10-07-2016, 07:05 AM
Hemingway was quite manly a man;
He did ev'rything that a man can.
His prose, though quite Spartan,
He couldn't take heart in,
So ended it by his own hand.
(And if you happen to be thinking that this is off-topic,
you haven't read the exchanges above closely enough.)
(10-06-2016, 05:34 AM)zorcas Wrote: And just what is that "them" referencing?
Yeah, the third line used to be "books" instead of "prose" and that "them"
ended up getting left down there all by its lonesome. I changed it.
Thanks for catching that.
P.S. Though, being such a manly man (and I suppose you'll want me to change
"manly" to "man-ish" next), I guess he replaced, for a time, the Spartans as a
popular metaphor for manliness -- to be eclipsed, fame being fleeting and all,
by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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