"A Farewell to Arms" to be published with 47 alternate endings.

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CountDeMoney

#15
July 05, 2012, 08:52:16 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 05, 2012, 03:57:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 05, 2012, 03:32:14 PM
How many of the endings are zombie/vampire ones?

Not enough. :(

Are you kidding?  He gave us Margaux.

Scipio

#16
July 07, 2012, 09:31:29 PM
Should've stuck to short stories.  It's a lot harder to successfully write a shitty short story.  Harder to fool yourself.
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jimmy olsen

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July 09, 2012, 03:22:11 AM Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 03:43:28 AM by jimmy olsen
Slate one ups CdM :lol:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/low_concept/2012/07/hemingway_wrote_47_endings_for_a_farewell_to_arms_but_for_the_great_gatsby_fitzgerald_wrote_48_.html
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In the wake of this report, scholars and family members of F. Scott Fitzgerald dropped a second bombshell on the literary world, revealing no fewer than 47 alternate endings to the Jazz Age master's own chef d'oeuvre, The Great Gatsby. The recent discovery brings the grand total number of Gatsby endings to 48—or, as one Fitzgerald expert put it, "one more ending than Hemingway, a lazy man and lesser talent, ever wrote." Slate managed to acquire all 47 of Fitzgerald's foiled attempts; the endings, unaltered, are reproduced below.

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It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Razgovory

#18
July 09, 2012, 04:13:48 AM
Quote from: Scipio on July 07, 2012, 09:31:29 PM
Should've stuck to short stories.  It's a lot harder to successfully write a shitty short story.  Harder to fool yourself.

Short stories fit his style much better.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Siege

#19
July 11, 2012, 10:45:15 PM
Who's Hemingway?

Whoever he is, he can't compete with GRRM.



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CountDeMoney

#20
July 11, 2012, 10:51:45 PM
Awww look, Siegy's had half a Mike's Hard Lemonade, and has started posting drunk again.  And it's not even the weekend yet.  Yay for us.

Razgovory

#21
July 12, 2012, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Siege on July 11, 2012, 10:45:15 PM
Who's Hemingway?

Whoever he is, he can't compete with GRRM.

Did you know that one of his novels, For whom the bell tolls, was the favorite novel of John McCain?  It's not Hemingway's best, but you might like it.  It's about the Civil War in Spain.  Despite the weird use of language (Hemingway tries to imitate Spanish formal and informal with English thees and thous), there are some really interesting parts.  Such as the description of the Republican Massacre, the bravery and stoicism of the bullfighters, and the desperate doomed mission the lead character is to undertake.  Also some of the bad guys are Muslims.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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