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...style of FM 21-13 is most influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr and Pat Boone, the style of The Combat Leader's Field Guide is derived primarily from Ernest Hemingway. Consider this passage from a section on probing for mines: "Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...
This pulls no punches; this is life. Only once does the author lapse into sentimentalism, when he says that the American Fighting Man must "trust in my God and in the United States of America." But even Hemingway had his weaknesses...
...separate living quarters, installed a makeshift bathroom and two kitchenettes with refrigerators, rewired the lighting, painted the walls, added furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down the street; Luis has a small appliance-repair business. In the evenings their families come by for dinner; several nights a week their wives sleep...
...enemy of these writers is the passage of days; their passionately sought goal is the finding of their own, true voice. "The further you go in writing the more alone you are," says Ernest Hemingway. "The time to work is shorter all the time, and if you waste it, you feel you have committed a sin." Anarchic Henry Miller notes that "the point I discovered is that the best technique is none at all," and argues, "A writer shouldn't think much." T. S. Eliot is in agreement about technique but cautions, "It's not wise to violate...
People are endlessly wondering who will be the new Hemingway, the new Hornung, the new Premier of the Soviet Union. But no one yet has been courageous enough to confront the ultimate question: Who will be the new John Wayne...