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- restlessriver rated 5 months ago
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I have often heard it said that Ernest Hemingway is seldom taken up in universities as there was nothing much to read between his lines. But back in journalism school, copying Hemingway's lean style -- his crisp sentences to describe life as it is, rather than as gleaned through literary allusions, comprised the most of my writing agonies. Staccato. My professor would mentor me, show-don't-tell, and be tersely descriptive. There was nothing there I guess, if you are unaccustomed to simplicity framing honour or courage or pathos.
As for me, Hemingway's unadorned prose is among the most compelling.
I find it an uncomplicated style of exceeding beauty and richness,
hidden in plain sight --
with the power to transport and to transform.
They say his writing was stark, masculine and etched in stone.
I am more inclinedto compare it to a woman, beautifully understated.
`restless river`
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