{"id":18397,"date":"2023-06-29T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2023-06-29T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T23:44:57","slug":"the-dead-white-male-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18397","title":{"rendered":"The Dead White Male and the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hemingway writing at the Dorchester Hotel in London, 1944. Photographer unknown, public domain. By way of Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Via Instapundit,<\/strong> this story from PJ Media: “The Woke Bell Tolls for Ernest Hemingway.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UK\u2019s Telegraph revealed<\/a> Saturday that Penguin Random House, which publishes Hemingway\u2019s novels and stories, has slapped them with \u201ca trigger warning\u201d due to \u201cconcerns about his \u2018language\u2019 and \u2018attitudes.\u2019\u201d Hapless new Hemingway readers are also \u201calerted to the novelist\u2019s \u2018cultural representations.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can imagine what Ernest Hemingway himself would say to all this, but I wouldn\u2019t be able to publish it. The arrogant, self-infatuated, blinkered, miseducated woke dopes at Penguin Random House don\u2019t seem to understand that the whole idea of reading Hemingway, or any other great writer, is to encounter \u201clanguage,\u201d \u201cattitudes\u201d and \u201ccultural representations\u201d that are not one\u2019s own, and are not the same as the language, attitudes, and cultural representations of contemporary culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As you may recall if you’re a regular reader here, I don’t like Hemingway much. Though his writing style was undeniably influential, I’ve never cared for his stories, and never worked up the interest to read any of his books. I don’t like his politics, and all I know about his personality repels me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you know how you can tell I’m not on the Left? You can tell because I think his books ought to be published straight. Adults should be trusted to have the maturity to handle ideas, words and imagery that might trouble or offend them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somebody made a comment on Twitter the other day to the effect that our times aren’t much fun. I replied, “Shoot, Prohibition was more fun than this.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we ought to declare a new Roaring 20s. Let’s have speakeasies, places where you can speak easily. Say anything you bloody want. Leave your electronic devices in a Faraday Cage at the door, so nobody can listen in, and engage in old-fashioned forbidden conversation. All ideas permitted. No punching allowed, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which would admittedly cramp Hemingway’s style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Instapundit, this story from PJ Media: “The Woke Bell Tolls for Ernest Hemingway.” The UK\u2019s Telegraph revealed Saturday that Penguin Random House, which publishes Hemingway\u2019s novels and stories, has slapped them with \u201ca trigger warning\u201d due to \u201cconcerns about his \u2018language\u2019 and \u2018attitudes.\u2019\u201d Hapless new Hemingway readers are also \u201calerted to the novelist\u2019s \u2018cultural representations.\u2019\u201d I … Continue reading The Dead White Male and the Sea<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,12,16],"tags":[900,4663],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-blogs-social-media","category-publishing","category-the-press","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-penguin-random-house"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}