Today I feel like I hit a little bit of a road block. The last few days really. I want to write more but I’m feeling terribly indecisive. Everything I start writing I get tired of after a paragraph or two. The truth is that I’ve been distracted. Distracted by the media mostly. I can’t stop reading articles about politics and philosophy and sports and movies and other things I think I’m interested in. The irony is that it’s important to read a lot if you want to get better at writing. Reading the work of professionals and writers you admire should inspire you to improve your craft. The problem is my reading hasn’t been very focused and that’s sort of scattered my thoughts.
I did finally finish the To Have and Have Not book by Hemingway. It was a bit on the long side but I guess he’s done a lot of living and has a lot of stories to share. Although filled with vivid writing and peopled with memorable characters, the book is weak as a novel. In fact, Hemingway was on record as saying that it was conceived as separate short stories although eventually published as a novel. My favorite part was Harry Morgan's progress from fishing trips for rich “sportsmen” to smuggling liquor, ferrying illegal immigrants, and, finally, providing a getaway for gangsters. For me, he's not an immoral man -he is willing to make compromises to achieve his principal goal: clothing and feeding his wife and three daughters-; he is one of the “have nots” and sympathizes with the other “have nots,” but he lives off the “haves.” This means that he must be willing, when necessary, to sacrifice other “have nots” such as the Chinese immigrants, whom he is paid to double-cross. It certainly is Hemingway's one novel that does not maintain artistic unity, but rather stabs reality and anatomize it following a schematic order of philosophical subjects. It's really cool.
I have been trying to teach myself a few different skills this week. I do feel like I accomplished a lot. I started with Delphi DS150E, which is a car diagnostic tool, up until this point, I’ve largely put off learning for real and instead fumbled my way through whenever I needed to do a full car diagnostic. Now I feel like I at least have a basic sense of how the tools work. Next, I moved on to car parking sensors, and established a good base set of skills. The only way to really become good at installing and repairing any of these is practice, and I know I have the background to do just that.
I did finally finish the To Have and Have Not book by Hemingway. It was a bit on the long side but I guess he’s done a lot of living and has a lot of stories to share. Although filled with vivid writing and peopled with memorable characters, the book is weak as a novel. In fact, Hemingway was on record as saying that it was conceived as separate short stories although eventually published as a novel. My favorite part was Harry Morgan's progress from fishing trips for rich “sportsmen” to smuggling liquor, ferrying illegal immigrants, and, finally, providing a getaway for gangsters. For me, he's not an immoral man -he is willing to make compromises to achieve his principal goal: clothing and feeding his wife and three daughters-; he is one of the “have nots” and sympathizes with the other “have nots,” but he lives off the “haves.” This means that he must be willing, when necessary, to sacrifice other “have nots” such as the Chinese immigrants, whom he is paid to double-cross. It certainly is Hemingway's one novel that does not maintain artistic unity, but rather stabs reality and anatomize it following a schematic order of philosophical subjects. It's really cool.
I have been trying to teach myself a few different skills this week. I do feel like I accomplished a lot. I started with Delphi DS150E, which is a car diagnostic tool, up until this point, I’ve largely put off learning for real and instead fumbled my way through whenever I needed to do a full car diagnostic. Now I feel like I at least have a basic sense of how the tools work. Next, I moved on to car parking sensors, and established a good base set of skills. The only way to really become good at installing and repairing any of these is practice, and I know I have the background to do just that.
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