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The Sun Also Rises


She turned to Cohn and smiled at him. He was not smiling now,

"You were only going to give me a hundred pounds, weren't you Robert? But I made him give me two hundred. He's really very generous. Aren't you, Robert?"

I do not know how people could say such terrible things to Robert Cohn. There are people to whom you could not say insulting things. They give you a feeling that the world would be destroyed, would actually be destroyed before your eyes, if you said certain things. But here was Cohn taking it all. Here it was, all going on right before me, and I did not even feel an impulse to try and stop it. And this was friendly joking to what went on later.


A short one tonite.



I must admit I'm not a fan of Hemingway. I'm sure that to many people that makes me a bad judge of this book, but I've never been able to enjoy his books. His female characters have issues and I just can't get myself to care for the people in his books. I'm sure it's me but I just can't. I do, however, love his language. He writes the clearest, least pretentious (which is funny considering his characters' pompousness) and it's really a pleasure to read his words. Today's excerpt comes from a very famous Hemingway Novel, The Sun Also Rises.

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