Re: the Jerry & Ernie show
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:19:30 -0500
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:36:16AM -0600, MEPIERCE wrote:
> It struck something deep within me--I suppose it has something to do
> with imposing order on the chaos--certainly that makes for a parallel to
> Holden.
Yes!
> I do not care for Mr. Hemingway, himself-- his search for big game to
> maim and hang, his need for crude banter, his love of the blood spilling
> into the bullfighting arena, and all his womanizing,
> but all that I forget when I read "A Clean Well-Lighted PLace"--
> or "The Old Man And the Sea" --
> too beautiful, too true, to articulate the meaning thereof.
I try hard always to separate the person from the work. EH (especially
as documented in the lovely biography ALONG WITH YOUTH) comes across as
a sensitive and thoughtful person and (simultaneously) as a
ladder-climbing ass. But anyone who could produce those wonderful
stories.... I try not to hold his piggish behavior against him.
--tim