Posted by OddipusRex on August 19, 2002, at 13:41:47
In reply to What about work?, posted by mair on August 19, 2002, at 8:10:37
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> Do you think it's possible that Hemingway made their lives so boring just to demonstrate what shallow lives they lived?
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I think so. And he did a really good job of it in my case. There was a place in the book where Bill was buying shoeshines over and over for one of the other guys. Both of them were drunk and found it very amusing but when Nick comes down he says he was so far behind them (in drinking) that he felt a little uncomfortable about all the shoe shining. That's how I felt about the whole book -like it probably would have been more amusing if I were drunk too.
As for work, I think most of them were writers, at least Nick Bill and Cohen.
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