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By way of introduction, might I offer a rice cake?

January 8, 2016 by ingres77 17 Comments

  What the hell did I just read? Okay. Let me start over. My knowledge of Ernest Hemingway prior to reading this can best be summed up by three things. First, there’s a claim (most likely apocryphal)  that he once won a wager that he could craft an entire story in only six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Second, in response to William Faulkner saying, “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary”, Hemingway […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Faulkner, fishing, Literature

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Faulkner, fishing, Literature ·
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