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Stephen Fry has talked about trying to rewrite scenes from The Great Gatsby from memory, and the renewed appreciation he got for Fitzgerald's prose after that a
by clucas 4y ago
Stephen Fry has talked about trying to rewrite scenes from The Great Gatsby from memory, and the renewed appreciation he got for Fitzgerald's prose after that attempt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdLfPas8dw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdLfPas8dw around around 10 minutes. Good stuff!
- vestrigi 4y agoOn a related note: Hunter S. Thompson simply retyped The Great Gatsby and some Hemingway texts to see how it feels to write such texts.