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as when the loaded muzzle of the gun of a tank swings toward you").
The prose is that of Hemingway's most misguided imitators:
"It's not that they are picturesque. The hell with picturesque. They
are just damned beautiful."
'·Come on, boy, he said to himself. No horse named Morbid ever
won a race."
"Nobody would give you a penny for your thoughts, he thought.
Not this morning. But I've seen them worth a certain amount of money
when the chips were down."
" 'For keeps and for always,' the girl said. 'I hope that is the correct
diction. Or in Spanish
para sempre.'
'Para sempre and his brother,' the
Colonel said."
" ... And what the hell is ecstasy and what's ecstasy's rank and
serial number?"
And so on.
One incident expresses the novel's relation to Hemingway's earlier
work: revisiting the place where he was badly wounded in the first
World War-that wound to which Hemingway has returned again and
again in his writing-the Colonel defecates upon the spot.
This is the saddest story Hemingway has written.
Robert Warshow
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