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Subject:Re: Journalism vrs. English From:"Linda H. Schoenhoff" <lhs -at- UNIFY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:55:21 PDT
It's Friday, what the heck. My comments to Dan:
Dan wrote:
> To paraphrase Simba in Disney's THE LION KING:
There you go with that 8th grade stuff again.
> (This is more baiting!!! Get it?)
> And there's that Hemingwayesque subtlety.
> Seriously, I considered Tom Wolfe's VANITIES OF THE BONFIRES one of
> the best novels I ever read.
Now you've really blown your credibility with me, bub.
> I believe Earnest Hemmingway would have become the best writer who
> ever lived, if he had lived longer.
Read more books. And that's Ernest.
> I am patterning my writing career after Henry James, one of the best
> editors, journalists, and novelists to ever "string words together in
> a coherent manner."
> What a cogent synopsis of Henry's many gifts.
> Two of my goals:
> Win a Pulitzer
> Win the Nobel Prize for Literature
You seem to have Ernest's arrogance, without his grace (under
pressure or otherwise.)
