Re: What Would Jerome Do?


Subject: Re: What Would Jerome Do?
From: Robbie (vasudeva@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 17:37:35 GMT


Matt said:
<<
You'll have to wait for the Caped Corkster to return before you start a
thread that involves appreciation for Hemingway. Nobody else is
especially impressed with him.

I am happy to note in the selection you quoted, though, what appears to
be a great regard for Conrad, perhaps at the expense of regard for
Eliot. Was Hemingway a Conrad apologist in the between-the-wars
turbulence? Was it a manly-man kind of thing?
>>

I'm not sure, really. The selection I quoted was from "Conrad, Optimist
and Moralist," _Transatlantic Review_, October 1924, about a page of
which is reprinted in my copy of _Heart of Darkness_ along with
commentary from H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Chinua
Achebe, and a few others. If anybody could dig up more information than
that, I'd love for them to share. I, for one, have developed a great
regard for Hemingway as well as Conrad, and would be quite interested in
what one had to say about the other.

And in the interest of the Caped Corkster, as well as anyone else who
missed it the first time around -- and because I just get such a huge
kick out of it -- here's the selection I quoted one more time:

        It is agreed by most of the people I know that Conrad is a
        bad writer, just as it is agreed that T.S. Eliot is a good
        writer. If I knew that by grinding Mr. Eliot into a fine
        dry powder and sprinkling that powder over Mr. Conrad's grave
        Mr. Conrad would shortly appear, looking very annoyed at the
        forced return, and commence writing I would leave for London
        early tomorrow morning with a sausage grinder. . .

I'll never tire of that,

-robbie
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