September 21, 2017 1:00 pm
This is a very funny satire, written in Ernest Hemingway’s prose, describing his efforts to assemble an IKEA daybed with three drawers.
It is called “A Farewell to Hemnes.”
Enjoy!
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I had a feeling that was going it be McSweeneys before I clicked on the link.
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By FLERP! on September 21, 2017 at 2:24 pm
“You might make sport of their meatballs, but in the end the Swedes get the better of you.”
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By LeftCoastTeacher on September 21, 2017 at 4:17 pm
You might make a sport of their sea bass, but in the end the Chileans get the better of you.
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By LeftCoastTeacher on September 21, 2017 at 4:25 pm
I love fake Hemingway! Actually, I love Hemingway, as a great exemplar of effective journalistic writing. Short, declarative sentences.
I once served as an editor in our small local paper for a small stable of Leftie writers (none with journalism credentials) and I remember exhorting them to write like Hemingway, not Fitzgerald. Hemingway was accessible to the general public, Fitzgerald, not so much.
Sadly, the paper has been sold to a company that owns well over a hundred small-town papers, and now our editorial content comes from ‘syndicated’ sources well beyond the boundaries of even our State. I no longer read the paper.
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By John Wund on September 22, 2017 at 7:37 pm
Rupert Murdoch bought my neighborhood newspaper
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By dianeravitch on September 22, 2017 at 7:57 pm