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... He woudl creat his own reality by imposing form upon chaos,and do this not only in work,but in talk and in play:there would be a "code" for men and women in the very words they used to each other,in the way they hunted,drank wine,made love, knew pleasure or suffered pain. ... Such is the"Hemingway Code"which was to a major element in all his books,and a sort of final resouce for all his protagonists,from Jake Barnes in the The Sun Also Rises,to Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea.
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