I don’t know anything about the prose of Hemingway, so I can’t answer your first paragraph.
How do you define the state of being interested in something? I think I would go with something like “it’s easier and more pleasant to engage deeply with this”. Which seems very closely linked to ease of information transfer to me.
How do you define the state of being interested in something?
Something like a high degree of surprise and greater willingness to engage/share/remember. For writing this might be things like turns of phrase or template that I’d like to steal. For content I’m not sure, one simple model is “value of information” but it doesn’t actually fully capture my internal senses of excitement.
I don’t know anything about the prose of Hemingway, so I can’t answer your first paragraph.
How do you define the state of being interested in something? I think I would go with something like “it’s easier and more pleasant to engage deeply with this”. Which seems very closely linked to ease of information transfer to me.
Something like a high degree of surprise and greater willingness to engage/share/remember. For writing this might be things like turns of phrase or template that I’d like to steal. For content I’m not sure, one simple model is “value of information” but it doesn’t actually fully capture my internal senses of excitement.