Posted by lj klaiber on December 26, 19100 at 18:01:24:
In Reply to: Re: Nelson Algren posted by Zak Mucha on July 01, 19100 at 18:50:46:
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: : Anyone else out there a huge Nelson Algren fan? Looking to start an email appreciation group. Email me at billeguerriero@yahoo.com.
: : Thanks,
: : Bill
: I'm looking for an Algren quote, which I believe is from the Sea Diary... something about the artist's style-- when he saves himself he saves others-- know this one? I'm doing some research
: Thanks,
: Zak Mucha
from'sea diary',page 91.........
"Hemingway had felt his life fluttered like apocket handkerchief by the wind of death. In the watches of the night wherein he had lost his life yet had not died. Hemingway forged an ancestral wisdom in terms usable by modern man: that he who gains his life shall lose it and he who loses it shall save it; into a prose magically woven between sleep and waking" NA "Notes from a Sea DIary Hope this helps your reseach
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