Re: hemingway
Aaron (aaron.brager@writeme.com)
Sun, 06 Jun 1999 01:19:03 -0400
Being phony to oneself is one of the worst things I can think of.
Being forced to be phony to society isn't bad, as long as you aren't using
faulty logic to justify it.
Speaking of gay people, is anyone here highly knowledgeable regarding the
bible? A (gay) friend said that King James was gay; and that the KJ
translation of the bible is the only one that says it is wrong. Any truth
to this?
----- Original Message -----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 1999 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: hemingway
> Aaron wrote:
> > Does it count as phony if one is forced into being phony via peer
> pressure
> > and death threats?
> >
> > > Hey! I'm still getting over the news that he was gay! What a painful
> way
> > to
> > > live your life - as a phony all the way
>
> I meant being phony to yourself. To me there is no sadder fate than to
> ignore that wonderful, timeless axiom `to thine own self be true'. It's
> truly a quote to live by. If an individual is forced by society to live in
> a way that is against their innermost self, then all the sadder. It just
> seems a shame that Hemingway could not deal with it the way that countless
> other writers could - W.H. Auden, Isherwood, Capote, Vidal, so on (and I
> chose them because they lived in an era in which it was just as unaccepted
> as in Hemingway's time) . It just makes me a little sad that it makes me
> question the vicissicitude of Hemingway's work - all that macho posturing,
> all the gunning and gal-ing - it was all a
> masquerade ...
>
> Camille
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