Posted on 06/29/2023 2:23:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Readers have now been warned. Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway, an author who is not a person of color, not trans, and not a victim of white patriarchal oppression, will now be waved off by Hemingway’s own publisher. New editions of the work of the man who was once considered one of America’s greatest writers, before such things came to be measured solely by the author’s race, gender, and political proclivities, contain a “trigger warning” alerting fragile wokesters to the fact that if they are actually so foolish as to read the book, they will encounter thoughts that today’s elites have most decidedly not approved.
The UK’s Telegraph revealed Saturday that Penguin Random House, which publishes Hemingway’s novels and stories, has slapped them with “a trigger warning” due to “concerns about his ‘language’ and ‘attitudes.’” Hapless new Hemingway readers are also “alerted to the novelist’s ‘cultural representations.’”
I can imagine what Ernest Hemingway himself would say to all this, but I wouldn’t be able to publish it. The arrogant, self-infatuated, blinkered, miseducated woke dopes at Penguin Random House don’t seem to understand that the whole idea of reading Hemingway, or any other great writer, is to encounter “language,” “attitudes” and “cultural representations” that are not one’s own, and are not the same as the language, attitudes, and cultural representations of contemporary culture.
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When Chesterton played out the consequenes of moral relativism, many thought he was merely being absurdist.
Indeed, one of my classmates at U of Chicago wrote a parody of the pervert groups at U of Chicago, and much of what he wrote as parody has either come to pass or has been exceeded.
Being forced to read The Old Man And The Sea in high school put me completely off Hemingway. I think they make kids read that and The Last Of The Mohicans in order to ruin literature for them. What horrible books.
Burning more books by the left. Join Mark Twain and Dr Seuss.
I always liked C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and Michael Crichton myself.
And apparently JK Rowling.
Because our current culture is the pinnacle of enlightenment and purity of heart and mind.
Bless your heart, I found The Old Man and the Sea very entertaining. In fact, I think of that situation often, although I may be confusing memories with the movie.
But he is certainly one of the better American authors - certainly up there with Steinbeck and Hawthorne.
Schools infrequently choose books that kids WANT to read. But over time peoples tastes change. I had to read Pride and Prejudice in school. Hated it. Now I love it and have the DVD. I have no idea what books are being touted nowadays. I’m probably better off for it though.
Those are definitely three greats, and in particular I think I read everything Crichton wrote in his lifetime.
Mikey has 3 Dads?
“Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway,”
I enjoyed the PBS show on Hemingway. I don’t recall there being anything in it so terrible about him that I would never read or never admit to reading any of his great works.
Penguin is fagot-run.
Ping
TCM is my usual channel for entertainment. I watch very little other than that on tv. I even have Hamlet DVRed.
Crichton was a genius. Too soon taken. RIP all of them.
I liked plenty of the books that were on the school reading list. But Cooper was simply too much for 9th graders. It was a horrible slog. David Copperfield and Silas Marner were no problem.
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