Excerpt from “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway

The details make this brilliant.

This whole passage could be distilled to “I sat on a chair and held my cap. I felt my automatic pistol against the back of the chair.”

But the why and how make it come to life. It’s this embellishment which gives the whole thing crunch.

“We were supposed to…”
“We were just beginning to get some of them.”
“Rinaldi carried a holster stuffed with toilet paper.”

And — also as a result — we occupy multiple points in time. The “exact now” of the recollection, and the general time period throughout the description.

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