For example: "One of the things that makes a man honorable is that he owns who he is and what he did. It's that Hemingway thing most Americans understand, stemming from those moments of truth that appear in the author's best work like "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." "

Its in our own benefits that everybody else is honorable. This is why we glorify it to such nauseating heights. We shine so much glamour onto it that we cannot help but then desire to be honorable, not because being honorable is in of itself is motivating, but for the approbation of the tribe.

When Hemingway does his dramatic, glorious lunges at honor, dignity, pride I just get the sense of someone gesturing emptily for show.

whatever.