the iceberg
implies that
that much more
lies below what
appears and is
unknown
yet the appearance
including thoughts
of below are all
unknown
"“In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before. He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world. He wrote a special kind of story out of a special kind of mind and about special moods and situations. When his method was accepted, no other method was admired. The method or style not only conditioned the stories but the thinking of his generation."
---John Steinbeck on Ernest Hemingway
The first manuscript of East of Eden (later this part was omitted when published)
Steinbeck and Hemingway the two stalwarts of American and world literature were competitors. Steinbeck however has always great respect for Hemingway.
The above lines on Hemingway's Iceberg theory proves it again.
Pic : Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck
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