PDA

View Full Version : Hemingway



Chris
04-05-2021, 10:57 AM
Starting tonight PBS is doing a three-part series by Burns on Hemingway: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/hemingway/

MMC
04-05-2021, 03:00 PM
Mollie? http://thepoliticalforums.com/images/smilies/newsmilies/idhitit.gif


https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/shutterstock_443125402-644x966.jpg

Mechanic
04-05-2021, 03:30 PM
Lots to learn about cuba and the rest of America.

MMC
04-05-2021, 03:32 PM
Lots to learn about cuba and the rest of America.

Nah.....all but leftists know about the Democrats History.

The Booman
04-05-2021, 06:33 PM
Mollie? http://thepoliticalforums.com/images/smilies/newsmilies/idhitit.gif


https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/shutterstock_443125402-644x966.jpg
Holy crap.

The Booman
04-05-2021, 06:34 PM
Not a fan of burns but I would like to see a bit about Hemingway.

Chris
04-05-2021, 08:56 PM
Not a fan of burns but I would like to see a bit about Hemingway.

Same here. The first episode was very good. There were a few moments of Burns applying PC to Hemingway to be ignored.

Chris
04-07-2021, 03:24 PM
At one point in last night's episode they talked about Hemingway's belief in minimal government. Understandable given he'd seen world governments nearly destroy the world twice.

jigglepete
04-08-2021, 01:00 PM
This Hemingway? :grin:

https://www.papaspilar.com/

Chris
04-08-2021, 03:30 PM
This Hemingway? :grin:

https://www.papaspilar.com/

Son and grandson.

stephenpe
04-12-2021, 12:25 PM
Hemingway is fascinating and wrote important things but he was also a fckup and took the easy way out. Steinbeck was about as fckkd up but was man enough to keep going. And cared more about people.
I want to see that documentary. Need to chck PBS schedule.

The Booman
04-12-2021, 08:07 PM
I always thought Hemingway would be a great person to have a drink with.

Chris
04-12-2021, 09:25 PM
I always thought Hemingway would be a great person to have a drink with.

While fishing in the Pilar....

rcfieldz
04-13-2021, 01:50 PM
My favorite Hemingway...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMGE5MTQ2NjgtNzVkYi00MDIyLTkzZGItYzBkZGRkODA4MT A2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDUyOTUyNQ@@._V1_.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaux_Hemingway

Manny Decker
04-15-2021, 07:25 AM
Ernest Hemingway courted and married Hadley Richardson for the wrong reasons, of course Hadley was his first proper sexual partner, she was in love with Hemingway and followed him to Europe on trips.

Hemingways mother nagged Hemingway to the decent thing and marry the girl, to which to his own annoyance he did.

The mental incapacity in his later life can be easily put down to the two near fatal accidents he was in whilst in light aircraft.
His own fathers suicide and an unlocked gun cabinet ensured his own suicide.
https://i.postimg.cc/hXdX5hWs/6-AB3-E7-E0-D4-CC-400-F-A067-6-A9-F7244186-F.webp (https://postimg.cc/hXdX5hWs)

The Sage of Main Street
04-15-2021, 02:10 PM
Hemingway is fascinating and wrote important things but he was also a fckup and took the easy way out. Steinbeck was about as fckkd up but was man enough to keep going. And cared more about people.
I want to see that documentary. Need to chck PBS schedule.
The Bell Tolls, Announcing American Manhood 's Doom

Hemingway was crippled by severe brain injuries. Because of that, he had lost everything that made him a man and a writer. So he decided to end it all instead of dragging on as a pitiful wretch. He "took his own life," in the sense of taking charge and going his own way.

MisterVeritis
04-15-2021, 02:11 PM
Didn't he have lots of communist ties?

Chris
04-15-2021, 02:32 PM
Didn't he have lots of communist ties?

He sided sort of with the socialist resistance to fascism in Spain but rejected Stalin's attempt to take over. It turned him against government in general and only form the most limited.

Manny Decker
04-16-2021, 03:46 PM
He sided sort of with the socialist resistance to fascism in Spain but rejected Stalin's attempt to take over. It turned him against government in general and only form the most limited.
From reading Hemingway’s accounts of his Spanish adventure it seems to me he really didn’t consider the reality of what Europe would have been like after a communist victory in Spain.

Chris
04-16-2021, 04:41 PM
From reading Hemingway’s accounts of his Spanish adventure it seems to me he really didn’t consider the reality of what Europe would have been like after a communist victory in Spain.

Not initially, he went to war to fight the fascists.

Mister D
04-16-2021, 04:44 PM
Not initially, he went to war to fight the fascists.
Funny. I just started reading Mine Were of Trouble by Peter Kemp. He was a young Englishman fresh out of college who volunteered for the Nationalist cause in Spain.

Manny Decker
04-16-2021, 07:05 PM
Not initially, he went to war to fight the fascists.


It was a naive adventure, he eventually realised it, all through Hemingway’s life he sought adventure and new columns to write about.
Every book and short story derives from
an experience or story he had heard first hand. Hemingway wasn’t a true writer in the sense we know nowadays.

Chris
04-16-2021, 08:13 PM
It was a naive adventure, he eventually realised it, all through Hemingway’s life he sought adventure and new columns to write about.
Every book and short story derives from
an experience or story he had heard first hand. Hemingway wasn’t a true writer in the sense we know nowadays.

The PBS series made much of his not being able to live up to the myth he created.

Manny Decker
04-17-2021, 06:11 AM
The PBS series made much of his not being able to live up to the myth he created.

It was Gertrude Stein that mentored Hemingway to improve, and fashion his writing, he also got strength from other writers he befriended, Joyce, Pound, and others, his self doubt in his ability lasted all of his life.