I think there’s a huge difference between telling a whole story in 6 words, and summing up ones life in 6 words.

Hemingway’s "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn" really does tell a whole story, it is a literary masterpiece – it encourages one to ponder what the story behind the words might have been, which is what one assumes he was trying to achieve.

/* I once wrote my profile in six words (as some here might remember) but they probably didn’t know that I’d used Hemingway’s $10 bet story as the template for it:
Wanted: girl, must like dogs */


To sum up my own life in 6 words: Rock paper scissors (I lost again)