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“He has no courage, has never climbed out on a limb. He has never used a word where the reader might check his usage by a dictionary.” — William Faulkner (on Ernest Hemingway)
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I wish this had context or a link to the original source.
Google, what do you have for us?
From Joseph Leo Blotner’s Faulkner: a biography:
Green’s promises that no professors would be present and no notes would be taken had not been kept. The university’s new public-relations director, Marvin Black, recently arrived from California, encouraged two of the students to revise their notes for magazine publication. … When Faulkner learned of the students’ projected magazine piece, he immediately asked Alton Bryant to see that it was stopped. …
On May 11 excerpts from Marvin Black’s press release appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, and in due course Hemingway receieved his copy at his home in Cuba, Always vulnerable and sensitive to a slur, particularly depressed at the time, Hemingway was cut deeply when he read the assertion that he had “no courage.” He started an angry letter to Faulkner, listing the places where he had been in battle, but it began to get too long. …
(Faulkner sent a) note to Hemingway. “I’m sorry of this damn stupid thing,” he told him. “I was just making $250.00, I thought informally, not for publication, or I would have insisted on looking at the stuff before it was released. I have believed for years that the human voice has caused all human ills and I thought I had broken myself of talking. Maybe this will be my valedictory lesson.” But he closed the brief note without an explicit retraction. “I hope it won’t matter a damn to you. But if or when[ne]ever it does, please accept another squirm from yours truly.”
It was a painful sequence for Faulkner … Long before he had made a name, he had thought of Hemingway as the best of the young American writers.
There’s even more context. Vivid, sad stuff: Hemingway getting the brigadier general who witnessed his courage as a war correspondent to send Faulkner a letter, for example. I realize I’m being a scold, but we cheat ourselves when we don’t even bother with a Google search.
- David Quigg, 5/3/2011
P.S. I have many more Hemingway posts here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkmojtsyRL1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg)
“He has no courage, has never climbed out on a limb. He has never used a word where the reader might check his usage by a dictionary.”
— William Faulkner (on Ernest Hemingway)
=====================
I wish this had context or a link to the original source.
Google, what do you have for us?
From Joseph Leo Blotner’s Faulkner: a biography:
Green’s promises that no professors would be present and no notes would be taken had not been kept. The university’s new public-relations director, Marvin Black, recently arrived from California, encouraged two of the students to revise their notes for magazine publication. … When Faulkner learned of the students’ projected magazine piece, he immediately asked Alton Bryant to see that it was stopped. …
On May 11 excerpts from Marvin Black’s press release appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, and in due course Hemingway receieved his copy at his home in Cuba, Always vulnerable and sensitive to a slur, particularly depressed at the time, Hemingway was cut deeply when he read the assertion that he had “no courage.” He started an angry letter to Faulkner, listing the places where he had been in battle, but it began to get too long. …
(Faulkner sent a) note to Hemingway. “I’m sorry of this damn stupid thing,” he told him. “I was just making $250.00, I thought informally, not for publication, or I would have insisted on looking at the stuff before it was released. I have believed for years that the human voice has caused all human ills and I thought I had broken myself of talking. Maybe this will be my valedictory lesson.” But he closed the brief note without an explicit retraction. “I hope it won’t matter a damn to you. But if or when[ne]ever it does, please accept another squirm from yours truly.”
It was a painful sequence for Faulkner … Long before he had made a name, he had thought of Hemingway as the best of the young American writers.
There’s even more context. Vivid, sad stuff: Hemingway getting the brigadier general who witnessed his courage as a war correspondent to send Faulkner a letter, for example. I realize I’m being a scold, but we cheat ourselves when we don’t even bother with a Google search.
- David Quigg, 5/3/2011
P.S. I have many more Hemingway posts here.
