"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know." ~Ernest Hemingway
You make it sound so easy. Lies! Deceit! Construct! Truer words never spoken. Farther lies the one true sentence. How do you write it so?
Ernest Hemingway makes me feel like I can be Shakespeare, but I fall short of even slush pile material. So what is one true sentence? And how do I reach such a place?
Be true. That is the only true sentence I know that he means. Be true to your dream, your heart, your you, and that is where you shall find the truest sentence you know.
The map is drawn though spun only in riddles. Like a cliched Goonie adventure, we are now on the hunt for the cave dwelling elusive ideal that shall be hidden deep within the most obvious of places. It will be where it shall always have been. Where you started and where you end.
That true sentence only you can know, as only I can know as well. It can never be shared, but must be given to the world. Because if not, the Sun will darken and grow cold.
Do you know what I know? Have you sought the truth?
The truest sentence you know?
I can speak in riddles
or sing in rhyme,
but still Queen Mab will never divine
the words most spoken of honest sublime.
We cannot, nor will not,
share the secret he spoke.
For Hemingway means you to discover your own.
Write one true sentence. The truest sentence you know. It is yours to know,
and ours to find.
You better get started
for life is mere time.
"oh wet pet"
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