Subject: Re: Authors! Authors!
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Sat Jun 28 1997 - 13:33:19 GMT
Hotspur8@aol.com wrote:
> not mentioning of course those incredibly simple sentences...
In describing a particular work day, Hemingway once said that he'd spent
the entire morning inserting a comma, and the entire afternoon removing
it.
> the man did some things for me in the "nick adams" series of short stories;
> especially when young nicholas returned from the 'war' to find his world very
> differently from how he remembered.. so specially different-- especially that
> spiritual place that he used to fish in when he was young..
A thread dating back several months began to compare Bananafish with
BTHR, then drifted into oblivion. I have always leaned toward the belief
that Nick Adams and Seymour were very similar, but completely different.
Nick had enough fight and drive in him to push on while Seymour just
caved.
> i bet the two of them together would have made interesting drinking companions.
...right up until Salinger jumped Hemingway from behind, engaged him in
an impossible half nelson, and ended up flat on his back with a bloody
nose.
-- Steve Gallagher sgallagher@lasersedge.net http://www.lasersedge.net -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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