This is in draft form, I think. I needed to get it out of my head. I have been working on it for 3 days, and it is at the hurting my brain stage
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Beautiful -- thank you for sharing that :) I love what you did with the different meanings of "polydactyl," in particular, and that last line of the last one is especially moving.
Moons, as you know, don't revolve around a sun. Planets do. But the comparison of Hemmingway's women to moons was too delicious. I didn't want to have Hemmingway as the earth, he was clearly in his own head the center of his galaxy, which places him as the sun. Then there is that whole literary sun/son connection.
Finally I decided to leave it, since moons don't revove around a sun; that is a lie. As was most of how Hemmingway interacted with women.
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I am still mentally struggling with verse 4.
Moons, as you know, don't revolve around a sun. Planets do. But the comparison of Hemmingway's women to moons was too delicious.
I didn't want to have Hemmingway as the earth, he was clearly in his own head the center of his galaxy, which places him as the sun. Then there is that whole literary sun/son connection.
Finally I decided to leave it, since moons don't revove around a sun; that is a lie. As was most of how Hemmingway interacted with women.
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