2 Sentences In A Book I’m Reading

“A presidential proclamation forbade Japanese-Americans from possessing specified items deemed threatening to national security. Banned items included drawings of any firearm.” (Yes, this post has nothing to do with anything. Except drawings of guns, I guess.)

Hemingway and Tierney, Deconstructed

As I noted earlier today, State Rep. Mark B. Cohen wrote Brian Tierney to express his support for the unions in the ongoing labor dispute. Tierney responded with a quick letter, much of it consisting of one 136-word sentence that echoed some of Ernest Hemingway’s greatest long sentences.

I realize that not all of you were English majors and not all of you have read all of Hemingway’s works, let alone the one I referenced, “ The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” (I wasn’t a good enough English major to remember that short stories get quotes and not italics in my earlier post, so we’ll call it even.)

After the jump, a comparison of Hemingway’s and Tierney’s greatest sentences, and the differences and similarities between the two.

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From Pole To Pole

And away we go:

pwddmac: so, that new teresa masterson thing, i think we should just leave it alone this time. i don’t want to do TM overkill.

anonymous reader: no! we can’t not talk about her pole dancing.
reader: although for some reason, i feel almost bad when we make fun of her now
reader: she does seem reasonably cool
pwddmac: i agree. but it’s just a shtick. i mean, we’re not all that mean, are we?
reader: i guess we’re just more detached. i’ve never thought of her reading this before.
pwddmac: hmm. so do you want to let it go?
reader: uh, no. i’m just going to feel bad about it afterward.
reader: let’s play a game called - can you diagram the following sentence:
reader: “But in this Britney Spears culture, where women feel it necessary to show it all, it seems like we’re missing the good stuff when everyone is showing off all of their stuff.”
pwddmac: okay.

pwddmac: i gave up after that
pwddmac: did you know there’s a pole in big boi’s bedroom?
pwddmac: i saw it on cribs. t.o. also has a room called the “chocolate room” in his atlanta house where you have to take your shoes off to enter.
reader: oh god, she should go interview t.o. that would be amazing.
reader: or at least drew
pwddmac: “Next question!”
pwddmac: “Drew, do you think that, in this Britney Spears culture, where women feel it necessary to show it all, it seems like we’re missing the good stuff when everyone is showing off all of their stuff?”
reader: the next “crazy” thing she does for the “blog” should be a “date” with john ogden, i think
pwddmac: or she can get help him do things to get evicted

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