But come on, we’re delusional if we think Netflix isn’t polluting our lives.ĭon’t get me wrong, Hemingway loved to check out a good bull fight, but 11 hours? That’s aggressive. I’m a 20-year-old cinephile who loves to lounge on the couch and watch a story unfold. Dude missed his interview to watch The Return of the King. This afternoon I came back The Two Towers. Story time: This morning, I left my room and my roommate was watching The Fellowship. He’s Never Seen “Next Episode Starts in 5, 4, 3…” Can we say the same?ġ51 10 Essential Road Trips to Inspire Artistsģ. Don’t get me wrong, Hem could be social, but his mind was where he truly lived. While we all agree that the brandy is a total power move, I don’t see many millennials choosing the serene streets of Paris over Miami’s Ocean Drive. Honestly, how many of us actually read in our spare time? Yes, even Twillight counts. If any of you have read (or should I say sparknoted?) Ernie’s memoirs: A Moveable Feast, you’ll recognize that Papa-yep, actually his nickname-spent his best days sitting in a rainy Parisian café, sipping brandy, and reading Toltsoy.
So how did we so magnificently bullshit our way through that seminar? Ding-ding, the Destroyer of Words. How can we expect to write great literature when we don’t even read great literature? 2. Let’s be real, we took one look at Plato’s grizzly beard, fingered the 500-some-odd pages of The Republic… and never touched it again. If Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb is the “destroyer of worlds,” well, Sparknotes is the “destroyer of words.” He Lived an Age Before Sparknotes: The Destroyer of Words So, this is my attempt to transcend the socially acceptable. What have we come to when we hand out trophies to last place little leaguers? The world is consumed by politically correct dogma and Ernest Hemingway would loathe that superficial rubbish.
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