 Romance/Love: July 14, 2010 Issue [#3844] |
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This week: An Ernest Lesson Edited by: Shannon  
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"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
~ Ernest Hemingway
Welcome to the Romance/Love Newsletter. I am Shannon and I'm your guest editor this week.
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When you hear the words "love story," do you automatically think of romantic love? You know, boy meets girl, boy pursues girl, boy dates and marries girl, boy and girl make a life and a family together. This is the typical gist of the traditional love story, but what about the love you feel for your best friend? Your child? How about same-sex love or loving a cherished pet? I've known widows and widowers who never remarry; love isn't buried along with the spouse. Have you considered the soldier's love for his country? The Nascar driver's need for speed? The activist's passion for the cause? The baseball player's love of the game? The matador's lust for blood? The sportsman's love of the hunt? (If you don't think Ernest Hemingway loved the thrill of the safari, read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and it may change your mind.)
These may not be the love stories you're accustomed to, but they are, in my opinion, a different kind of love story.
There was a long tug. Nick struck and the rod came alive and dangerous, bent double, the line tightening, coming out of water, tightening, all in a heavy, dangerous, steady pull. Nick felt the moment when the leader would break if the strain increased and let the line go.
The reel ratcheted into a mechanical shriek as the line went out in a rush. Too fast. Nick could not check it, the line rushing out, the reel note rising as the line ran out.
With the core of the reel showing, his heart feeling stopped with the excitement, leaning back against the current that mounted icily his thighs, Nick thumbed the reel hard with his left hand. It was awkward getting his thumb inside the fly reel frame.
As he put on pressure the line tightened into sudden hardness and beyond the logs a huge trout went high out of water. As he jumped, Nick lowered the tip of the rod. But he felt, as he dropped the tip to ease the strain, the moment when the strain was too great; the hardness too tight. Of course, the leader had broken. There was no mistaking the feeling when all spring left the line and it became dry and hard. Then it went slack.
From Ernest Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River Part II"
This is a beautiful, brilliant piece of prose. The love for the art of fly fishing the writer (and the character, by proxy) feels is palpable, and the reader can't help but feel it too.
Love, affection, ecstasy, lust, dedication, desire ... these emotions come in all shapes and sizes. Broaden your horizons. Think outside the box. Consider the things you're passionate about, then write passionately about them.
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