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I feel like I've stumbled on a compositional goldmine...the perfect template.

Big jump, Christina!

Just when I thought Tolstoy was staying away from symbolism...or maybe that can just qualify as foreshadowing.

I think Fitzgerald had a Tolstoy complex...

Gripping...absolutely gripping.

So far so good...I love the cleanliness of Tolstoy's thought processes and characterizations. Very insightful, thorough and dualistic.

Back to Mother Russia...with love

"Fathers and Sons" - Sensational, clinging scents and acute sight, and sensitive, generations of fathers and sons stringing together like one man. Nick Adams IS Hemingway.

"The Gambler, The Nun, and The Radio" - Fascinating...Revolution and knowledge are the only things not classified as opium for the masses. Everything before and after is. Shouldn't patients be allowed their anesthetic? (paraphrasing)

"The Gambler, The Nun, and The Radio" - Fascinating...

"Wine of Wyoming" - My head aches from all the interlaced French. Broken or not, it disrupted the dialogue for me.

"A Natural History of the Dead" - Hemingway assumes the guise of a natural scientist studying the dead in war rather than life outside of it, which normally occupies his profession. His style completely shifts to the anti-Hemingway; verbose, relatively long-winded, etc. until it breaks off a little at the end into dialogue. I feel uneasy knowing I found it a bit satirical.

"A Day's Wait" - Well, if you can't reasonably think solely of dying anymore, you might as well start worrying about the circumstances of living.

"Homage To Switzerland" - Only Hemingway would split a 10-page story into parts. Of course, the split serves his literary device. Each traveler differs from the other, but the Swiss hospitality and environment remain routinely constant.

"One Reader Writes" - Is this the type of woman who calls 911 for burnt toast? In all seriousness, I understand innocent ignorance which morphs the simplest inconveniences into devastating calamities.

"The Mother of A Queen" - I waited for a redeeming quality in the queen but Hem neglected me :(

"A Way You'll Never Be" - That was odd. Is Nick losing his mind a little?

"The Sea Change" - Similar to "Hills Like White Elephants". I won't repeat myself.

"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" - A doctor derives all his knowledge and skill from a book shares qualities with a boy who desperately desires castration because lust defies purity. Go figure.

This is too good! The Best of Bad Hemingway?!?!? http://bit.ly/lDLwZt

"The Light of The World" - Rather than contrasting youth and old age, I think this one glorified experience over punk innocence, even if it means valuing an experience which might be no more than a manipulated memory.

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" - Well done, Hem! These stylistically clean stories of Spain illuminate Hemingway's instinctual insights - the ignorance of youth and the sorrow of old age. Symbolism would add nothing valuable to this account.

"After The Storm" - I liked this one; set similarly as Old Man and The Sea and full of moderate action. Thematically, this story depicts man's futile efforts to master and profit by the sea.

The Historic Fart?!? Awesome! This tale undoubtedly answers the age-old question about what the first caveman did after breaking wind! hahahaha

Good article about Eddie Vedder's new album 'Ukulele Songs' http://n.pr/mnf7Be

Ha! This is fun...some of the wittiest story-telling I've come across.

Dumas alluded to this book dozens of times in The Count of Monte Cristo so, naturally, I have to read it!

"As I Lay Me" - A frame of mind I hope never to sympathize with.

"Banal Story" - The title notwithstanding, this story sings the anthem of Hemingway haters. But thinking critically about what is unsaid as much as what is said is the key to a complete understanding of life.

"Banal Story" - The title notwithstanding, this story sings the anthem of Hemingway haters. But thinking critically about what is unsaid as much as what is said is the key to a complete understanding of life.