What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons…

– Wilfred Owen

  • @[email protected]
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    362 years ago

    Ernest Hemingway would out drink, out spit, poetry slam this guy to death with his bare hands.

    • FuglyDuck
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      2 years ago

      Hemmingway didn’t do any of the things he said he did- or rather, paid people to take him there and show him things. He certainly wasn’t a skilled hunter, and he’ll was a merely adequate writer.

      Which is why all the good bits were shadow written

      Which, I can’t really disagree with your statement. Tuberville is that useless, after all.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 years ago

        I’ve seen and heard nothing about Hemingway having a shadow writer? He was certainly a drunk and not entirely a good person, even for his time.

        • FuglyDuck
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          22 years ago

          Wait until you find out who shakespear’s shadow writer was.

          It’s actually historically very common. Most of the “classics” had them.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            Where do u get this nonsense ? There’s no hard evidence for ghost writer theory and not much evidence at all.

            Scholars have said such a theory is highly improbable

        • Flying SquidOP
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          62 years ago

          Never heard that about Hemingway, but I have heard that about Tennessee Williams. Maybe they’re confusing the two?

      • SpaceBar
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        82 years ago

        Did Hemmingway write 100% accurate biographical accounts of his experiences? No. He was a fiction writer who self promoted and built a brand.

        To each is own. I’m not a huge fan, but he’s hardly the first writer to build his own ethos.