And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Name the man with the beard
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
Apparently Hemingway wagered other writers he could write a story in six words, capturing the beginning, middle and end. For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.
This is Hemingway on his Lost Weekend tour of Spain less than a year before he blew his brains out July 2nd 1961. I trespassed onto his Ketchum, Idaho property a few years back. Nobody was around. I pressed my nose against every window on the walk-around deck. The jutting 5' x 8' foyer was the last room he walked into. The house interior is a mid-century time capsule. Everything just the way it was when he and his wide Mary moved there for not even two years. It's held by the Nature Conservancy.
Weird how I pushed the publish button only once but it posted my comment twice. While I'm here I'll correct my typo... he lived with his "wife" Mary. She told the press that he mistakenly shot himself while cleaning his Boss shotgun. The dude knew exactly what he was doing.
Robin Williams?
ReplyDeleteHemingway?
ReplyDeleteBravo!
DeletePapa
ReplyDeletecommie
ReplyDeleteHemingway. Never cared for his writing.
ReplyDeleteApparently Hemingway wagered other writers he could write a story in six words, capturing the beginning, middle and end. For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.
ReplyDeleteThe saddest story.
DeleteHemingway was a great writer. The truly bad writer of his era was Steinbeck, a commie hack.
ReplyDeleteCaitlyn Jenner
ReplyDeleteBull 'fighting' is a disgusting practice.
ReplyDeleteSo is virtue signaling.
Delete"I know a worse one." - Willy Wonka
DeleteThis is Hemingway on his Lost Weekend tour of Spain less than a year before he blew his brains out July 2nd 1961. I trespassed onto his Ketchum, Idaho property a few years back. Nobody was around. I pressed my nose against every window on the walk-around deck. The jutting 5' x 8' foyer was the last room he walked into. The house interior is a mid-century time capsule. Everything just the way it was when he and his wide Mary moved there for not even two years. It's held by the Nature Conservancy.
ReplyDeleteWeird how I pushed the publish button only once but it posted my comment twice. While I'm here I'll correct my typo... he lived with his "wife" Mary. She told the press that he mistakenly shot himself while cleaning his Boss shotgun. The dude knew exactly what he was doing.
ReplyDeleteGlad it turned out to be Hemingway because without that context, I'd have to go with Adam Sandler as the other guy in the photo.
ReplyDeleteLove me some Death in the Afternoon.
ReplyDeleteErnest Hemmingway
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