Ernest Hemingway once bet his friends $10 that he could write a novel in 6 words. He wrote:
For sale: Baby shoes, Never worn.
His friends paid up.
Jeff Kirk recently challenged me to write a memoir in 6 words – no $10 though. I couldn’t settle on one so I did two. Six words each, here they are:
Here are some others I thought of but didn’t quite make the cut. Obviously with 6 words I wasn’t trying to get too deep.
A giant among short-statured men.
He figured it out—well—eventually
Here are a few from wired magazine. Having completed my memoir, per the meme – I must now name 5 others that I’d like to see:
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