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23-FEB-2026 | Excerpt from “The Torrents of Spring” by Ernest Hemingway

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Dan Bogachek
February 23, 2026

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The swipe file is dead.

Literally, and maybe figuratively as well.

When I first started working on this project, I gave it the working title, Toolbox. The simple tagline was: the swipe file on roids.

But the more I worked on it, the more it became clear that this wasn’t just a box of tools. Calling it a swipe file wasn’t accurate, either. Roided up, or otherwise.

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This thing behaves more like a navigable map.

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This, on the other hand, grows deeper over time. Its contents are living.

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It’s a database of world-class excerpts just like the ones we cover right here on the daily. Spanning ad copy, webpage copy, and literature.

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Excerpt from “The Torrents of Spring” by Ernest Hemingway

Scripps O’Neil had two wives. As he looked out of the window, standing tall and lean and resilient with his own tenuous hardness, he thought of both of them. One lived in Mancelona and the other lived in Petoskey. He had not seen the wife who lived in Mancelona since last spring. He looked out at the snow-covered pump-yards and thought what spring would mean. With his wife in Mancelona Scripps often got drunk. When he was drunk he and his wife were happy. They would go down together to the railway station and walk out along the tracks, and then sit together and drink and watch the trains go by. They would sit under a pine-tree on a little hill that overlooked the railway and drink. Sometimes they drank all night. Sometimes they drank for a week at a time. It did them good. It made Scripps strong. 🏁

  • Hemingway could have said something like “he missed his wife.“ But instead he lets the emotion come through the details: “He had not seen the wife who lived in Mancelona since last spring.” Much stronger with your imagination interpreting it.

  • Great use of repetition with “they would,” “sometimes” and “it.”