From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: quotations down through the ages
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:11:10 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ron,
	I believe that Mr. Walsh is kidding us.  He does that a lot.  The
mark of a dry wit, yet not a presumptutious one.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: ronkean at juno.com [mailto:ronkean at juno.com]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:04 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: quotations down through the ages

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:46:24 -0400 "Michael Walsh"
<MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
> > ronkean at juno.com 06/15/02 01:37AM
> >
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Wise men talk because they have something to say;
> >fools, because they have to say something
> >                         --Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
> >
> >"Plato was a bore."
> >                 - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
> >
> >"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
> >                         - Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910)
> >
> >"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoi"
> >                   - Ernest Hemmingway (1889-1961)
> >
> >"Hemmingway was a jerk."
> >                                 - Harold Robbins
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> So who's this Hemmingway?
>
> mjw

I'm surprised you have never heard of Ernest Hemmingway, who is one of
the most famous American writers of the 20th century, probably more so
than Harold Robbins.  Hemmingway lived in Cuba in his last years, and I
think the Cubans have turned the house where he lived into a sort of
shrine.

Ron Kean