Hemingway and Pynchon

[JTDaly2 at aol.com]

Greetings,

I'm new to the list. I scanned through some of the list archives, not sure if this topic has come up before. I recently read Hemingway's _A Farewell To Arms_ and found some lines and fragments that made me think of TP. Sorry, no page numbers with me.

"Then there was one [mortar shell] that we did not hear coming until the sudden rush."

"'Poor Rinaldi,' I said. 'All alone at the war with no girls.'" (very Pynchon)

"'Underneath we are the same. We are war brothers.'"
(reminds of Mexico calling the War his mother).

"He said we are all cooked but we were all right as long as we didn't know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked could win the war."

"It seemed to nor dangerous to me myself than war in the movies."

What do you all think?