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I'd like just to specify that I composed that paragraph on the spot. Rem tene, verba sequentur. If Hemingway said something similar, I'd say it is not specific
by mdp2021 4y ago
I'd like just to specify that I composed that paragraph on the spot. Rem tene, verba sequentur.
If Hemingway said something similar, I'd say it is not specifically because great minds think alike - also that -, but because we described the same thing. There is an infinite number of ways to describe, say, a glass through «relatively fixed perspective form[s]», but a pretty limited number of «ideal structure[s]» pertaining.
- jancsika 4y ago> If Hemingway said something similar Sorry, I shouldn't have written similar. It's literally word for word equivalent. Have you ever considered rewriting the complete works of Ernest Hemingway, but for different reasons?
- mdp2021 4y agoWell, since I in fact have written it from scratch, as an original - though saying nothing new but an actual state of things -, please do find the exact quotation, so we will wonder upon the "magic" that allegedly happened. Incidentally: I checked earlier, because I was intrigued - though probably "«for different reasons»", i.e. to compare the views - and I could not find it. I saw that there exists an "Hemingway on Writing", 2019. But I do not know. I admit I never read Hemingway (owing to queues). Though I can guess we have pretty different styles: syntactic vs paratactic. Edit: but if that "magic" happened - /if/ -, I know the trick, and I can already tell you (rephrasing what written before): if, e.g., "a circumference is the set of points equidistant from a centre", the ways in which you can say that idea will collapse into that. Further edit: although, if the equivalence were there word by word for that deontic definition of writing, I'd turn to the supernatural.