...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless… - Gore Vidal

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...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; (3 October 1925 – 31 July 2012), was an American writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays.

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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? - Gore Vidal

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