it's the same with dos passos. exceptot articulate it by sitting on a ship and madly pouring his guts into little notebooks and telling you what was going on. >> ladies and gentleman, we invite you to come down and asked some of your own questions. there are microphones on either side. while you are doing that, i will ask a potentially easier question. hemingway, would he be good at twitter? [laughter] the inevitable question. i think he would not have much patience with it, but who knows? >> i do a lot of teaching of writing, and i think what people forget is that it is an endless process of revision. you don't just write something and put it out to the world. much like pottery, it's one thing to throw the pot down, but it's endless hours of finishing, putting in the dome, fixing a bad crack, etc. theou read hemingway, reason we still read him is that there is never an her word. it obtains -- attains a is verys of prose that hard. because he changed writing so , there are now, of course, to write like hemingway. i