Subject: Re: Hemmingway and WP
From: Ken Armstrong (ab997@SEORF.OHIOU.EDU)
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 12:41:42 EDT
Alphonse,
> Hemingway's one great American literary contemporary was William Faulkner.
Yoicks! Maybe there weren't others as popular as EH, but I'd swallow
pretty hard before a) putting him in a class with Faulkner (who Walter Ong,
BTW, puts in a class with Shakespeare) and before b) counting out some
pretty remarkable talent. Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery
O'Connor spring readily to mind.
> When Faulkner heard of Hemingway's suicide, he said, "I don't like a man who
> takes the easy way out." This was the stoical Faulkner who liked to say, "The
> only way through suffering is to go through it."
You may be right that this reflected stoicism on Faulkner's part, but
maybe you or another theologically sharper lister can explain to me why it
_must_ be stoic; or why it isn't Christian? Through is through, it seems
to me.
Thanks,
Ken Armstrong
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