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In Reply to: gen'l grant posted by kwt on October 30, 192000 at 23:48:28:
: : Hal: : It's very weird, I just happening to be reading grant's memoirs. He wrote simple declarative sentences, with minimum description. : At the same time, he lays out the terrain involving : his various campaigns very lucidly, which Hem : used to do as well (someone is always working his way up or down somewhere). Grant's dispatches/orders to his gen'ls are a marvel of : brevity and lucidly, so that they couldn't screw : up because of confusion in the orders. : The wonderful thing is that he wrote this book sitting on his front porch, dying of cancer. : Also, I am not familiar with Raymond Carter. : Chandler maybe? : Maybe ole Swilley needs you to go sit on his front porch and get him over here.
: kwt
kwt, It may hev bin Raymond Carver, a great short story writer frem Yakima, Washington which lived in Cauliflowernia fer a while. He rote good stuff; he is one person reminds me of Hemingwey, an' I herd he influenced lots of writers fer a while but thet they had broken awey frem him. I dont know who th' great ones are todey. Thar ar' peeple which follows them li'l academic pubications an' which would know who th' Raymond Carvers or Ernest Hemingweys would be todey. Thar is a good one, in my estimation named Thom Jones, but I hev not followed him lately. Thar is Mark Helprin an' thar is a wooman which rote "Light is Both a Wave and a Particle" or somethin' like thet, but I caint remember her name right this minute. I'll remember later. Anywey, glad t' hear yer reading Grant. I read "Campaigning with Grant" by Horace Porter an' "Combat: The Civil War" edited by Don Congdon. One a them, forgit which one has a lot of actual accounts an' dispatches and so forth, an' you are rite, they are lucid, to the point, amazin' an' remarkable. Ever read "The Anabasis" by I can't remember his name about the march a the 10,000? Great stuff reads like it was written today. Amazin! Peeple hev not changed one whit! We never think 'bout military dispatches as affecting ol' Hemingstein, but now it occurs t' me thet the succintness, the clarity and to th' pointness a his writin' has somethin' in common wif good military dispatches. Wonder if'n thet were why ol' Michael Herr called his book "Dispatches" which I am goin' t' read soon. Readin' "Moll Flanders" right now and then maybe "Tom Jones". Goin' t' peak at "Dispatches" and "The Illiad" if'n I hev time which I probly won't. But I like t' talk big. Hal