My son talked like Peppa Pig for a year. And we got my kids bunk beds so they could share a room like Peppa and George. The show is dumb, but it makes American kids extra adorable for a while.
Jackets? We don't need no stinking jackets. Your kids have you, which not all kids can say. I recommend you keep your face out of your phone while you're out with them, but other than that - stay the jacketless course. It'll put hair on their chests. 😉
This comment is ridiculous. I'm just not well read enough to comment on the literary stuff.
Politicians, celebrities, they’re just like us! Unless they’re rich. Then like Fitzgerald reportedly told Hemingway, “Rich people - they’re not like the rest of us.” (Which I always interpreted as lacking morals).
I’ve only ever read a couple short stories and his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and that because the new edition came with deleted scenes. But I feel his style is one where you must be careful not to imitate, especially after reading! Like my daughter speaking British after watching Peppa Pig, I sense Hemingway’s pull on my words and sentences immediately after reading him. His style would be easy for ai to replicate! Hence, my desire to be first with the Hemingway Werewolf story! I should perhaps confess I’d also like to add Cthulhu to The Great Gatsby.
Saunders also warns how his initial fiction was a poor facsimile of Hemingway. Here's my take, which is just one (useless) opinion: Hemingway's prose is fairly lifeless. It's Spartan and bare bones and definitely would never have been published anytime after 1960. That doesn't mean it's "bad," of course, but it's of its era.
I listened to the audiobook version of A Farewell to Arms a few years ago. I liked it, but it felt truly anachronistic. Of a bygone age.
I want the excuse to immerse myself in his style. Something that excites me about writing fiction is the excuse to research something for character or plot (or in this case, form) that I'd like to know more about, but would otherwise struggle to justify dedicating so much time to whatever topic.
Okay, confession: my first intro to Hemingway wasn’t Old Man and Sea in high school, which I’ve still never read. It was the Socratic dialogue in McSweeneys 31, where someone parodied/honored his voice in that delightful dialogue where he was one of many distinct debating authors. I remember his terse “is it beautiful? Is it true?”
Or maybe that’s from Woody Allen’s Owen Wilson starring ‘Midnight In Paris?’
My point being I’m more familiar with Hemingway homage than Hemingway.
ouch, another story rejection notice this evening!
Write a story about busy bodies who feel their righteous path is to correct everyone else. Do it in Hemingway’s style. Bare bones!
Bare bones judginess is the nastiest judginess!
LOL! 'cause it's dry, harsh and pokey...like bare bones surely are
I don't know anything about Hemingway.
I like the stuff you write, though.
My son talked like Peppa Pig for a year. And we got my kids bunk beds so they could share a room like Peppa and George. The show is dumb, but it makes American kids extra adorable for a while.
Jackets? We don't need no stinking jackets. Your kids have you, which not all kids can say. I recommend you keep your face out of your phone while you're out with them, but other than that - stay the jacketless course. It'll put hair on their chests. 😉
This comment is ridiculous. I'm just not well read enough to comment on the literary stuff.
So, you get sass, I'm afraid. ❤️
"Gifted" people run the government and most large companies -- how's that working out?
Mixed thoughts on Hemingway. Seems like an AI facsimile could be disconcertingly effective.
I’m “gifted!” Second grade I was pulled out of class to fit together square puzzles. And I’m currently applying for for a Federal job!
Politicians, celebrities, they’re just like us! Unless they’re rich. Then like Fitzgerald reportedly told Hemingway, “Rich people - they’re not like the rest of us.” (Which I always interpreted as lacking morals).
Haha -- I'd actually interpret that more literally. They're not like the rest of us -- they're rich! :-)
Of course, it's what they do because they're rich that makes them -- too often -- awful.
There goes the neighborhood.
I’ve only ever read a couple short stories and his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and that because the new edition came with deleted scenes. But I feel his style is one where you must be careful not to imitate, especially after reading! Like my daughter speaking British after watching Peppa Pig, I sense Hemingway’s pull on my words and sentences immediately after reading him. His style would be easy for ai to replicate! Hence, my desire to be first with the Hemingway Werewolf story! I should perhaps confess I’d also like to add Cthulhu to The Great Gatsby.
Saunders also warns how his initial fiction was a poor facsimile of Hemingway. Here's my take, which is just one (useless) opinion: Hemingway's prose is fairly lifeless. It's Spartan and bare bones and definitely would never have been published anytime after 1960. That doesn't mean it's "bad," of course, but it's of its era.
I listened to the audiobook version of A Farewell to Arms a few years ago. I liked it, but it felt truly anachronistic. Of a bygone age.
I want the excuse to immerse myself in his style. Something that excites me about writing fiction is the excuse to research something for character or plot (or in this case, form) that I'd like to know more about, but would otherwise struggle to justify dedicating so much time to whatever topic.
Watch the Hemingway documentary on PBS. It's awesome.
write a story about being reincarnated as Hemingway but every time he sits down to write a story he turns into a werewolf.
Okay, confession: my first intro to Hemingway wasn’t Old Man and Sea in high school, which I’ve still never read. It was the Socratic dialogue in McSweeneys 31, where someone parodied/honored his voice in that delightful dialogue where he was one of many distinct debating authors. I remember his terse “is it beautiful? Is it true?”
Or maybe that’s from Woody Allen’s Owen Wilson starring ‘Midnight In Paris?’
My point being I’m more familiar with Hemingway homage than Hemingway.