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I have always admired the way he captured hunting and especially fishing. The rest of his life is such a mess.
was it her or her sister who was a pretty good hurdler?
The Green Hills of Africa is a great book about hunting, in my opinion.I have always admired the way he captured hunting and especially fishing. The rest of his life is such a mess.
I have always admired the way he captured hunting and especially fishing. The rest of his life is such a mess.
What!? I missed this. What channel?
Hemingway | Ken Burns | PBS | Watch Hemingway | A Documentary about Ernest Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick | PBS
Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers – Ernest Hemingway. Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Full film now streaming.www.pbs.org
was it her or her sister who was a pretty good hurdler?
BTW I liked the documentary.
art?I said, ' was it her or her sister'... you said 'neither it was her sister'?Neither. You're thinking of her sister Mariel who played a hurdler in the movie Personal Best.
art?I said, ' was it her or her sister'... you said 'neither it was her sister'?
art?I said, ' was it her or her sister'... you said 'neither it was her sister'?
He means she wasn't a good hurdler; just played one in a movie (I think).
you are correct, you said, 'You're thinking of her sister Mariel' . so what am I missing here? or the fact that you missed an obvious tough in cheek?Yeah. I certainly did not write "it was her sister." sluggo is belongs to the Brandon Short School of Logic.
you are correct, you said, 'You're thinking of her sister Mariel' . so what am I missing here? or the fact that you missed an obvious tough in cheek?
did you really think I thought either of the Hemingway's were world class athletes (pretty good hurdler) ?Now I'm missing a "tough in cheek." Are you sure you're not Brandon Short's campaign manager?
did you really think I thought either of the Hemingway's were world class athletes (pretty good hurler) ?
I read it in Fall term of my freshman year. It's the only one of his novels I think much of, and could possibly read now. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton," one of the great first lines. Come to think of it, is there a novel anywhere with the perfect brackets of first and last lines, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"Nearly finished with The Sun Also Rises. I do a few chapters when on vacation. They drink a sh*t ton in the book - every event is drinking. Going to fish? Pack three bottles of wine and beer. Train ride? Same. Bullfight? Get sauced on wine, beer, and Fundador. Then fight. Then go to hotel for bath and bed (but order more beer and wine to be delivered before the bath). Jesus.
Yeah, the constant drinking wears me out too.
Having said that, I have read the Old Man and the Sea, cover to cover, without a break, several times.
I read it in Fall term of my freshman year. It's the only one of his novels I think much of, and could possibly read now. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton," one of the great first lines. Come to think of it, is there a novel anywhere with the perfect brackets of first and last lines, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
It's a honest book, I'll say that. He said what he wanted to say.
I read it in Fall term of my freshman year. It's the only one of his novels I think much of, and could possibly read now. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton," one of the great first lines. Come to think of it, is there a novel anywhere with the perfect brackets of first and last lines, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
It's a honest book, I'll say that. He said what he wanted to say.
I had to check my copy of The Sound and the Fury to be sure of the first and last lines, which are: “Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting,” and, “The broken flower drooped over Ben’s fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place.”As to first/last sentence brackets, a few notables...
Moby Dick
“Call me Ishmael.”
“And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
The Old Man and the Sea
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
“The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
Lolita
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth."
“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”