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 To sum up: the combined agencies of three phenomenological operations in the act of reading make it possible for any reader of Hemingway to read{{pg|166|167}}
+is work according to his or her own desire and knowledge. They are dialogics, that is, the art and science of dialogue as it burst upon consciousness; hermeneutics, the method of interpreting and comprehending the scriptural work or text guided by the clusters of one’s desire and knowledge; and, finally, recreating the text in the light of all these three operations.
+At this point, one may state that Hemingway’s attentive readers, reader writers, and critics (the other group of reader-writers) who may have an interest in the domain of literary influence either have taken mental notes or have made up their lists of writers influenced by Hemingway. It seems to be an irresistible activity. It may well be that each list brings forth the reciprocal effects of the texts read, in turn reading and analyzing the readers and list makers.
+Taking into considerations the nature of Hemingway’s influence, I should like to offer a list of writers I consider to have been apparently influenced by him. I limit the list strictly to American male writers and include such diverse names as Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961),James M.Cain (1892-1977), Walter van Tilburg Clark (1909-1979), John Heresy (1914-1993), Robert Ruark (1915-1965), Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), Vance Bourjaily (1922-), Jack (Jean Louis) Kerouac (1922-1969), Cormac McCarthy (1933-), Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), Elmore Leonard (1935-), Raymond Carver (1938-1988), and Hunter Thompson (1937-2005).
+This list is illustrative, of course—not at all intended to be either critical or exhaustive. It is at best exploratory and suggestive.I am aware that in each writer’s case the affinities with Hemingway and the extent and depth of his influence on him substantially differ. What does remain constant, however, is the existence of an inevitable vestige of the dynamic dialectic of uniqueness and influence, going from clear-cut direct imitation to intricate indirect influence in fictional conception and execution.
+'''III. HEMINGWAY’S NONTRANSPARENT INFLUENCE'''
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+Hemingway’s style had an ability to hit the young writers in the
+gut, and they weren’t the same after that.{{sfn|Mailer|198|p=298}}
+</blockquote>
+My intention in treating Hemingway’s influence on American writers at
+some length has been to show the nature and extent of the problem Mailer{{pg|167|168}}
 === Notes ===