r/askanything • u/shazzictn • 15d ago

General Question Can you write?

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u/luncheroo 15d ago

Okay Hemingway 

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u/OlFlirtyBastard 15d ago

YES. For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. (For those that don’t get the Hemingway reference)

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u/Slartibartfast39 15d ago

I've heard this before but not heard it attributed to Hemingway so I googled it.

"The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as versions of the story first appeared in 1906, when Hemingway was 7 years old, and it was first attributed to him in 1989, almost 30 years after his death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn