6 words story by Hemingway

This 6 words story totally blew up my mind: so short and so plenty of suggestions: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” (via Caterina.net via 37s).

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I agree..it suggests places, times, people, disgraces, playgrounds, ..

ahaha, poor Hemingway

What a bullshit :D ! I could code a program that creates random strings of 6 words “plentier of suggestions” than that one :D . Take it easy man.

Hey you Blextar, you stupid

Hey you Blextar, you stupid fuck! :) Can't you see the complexity of those 6 words? Hemingway was told to write an ENTIRE story, an ENTIRE novel with only SIX words! And just look what the genious came up with. There is so much embedded and compressed into those words it could easily be expanded to an entire book! Just read it again and try to imagine in what context that sentence could be found? If that would have been written by someone as a real note, what would that person have been through, and why would he write that, and why would he publish it? So as you can imagine, those six words cannot just be randomed up by a simple computer program. Try to write something that powerful yourself with a contraint like that.

Sorry, it means nothing to

Sorry, it means nothing to me :) . You want me to imagine it into a context? It could have been written by someone trying to sell some baby shoes, maybe posting an advertisement on a local paper. Nothing more than that. Words are overrated. PS: btw, take a look here http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.topic.generator.html ...try to imagine that into a context...

You are an idiot! You just

You are an idiot! You just can't read, can you?! In those six words there's a whole novel embedded and even better than that, cause each can come up with his own view of the drama or the context those words appeared. I guess you should sitck with programming random word phrases cause 1 and 0 is the only thing you can read.

Blextar is probably autistic

Blextar is probably autistic or something.

Blextar. You are an Idiot.

Blextar. You are an Idiot. Have you ever read a novel that you weren’t forced too? Can you comprehend English????? you are a prime example of whats wrong with America.
My interpretation of this story goes something like this:
Why would someone buy a pair of Baby shoes in the first place??? Mos likely because they are expecting a child or because they have one… Why would they sell an unused pair of baby shoes??? Maybe the wife lost the baby or the child was killed? or hell maybe they just didn’t fit and they lost the receipt.
FYI that 3 pounds gray matter between your ears is called a brain… try using it some time!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahah, this is really

Ahah, this is really hilarious :D ...It's so funny to see how people react when someone says something not quite so popular about "Art Gurus" like Hemingway, or Picasso, or Hendrix. You should drink less coffee and use the so-called "brain" more often. Provided you have one. Have a nice day.

And by the way, I'm not

And by the way, I'm not suggesting you're dumb. I'm only saying that you don't understand that sometimes people might think it different. Let me explain: if tons of people eat shit, I'm not gonna eat it just because they do. If tons of people like hemingway, I'm not gonna love it because they do. To me this story means nothing. What is beautiful for you, can be absolute meaningless for me. I use my brain, and my brain is different from yours (thank god).

short story, which was a bet

The point is the the 6 words have a a beginning, a middle and an end. That’s the point to it, so therefore it can be considered as a story even though its only 6 words. Which Is not going to win any awards, but I think it is quite clever.

The reason that this is so

The reason that this is so genial is because Hemingway did it first. It is always easy to come after and say it is easy to do.

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