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Hemingway? Just try pasting the following text there: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the pla
by toshiromifune 6y ago
Hemingway? Just try pasting the following text there:
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.
- mattmoose21 6y agoHaha, I tried the same thing with For Whom The Bell Tolls, and got similar results.
- richeyryan 6y agoI think Hemingway's style has become a bit of a meme that doesn't really reflect the reality of his writing. The last sentence in that excerpt from Farewell to Arms is a great example. Each individual clause is simple enough but he likes to connect them all together to create one connected image. The results from the Hemingway app can be disjointed and lack that flow.
- toshiromifune 6y agoAgree. Hemingway is more about poetry, which is when you manage to say a lot using relatively few words, put in the right order.