Re: How to Detect Nuttiness
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:17:24 +1000
> 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.
O boy, sister ... watch your back, you're likely to get battered in a
backstreet with myriad dog-eared copies of The Female Eunuch for that one!
(:
The thing I don't like much about Hemingway is simply that to me he's a
man's writer. The subjects he talks about aren't of any real interest to me
as a woman. And I don't mean fashion or cooking or makeup or what have you,
because none of them interest me remotely. I far prefer authors who can
create a good balance between male and female readers and characters. These
to me are the books which approach that much discussed state,
`universality'. I certainly don't dismiss his work - it's difficult to
dismiss *anyone's* work I think - but simply assert that no matter the
quality of the writing its content doesn't interest me.
Camille
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