I love The Old Man and the Sea. Does anyone who hates that like any Hemingway novel? I can imagine hating it and liking some Hemingway short stories...
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - Jan 21, 2013 3:34:26 pm PST #20279 of 28348
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2013 3:37:52 pm PST #20280 of 28348
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I am so happy I figured out how to read white font on my phone!!!
Keeping in mind that I read this book once, in 1994... I thought that he was being noble and not having sex, because he did not want to saddle the woman he loved with a husband who was injured (not in the penis). Which possibly made the book better
le nubian - Jan 21, 2013 3:38:55 pm PST #20281 of 28348
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well, truth be told the ending is a bit different than that, right?
she claims, Gris, the same as you did, but the narrator's response is "isn't it pretty to think so." Acknowledging that there were greater barriers to their happiness than that. If such injury had not been done to the main character, I think we are to understand that their relationship still wouldn't have worked out. The two are self-destructive in such a way that would not have produced a solid coupling .
flea - Jan 21, 2013 3:41:48 pm PST #20282 of 28348
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Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Sun Also Rises, proposing a subtitle for the second printing: The Sun Also Rises, Like Your Cock If You Have One.
le nubian - Jan 21, 2013 3:44:45 pm PST #20283 of 28348
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
OMG flea!
flea - Jan 21, 2013 3:47:13 pm PST #20284 of 28348
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He was joking, mostly. Here's an article that mentions it: [link]
le nubian - Jan 21, 2013 3:47:32 pm PST #20285 of 28348
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gris,
Literature phd Beau says the following about Sun Also Rises:
impotence was symbolic of the age and symbolizes something about war and the modern era. He has not read the book since graduate school, so he is a bit fuzzy on the details.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2013 3:48:39 pm PST #20286 of 28348
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Typo, I have not read any Hemingway that was not assigned- I read Old Man, The Big Two Hearted River, Hills Like White Elephants, and The Sun Also Rise. The only one I liked was Sun Also Rises. Everything else was of the blah blah blah man pain school to me. I didn't know the word man pain, but because the Steinbeck, Hemingway, Bret Hart, Ted Hughes, Updike and Salinger I ended up with in high school, I just wanted to read something else!
askye - Jan 21, 2013 3:49:16 pm PST #20287 of 28348
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I know I read Old Man and the Sea. I think I read the whole thing, I may have started skimming at some point. All I remember about it is flipping through it and thinking "really there's still more". Which looking at a synopsis of the story must have been my reaction to all the sharks.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2013 3:52:16 pm PST #20288 of 28348
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Oh, and I forgot the Fitzgerald. Plus my mother liked Henry Miller.
It is sort of coming back to me, but isn't the inevitability of them not working out and the relentlessness of time beating on cf Gatsby what is referenced by the title bible verse
Turn turn turn. It wasn't the season