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...final two stories represent the most obvious and most used type of humor distortion of events or other literature. Norman Pettit's Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...
...Hero. His amnesty proposal provoked the most serious opposition. Self-righteous Communists denounced it as "immoral"; Gaullist Deputy André Diethelm called it "a pact with the devil." Pinay fought back. From his notes in a big cardboard folder he drew some startling statistics. Example: French peasants and the petit bourgeois have hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer...
...other novels such as The Woman at the Pump, the story of an emasculated man living in a sexy situation (nine years before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises), showed that Hamsun's real literary impulse, formed during his years of vagabondage, was a profound reaction to petit bourgeois life. A few years later he embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife was an outright Nazi sympathizer, and Hamsun himself fell for the Hitler line. When Germany conquered Norway, he told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting...
...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...