Monday, February 11, 2019
No Bull in The Sun Also Rises :: Hemingway Sun Also Rises Essays
No Bull in The Sun Also Rises   I finished development SAR around ten oclock tonight. I could have taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, barely I couldnt do that. It wanted me to bring it issue slowly, so I often found myself reading five or ten pages and pose it aside to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading single Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This restrain was written, not churned out or word-processed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading.   I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, maybe because it wasnt a point for me in In Our Time, but He doesnt often enough credit quotations with, ,he said, or, ,said Brett, or, ,Bill replied. In SAR it stood and called attention to itself. I wasnt particularly bothered by His not rotund me who said what, but it was very...pointed. I first noticed around the hundredth page or so. Then I realized I couldnt backup track of who was speaking. By not dwelling on it, though, sort of (hate to adduce this) accepting it, I managed to assign speech to whomever I felt was speaking. stepwise I came to enjoy it, in another plane of reading, figuring out from whom words were originating. To not notice it, as if it were one of those annoying three-D posters that you cant see until you make a concerted effort not to approximate and see, became simple - much like those 3-D pictures are once you get laid what not to look for. (I abhor ending sentences with prepositions...)   His not telling was heighten to the story. It made things come even more alive. As a discourse that youre hearing at a nearby table in a restaurant, the exchanges flowed, with me as a more passive reader than in a story written to be read instead of lived. It has always been worrisome for me to read a book with the knowledge that there are things I am supposed to be catching, but not quite. The fish in the pools and the allegory and analogy and symbolism arent
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