... is deeply premeditated and agonizingly edited, each work meticulously pared down from a larger draft the same way a sculptor might spend a year carefully removing pieces of marble to reveal a beautiful sculpture beneath. (Hemingway might have taken issue with this metaphor - he preferred to think of writing as a workman's craft: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over". (Hemingway, Short ... of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water"." (Heming...

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