Re: hemingway blech

Pierrot65@aol.com
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:47:35 -0500 (EST)

Morgan --

	I liked the parties, the pacing (except when they felt the need to go
fishing, for Christ's sake), and most of all the female characters: flappers,
dingbats, femme fatales, kind of like where film noir meets pinot noir. (And I
swear to God I am not trying to make generalizations about the fairer sex, if
I may call them that). I don't know. It felt kind of proto-beatnik to me,
which I really liked. Much more of the cosmopolitan Lost Generation elements I
like to talk about when I talk about fiction (if I may paraphrase Hemingway's
most obvious beneficiary, Ray Carver). It just seemed to have some life to it,
some viva la something that I didn't connect with in the Nick Adams and others
in his canon.
 	Gatsby, on the other hand ... well, maybe that's for another list. A list of
the most Romantic, sad things on Earth.

rick