Jon,

Hemingway is an unparallel master of the English language and one of my favorite authors. Furthermore, Hemingway writes about people with lean brilliance and his minimal descriptions of space are highly specific and provide just enough information to ground the interactions between his characters in the real world. Your narrative has given us a solitary moment of obsession in a shadowy space that could be anywhere...don't compare yourself to Hemingway...

Furthermore, Hemingway writes largely about places that the vast majority of us already have images of in our own minds. As a writer he creates new interactions between people, and his aim is to share these interactions. As an architect I hope you would want to create new spaces that none of us have ever seen before and if we have no images of it already, you must give us the images, specifically.

It also seems to me that in Hemingway's work the language is at least in part a product of his struggle between the sensitivity of the artist and the societal conceptions of manhood. Did you ever read The Sun Also Rises?

Architects and writers are both artists, but our language has different names for them because they work in different ways. An architect can and should be a writer, but at the end of the day if he loses his work as a creator of space and form, he is no longer and architect. He is just a writer.