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To: Hemingway's Ghost
What he wrote as a novelist should not enter into the equation . . .

Oh please. What he wrote came from his own mind. Moral people, although occasionally troubled by impure thoughts do not dwell on them and write about them in graphic detail. Moral people do not share any passing impure thoughts with others for the sake of book sales. What he wrote as a novelist is a testament to his [lack of] virtue.

130 posted on 10/27/2006 7:00:06 AM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE
Oh please. What he wrote came from his own mind. Moral people, although occasionally troubled by impure thoughts do not dwell on them and write about them in graphic detail. Moral people do not share any passing impure thoughts with others for the sake of book sales. What he wrote as a novelist is a testament to his [lack of] virtue.

What a crazy statement. Every gothic writer who ever penned a piece is without morality or virtue because they depicted the darker portions of the human soul? Every mystery writer who ever created a fictional gumshoe has no morals or virtue because they depicted human vice as well?

Grasping at straws, Murph.


135 posted on 10/27/2006 7:04:53 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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