My last comment on TEOT
It looks like The Daily Roundup comments have already been closed. That was fast!!!
This TEOT thing is only being kept alive by the media and UT sports sites. The committee did the best that they could, but it looks like the people who want to see it banned weren t going to accept their findings unless they aligned exactly with what they already thought [in many ways based on falsehoods and vague guilt by association arguments]. Five minutes of Google the other night led me to the likely melodic origins of The Levee Song or I ve Been Working on the Railroad and it was a piece of music that was written in homage to the peasant class in their struggle against the feudalists. Isn t there something good to be seen from that?
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When Ernest Hemingway was finishing a novel in Paris in 1929, he let a fellow writer read the manuscript.
F. Scott Fitzgerald responded with 10 pages of handwritten comments.
Among them: “slow and needs cutting…rather gassy…definitely dull…offensive…too glib.” But in his notes, which are now among Hemingway’s papers at the JFK Presidential Library, he also called it a “beautiful book” and urged Hemingway to end what would eventually be titled, “A Farewell to Arms,” with a “wonderful” passage that included these lines:
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.” Hemingway rejected that suggestion and wrote at the bottom of Fitzgerald’s letter, “kiss my ass.” The “broken places” passage wound up tucked away in Chapter 34.
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