I was wondering what to write about this week when I happened to read what seems to me a rather facile essay on Ernest Hemingway. Read it if you're interested in him, or don't; I mention it because it seems to me to makes the all-too-common move of sniffing in dismissal at what ought to be unavoidably discussed, and then going on to gesticulate grandly but obscurely about things both quibbling and obvious, mistaking obfuscation for insight.
It Lives in the Language: Craft and "Aliens"
It Lives in the Language: Craft and "Aliens"
It Lives in the Language: Craft and "Aliens"
I was wondering what to write about this week when I happened to read what seems to me a rather facile essay on Ernest Hemingway. Read it if you're interested in him, or don't; I mention it because it seems to me to makes the all-too-common move of sniffing in dismissal at what ought to be unavoidably discussed, and then going on to gesticulate grandly but obscurely about things both quibbling and obvious, mistaking obfuscation for insight.