Sunday, March 09, 2008

Markups

There's a scene in A Moveable Feast where Hemingway meets a literary figure in a cafe. He describes the man as "marked for death," and even says something along the lines of "go away with your marked-for-death-ass face."

People seem to like Hemingway for his stoicism, so it's a little crazy for him to be unwilling to deal with the face of a man marked for death, particularly after the war.

Also, it's hard, having read that, not to start dividing people up into the ones that are marked for death and the ones that aren't. It's hard to know how to feel about the ones that are.

Ways of marking things for death:

-Buying Crayola brand death marker (non-washable, toxic)
-Using a laser site
-Blogging

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