Giving this to my dad for a second time.
I don’t believe this has been on my blog before. How…um, has it? Wow. Look at those ends.
Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by crafting a six-word short story, that can make people cry. Here it is.
Roald Dahl and Ernest Hemingway
How did I get to The Old Man and the Sea today?
The History of Love -> character listening to Ulysses audiobook -> “Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that.” -> Ulysses by James Joyce: Episode 3 - Proteus -> Proteus, the old man OF the sea -> The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Is The Old Man and the Sea, often regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works, no more than a reaction to poor reception? When Moby-Dick wasn’t an immediate success, Melville wrote Pierre, which was even more abstruse than his “masterpiece.” Did Hemingway go the other way? And what would Iggy Pop do?
One of the most outspoken critics of The Old Man and the Sea is Robert P. Weeks. His 1962 piece “Fakery in The Old Man and the Sea” presents his claim that the novel is a weak and unexpected divergence from the typical, realistic Hemingway (referring to the rest of Hemingway’s body of work as “earlier glories”). In juxtaposing this novel against Hemingway’s previous works, Weeks contends:
Some critics suggest “The Old Man and the Sea” was Hemingway’s reaction towards the criticism of his most recent work, Across the River and into the Trees. The negative reviews for Across the River and into the Trees distressed him, and may have been a catalyst to his writing of The Old Man and the Sea.
- “The difference, however, in the effectiveness with which Hemingway employs this characteristic device in his best work and in The Old Man and the Sea is illuminating. The work of fiction in which Hemingway devoted the most attention to natural objects, The Old Man and the Sea, is pieced out with an extraordinary quantity of fakery, extraordinary because one would expect to find no inexactness, no romanticizing of natural objects in a writer who loathed W.H. Hudson, could not read Thoreau, deplored Melville’s rhetoric in Moby Dick, and who was himself criticized by other writers, notably Faulkner, for his devotion to the facts and his unwillingness to ‘invent.’”
Pursue understanding. Deconstruct systems in order to taste building blocks. Happiness waits else/everywhere. And the heart(h). Do spheres not pull at each other?
bees
Oscar Sabini: Alice in Wonderland
as time goes by, louis armstrong
