Re: How to Detect Nuttiness
Mistalina (beatific@hempseed.com)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:31:51
At 11:17 AM 10/12/98 +1000, 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.
>
>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!
>(:
I'm Trying to work on this feminine thing :o) That's why I'm considering
going to Smith or Wellesley. Perhaps it's not to late to be reformed!!!
>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.
>
Indeed, I understand your point. I guess I somehow look past the obvious
subjects of Hemingway's novels and see a deeper side of his writing.
That's not to say it's actually there...Perhaps I'm reading far more into
it than I should. Have you read his _Garden of Eden_? It's quite
different compared to the other, "macho" works.
Misty
Aimer, Travailler, et Souffrir