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Old 05-21-2014, 09:33 AM   #5
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William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” -- Quoted in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Thomas Eldridge

I don't understand what the criticism is in the above statement. Why would an author consciously make a reader look up words in a dictionary?
It's a slam. Faulkner is accusing Hemingway of having a poor vocabulary. I think it's pretty funny.
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