Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Writers


While discussing the Adelaide Writers' Festival tonight with my Aged Mother and Smaller Half:
PTR
It seems to me that most writers are either over-educated prats with too much time on their hands or disaffected minorities with an axe to grind.

Aged Mother
That's an absolutely outrageous thing to say!

Smaller Half
You fit pretty well into the first category.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Which category was Ernst Hemmingway?

Is it true, that he once had a huge tantrum while fixing the cuffs on his trousers and screamed at them "It's my way, or the Hemming-way"?

PTR said...

1. Being armless and transgender puts him firmly in the "disaffected minority" basket.

2. I haven't heard that story before now, but if I read it on Wikipedia I'd believe it.