Earnest Hemingway
 

Most everyone has read at least a little of "Papa", probably for school.
Powerful stuff... passion and power when speaking of bullfights, big game hunts and trophy fish.
But have you ever wondered how a powerful writer would write a grocery list on something more mundane than bullfights?
Well, here's a little blurb he wrote in the 1953 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Ya know.....good is good, regardless. :2cents:

*dead air*


psssst...what's the other part?

love Papa but I canna see nothng there Bruce!

Oops. I posted this in the paintings thread by mistake, then deleted it and started this thread but the link didn't travel well. Sorry!
Here's the link. :o

thanks, bruce. I visited Papa's house in Key West. It was really cool. Gotta say, though, he's one of my very least favorite authors. Bit too machismo for me (hard to believe, but true!) all those blood and guts and veins in his teeth...sexually incontinent, too.

I hated that he loved hunting, bullfights; everything that he loved!

I was fascinated to discover that Mr. Macho had a real fondness for cats. I think he even built a tower for them to live in. Apparently he managed to collect quite a few of them - cats, not towers.

He needed a lot of them. Just one afternoon of skeet uses dozens. :lol:

His Key West house is full of the famous six-toed cats--descendants of one of Papa's kitties. The city takes very good care of them all, they all have names and the tour guide can tell you about each of them.

But, still, in the words of Judge Harm, "If I want a cock and bull story, I'll read Hemingway!"
(Judge Harm on The Simpson's. Last night.)

Just read "moveable feast"
really poignant in many ways. Hadley, mr. Bumby, et al. To be 25, in love, nascently alcoholic gambling addict.

Really? Not me! Ah, yes! To be 25 and on the brink of destroying my life again! Liked Moveable Feast but not for those reasons. I recall reading somewhere that when Hemingway wrote, he hid his bottle in the other room.