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.
An excellent read, if you enjoy reading about this strange dude. He had a hell of a lot of fun but infected madness within and without. "Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost."
Islands in the Stream was a good read. He was part of the lost generation. WW1 was a huge blow to many nation’s youth. Hall came back from the war, spending it in capitivity-after being shot down. He found his town of Colfax to be ruined by the noise of the new-fangled internal combustion engine. Told his publisher he couldn't stand the noise. Left for Tahiti and with his partner, wrote Mutiny on the Bounty. Baden-Powell started the World’s Jamboree for BSA because after the war, many of his scouts were dead. He never wanted anything like that to happen in the world again. Really only a hundred years ago. The work product of our current leaders is no better.
This is a very good video by psychiatrist Graeme Yorston reviewing the last half of Hemingway's life, the genetic curses, and the self-inflicted maladies that took him out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovlqo6yXrwo
An excellent read, if you enjoy reading about this strange dude. He had a hell of a lot of fun but infected madness within and without. "Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost."
ReplyDeleteseconded, great read.
Deletehe liked to dye women's hair blond.
did his own in red, once.
his son gregory was a trans doctor.
"garden of eden"/EH- fiction
"strange tribe"/john hemingway- running account.
That's about the right size for The Old Man and the Sea.
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DeleteExcept the shark didn’t get this one.
Islands in the Stream was a good read. He was part of the lost generation. WW1 was a huge blow to many nation’s youth. Hall came back from the war, spending it in capitivity-after being shot down. He found his town of Colfax to be ruined by the noise of the new-fangled internal combustion engine. Told his publisher he couldn't stand the noise. Left for Tahiti and with his partner, wrote Mutiny on the Bounty. Baden-Powell started the World’s Jamboree for BSA because after the war, many of his scouts were dead. He never wanted anything like that to happen in the world again. Really only a hundred years ago. The work product of our current leaders is no better.
ReplyDeleteClassic and typical Hemingway.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good video by psychiatrist Graeme Yorston reviewing the last half of Hemingway's life, the genetic curses, and the self-inflicted maladies that took him out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovlqo6yXrwo
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