33 Literary Geniuses Who Happen To Be Super Hot I was surprised to find myself on this list, of course. But, being there, I looked round. Hemingway, for instance, was really cute. who knew? Now that barely articulate letter he wrote to Marlene Dietrich makes more sense. She wouldn’t have been indifferent to such a steady beam of depth, even though he tried to shallow himself by calling her “Kraut.” It was Hemingway who taught me two (at least two) great lessons: when it’s time to leave a politics that demands crawling on your knees to belong, whistle while you walk. Also: when writing a long novel, like for instance, For Whom The Bell Tolls, don’t try to write it in a month. There’s such a thing as “across the river and through the trees.” The river one day, the forest another. (I am referring not to the novel but to a line about writing somewhere in the vast territory of Hemingwaylandia). What else? Don’t be afraid to leave the scene by your own hand. It’s probably a better alternative than going by someone else’s hand that’s less imaginative. Though ouch! That beautiful head! I met Langston Hughes late in his life, but had no idea what to ask him! He was a delightful storyteller whose cigarette never left his lips while he talked, which amazed me. He was also kind in that totally impersonal Aquarian way that is so often misunderstood. Lucky for me he left books for me to discover him in. The same for the soul mates on this list: Charlotte Brontë and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Without them what a nightmare the search for meaning among the wicked rules of church and caste would have been! And they were so beautiful! Brontë’s character Jane Eyre is the great teacher of what is real beauty of both body and spirit and it is clear she sprang from a person equally magnificent in all the ways that truly matter. As for Hawthorne, in The Scarlet Letter, was there ever a man more feminist in his understanding of the unfairness women suffer? I’d never seen a picture of him when he was young. It is like seeing an old friend being born, though fully grown, before your eyes. So enjoy, imagine, dream, chuckle. What fun there still is among the irreverent and boldly frolicsome. source: buzzfeed/kimberlywang/literary-geniuses-who-happen-to-be-super-hot
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:58:06 +0000
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