`One True Sentence'

Apparently I’m not the only reader to judge Ernest Hemingway a benighted sentimentalist. For a cold gust of reality, you can always count on Hugh Kenner. This comes from Joyce’s Voices:

“As much as Daisy Miller, Hemingway died of the American belief in sincerity: of believing there was such a thing as One True Sentence. But truth is multiple, and the whole truth about even a circumscribed situation is probably incommunicable.”