 that you didn't have to get your literary materials from England. You didn't have to get it by going to college. You just had to get it by listening to people. And he was obsessed with listening to people. His notebooks were filled, filled with overheard conversations. He would pace back and forth trying to get a dialect right. He would just torture himself over the words because he loved American voices that much. And he invested them in Huckleberry Finn. On that level, Hemingway is spot on.