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Hemingway's Achievement
WSJ ^ | 06/29/11 | JEFFREY MEYERS

Posted on 07/03/2011 3:32:15 PM PDT by Borges

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To: samtheman

Maybe you should actually try reading something he wrote. You’re probably basing your opinions about him by movies made from his books in the 70s. Don’t trust that.


21 posted on 07/05/2011 9:17:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rhombus
Thanks for the ping! Been away on holiday . . .

In my opinion, Hemingway was:

The definitive American writer of the 20th century.
A piece of shit as a husband, father, and friend.
Exceptionally courageous, but a coward in the end (suicide).

A great, big, conflicted, imperfect, tortured, asshole of a genius.

22 posted on 07/11/2011 7:03:12 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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