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    Default Hemingway a Russian spy?

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    He did unabashedly drink absinthe with champagne.

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    He was a great writer, but as a person, he was a real son of a bitch.
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    Never met him.

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    In related news, Francisco Franco is still dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    In related news, Francisco Franco is still dead.
    Bwahahahahhaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    In related news, Francisco Franco is still dead.
    Most here don't understand


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    Quote Originally Posted by boondoggle View Post
    Most here don't understand


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    Sad, but true.

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    He was a weird individual.

    For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea are excellent works.

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    So was Faulkner there feud was long lived. Hemingway could say more in a short story what Faulkner could say in novel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by boondoggle View Post
    Most here don't understand
    To be fair, it's a little dated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigtimber2 View Post
    So was Faulkner there feud was long lived. Hemingway could say more in a short story what Faulkner could say in novel.
    There is a place for both…
    "The best things in life make you sweaty"
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    not in my world, if it was good enough they'd make a movie out of it

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    House Party 3?

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    I haven't seen it. I did rewatch half of the Star Wars this weekend.. well, Sunday. And caught Galaxy Quest about 5ish that morning, Nutz dropped a quote of it earlier in the week so that masterpiece was stuck in my head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    I haven't seen it.
    Missing out. It is widely regarded as the best movie ever made in history by people who regard such things...

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    I just finished a book on Hemingway. Interesting cat for sure...
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    Literally translated to, "I smell like Scotch and Kodiak".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawhoo View Post
    There is a place for both…
    I don't disagree "Absalom" is brilliant . Southern writers are my favorite. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, then Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Fin", Edisto" by Powell.

    I enjoy reading stuff about the Civil War during and after.

    I recently re-read, a "Time to Kill" by Grisham.

    My youngest is about to take AP Lit and the reading list is crazy.

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    Currently re-reading Walden by Thoreau (amongst endless medical literature). There is certainly some value is his perspective on minimalism/materialism and simplicity in nature.
    "The best things in life make you sweaty"
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    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us...”
    ― Henry David Thoreau

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    Civil Disobedience is interesting. I think he was correct don't pay taxes is true rebellion.

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