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Anonymous Sat Nov 27 22:52:31 2021 No.19475742 [Reply] [Original]

> "Hemingway is the sort of guy I intensely admire without any great impulse to imitate him. His prosaic objectivity is a very high form of art--which I wish I could parallel--but I can't get used to the rhythm of his short, harsh sentences."
>- H. P. Lovecraft to J. Vernon Shea, 18 Sep 1931, LJS 56

What would Hemingway have thought of HP Lovecraft?

Anonymous Sat Nov 27 22:55:34 2021 No.19475757

I tried reading The Old Man and The Sea. Very boring. Dropped after 30 pages. Usually I love nautical stories. Hemingway always seems boring to read. Have read a few short stories of his. Only one I clearly remember is Hills Like White Elephants.
Hovercraft studied and emulated different authors quite the opposite of Hemingway.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 01:05:41 2021 No.19476227 >>19475757 Agreed. The old man and the sea put me to sleep. Was boring as fuck, didn’t finish

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 01:12:56 2021 No.19476241 >>19475757 Same book and same experience except I finished it. It reads like a hastily-written book report on a much longer, better book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 01:21:52 2021 No.19476270 >>19475757 I was in love with that book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 01:23:32 2021 No.19476279 >>19475742 Weird seeing Lovecraft use the phrase "the sort of guy"

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 02:41:16 2021 No.19476502 >>19475757 Try his more recently discovered short story, Pursuit As Happiness. It's on the free side of the New Yorker. Probably the most Hemmingway story Hemmingway ever wrote.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 10:10:42 2021 No.19477711 >>19475757 >>19476227 >>19476241 filtered

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 28 12:19:46 2021 No.19478176 >>19477711 What did you think of it anon?

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