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Putting together these parts, Mason has Kipling come out a little like a 19th century British Hemingway. Like Hemingway, Kipling prided himself on an almost tactile knowledge of his craft, as if he were more artisan than writer. Like Hemingway, he approached the world as a no-nonsense man of action, only to have it turn into a landscape of terrifying myths. Kipling's fundamental theme, like Hemingway's, was pain and its endurance...
Kipling, both Mason and Wilson agree, was a superb writer who, again like Hemingway, could make textures and smells-the very rhythms of life-leap off the page. Why, then, did he come closer to success in his short stories (for instance, The Man Who Would Be King) than in his novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray...
...Okay, I give in, I need that linebacker bad enough--I'll give you the man you're after. But you're getting a great deal--he's the only Ernest Hemingway enthusiast I have left to bargain with...
...Hemingway enthusiast? That's right, because the dialogue you heard wasn't between two general managers attempting to build pro teams, but a couple of Harvard senior advisers trying to form successful roommate groupings for this fall's freshman class...
Briggs and I had planned to get out of Ketchum early Sunday morning. Instead we went to watch the girls play softball down at the Ernest Hemingway Elementary School. They were big and beautiful and inspired us into getting some beer. So we headed to the market, running into Daniel and Gay and Daniel's tow-headed friends from back home. Bridget and Jenny, on the way. They weren't as big nor quite as beautiful, but we were in a fit mood to be inspired so Daniel's invitation to go down to the river and smoke...