... . As explored in an essay by Zoe Trodd, Hemingway's propensity for brevity was developed out of a sense that war had 'used up his words'. This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing ... desire, rejection and cruelty without using a single falsehood or opinion, without ever breaking his perceived objectivity. As Elizabeth Wells says in her brilliant statistical analysis of Hemingway's style, "Hemin...

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