If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
— Ernest Hemingway Modern

Novelist, journalist

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Death in the Afternoon

Date / Period

1932

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Controversial

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https://archive.org/details/deathafternoon00hemi

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