Re: hemingway
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
If an individual is forced by society to live any way other than as that
individual chooses, then that individual is a wuss :) In some cases it
may be good that the person's a wuss -- I'd just as soon the two young
men who shot up Columbine had succumbed more to societal pressures
against mass murder.
But, a wuss is a wuss is a wuss....
Jim
>
>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
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
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