“Bull” is more popular in 40% of the parts of the fiction corpus. However, in the nonfiction “Bull” was more popular in nonfiction by a significant amount. There is also a significant difference between how much “bull” is mentioned in living and posthumous works – 1495 and 573 mentions, respectively. Even taking into account the …
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Something that we noticed while reading Hemingway was his absence of interesting description. The words that were used the most were very basic description words. Typically when I think of people writing, they use very obscure description words and I just assume they plugged all […]
I started by examining Ernest Hemingway’s living vs. posthumous fiction. At a surface level, I saw that Hemingway would have cringed to see a 64% increase in the vocabulary density from the living to the posthumous. Assuming that the editorial work added few or no words not written by the author, this suggests that Hemingway …
“I don’t know how he was riding all day through fields of the poppies. He was very embarrassed and he could remember how he had started the motor car with his flat face. You mustn’t ever tell him. They do it. Nick felt so very impressive. It’s the car. We’ll see her husband in the …
It is interesting to read of a character that is already awaiting their doom. Ole Anderson in the short story “The Killers” used to be a fighter, and I think that is part of the poetic nature of this story. He USED to fight, USED to be in the ring; Now he is most definitely […]
“A Very Short Story” is aptly named. Most of Hemingway’s short stories are about four to six pages long from
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