Re: farewell to arms


Subject: Re: farewell to arms
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 16:18:58 EDT


    '... I personally think the post-war Salinger
    prefers Fitzgerald to Hemingway ...'

    Agree absolutely. The later Salinger's dandyism
    dribbling over into word wanking has the same
    look-at-me-I'm-writing quality that was already
    in some danger of spoiling Gatsby. (Though it
    never quite did.) And given a certain common
    glibness (plus handy desk thesaurus) it's not really
    all that hard to reproduce.

    Many people find it impossible NOT to imitate
    Hemingway. Yet that early, breath-taking stuff,
    before the drink got to him, is wholly inimitable.
    He couldn't even repeat himself.

    Scottie B.

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