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Fiction

Lint Head

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1. I think he was just demonstrating the way a particular character talked.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 02:34 PM

Aug 2018

It's kind of like a writer can write a murder mystery yet we know the writer has not actually committed a murder. There is reality in language. Hemingway could have been racist. It was a different time and Hemingway was known to be a virulent man, Safari Hunter and heavy drinker.

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Hemingway - racist??? [View all] groundloop Aug 2018 OP

I think he was just demonstrating the way a particular character talked. Lint Head Aug 2018 #1

An interesting thesis... Marcuse Aug 2018 #2