Green Hills of Africa (1935) by Ernest Hemingway & Thoughts on Writers
“You find that it is the thing he is writing about that is interesting. Not the way it is written.”
Where Books and Readers Come Together
“You find that it is the thing he is writing about that is interesting. Not the way it is written.”
“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).
“When I first started writing the novel, like twenty years ago, Laura had thrown caution to the winds and accepted a part in a local production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.”
“Her stare often moved me into speechlessness, captivated me into forgetfulness, and I longed to know what she was thinking without her ever having to say a single word. But I knew such things were impossible for me.”
A Poem of Redaction




