Re: hemingway

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Aaron wrote:
> Does it count as phony if one is forced into being phony via peer
pressure
> and death threats?
> 
> > Hey! I'm still getting over the news that he was gay! What a painful
way
> to
> > live your life - as a phony all the way

I meant being phony to yourself. To me there is no sadder fate than to
ignore that wonderful, timeless axiom `to thine own self be true'. It's
truly a quote to live by. If an individual is forced by society to live in
a way that is against their innermost self, then all the sadder. It just
seems a shame that Hemingway could not deal with it the way that countless
other writers could - W.H. Auden, Isherwood, Capote, Vidal, so on (and I
chose them because they lived in an era in which it was just as unaccepted
as in Hemingway's time) . It just makes me a little sad that it makes me
question the vicissicitude of Hemingway's work - all that macho posturing,
all the gunning and gal-ing - it was all a
masquerade ...

Camille
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