Hemmingway:"The Old Man and The Sea"

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By Jens on Sunday, April 26, 1998 - 02:17 am:
    a simple story can be so perplexing.
By Papa on Sunday, April 26, 1998 - 10:38 am:
    a perplexing story can be so simple.
By Simchen on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 07:08 am:

    what is the role of setting in the old man and the sea?

By Spiral on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 10:25 am:

    Read it for a class once... it was as if there were four stories layered into it. And then again, you never really know if those four stories are intented or figments added in by you.

By Steinbeck on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 10:30 am:

    setting a role,can be so perplexingly simple

By Nate on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 01:43 pm:

    i just read it again. it made me want sushi.

By cyst on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 08:11 pm:

    nate, you should read "portnoy's complaint."

    I'm currently reading "american pastoral" by philip roth.

By cyst on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 08:12 pm:

    if you want, I could send you the audiotape version (if I can find all of it).

By Nate on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 09:13 pm:

    i'll read it. it's in my stack. i just have to be in the right mood to pick up a yellow book.

By semillama on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 08:38 am:

    I'm currently re-reading Joyce's works, stopping after each to read an analysis of it. I WILL get through Finnegans Wake!

By patrick on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 11:35 am:

    Joyce is someone I should revist

By Mavis on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 01:42 pm:

    i'll be damned if i can get through ulysses...maybe if i get in the canoe with that book and a little food and a thermos of coffee and paddle out into the lake a ways and don't come back until it's over.....
    the books i read last week and this week are
    the lost continent by bill bryson
    and brave on the rocks by sabrina ward harrison.
    also some lovely smut but i won't get into that....

By droopy on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 02:10 pm:

    canoes are for thoreau or whitman. if you want to read joyce gather a group of your more literary friends together with enough irish stout or irish whiskey (even better - both) to last you the night and start taking turns reading it aloud to each other.

By Spider on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 02:41 pm:

    My father learned English at 23 and read "Ulysses" at 25. When recently asked if he understood it, he smiled sheepishly and answered, "I think."

    This is my wisdom.

By semillama on Thursday, October 4, 2001 - 02:44 pm:

    That's the way to do it. Need some Tullamore Dew for that, and candles, and shepards pie for dinner.

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