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: : : : kwj(did I spel thet right?), : : : : I'm not shure thet Hemingwey ever acknowledged anybody, did he? I know he bragged about bein' finally better then Tolstoy, which I doubt. Thanks fer the reminder about this site. Let's see how long it takes us t' be throwd out of this place. Hal : : : : : Reading Moby-, I was taken by some similiarity between it and Death in the Afternoon. : : : : : History, legend, descriptions of bulls and bullfighting, directly addressing the reader, etc. : : : : : Anybody know (pjk?) if EH ever mentioned melville (I'm sure he read him. I don't recall seeing this. : : : : : many thanks : : : : : kwt : : : Pjk, Ya put me t' shame. Yep, I forgot about Turgenev, Mark Twain, an' the rest. Guess I was preoccupied! Have any a you ever read Turgenev? Is he th' one rote "Sketches of a Sportsman" or "Sportsman's Sketches" or somethin' like that? I'm curious whet his writin' is like. I can see how Twain woulda influenced Hemingstein by flattening out his prose, whet I remember about Twain. You fellers and gals make me want t' go back an' red them fellars. Thar's so many too red though. Hal : : -- Have any of you noticed that one of Turgenev's major novels is titled Fathers and Sons, and the last Nick Adams story has the same title? : : Also, Hal, what do you mean about Hem "flattening out his prose" after the style of Twain? In what sense is Twain's prose flat? That's the last word I would use to describe Twain's prose, though I could sometimes see it in Hem. : : TIA, : : Sue : You hit exactly what I am going to do some time... : read some Turgenev, some Tolstoi (I was planning to do War : and Peace this winter (followed by the sequal Warren Harding : 8-))), some more Conrad (I bought a copy of Nostromo and want : to re-read Heart of Darkness), and Lord Jim, and a bunch more : (Far form the Madding Crowd, The Nekked and the Dead, even : Ulysses, sheesh. But I can usually do 3 books / month in the winter. : And just for fun, I have been putting together a series of : answers for the FAQ at the Hemingway Resource Center which : shows where Hemingway got his titles. eg, "Give us : peace in our time, Oh Lord," from the Book of Common Prayer. : (That's why he specified that it be uncapitalized. : Now if L. Swilley will just show up, we'd be set. : Thanks : Pjk

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