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Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: “… it was the end of the world and a splendid chance to be a messiah…”

January 18, 2014

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“Once in camp I put a log on a fire and it was full of ants. As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the center where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. When there were enough on the end they fell off into the […]

Ernest Hemingway

February 16, 2013

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  Some say the hand of Ernest Hemingway is too rough or even crude, his short but edgy sentences are not always appreciated nor the long sentences where you can only dream of a coma coming, not so long ago I finished reading A Farewell to Arms and within it I found what I consider the […]

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