Thursday, March 26, 2009

On rereading Hemingway

Simple words.
Short, declarative sentences.
Tough, terse prose.

2 comments:

renju ramesh said...

what an eloquent,simmering,scintilating,sluimmagammaering style of writting shivasankarrra !!!....dd i overdo it? huh?...duh?

Meenakshi said...

U vanished???

waiting to read more...

Please wake up !

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  • A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
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