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Reading Hemingway is Painful.

Reading Hemingway is a little like how I imagine reading a telegram would go:

“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Stop. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, Stop, but it meant a lot to Cohn. Stop. He cared nothing for boxing, Stop, in fact he disliked it, Stop, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. Stop.”

Posted 8 months ago

Tags: PAINFUL, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Why is this book so damn boring?, If I get past the bit about going to South America will it get better?, Why do people love this jackhole so damn much?,

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