Re: How to Detect Nuttiness
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:50:10 -0500
At 9:59 AM +0000 on 10/11/98, you wrote:
> Hmm, Late as usual, I am. But I cannot sit back as someone insults "my"
> Hemingway. I once heard that many women dislike him because of his
> pseudo-macho exterior. Let a man be a man. And he did concern women in his
> novels in much the same way that some other men dealt with women in their
> novels. I shall write no more. Just a caution before I confuse myself,
> and perhaps others :o)
No confusion ... I love Hemingway's good work without apology or
explanation, and I look on his unsuccessful work as the price we pay to get
the gems. The short stories, the Paris book, the first two novels, parts
of the Africa and Death books -- these are splendid and need no apology.
And about the women, yes -- who would have written a Brett Ashley before
Hemingway did? She may be a cipher, but she is a more interesting one than
Daisy Buchanan, easily.
> As for Salinger...I think today might be a perfect day for bananafish.
Today, here, is a perfect day for a walk in the sun, which is now what I am
going to do.
--tim