--- Bludis Jack <
buildsnburns@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I still think his
> best was "The Sun Also Rises," which was also
his
> first.
I know that it's largely irrelevant / moot at this point
(about a month later), but I have to agree with Jack here. I
read "Sun" for a class a year or two ago, and it was the
first Hemingway novel I'd read
(not the first short, though). Some of the writing in this
novel just...well, I guess I just don't have the words. I was
stunned. The only thing I can say is that finishing the novel
made me sad, because it was over and I could never read it
again for the first time. The thought that I could not meet
or communicate with the author also saddened me.
I don't know how to say it any better than that. On a more
positive note, it did help me resolve to work harder to meet
those authors that I could during my lifetime...look out,
Bill Crider, cuz you're on that list.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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