Monday, February 9, 2015

Now This Is A Sentence

From "The Garden of Eden" by Hemingway.

A character is talking about his father, a guy who lived his life with reckless abandon. Talking about advice his father gave.

"His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever known, gave marvelous advice.He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening addition of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket."

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