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Six Words

Dr. John R. Cleary June 2010 word count: 206

Hemingway impersonator, Richard Clark, told his audience that Ernie was challenged to compose a stirring piece of writing in six words to show his power as a writer. He purportedly penned, “For sale, baby shoes, never used.” And that apparently launched him as the paragon of modern 20th Century American writers.
Now that is a tough act to follow. But given the same circumstance of accepting such a challenge, could any writer, great or unknown have writ the same? Sure, but Hemingway was the first, apparently and that’s the rub. Everything after the first is, as Clark described his performance, anticlimactic, which the Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines as: noun, a disappointing end to an exciting series of events. There is only one Mona Lisa for a reason; it was the first — many copies or likenesses to follow never matched up.
So how does one compete with Hemingway and grasp the baton as America’s writer? Create a more succinct phrase? I can say it in four words! Again sure, but the original challenge has already been offered, accepted, and accomplished. And that is the essence of Hemingway, as distilled by Richard Clark, to be the first with the truth.
How do you like that now, gentlemen!

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“You don’t have to be a literary person to enjoy this show, you just have to be human.”

-Audience Member at the Northboro Senior Center, concerning “Life, Language, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Ernest Hemingway Alive!”

Hemingway

 

 

 

Relive with Ernest those days from WWI through the inauguration of JFK. The Tragedies and triumphs, the joys and sorrows; The sacred and the profane, the loves and losses. …The life force of the master craftsman considered by his peers as “the greatest writer since Shakespeare”

 

 

Richard Clark has spent over 30 yrs in New England regional theater and New York Theater. He is a graduate of Clark University and has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, The Actors Connection and the Actor’s Loft in New York. His “Keeping History Alive” series brings the life and work of such figures as Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, Andrew Carnegie, John Barrymore and William Shakespeare to life.

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New flyer from my new show: “Atticus!”

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Photos from my new show based on the life of Ernest Hemingway are attached in the photo section!

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