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Hemingway's style left a deep imprint on the landscape of prose BY Sally In the years after the First World War, the Young Man Who Lived and Loved Hard and Wrote Well revolutionized American literature. His prose was a symphony of short, strong, sonorous sentences. His heroes were men broken by the world but left "strong at the broken places." His women were both strong and weak, and they were always very beautiful in their …

…at the brave new world would bring. The pessimists saw an "electronic hive," an addictive collective consciousness geared to shortened attention spans and ruinous to the reflectiveness, mental coherence, and sense of self that books had fostered in the cream of pre-electronic generations. The optimists saw a glorious new age of instant information and discourse, a coming surge of computer interactions that would bolster literacy and thinking skills and uncover new levels of human potential.