hemingway again

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

I seem to remember that the same thing happened to DeSade in the
Bastille. What a rewrite that was.

pfm

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> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Dave Monroe
> Sent: 11 August 2006 15:12
> To: Tim Strzechowski; Pynchon-L; jd
> Subject: Re: hemingway again
> 
> Cf. Jean genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
> 
> The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a 
> French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and 
> destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately 
> set about writing it again.
> 
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> --- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, the whole issue of losing a manuscript and having to 
> > rewrite the thing over again -- which Hemingway simmered over ever 
> > since -- was finally worked into his fiction in _The Garden 
> of Eden_, 
> > by far the best of Hem's posthumous works.
> 
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