Thursday, March 24th, 2005
Jeremy writes funny about Harvard’s Admitted Students Weekend.
Also, it looks like he got a book deal for Anonymous Lawyer. Awesome.
Archive for March 24th, 2005
50 Book Challenge - Book 7
Thursday, March 24th, 2005Book : A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Here’s a quote:
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one 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. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Yeah, it’s that kind of book. It’s a war book. Not really pro-war–it does strip away all the accompanying romantic notions of loyalty, honor, patriotism, and sacrifice–but it’s not really anti-war, either. It’s more anti-world. It’s a love book too, but still anti-world.
And yeah, that’s all you’re getting out of me. If anyone else out there hasn’t read Hemingway by now, I’d definitely recommend it. Good stuff.