Your thoughts about Ernest Hemingway?
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Re: Your thoughts about Ernest Hemingway?
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can't we still like macho guys?
As a student I adored Hemingway the same way I adored James Bond, heaven help me, but then I went to an actual bullfight and threw up about halfway through the afternoon, so while part of me still adores, it will have to be from afar. LIke, the ladies'...
I just don't have the guts for this kind of action apparently, although part of me still wishes I did
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Don't be so hard on yourself. With maturity comes illumination and wisdom. I don't know who I feel sorrier for: the man who has to prove his courage by killing a bull; the author, who voices his admiration of it; ... or the bull.lady_charlie wrote:oh, I am so old....
can't we still like macho guys?
As a student I adored Hemingway the same way I adored James Bond, heaven help me, but then I went to an actual bullfight and threw up about halfway through the afternoon, so while part of me still adores, it will have to be from afar. LIke, the ladies'...
I just don't have the guts for this kind of action apparently, although part of me still wishes I did
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yes, you see it - I had such a romantic notion of what it was all like, probably much the same way that people feel on their way to war, until they get there.DATo wrote:Don't be so hard on yourself. With maturity comes illumination and wisdom. I don't know who I feel sorrier for: the man who has to prove his courage by killing a bull; the author, who voices his admiration of it; ... or the bull.lady_charlie wrote:oh, I am so old....
can't we still like macho guys?
As a student I adored Hemingway the same way I adored James Bond, heaven help me, but then I went to an actual bullfight and threw up about halfway through the afternoon, so while part of me still adores, it will have to be from afar. LIke, the ladies'...
I just don't have the guts for this kind of action apparently, although part of me still wishes I did
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Maybe that's why some people thought Hemingway was a genius: because those people had inferred, read-into, changed, supposed, and otherwise abstracted all sorts of different meanings away from the actual text of his books. Humm.....ClickForth wrote:I recently read A Farewell to Arms for school, and I have to say while I didn't really enjoy the novel, the discussion and further abstraction away from the actually text was great. While there are some novels that I just don't enjoy and can't find much to take away, at least with Hemingway, regardless of my enjoyment of his actual writing style, I still found plenty of substance.
Yes, we can still like macho guys. In my humble Canadian Womans Opinion, men should refrain from wearing hot pink ties/shirts/pants/skinny jeans (of ANY color)/socks&underwear. The male gender is naturally intended to be different from the female; the trend today towards androgeny is replusive to me. I digress. In regards to Hemingway, as others have said, I believe the objection was not to masculine men, but to men who portray themselves as masculine and who are in fact---not.oh, I am so old....
can't we still like macho guys?
As a student I adored Hemingway the same way I adored James Bond, heaven help me,
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I agree with the insecure posturing (he admitted it in his later years), but there's no denying his talent. He is a little like Mozart: a genius mind coupled with an immature soul. Few authors could describe the human condition with all its faults as accurately as Hemingway. To this very day, many authors try to emulate him in style, economy of words, etc.sleepydumpling wrote:I am not a fan. I always feel that Hemingway thought himself superior to most people, and the quote below quite illustrates that. I also feel that all the hunting and shooting and drinking talk was a lot of insecure male posturing. It seemed that he was always out to prove to the world what a manly man he was.
But boy did he travel to some wonderful locations!
I like his short stories far more than his books. I think that at the end of the day, that's what he was: a great short story writer, not a novelist.
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