Saving this here for future reference. Periodically, I will not finish a book and will reference Dorothy Parker. Dorothy was a writer from the early 20th century. She is mistakenly credited with saying "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." [I think George Kaufman actually said it. Dorothy repeated it without attribution in a setting where attribution wasn't really called for.]
In Season 5, Episode 14 of the TV show M*A*S*H, Radar O'Reilly says that he was accepted by the Famous Las Vegas Writers School run by Hemingway, Steinbeck, and O'Neil*.
We find out that the school is run by Ethel Hemingway, Jerry Steinbeck, and Eunice O'Neal.
This post is just a reminder of that sort of flowery writing. Lots of telling. Not much showing.
Not worth reading. Worthy of being tossed aside. With great force.
Something to watch in the meantime.
*An obvious reference to Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Eugene O'Neil. I'd never heard of Eugene O'Neil before. I had heard of his son-in-law.
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