Subject: Re: EH and such
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 12:37:19 EDT
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:08:42AM -0700, Chris Kubica wrote:
> It's great having your words on the banana again. I've
> enjoyed them. I just laughed out loud to your "two
> martinis clapping" comment actually.
Thanks, that's kind of you.
> Someone told me once that E.H. would write in some
> hut, standing, writing things out longhand with some
> big fat pencil until he got tired. I don't know if
> that's that accurate, but the thought of him standing
> there, writing, drinking, writing a line like "the
> bull that about the man. This was a lie. The bull
> could not think."...you can just imagine a drunk,
> round medium old man chuckling and taking a swig
> between each of those sentences, saying to himself,
> "Why NOT! Heh heh".
He often wrote standing up, but he also worked on a typewriter. For a
long time he had a rule that he would not drink while writing, but
after a point ... well ... you can see for yourself what he had for
breakfast.
> Does anyone know if E.H. did lots of RE-writing? It
> doesn't seem so. Seems like that's the part JDS loves
> the most and must spend the most time on.
Hemingway did massive rewrites when he was good. I've seen manuscript
pages and they are meticulous. I have never seen manuscripts from
later, when he was not good, so I can't say how much revision he did.
You can read his descriptions of some of the way he worked if you
investigate A MOVEABLE FEAST.
God knows how much revision Salinger does. Come to think of it, God
probably isn't allowed to know any more than the rest of us.
> Just thought you might like to know I'm hapy you're
> around, Tim. :)
Thanks, but now I'll be offline a bit for a few days, so everybody
play nice, y'hear?
--tim
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