"He has no courage, has never climbed out on a limb. He has never used a word where the reader might check his usage by a dictionary."
-- William Faulkner (on Ernest Hemingway)
That quote says more about Faulkner than it does about Hemingway. I guess my third grade vocabulary teacher would agree that using five dollar words is courageous. But she wasn't much of a novelist.
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"You talkin' to me?"
faulkner's a jerk
you kids get to bed in here!..
Rather unsettling, all things considered.
Oddly enough, he used to hunt with my grandfather.
That quote says more about Faulkner than it does about Hemingway. I guess my third grade vocabulary teacher would agree that using five dollar words is courageous. But she wasn't much of a novelist.
Medical records made available in 1991 confirm that Hemingway's hemochromatosis had been diagnosed in early 1961
@G So Faulkner was right about the courage then. ;)))
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