hemingway.

i've never really taken the time to sit down and read any of hemingway's stuff. which is kinda bad considering all of his works that i've been assigned to read over the course of my academic career. regardless, i sat down today to read "the sun also rises" and ended up halfway through the book before i realized that it was time for me to go inside.

i was delightfully surprised that almost everything he writes in this book i'm able to relate to. half of it is stuff i've thought before but have never really been able to put in the right words. i started going through and underlining all of the lines that really stuck out to me. a lot of the time it's just one sentence or phrase, but i've also found myself starring pages because whole conversations are striking my fancy. some of them were funny, but most were things that really hit home. i don't know if it's because of the place i'm in my life right now that all of this is really making sense to me or what.

but, damn hemingway, you said it man.


don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?
-robert cohn, "the sun also rises"