author Ernest Hemingway (pictured), published in the 1925 Boni &
Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of
Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's
recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is
heard just twice. The story explores the destructive qualities of war
which is countered by the healing and regenerative powers of nature.
When published, critics praised Hemingway's sparse writing style and it
became an important work in his canon. The story is one of Hemingway's
earliest to employ his iceberg theory of writing; a modernist approach
to prose in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than
explicitly stated. "Big Two-Hearted River" is almost exclusively
descriptive and intentionally devoid of plot. Hemingway was influenced
by the visual innovations of Cézanne's paintings and adapted the
painter's idea of presenting background minutiae in lower focus than the
main image. In this story, the small details of a fishing trip are
explored in great depth, while the landscape setting, and most obviously
the swamp, are given cursory attention.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two-Hearted_River>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading
British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as
Prime Minister of Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham>
1836:
Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa
Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_massacre>
1899:
Philippine–American War: Philippine President Emilio
Aguinaldo led the troops himself against the US for the only time in the
war in the Battle of Marilao River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marilao_River>
1958:
Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union following
the death of Joseph Stalin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev>
2002:
A suicide bomber killed about 30 Israeli civilians and injured
about 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya, triggering Operation
Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military
incursion into the West Bank, two days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre>
2009:
The dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang
District, Indonesia, failed, resulting in floods killing at least 100
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situ_Gintung>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fan death:
The urban legend originating in South Korea that if an electric fan is
left running overnight in a closed room it can cause the death of those
inside.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fan_death>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of
life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to
discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy
intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally
rather than statically. ... When the empirical investigator glories in
his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the
traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a
virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning
his presuppositions.
--Karl Mannheim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim>
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