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 | | The lone exception is a brief story called The Butterfly And The Tank, which is very similar in theme and evocation to J.D. Salinger’s For Esmé- With Love And Squalor, in which both wartime protagonists promise to write a tale for a woman about something. |
 | | This book, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, is not ‘complete’ if some of its detractors are to be believed, for Hemingway weeded out lesser tales and what he considered juvenilia, but it is a good representation of the man’s short fictive work- good and bad. |
 | | And most of all, reading Hemingway- novels or short stories- is like opening a time capsule, for almost all his characters are long out of fashion semi-caricatures- from the killers in The Killers, to Margot Macomber and Robert Wilson of The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, and on and on. |
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