You summed that up perfectly.I wish I had said that in the video. They work so well to immerse you in the time period in which the books are set.

The stream of consciousness sections in The USA Trilogy are great and I definitely agree that Dos Passos is under appreciated as a writer and a modernist.

Wow! You’re having a festival of Dos Passos books. _Three Soldiers_ is under-appreciated in terms of its importance I think. Hope you’ll share your reactions sometime.

Thank you Pete

Thank you Jeremy

Thank you very much.

Thanks Jack. Part of that is conjecture on my part. Hope I can pull off the after dark thing again.

For their time they were very innovative and direct.

That is really cool! Dos Passos turn to reactionary rw politics was regrettable. And I really think it hurt his reputation. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Thank you Cynthia.

Thanks Pae. He was an interesting guy.

Thanks for watching and got the kind comment.

Ha! Yeah you might. Thanks Allen

Thank you Matt

Quite the transformation.

Thank you for that information!

He’s been mostly forgotten.

He was a jerk with a fragile ego. I find it hard to believe anyone could stay friends with him long.

@@BookishTexan Yes when I was younger I used to really love Hemingway and then early on concluded that he crafted his larger-than-life legacy ... and that it probably was more important to him than family and friends ... I know that sounds terrible to say .

@@gardensofthegods He definitely crafted, nurtured, and was protective of his image and he treated family and friends terribly sometimes. He was also deeply troubled - a history of depression and suicide in his family, some possible PTSD, several concussions, electro shock therapy, and decades of alcoholism.

I believe that you are right on all counts. On the other hand that conversion might have made it possible to keep working through the Red Scare years despite their lefty pasts. Thank you Courtney

One of my all time favorites

@@BookishTexan Same!

Illusions perdues un film de Xavier Giannoli

Hoping for this Thursday.

Indeed they were/are. I wonder if they were inspired by Dos Passos?🤔

@@BookishTexan Well , when you take public transportation and you are transferring from one bus or train to another , you get a discount instead of paying full fare for the next leg of transportation . They give you a little receipt type piece of paper that you showed to the next conductor that you paid but you only paid a partial amount ... so you got a discount . ( don't know how they do it nowadays they probably don't use the paper receipt but back then yes and even in the 1980s and 90s ) Sorry if I'm being too presumptuous for assuming that maybe some of you don't know what a transfer is ... but in this day and age where a lot of people have never had to take buses , subways or trains , they might actually not know what a transfer is . So in this case I would imagine it means when you're going from one of the other surrounding neighborhoods onto the island of Manhattan . I haven't read the book yet so I don't know if the title makes sense ... also many other play on words with it ... for example maybe being for and then eventually being able to live amongst the wealthier and more glamorous people and some of the best neighborhoods on Manhattan ?

I Am rereading _Manhattan Transfer_ this month and my appreciation for what Dos Passos did and attempted to do is growing with every page. I’m not a Steinbeck fan so I have no problem putting Dos ahead of him. Hemingway is another matter.🤓

Thank you. And you are right about the background music.

An editor would have told you to capitalize the first letter in a word that starts a sentence, that you don’t capitalize the word ancient in the context in which you used it, and that the em dashes in your sentence should be removed in favor of a period after the strangely capitalized word “Editing” and starting a new sentence with the word “some” the first letter of which would be capitalized.

@@BookishTexan some one may hire you...

@@raginald7mars408 If you're original comment was not intended as snarky criticism of my video please tell me. I fired off my reply thinking it was, but if it was not I owe you an apology for the snarky reply.

@@BookishTexan I am a German Pythagorean - not a Snark. In our Ancient Times - we had Editing - and we used it. History...I always wondered, why Hemingway hated Dos Passos...with Nostalgia I now see - what I missed in my Youth from the 1960´s on. As a Whale I filter all the Krill into me...

@@raginald7mars408 Not sure I understand this comment. But . . . I apologize for my snarky reply.

Stop watching my video!

Yeah, he wasn’t a good person. Very troubled, but an ass.

Well they've made movies of his books and maybe start there because they are good ... maybe not appreciated as much by younger people today . As a kid watching The Sun Also Rises , I did find some of the movie really interesting but did not love it as much as my parents who grew up during the Great Depression . I also remember a bunch of us watching the movie For Whom the Bell Tolls because we had to read it in high school . We thought it would be easier than the CliffsNotes , not realizing that sometimes movies were not always 100% true to the book ( and could screw you up for answers on the exams if you didn't read the whole book and didn't do the CliffsNotes , haha . )

The Sun Also Rises is actually here on the tube for free I think the channel is called something like Classic Studio ... I just checked. I recall some of the movie was actually interesting and fun Some say that Hemingway was actually bipolar ; and that would explain his personality problems . You should still check out his works if you get the chance . I also concluded that he crafted his larger-than-life legend ... and I don't care for that aspect of him but he was a GOOD WRITER .

Sorry for getting so wordy here but also would like to add that In The Sun Also Rises , they go to the bullfights . I don't condone bullfighting ; I think it is a disgustingly horrific and cruel bloodsport . And that was another thing I didn't like about Hemingway ... he was seriously into some macho sports that sometimes involve harming big animals... such a big game trophy hunting , just because one can . I remember reading one of his stories about fishing for Marlin and even though it was well-written and he describes how hard it really is to catch some of these large fish , I felt sorry for the kind of fight that Marlin had to put up with for a such a long time fighting for its life . I think it's a bit different if you're actually going to eat what do you kill , whether fishing or hunting ... but to me , those who indulge in killing them for the sport of it and trophies it's hard to comprehend other than feeding huge egos .