Battle of the Authors: Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner

JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 05:46 PM
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Poll question: Battle of the Authors: Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner

Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 06:28 PM by JohnLocke

Hmm...

For the literary mavens among us, let's start an activity: write a sentence the way Hemingway would and then the way Faulkner would.

By the way, did you know they hated each other and they were both gay?*

*Well, it's speculative for Hemingway. But Faulkner was definitely homosexual.

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Bucky

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Tue Mar-09-04 05:51 PM
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1. Being precedes knowingness thrusting an ache, a thirst--yearning at morn

Bob ate breakfast.

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 05:53 PM
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2. Here's mine.

Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 05:53 PM by JohnLocke

Hemingway: He raised up his rifle and shot the rhinoceros. Period.
Faulkner: The man, clad in green leather, raised up his rifle with anxiety. Shall he destroy such a life? Alas, it was so.

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BigMcLargehuge

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Tue Mar-09-04 05:55 PM
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3. mine -

Faulkner-

The dappled sun draped across the verdant spring green through rows of sturdy sycamore trees lining the main thoroughfare of of Catswell heights as Minister Jeffries ambled slowly through the growing throng of morning pedestrians.

Hemmingway-

Jeffries shuffled through the crowd towards the center of town.

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Westegg

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:05 PM
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5. Ain't they both the grooviest?...

Hem: "Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

Bill: "I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont hate it," he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:00 PM
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4. Kick

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Melodybe

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:08 PM
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6. Light in August is one of the best books ever written

Faulker is a god.

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:47 PM
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20. It is.

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Bake

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:09 PM
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7. Egad! At first glance I thought it was

Hemingway v. William SHATNER!!!

My bad.

Bake

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Faygo Kid

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:10 PM
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8. That's a tough one. Hemingway.

Hey, I know which one I liked better; no knock at Faulkner. If it was Hemingway-Steinbeck, I would go with Steinbeck. Not surprised they hated each other; geniuses of the same genre frequently do.

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MuseRider

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:16 PM
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9. Can't do it

but I can say that I adore Faulkner and never cared too much for Hemingway. Every book I read or reread written by Faulkner has to be the best one I have read. As someone said above, Light in August was wonderful as was As I lay Dying. Guess it is time to pull them down from the shelf and read them again.

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SiriusLiberal

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:28 PM
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10. Here's mine

Faulkner: �The president, not that he really was the president because he had been selected by a court, looked down at the ground as a puzzled looked came across his ape like lips; something was bothering him but he couldn�t figure it out, even if he closed his eyes and concentrated really hard it just wouldn�t come to him, and as he continued his stare, someone approached him from behind.�

Hemingway: �Your shoe�s untied�

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TacticalPeek

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:32 PM
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13. RROOFFLLMMAAOO!!!!!!!

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:57 PM
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16. Welcome to DU !!

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BeatleBoot

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:31 PM
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11. Hemingway and here's why...

Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 06:32 PM by BeatleBoot

Read papa's short story "Up In Michigan"...

And you'll see that a good story IS like an iceberg, 1/8 is above the surface, 7/8 is below the surface.

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:31 PM
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12. Agreed.

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jpgray

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:04 PM
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18. Very true. (nt)

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GumboYaYa

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:46 PM
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14. Great, you pick two of my very favorite authors.

I can't decide.

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 06:56 PM
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15. Sorry. You gotta choose one.

Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 06:57 PM by JohnLocke

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tigereye

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:03 PM
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17. ooh great idea

don't know enough about Faulkner.. but Hemingway. He looked at the cold ground.

how about more like....

DH Laurence

Gertrude Stein

Henry Miller

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:27 PM
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19. Kick (nt)

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lapislzi

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Tue Mar-09-04 08:00 PM
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21. Where is your evidence

that either of these men was gay?

(Sorry, that was not my entry. Just want to know where you got your facts)

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lapislzi

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Tue Mar-09-04 08:04 PM
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22. OK, here's mine...

Hemingway:

Night, dark and rainy.

Faulkner:

When the fulsomeness of the evening came upon her, she was taken by the indigo black not with lips like the face of the boy on the road who dared to gape that dawning crescent of a smile at a white woman, and the wet wet wet that he roused in that other crescent, the crescent of the moon, fulsome and thick with woman rain.

(I had a professor in college who said you could tell the point in the sentence where Faulkner took a drink)

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fishnfla

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Tue Mar-09-04 09:52 PM
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23. Big Two-Hearted River (part 1 and 2)

As an outdoorsman and a lover of literature, my all-time favorite short stories. I am going to read them again tonight.
As a student of southern literature, however, "As I Lay Dying" is my all-time favorite novel by Wm Faulkner, and I've read them all.

it was a tough call, but Hem turned me on to reading as a young man,"The Sun also Rises" so he gets my vote

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BeatleBoot

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Tue Mar-09-04 10:24 PM
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25. I've canoed it many times...

in the U.P. of Michigan...

Empties into Lake Superior...

"Papa" turned me onto reading as a young man, too.

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southerngirlwriter

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Tue Mar-09-04 10:14 PM
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24. Here are mine:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Faulkner: The chicken, small, fierce, and yearning for larger meaning than cluck cluck here and cluck cluck there, surveying the road with the weight of a lifetime riding between its feathers, pondered the consequences of failing to make a journey fraught with the burden of identity, and instead of crossing the road, turned and headed toward the saloon.

Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

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DemoTex

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Tue Mar-09-04 10:29 PM
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26. My main man in lit is Faulkner

Faulkner: "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. All the way from Alabama a-walking. Thinking although I have been not quite a month on the road I am already in Mississippi, further from home than I have ever been before. I am now further from Doane's Mill than I have been since I was twelve years old. (Light in August, Paragraph 1.)

Hemingway: Pregnant Lena, walking across Alabama and Mississippi, tracked the father of her child.

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JohnLocke

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Tue Mar-09-04 10:31 PM
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27. That's good!!

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