At 03:16 PM 7/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>It [American style] has too great a fondness for the
faux naif, by which
>I mean the use of a style such as might be spoken by
a limited sort of
>mind. In the hands of a genius like Hemingway this
may be effective . .
>. When not used by a genius it is as flat as a
Rotarian speech.
If you like this style, I recommend Ring Lardner's "You Know
Me Al." It's not HB, but it's hysterically funny.
Ray
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