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rumpelshowsskin
06/19/09

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I'm interested to read this just because I loathe Hemingway. The way he writes about Africa makes my skin crawl. The entire continent is this backdrop against which the tortured white male can work out his deep philosophical and psychological issues. The animals, the flora, the fauna are all parts of his supporting cast. And the people? Oh! I forgot.... They don't exist! They're part of some native stage setting, some local color. It's all such paternalistic bullshit. It shows how racialised and gendered the entire notion of "access" and "voyage" is, and the way certain kinds of people are hardly ever just allowed to leave and go explore someone else's land.

In conclusion, Hemingway was a dick. His first wife sounds cool. I will buy this book.
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krismry
06/19/09

@rumpelshowsskin: Excellent summation of this gun toting maniac's career. And how dreadful that his work still is on the list of 20th century writers that young people are forced to read in their schools.
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IamnotStarJones
06/21/09

@krismry: i think it's great that people still read hemingway -- besides, how else would rumpleshowsskin know what wasn't appealing about hemingway's perspective on Africa if she never read his work?
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krismry
06/21/09

@IamnotStarJones: Lots of other testosterone fueled white man's burden colonialist oppressors out there in those days, why bother to waste one's precious numbered days boring oneself to tears by reading yet another? xoxo
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IamnotStarJones
06/21/09

@krismry: to see the evolution and to prepare an informed refutation of the aesthetic. smooches!
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krismry
06/21/09

@IamnotStarJones: ha, smooches back atcha~!~ i secretly loved certain hemingway stories but i read them under the covers with a flashlight. the big two hearted river, now there is a title thought up by a real artist. xoxo
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krismry
06/21/09

@krismry: plus he was nice to cats, so, all right then.
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gangey
06/19/09

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I played Hadley in our 11th grade video biography project about Hemingway.
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gangey
06/19/09

@gangey: And I meant to add, "where was this book then?"
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NellMood
06/19/09

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Oh, I'm excited about this. I'm so fascinated with that whole group of people who were at Villa America and in Paris.
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