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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