Earnest Hemingway

xoxoxoBruce · 10-09-2005, 08:39 PM

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.

BigV · 10-09-2005, 10:19 PM

*dead air*

psssst...what's the other part?

Griff · 10-10-2005, 07:50 AM

love Papa but I canna see nothng there Bruce!

xoxoxoBruce · 10-10-2005, 09:42 AM

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.

Trilby · 10-10-2005, 10:23 AM

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!

10-11-2005, 01:21 AM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-11-2005, 02:17 AM

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

Trilby · 10-11-2005, 05:43 AM

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.)

footfootfoot · 10-12-2005, 07:13 PM

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

10-12-2005, 07:52 PM

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.

10-09-2005, 08:39 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-09-2005, 10:19 PM	#2
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	dead air psssst...what's the other part? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

10-10-2005, 07:50 AM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	love Papa but I canna see nothng there Bruce! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-10-2005, 09:42 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-10-2005, 10:23 AM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	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! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-11-2005, 01:21 AM	#6
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	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.

10-11-2005, 02:17 AM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	He needed a lot of them. Just one afternoon of skeet uses dozens. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-11-2005, 05:43 AM	#8
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	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.) __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-12-2005, 07:13 PM	#9
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Just read "moveable feast" really poignant in many ways. Hadley, mr. Bumby, et al. To be 25, in love, nascently alcoholic gambling addict. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-12-2005, 07:52 PM	#10
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	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.

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