reminded me of the Bee Gees first big American hit, "New York Mining Disaster 1941". (below: the first couple pages of the story as it appeared in the New Yorker (snapped on my iPad from the digital edition); you can see the part with the miners is placed at the beginning). No idea as to why they changed it to New York. I also enjoy endings that are open to interpretation on the reader’s part, as this one certainly is. To the narrator, the new ones are indistinguishable from the old ones. well that was a short and concise thread. There’s really just no way to write this post without spoilers, so be forewarned. I was in this situation Sunday and found myself once again turning to Haruki Murakmki’s collection “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.” Murakami is an author of whom I was wholly ignorant just a few years ago and only discovered after joining the book blogging community (thanks, if I’m remembering correctly, to the blog, Dolce Bellezza). I loved this ending.
On October 21, 1966, 144 people were killed, 116 of them children, when a waste tip slid down a mountainside; unsurprisingly the story generated massive media coverage, and even 40 years …
There was no mining disaster in New York in 1941, although there was one in McIntire, Pennsylvania which killed 6 people. It was like a scene from a movie.”.
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The real shock for me, though, was after reading the story this time, I looked it up on-line and discovered that, when originally published in The New Yorker, the passage with the trapped miners was placed at the beginning of the story. Weird, but great. The things you find out about people on Facebook. What can it all mean?
The man is dead. The brothers performed on board in exchange for passage. The death of Maurice Gibb has reminded me of the Bee Gees first big American hit, “New York Mining Disaster 1941”. It is also a title of a “weird” short story. Or was it happening in the future, in a different, far-off world? Why are the Trump defectors having such little impact on the polls and Trump’s chances? I’m glad I only read this story after “The Old Switcheroo” had been completed.
I've googled without success. Murakami writes: “They waited for hours.
Somehow the trapped miners and the world of the narrator are related, but we don’t know how, exactly. April 23, 2013 at 8:30 am (Uncategorized) Was there a Real New York Mining Disaster in 1941.
She claims she killed him, but is evasive as to how, joking at one point that she threw him into a beehive. Mods??? It was. Straight Dope Message Board > Main > General Questions > Was there a Real New York Mining Disaster in 1941?
He didn’t even notice we switched him off for five minutes. Was it completely random? Reality began to melt into darkness. I’ve googled without success. PDA.
Sometimes, when I’m having trouble deciding what book to start next, I’ll re-read a short story. Wow. Getting back into computer gaming after 15 years, are Red Dead II or Cyberpunk 2077 going to be too overwhelming?
Tags: blind willow sleeping woman, favorite short stories, haruki murakami, new york mining disaster, new York mining disaster 1941, The Bee Gees. I remember the first time I read this being reminded of the old song by the Bee Gees “New York Mining Disaster 1941.” I think we had this single in the house when I was a kid – maybe it was a b-side of something else, I don’t remember. They’re all essentially the same girl. View Full Version : Was there a Real New York Mining Disaster in 1941? The story I chose, somewhat randomly, was the oddly-titled “New York Mining Disaster.” I remember the first time I read this being reminded of the old song by the Bee Gees “New York Mining Disaster 1941.” I think we had this single in the house when I was a kid – maybe it was a b-side of something else, I don’t remember. The story (as it appears in the collection I own) features an unnamed narrator, who starts by describing a strange friend who likes to go to the zoo during “typhoons” and sit in front of the animals and drink beer.
General CommentThe real inspiration behind this song is the Aberfan mining disaster in Wales, which killed over 200 children.This was confirmed by Barry Gibb in 'Tales From The Brothers Gibb'. Everything began to feel like it was happening a long time ago, in a world far away. She does say, however, that “It took less than five seconds. An inside joke?
He says he’d like to meet such a person, but she replies that it would be impossible.
Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. The scene fades out and is replaced by some trapped miners awaiting rescue. On 3 January 1967, the Gibb brothers, with their parents and Byrne, traveled from Australia to England on the ship Fairsky, reaching Southampton on 6 February. For them it was like climbing up a staircase they’d climbed a million times before and suddenly finding a step missing.”, Another oddity of the narrator’s friend is that he “trades in” his girlfriend for a new one every six months. To kill him.” As their conversation ends, midnight is falling. This seems a far less effective method than was presented when he included the story in the “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” collection, where it came to rest at “its proper place” at the end of the story. It’s that kind of mystical air I’ve come to expect – and enjoy – in Murakami’s writing. The final episode involves the narrator at a New Year’s Eve party, where he meets a mysterious young woman who claims that she knows someone who looks “exactly” like him. Have YOU read this story? I know I was. Outside people were digging a hole, trying to reach them. Were they high off their ass and it popped out of someone’s head? At this point, the reader is surely trying to decide what ties all these things together. I always thought that was such a weird title for a pop song. The death of Maurice Gibb has reminded me of the Bee Gees first big American hit, "New York Mining Disaster 1941". "New York Mining Disaster 1941" was their first song that was written in 1967.
What is odd is that the narrator, being only in his late twenties, has had an unlikely number of similarly-aged friends die recently. This is almost the end of the story. To keep a dying thread alive, if there wasn’t a New York mining disaster in 1941, why’d they write a song by that name?
The narrator apologizes for not owning a suit himself, but rationalizes that he’s afraid “…if I buy funeral clothes, it’s like saying it’s OK if someone dies.” One of the deaths is a suicide, but the others are accidents, “Unlike my first friend, who killed himself, these friends never had the time to realize they were dying. Was the song based on an actual event? In response to that Lestoil thread: Cloralen products. 01-14-2003, 09:25 AM. We learn this friend is important to the narrator because the friend owns a suit that the narrator (who doesn’t own a suit) has had to borrow in order to attend a funeral. Was the song based on an actual event? I thought at the time it was a tribute to a real tragedy but, checking today, it seems it was totally fictional. Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS), Trump and Melania test positive for COVID-19, 2020 POTUS Debate 1 (29 September) follow-along and discussion thread, White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG_Zealot, We are SO FUCKED (Ruth Bader Ginsburg died tonight). Later, the Gibb brothers auditioned for Stigwood; they passed, and they signed to Robert Stigwood Organisation on 24 February. At this point, maybe we should move it to Cafe Society. They snuff out their lamps to conserve air and struggle to listen for sounds of approaching rescuers over the creaking of supporting beams.
The story I chose, somewhat randomly, was the oddly-titled “New York Mining Disaster.”.
What do you think of Haruki Murakami? El Zagna. It’s an incredible run of misfortune, especially considering their ages. The song though appears to have been vaguely inspired by the Aberfan tragedy in South Wales. Another episode involves the narrator and his friend discussing television, and the friend says, “One good thing about television, you can shut it off, and nobody complains.” He does so, and when they switch it back on later, as a man talks on the screen he says, “See? When you switch it off, one side ceases to exist.”.
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