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432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)

The History of Literature

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Was There?

Hemingway was comfortable letting the readers interpret through their own individual perspective. At least at his best, that's what he's doing. If we were to do one true sentence with a falkner or james joyce, then maybe we wouldn't choose a wordexumea sentence that allows interpretation for the reader. But i'm actually going to se some of your themes and let you tell me how they work in my head. Jack Kerouac: You probably wouldn't choose hemmingway for that kind of principle.

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