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Hemmingway's Iceberg Theory
At his best, brett, he certainly does what you're describing. He had this thing he called the iceberg theory. What is the iceberg theory that hemmingway developed? Oh, yes. Well, the iceberg theory is is really crucial to understanding hemmingway. As as you said, it is probably the most important aesthetic statement he ever made about his own work. And so in 19 32, in his bull fighting treatise called death in the afternoon, it's mostly about bull fighting, but occasionally he does also talk about art. The ones that i've ever met are usually laconic, and they they answer in kind of objective, ironic, sort of terse statements