Great compilation and weaving of quotes here. The last Hemingway quote sounds a lot like Orwell from (if I'm not mistaken) WHY I WRITE: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
I've been thinking much of Cormac lately. His essay on the unconscious, "The Kekule Problem," focuses on how the unconscious mind is at work below language. I couldn't help but connecting this to Hemingway's interruptions. Its as if leaving something unresolved allows the unconscious to do its work before continuing.
AMAZING!!!
LETSGOOO
Great compilation and weaving of quotes here. The last Hemingway quote sounds a lot like Orwell from (if I'm not mistaken) WHY I WRITE: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
Very much so, likeminds in their distrust of the looseness of language. Both had a front-row seat to the rhetoric of World Wars
Excellent!
I've been thinking much of Cormac lately. His essay on the unconscious, "The Kekule Problem," focuses on how the unconscious mind is at work below language. I couldn't help but connecting this to Hemingway's interruptions. Its as if leaving something unresolved allows the unconscious to do its work before continuing.
Funny you should say, I posted this clip of McCarthy talking about Kekulé about three hours before the news broke: https://twitter.com/Essayful/status/1668656318486282240
Oh wow! It's a super interesting essay. I just finished The Passenger today and his Kekulé "theories" - if one calls them that - are all over it.
Such a great piece on the craft of writing through the lens of Hemingway quotes!
Cheers Sean! Can't wait to get stuck into the next one
Wonderful stuff.
Cheers my man, a hellish one to get down