Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated:
1
00:00:15,601 --> 00:00:40,011
♪
2
00:00:40,178 --> 00:00:44,598
MAN: HEMINGWAY WAS A WRITER
WHO HAPPENED TO BE AMERICAN,
3
00:00:44,734 --> 00:00:48,014
BUT HIS PALETTE
WAS INCREDIBLY WIDE
4
00:00:48,151 --> 00:00:54,811
AND DELICIOUS AND VIOLENT
AND BRUTAL AND UGLY,
5
00:00:54,916 --> 00:00:57,156
ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
6
00:00:57,333 --> 00:01:01,443
IT'S SOMETHING EVERY CULTURE
CAN BASICALLY UNDERSTAND.
7
00:01:01,578 --> 00:01:07,518
EVERY CULTURE CAN UNDERSTAND
FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE,
8
00:01:07,653 --> 00:01:10,003
THE LOSS OF THAT PERSON,
9
00:01:10,104 --> 00:01:12,664
OF HOW GREAT A MEAL TASTES,
10
00:01:12,831 --> 00:01:16,011
HOW EXTRAORDINARY
THIS JOURNEY IS.
11
00:01:16,110 --> 00:01:19,220
THAT IS NOT NATIONALISTIC.
12
00:01:19,355 --> 00:01:21,045
IT'S HUMAN,
13
00:01:21,184 --> 00:01:23,464
AND I THINK WITH ALL
OF HIS FLAWS,
14
00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,710
WITH ALL THE DIFFICULTIES,
HIS PERSONAL LIFE, WHATEVER,
15
00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:33,230
HE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND
HUMAN BEINGS.
16
00:01:33,369 --> 00:01:35,539
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: YOU SEE,
I'M TRYING IN ALL MY STORIES
17
00:01:35,647 --> 00:01:39,787
TO GET THE FEELING
OF THE ACTUAL LIFE ACROSS--
18
00:01:39,927 --> 00:01:44,547
NOT JUST TO DEPICT LIFE
OR CRITICIZE IT--
19
00:01:44,656 --> 00:01:47,036
BUT TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT ALIVE
20
00:01:47,210 --> 00:01:49,390
SO THAT WHEN YOU'VE READ
SOMETHING BY ME
21
00:01:49,488 --> 00:01:52,598
YOU ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE
THE THING.
22
00:01:52,733 --> 00:01:54,293
YOU CAN'T DO THIS
WITHOUT PUTTING IN
23
00:01:54,424 --> 00:01:57,984
THE BAD AND THE UGLY,
AS WELL AS WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL,
24
00:01:58,118 --> 00:02:01,778
BECAUSE IF IT IS ALL BEAUTIFUL
YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IN IT.
25
00:02:01,914 --> 00:02:03,924
THINGS AREN'T THAT WAY.
26
00:02:04,054 --> 00:02:06,614
IT IS ONLY BY SHOWING
BOTH SIDES--
27
00:02:06,747 --> 00:02:09,777
3 DIMENSIONS AND IF POSSIBLE 4--
28
00:02:09,922 --> 00:02:12,892
THAT YOU CAN WRITE
THE WAY I WANT TO.
29
00:02:19,311 --> 00:02:22,661
[THE BENNY GOODMAN SEXTET'S
"A SMO-O-O-OTH ONE" PLAYING]
30
00:02:22,797 --> 00:02:26,457
NARRATOR: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
REMADE AMERICAN LITERATURE.
31
00:02:26,594 --> 00:02:29,804
HE PARED STORY-TELLING
TO ITS ESSENTIALS,
32
00:02:29,942 --> 00:02:32,222
CHANGED THE WAY
CHARACTERS SPEAK,
33
00:02:32,359 --> 00:02:36,189
EXPANDED THE WORLDS A WRITER
COULD LEGITIMATELY EXPLORE,
34
00:02:36,328 --> 00:02:40,508
AND LEFT AN INDELIBLE RECORD
OF HOW MEN AND WOMEN LIVED
35
00:02:40,643 --> 00:02:43,133
DURING HIS LIFETIME.
36
00:02:43,266 --> 00:02:45,986
GENERATIONS OF WRITERS
WOULD FIND THEIR WORK
37
00:02:46,131 --> 00:02:48,001
MEASURED AGAINST HIS.
38
00:02:48,133 --> 00:02:50,793
SOME FOLLOWED
THE PATH HE'D BLAZED.
39
00:02:50,929 --> 00:02:52,929
OTHERS REBELLED AGAINST IT.
40
00:02:53,103 --> 00:02:56,143
NONE COULD ESCAPE IT.
41
00:02:56,245 --> 00:02:59,275
HE MADE HIMSELF THE MOST
CELEBRATED AMERICAN WRITER
42
00:02:59,386 --> 00:03:00,896
SINCE MARK TWAIN,
43
00:03:01,042 --> 00:03:05,052
READ--AND REVERED--
AROUND THE WORLD.
44
00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:07,635
MAN: IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE
A WRITER TODAY
45
00:03:07,808 --> 00:03:12,048
WHO HASN'T BEEN IN SOME WAY
INFLUENCED BY HIM.
46
00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:13,682
IT'S LIKE HE CHANGED
ALL THE FURNITURE
47
00:03:13,814 --> 00:03:16,964
IN THE ROOM, RIGHT,
AND WE ALL HAVE TO SIT IN IT
48
00:03:17,127 --> 00:03:18,717
TO SOME--YOU KNOW,
WE CAN KIND OF SIT
49
00:03:18,853 --> 00:03:22,313
ON THE EDGE OF THE ARMCHAIR,
ON THE ARM OR DO THIS,
50
00:03:22,409 --> 00:03:27,069
BUT, YOU KNOW HE CHANGED
THE FURNITURE IN THE ROOM.
51
00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:32,107
THE VALUE OF THE AMERICAN
DECLARATIVE SENTENCE, RIGHT,
52
00:03:32,246 --> 00:03:36,076
THE WAY YOU BUILD A HOUSE
BRICK BY BRICK OUT OF THOSE.
53
00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:39,316
WITHIN A FEW SENTENCES
OF READING A HEMINGWAY STORY,
54
00:03:39,426 --> 00:03:44,016
YOU WERE NOT IN ANY CONFUSION
AS TO WHO HAD WRITTEN IT.
55
00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,400
WOMAN: I CAN'T IMAGINE
HOW IT'S POSSIBLE
56
00:03:47,537 --> 00:03:52,607
THAT ANY ONE WRITER COULD HAVE
SO CHANGED THE LANGUAGE.
57
00:03:52,749 --> 00:03:57,339
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COPYING HIM
FOR NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS,
58
00:03:57,513 --> 00:04:02,733
AND THEY HAVEN'T SUCCEEDED
IN EQUALING WHAT HE DID.
59
00:04:02,863 --> 00:04:06,633
MAN: IF YOU'RE A WRITER,
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE HEMINGWAY.
60
00:04:06,763 --> 00:04:10,013
HE'S SO DAMN POPULAR THAT YOU
CAN'T BEGIN TO WRITE
61
00:04:10,180 --> 00:04:12,740
TILL YOU TRY AND KILL
HIS GHOST IN YOU
62
00:04:12,873 --> 00:04:14,463
OR EMBRACE IT,
63
00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:18,019
AND I THINK I IDENTIFY THAT
MOST ABOUT HEMINGWAY
64
00:04:18,119 --> 00:04:20,119
IS THAT HE WAS
ALWAYS QUESTING.
65
00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,370
THE PERFECT LINE
HAD NOT HAPPENED YET.
66
00:04:22,538 --> 00:04:25,088
IT IS ALWAYS A STRUGGLE
TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT,
67
00:04:25,230 --> 00:04:28,060
AND YOU NEVER WILL.
68
00:04:28,164 --> 00:04:30,934
NARRATOR: FOR 3 DECADES,
PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT READ
69
00:04:31,063 --> 00:04:34,173
A WORD HE'D WRITTEN THOUGHT
THEY KNEW HIM--
70
00:04:34,308 --> 00:04:37,418
WOUNDED VETERAN
AND BATTLEFIELD CORRESPONDENT,
71
00:04:37,553 --> 00:04:41,113
BIG-GAME HUNTER
AND DEEP-SEA FISHERMAN,
72
00:04:41,246 --> 00:04:45,486
BULL-FIGHT AFICIONADO,
BRAWLER, AND LOVER
73
00:04:45,630 --> 00:04:47,870
AND MAN ABOUT TOWN...
74
00:04:52,637 --> 00:04:57,187
BUT BEHIND THE PUBLIC FIGURE WAS
A TROUBLED AND CONFLICTED MAN,
75
00:04:57,331 --> 00:05:00,371
WHO BELONGED TO A TROUBLED
AND CONFLICTED FAMILY
76
00:05:00,507 --> 00:05:05,747
WITH ITS OWN DRAMA AND DARKNESS
AND CLOSELY-HELD SECRETS.
77
00:05:05,857 --> 00:05:08,577
THE WORLD SAW HIM
AS A MAN'S MAN,
78
00:05:08,756 --> 00:05:11,926
BUT ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD
PRIVATELY BE INTRIGUED
79
00:05:12,035 --> 00:05:14,995
BY THE BLURRED LINES
BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE,
80
00:05:15,142 --> 00:05:18,422
MEN AND WOMEN.
81
00:05:18,594 --> 00:05:20,424
THERE WERE SO MANY SIDES
TO HIM,
82
00:05:20,527 --> 00:05:22,907
THE FIRST OF HIS
4 WIVES REMEMBERED,
83
00:05:23,012 --> 00:05:26,082
THAT HE DEFIED GEOMETRY.
84
00:05:26,187 --> 00:05:27,737
WOMAN: HE WAS OPEN TO LIFE.
85
00:05:27,913 --> 00:05:30,263
HE WAS OPEN TO TRAGEDY.
86
00:05:30,364 --> 00:05:32,884
HE WAS OPEN
TO FEELING.
87
00:05:33,022 --> 00:05:35,652
I LIKED THAT HE FELL IN LOVE,
88
00:05:35,783 --> 00:05:39,273
AND HE FELL IN LOVE
QUITE A FEW TIMES.
89
00:05:39,442 --> 00:05:43,342
HE ALWAYS HAD THE NEXT WOMAN
90
00:05:43,481 --> 00:05:48,141
BEFORE HE LEFT
THE EXISTING WOMAN.
91
00:05:48,244 --> 00:05:50,564
NARRATOR: HE WAS OFTEN KIND
AND GENEROUS TO THOSE
92
00:05:50,695 --> 00:05:54,005
IN NEED OF HELP
AND SOMETIMES JUST AS CRUEL
93
00:05:54,146 --> 00:05:58,666
AND VENGEFUL TO THOSE
WHO HAD HELPED HIM.
94
00:05:58,806 --> 00:06:00,636
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I HAVE ALWAYS
HAD THE ILLUSION
95
00:06:00,739 --> 00:06:03,499
IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT,
OR AS IMPORTANT,
96
00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:07,129
TO BE A GOOD MAN
AS TO BE A GREAT WRITER.
97
00:06:07,297 --> 00:06:09,647
I MAY TURN OUT TO BE NEITHER
98
00:06:09,817 --> 00:06:12,367
BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE BOTH.
99
00:06:14,926 --> 00:06:18,476
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S STORY
IS A TALE OLDER EVEN
100
00:06:18,654 --> 00:06:21,764
THAN THE WRITTEN WORD
OF A YOUNG MAN
101
00:06:21,898 --> 00:06:23,758
WHOSE AMBITION AND IMAGINATION,
102
00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:28,010
ENERGY AND ENORMOUS GIFTS
BRING HIM WEALTH AND FAME
103
00:06:28,146 --> 00:06:32,046
BEYOND IMAGINING,
104
00:06:32,184 --> 00:06:35,844
WHO DESTROYS HIMSELF TRYING
TO REMAIN TRUE
105
00:06:35,947 --> 00:06:40,017
TO THE CHARACTER
HE HAS INVENTED.
106
00:06:40,123 --> 00:06:42,513
O'BRIEN:
ONE OF HIS WEAKNESSES--
107
00:06:42,609 --> 00:06:47,029
I WAS GOING TO SAY, "FAILINGS,"
AND IT WAS A GREAT PITY--
108
00:06:47,130 --> 00:06:49,690
IT'S A GREAT PITY
FOR ANY WRITER--
109
00:06:49,788 --> 00:06:52,718
HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE.
110
00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:57,000
HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE,
AND IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE,
111
00:06:57,175 --> 00:07:00,345
HE LOST THE BEST PART OF HIMSELF
112
00:07:00,523 --> 00:07:04,223
BY TRYING TO IMPRESS
THE AUDIENCE.
113
00:07:04,354 --> 00:07:06,434
KATAKIS: I HATE
THE MYTH OF HEMINGWAY,
114
00:07:06,564 --> 00:07:09,534
AND THE REASON I HATE THE MYTH
OF HEMINGWAY,
115
00:07:09,705 --> 00:07:12,255
IT OBSCURES THE MAN,
116
00:07:12,397 --> 00:07:17,817
AND THE MAN IS MUCH MORE
INTERESTING THAN THE MYTH.
117
00:07:17,954 --> 00:07:21,414
I THINK HE WAS
A TERRIFIC FATHER SOMETIMES.
118
00:07:21,510 --> 00:07:25,580
I THINK THAT HE WAS
A LOVING HUSBAND SOMETIMES.
119
00:07:25,721 --> 00:07:29,031
I THINK HE WAS LIKE
SO MANY PEOPLE
120
00:07:29,207 --> 00:07:31,897
EXCEPT THIS ENORMOUS TALENT.
121
00:07:32,003 --> 00:07:36,253
HEMINGWAY IS COMPLICATED.
HE'S VERY COMPLICATED.
122
00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:39,667
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE GREAT THING IS TO LAST
123
00:07:39,804 --> 00:07:42,254
AND GET YOUR WORK DONE
124
00:07:42,427 --> 00:07:47,117
AND SEE AND HEAR AND LEARN
AND UNDERSTAND;
125
00:07:47,259 --> 00:07:50,059
AND WRITE WHEN THERE IS
SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW;
126
00:07:50,228 --> 00:07:52,228
AND NOT BEFORE;
127
00:07:52,402 --> 00:07:55,512
AND NOT TOO DAMNED MUCH AFTER.
128
00:07:55,647 --> 00:08:11,247
♪
129
00:08:11,352 --> 00:08:13,562
[SCOTT JOPLIN'S "PARAGON RAG"
PLAYING]
130
00:08:13,734 --> 00:08:26,614
♪
131
00:08:26,782 --> 00:08:28,542
WOMAN, AS GRACE HEMINGWAY:
MY BOY DELIGHTS IN SHOOTING
132
00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,130
IMAGINARY WOLVES, BEARS, LIONS.
133
00:08:32,235 --> 00:08:35,545
ALSO LIKES TO PRETEND
HE IS A SOLDIER.
134
00:08:35,687 --> 00:08:40,867
HE STORMS AND KICKS AND DANCES
WITH RAGE WHEN THWARTED.
135
00:08:41,003 --> 00:08:42,803
WHEN ASKED WHAT HE IS AFRAID OF,
136
00:08:42,901 --> 00:08:48,041
HE SHOUTS OUT
"'FRAID OF NOTHING!"
137
00:08:48,182 --> 00:08:50,532
NARRATOR:
ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
138
00:08:50,668 --> 00:08:55,908
JULY 21, 1899,
THE SECOND OF 6 CHILDREN
139
00:08:56,052 --> 00:09:00,302
AND ENJOYED WHAT SEEMED TO BE
AN IDYLLIC BOYHOOD.
140
00:09:00,401 --> 00:09:02,401
HE HAD 4 ADORING SISTERS
141
00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:04,752
AND A WORSHIPFUL
YOUNGER BROTHER.
142
00:09:04,889 --> 00:09:06,859
THEY ALL LIVED
IN A BIG, COMFORTABLE HOME
143
00:09:06,994 --> 00:09:10,834
IN THE PROSPEROUS
CHICAGO SUBURB OF OAK PARK,
144
00:09:10,998 --> 00:09:13,408
A COMPLACENT,
WELL-MANNERED COMMUNITY
145
00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:15,873
WITH NO SALOONS
AND SO MANY CHURCHES
146
00:09:16,003 --> 00:09:20,393
IT LIKED TO CALL ITSELF
"SAINT'S REST."
147
00:09:20,525 --> 00:09:23,835
THE HEMINGWAYS SPENT
LONG SUMMERS AT WINDEMERE,
148
00:09:24,011 --> 00:09:27,531
THEIR COTTAGE ON WALLOON LAKE
IN MICHIGAN.
149
00:09:27,670 --> 00:09:30,570
[FIRE CRACKLING]
150
00:09:30,708 --> 00:09:33,498
ERNEST'S FATHER
CLARENCE HEMINGWAY--
151
00:09:33,607 --> 00:09:37,847
KNOWN TO EVERYONE AS ED--
WAS A FAMILY DOCTOR.
152
00:09:37,956 --> 00:09:40,676
HE KEPT OFFICE HOURS
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
153
00:09:40,787 --> 00:09:43,097
BUT WAS OFTEN FORCED
TO MAKE HOUSE CALLS
154
00:09:43,237 --> 00:09:44,857
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
155
00:09:44,963 --> 00:09:47,903
PERFORMING EMERGENCY
CESAREAN SECTIONS
156
00:09:48,035 --> 00:09:50,065
BY LANTERN LIGHT.
157
00:09:50,210 --> 00:09:56,870
SOMETIMES, HE FAILED TO SAVE
THE MOTHER OR THE BABY OR BOTH.
158
00:09:56,975 --> 00:09:59,525
"MY FATHER WAS VERY DEVOTED
TO MY MOTHER,"
159
00:09:59,633 --> 00:10:01,813
ERNEST'S YOUNGEST SISTER
REMEMBERED,
160
00:10:01,946 --> 00:10:05,466
"BUT SHE WAS DEVOTED
TO HERSELF."
161
00:10:06,709 --> 00:10:09,129
HIS MOTHER GRACE HALL HEMINGWAY
162
00:10:09,263 --> 00:10:11,333
HAD MARRIED AFTER ABANDONING
HER DREAM
163
00:10:11,472 --> 00:10:14,372
OF BEING AN OPERA SINGER,
BUT SHE GAVE
164
00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:17,195
VOICE AND VIOLIN
AND PIANO LESSONS,
165
00:10:17,375 --> 00:10:18,645
DIRECTED A CHOIR,
166
00:10:18,790 --> 00:10:22,410
AND EARNED MORE
THAN HER HUSBAND.
167
00:10:22,518 --> 00:10:25,658
GRACE EXPOSED ALL
OF HER CHILDREN TO THE ARTS,
168
00:10:25,797 --> 00:10:28,967
BUT SHE NEVER LET THEM FORGET
THAT SHE HAD SACRIFICED
169
00:10:29,111 --> 00:10:32,011
A CONCERT CAREER TO RAISE THEM.
170
00:10:32,148 --> 00:10:34,938
IF THEY LOVED HER,
SHE SAID, THEY WOULD DO
171
00:10:35,082 --> 00:10:37,712
WHATEVER SHE TOLD THEM TO DO.
172
00:10:39,086 --> 00:10:41,776
IT AMUSED HER FOR A TIME TO
PRETEND THAT ERNEST
173
00:10:41,917 --> 00:10:45,957
AND HIS OLDER SISTER
MARCELLINE WERE SOMEHOW TWINS,
174
00:10:46,093 --> 00:10:52,823
SOMETIMES TWO BOYS,
SOMETIMES TWO GIRLS.
175
00:10:52,962 --> 00:10:56,482
WOMAN: SHE DID THIS THING
OF TWINNING HIM WITH HIS SISTER.
176
00:10:56,621 --> 00:10:58,281
SHE DRESSED THEM ALIKE.
177
00:10:58,381 --> 00:11:01,421
SHE DRESSED THEM
IN DRESSES OFTEN,
178
00:11:01,591 --> 00:11:04,281
BUT THEN SHE'D PUT THEM
IN OVERALLS.
179
00:11:04,387 --> 00:11:06,457
SHE DIDN'T ONLY DRESS HIM UP
AS A GIRL.
180
00:11:06,631 --> 00:11:08,771
SOMETIMES, SHE'D DRESS
THE GIRLS UP AS BOYS,
181
00:11:08,944 --> 00:11:12,674
AND THERE'S THIS--THERE IS
THIS ANDROGYNY GOING ON.
182
00:11:12,810 --> 00:11:15,330
WOMAN, AS MARCELLINE: WE WORE
OUR HAIR EXACTLY THE SAME
183
00:11:15,467 --> 00:11:18,227
IN A SQUARE-CUT DUTCH BOB.
184
00:11:18,367 --> 00:11:21,507
WE PLAYED WITH SMALL
CHINA TEA SETS.
185
00:11:21,646 --> 00:11:24,606
WE HAD DOLLS ALIKE,
AND WHEN ERNEST WAS GIVEN
186
00:11:24,787 --> 00:11:29,137
A LITTLE AIR RIFLE,
I HAD ONE, TOO.
187
00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,450
NARRATOR: ONE OF HIS TEACHERS
THOUGHT GRACE TOO CLOSE
188
00:11:31,552 --> 00:11:33,872
TO HER SON, TOO CONTROLLING.
189
00:11:34,003 --> 00:11:37,253
SHE REMEMBERED WONDERING IF,
"GIVEN THE LUSH MOTHERHOOD
190
00:11:37,386 --> 00:11:41,526
HE KNEW, HE WOULD FIND WIFE."
191
00:11:44,255 --> 00:11:47,565
[BIRDS CHIRPING,
DUCKS QUACKING]
192
00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:49,537
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HIS FATHER
CAME BACK TO HIM
193
00:11:49,674 --> 00:11:51,714
IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR,
194
00:11:51,849 --> 00:11:54,889
OR IN THE EARLY SPRING
WHEN THERE HAD BEEN JACKSNIPE
195
00:11:55,024 --> 00:11:57,374
ON THE PRAIRIE,
196
00:11:57,509 --> 00:11:59,509
OR WHEN HE SAW SHOCKS OF CORN,
197
00:11:59,649 --> 00:12:02,829
OR WHEN HE SAW A LAKE,
198
00:12:02,998 --> 00:12:05,928
OR IF HE EVER SAW
A HORSE AND BUGGY,
199
00:12:06,070 --> 00:12:09,250
OR WHEN HE SAW, OR HEARD,
WILD GEESE,
200
00:12:09,383 --> 00:12:11,423
OR IN A DUCK BLIND.
201
00:12:11,558 --> 00:12:15,768
HIS FATHER WAS
WITH HIM, SUDDENLY,
202
00:12:15,907 --> 00:12:19,217
IN DESERTED ORCHARDS
AND IN NEW-PLOWED FIELDS,
203
00:12:19,359 --> 00:12:22,499
IN THICKETS, ON SMALL HILLS,
204
00:12:22,603 --> 00:12:25,303
OR WHEN GOING
THROUGH DEAD GRASS,
205
00:12:25,434 --> 00:12:28,304
WHENEVER SPLITTING WOOD
OR HAULING WATER,
206
00:12:28,437 --> 00:12:31,717
BY GRIST MILLS,
CIDER MILLS, AND DAMS
207
00:12:31,854 --> 00:12:36,624
AND ALWAYS WITH OPEN FIRES.
208
00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:38,786
NARRATOR: ERNEST WORSHIPPED
HIS FATHER,
209
00:12:38,930 --> 00:12:43,970
WHO SPENT HOURS TEACHING HIM
HOW TO HUNT AND FISH AND CANOE,
210
00:12:44,108 --> 00:12:46,628
INCULCATING
A LIFE-LONG FASCINATION
211
00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:50,216
WITH THE OUTDOORS
AND WITH LEARNING PRECISELY
212
00:12:50,390 --> 00:12:53,630
HOW THINGS SHOULD BE DONE.
213
00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:57,503
MAN: HE INSTILLED IN THIS BOY
BEFORE THE BOY
214
00:12:57,638 --> 00:13:02,128
ALMOST COULD WALK
THIS PRIMAL FEELING
215
00:13:02,264 --> 00:13:03,964
FOR THE BEAUTY OF NATURE,
216
00:13:04,093 --> 00:13:08,063
JUST THE ORGANIC LOVE
FOR THE WOODS, FOR WATER.
217
00:13:08,235 --> 00:13:11,885
NARRATOR: BUT ED HEMINGWAY
WAS ALSO SEVERE, PIOUS,
218
00:13:12,067 --> 00:13:15,617
OPPOSED TO DRINKING,
CARD-PLAYING, AND DANCING
219
00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,690
AND, AS ERNEST GREW OLDER,
220
00:13:17,831 --> 00:13:21,901
INCREASINGLY ANXIOUS,
MOODY, AND UNPREDICTABLE.
221
00:13:22,008 --> 00:13:24,288
ONE MINUTE HE WAS LAUGHING
WITH HIS CHILDREN,
222
00:13:24,424 --> 00:13:29,714
THE NEXT HE WAS PUNISHING THEM
WITH A LEATHER STRAP.
223
00:13:29,843 --> 00:13:33,433
TWICE, HEMINGWAY'S FATHER WAS
SO CRIPPLED BY DEPRESSION
224
00:13:33,536 --> 00:13:36,296
THAT HE HAD TO LEAVE TOWN
FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
225
00:13:36,436 --> 00:13:38,776
IN ORDER TO REST
WHAT HIS WIFE CALLED
226
00:13:38,921 --> 00:13:43,101
"THE WORRYING PLACE
IN YOUR BRAIN."
227
00:13:43,201 --> 00:13:46,381
BY THE TIME ERNEST WAS
A TEENAGER, HE REMEMBERED,
228
00:13:46,515 --> 00:13:50,685
HIS ADMIRATION FOR HIS FATHER
HAD BEGUN TO TURN TO PITY.
229
00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:53,730
HE CAME TO SEE HIM
AS WEAK AND SUBMISSIVE
230
00:13:53,867 --> 00:13:57,767
AND BLAMED HIS MOTHER FOR
HIS FATHER'S UNHAPPINESS.
231
00:13:59,321 --> 00:14:02,671
ERNEST DREAMED OF ONE DAY
BECOMING A NATURALIST
232
00:14:02,807 --> 00:14:07,947
OR AN EXPLORER LIKE HIS HERO
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
233
00:14:08,123 --> 00:14:11,303
HE WAS ALSO A GOOD STUDENT
AND A FERVENT READER,
234
00:14:11,402 --> 00:14:16,342
WHO LOVED O. HENRY, JACK LONDON,
AND RUDYARD KIPLING.
235
00:14:16,476 --> 00:14:17,856
AT HIS MOTHER'S URGING,
236
00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:20,475
HE SANG IN HER
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR
237
00:14:20,618 --> 00:14:22,308
AND PLAYED THE CELLO.
238
00:14:22,482 --> 00:14:25,492
HE REMEMBERED THAT HE ESPECIALLY
ENJOYED THE REPETITION
239
00:14:25,657 --> 00:14:28,897
AND COUNTERPOINT,
COUNTERPOINT AND REPETITION
240
00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,390
THAT RAN THROUGH THE WORKS
OF BACH.
241
00:14:32,526 --> 00:14:35,496
WOMAN: SHE ALSO TAUGHT HER KIDS
WHAT EVERY MUSICIAN
242
00:14:35,598 --> 00:14:38,568
TEACHES THEIR KIDS,
TO PRACTICE.
243
00:14:38,705 --> 00:14:42,875
"DON'T COME TO ME AND SAY
THAT YOU LOVE ART
244
00:14:43,020 --> 00:14:46,470
"IF YOU DON'T PRACTICE YOUR ART
BECAUSE PRACTICE IS LOVE.
245
00:14:46,575 --> 00:14:48,365
WORK IS LOVE."
246
00:14:48,508 --> 00:14:49,888
AND THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE,
247
00:14:50,027 --> 00:14:53,097
HE WAS A TREMENDOUSLY
DISCIPLINED WRITER.
248
00:14:53,237 --> 00:14:56,067
NARRATOR: IN HIS JUNIOR YEAR,
HE BEGAN TO WRITE,
249
00:14:56,205 --> 00:14:59,755
CONTRIBUTING SPORTS STORIES
AND TALES OF ADVENTURE
250
00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:03,699
TO THE HIGH SCHOOL PAPER
AND ITS LITERARY MAGAZINE,
251
00:15:03,868 --> 00:15:06,558
BUT HE WAS REMEMBERED MOST
BY HIS CLASSMATES
252
00:15:06,698 --> 00:15:10,188
AS A BIG, HANDSOME,
SLIGHTLY AWKWARD BOY
253
00:15:10,357 --> 00:15:14,217
FOND OF BOXING BUT
TOO NEARSIGHTED AND TOO CLUMSY
254
00:15:14,361 --> 00:15:16,711
TO EXCEL AT TEAM SPORTS,
255
00:15:16,812 --> 00:15:19,882
WHO WAS SHY WITH GIRLS
AND PREFERRED TO HUNT
256
00:15:20,022 --> 00:15:22,062
AND HIKE AND FISH
IN THE WOODS
257
00:15:22,197 --> 00:15:26,237
OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN
WHENEVER HE GOT THE CHANCE.
258
00:15:26,373 --> 00:15:29,863
HIS SHYNESS WITH WOMEN
WOULD EVENTUALLY EVAPORATE,
259
00:15:29,963 --> 00:15:32,593
BUT HE WOULD REMAIN EAGER
ALL HIS LIFE
260
00:15:32,724 --> 00:15:35,144
FOR THE COMPANY OF MEN
WHO SHARED HIS LOVE
261
00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,009
OF GOOD TIMES
AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
262
00:15:42,596 --> 00:15:46,186
[EXPLOSIONS]
263
00:15:46,359 --> 00:16:10,999
♪
264
00:16:11,142 --> 00:16:14,902
NARRATOR: ON APRIL 6, 1917,
THE UNITED STATES
265
00:16:15,077 --> 00:16:17,737
ENTERED THE GREAT WAR THAT
HAD BEEN UNDERWAY
266
00:16:17,838 --> 00:16:21,428
IN EUROPE FOR NEARLY 3 YEARS.
267
00:16:21,532 --> 00:16:25,262
MILLIONS OF YOUNG MEN HAD
ALREADY BEEN SLAUGHTERED.
268
00:16:25,363 --> 00:16:29,513
THE WORLD ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S
PARENTS HAD PREPARED HIM FOR
269
00:16:29,643 --> 00:16:33,513
HAD DISAPPEARED.
270
00:16:33,647 --> 00:16:35,647
SEVERAL OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL
CLASSMATES
271
00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:38,927
HAD ALREADY VOLUNTEERED
TO GO TO WAR.
272
00:16:39,101 --> 00:16:43,731
HE HOPED TO GO, TOO,
BUT HE WAS TOO YOUNG AT 17,
273
00:16:43,864 --> 00:16:45,974
AND HIS PARENTS WOULD NOT
SIGN THE PAPERS
274
00:16:46,108 --> 00:16:48,488
THAT WOULD HAVE WAIVED
THAT REQUIREMENT.
275
00:16:48,628 --> 00:16:51,288
THEY WANTED HIM TO GO
TO COLLEGE.
276
00:16:51,389 --> 00:16:55,289
HE REFUSED.
277
00:16:55,462 --> 00:16:57,982
A COMPROMISE
WAS EVENTUALLY REACHED.
278
00:16:58,155 --> 00:17:02,985
AN UNCLE GOT THE BOY A JOB
AT A NEWSPAPER IN KANSAS CITY.
279
00:17:03,125 --> 00:17:06,155
KANSAS CITY WAS A TOUGH,
WIDE-OPEN TOWN,
280
00:17:06,301 --> 00:17:09,241
AND THE "KANSAS CITY STAR"
WAS ONE OF THE BEST PAPERS
281
00:17:09,373 --> 00:17:10,823
IN THE COUNTRY,
282
00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:15,965
A PIONEER IN CRISP, CLEAR,
IMMEDIATE REPORTING.
283
00:17:16,069 --> 00:17:19,249
ITS STYLE-SHEET SET THE TONE.
284
00:17:19,383 --> 00:17:21,353
MAN: USE SHORT SENTENCES.
285
00:17:21,488 --> 00:17:23,798
USE SHORT FIRST PARAGRAPHS.
286
00:17:23,904 --> 00:17:26,014
USE VIGOROUS ENGLISH.
287
00:17:26,148 --> 00:17:28,738
BE POSITIVE, NOT NEGATIVE.
288
00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:31,875
AVOID THE USE OF ADJECTIVES.
289
00:17:32,016 --> 00:17:34,666
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY COVERED
SHOOTINGS, STABBINGS,
290
00:17:34,846 --> 00:17:37,676
LABOR TROUBLES,
A SMALLPOX SCARE.
291
00:17:37,815 --> 00:17:40,335
HE WAS FASCINATED BY ALL OF IT,
292
00:17:40,438 --> 00:17:43,988
AND ECHOES OF WHAT HE HAD HEARD
AND SEEN IN KANSAS CITY
293
00:17:44,166 --> 00:17:48,376
WOULD APPEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN
IN HIS LATER WRITING.
294
00:17:48,515 --> 00:17:50,405
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR DAD,
WE ARE HAVING
295
00:17:50,552 --> 00:17:51,832
A LAUNDRY STRIKE HERE,
296
00:17:51,932 --> 00:17:53,832
AND I AM HANDLING
THE POLICE END.
297
00:17:53,934 --> 00:17:55,634
THE VIOLENCE STORIES.
298
00:17:55,764 --> 00:17:58,084
WRECKING TRUCKS,
RUNNING THEM OVER CLIFFS,
299
00:17:58,215 --> 00:18:01,525
AND YESTERDAY, THEY MURDERED
A NON-UNION GUARD.
300
00:18:01,701 --> 00:18:03,291
FOR OVER A MONTH
I HAVE AVERAGED
301
00:18:03,427 --> 00:18:06,327
OVER A COLUMN A DAY.
302
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:10,047
NARRATOR: AFTER HEMINGWAY
TURNED 18,
303
00:18:10,158 --> 00:18:14,368
HE NO LONGER NEEDED HIS PARENTS'
PERMISSION TO JOIN THE ARMY,
304
00:18:14,541 --> 00:18:16,651
BUT HE WAS CONVINCED
HE WOULD BE REJECTED
305
00:18:16,785 --> 00:18:18,925
BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED
AND JOINED
306
00:18:19,063 --> 00:18:22,553
THE RED CROSS
AMBULANCE SERVICE INSTEAD.
307
00:18:22,722 --> 00:18:29,492
NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HIM
FOR WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SEE.
308
00:18:29,625 --> 00:18:31,385
HEMINGWAY WAS SENT TO ITALY,
309
00:18:31,558 --> 00:18:33,768
WHERE HE WAS IMMEDIATELY
DISPATCHED TO THE SCENE
310
00:18:33,905 --> 00:18:36,245
OF A HORRIFIC DISASTER.
311
00:18:36,391 --> 00:18:39,221
A MUNITIONS FACTORY
HAD EXPLODED.
312
00:18:39,325 --> 00:18:43,465
35 WORKERS
WERE BLOWN TO PIECES.
313
00:18:43,605 --> 00:18:46,875
HE HELPED GATHER UP THE DEAD,
INCLUDING THE CORPSE
314
00:18:47,056 --> 00:18:50,056
OF A HEADLESS, LEGLESS WOMAN.
315
00:18:50,163 --> 00:18:52,303
"HEMMIE AND I NEARLY
PASSED OUT COLD,"
316
00:18:52,441 --> 00:18:55,411
A FRIEND REMEMBERED,
"BUT GRITTED OUR TEETH
317
00:18:55,582 --> 00:18:59,792
AND LAID THE THING
ON THE STRETCHER."
318
00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:03,971
HEMINGWAY'S RED CROSS UNIT WAS
ASSIGNED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY,
319
00:19:04,108 --> 00:19:05,798
FIGHTING THE AUSTRIANS
IN THE FOOTHILLS
320
00:19:05,937 --> 00:19:09,007
OF THE ITALIAN ALPS.
321
00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:12,078
HE DROVE AN AMBULANCE
FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS,
322
00:19:12,185 --> 00:19:14,525
BRINGING WOUNDED ITALIAN
SOLDIERS DOWN
323
00:19:14,670 --> 00:19:17,260
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
324
00:19:17,363 --> 00:19:19,093
"THERE'S NOTHING HERE
BUT SCENERY
325
00:19:19,261 --> 00:19:22,061
AND TOO DAMN MUCH OF THAT,"
HE TOLD A FRIEND.
326
00:19:22,195 --> 00:19:24,295
"I'M GOING TO GET OUT
OF THIS AMBULANCE SECTION
327
00:19:24,439 --> 00:19:29,959
AND SEE IF I CAN'T FIND OUT
WHERE THE WAR IS."
328
00:19:30,134 --> 00:19:33,454
ERNEST VOLUNTEERED TO BICYCLE UP
TO THE FRONTLINE TRENCHES
329
00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:36,660
NEAR THE TOWN OF FOSSALTA
AND DISTRIBUTE
330
00:19:36,796 --> 00:19:39,346
CANDY AND CIGARETTES
TO THE MEN.
331
00:19:39,488 --> 00:19:44,008
LESS THAN A WEEK LATER,
ON JULY 8, 1918,
332
00:19:44,148 --> 00:19:46,188
HE WAS PASSING OUT
CHOCOLATE BARS
333
00:19:46,323 --> 00:19:48,983
IN A FORWARD LISTENING POST
ON THE WEST BANK
334
00:19:49,118 --> 00:19:50,668
OF THE PIAVE RIVER
335
00:19:50,810 --> 00:19:57,470
WHEN AN ENEMY MORTAR SHELL
EXPLODED JUST 3 FEET AWAY.
336
00:19:57,644 --> 00:19:59,724
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED.
337
00:19:59,853 --> 00:20:03,413
ANOTHER HAD HIS LEGS BLOWN OFF.
338
00:20:03,547 --> 00:20:08,477
MORE THAN 220 SHARDS OF SHRAPNEL
RIPPED INTO HEMINGWAY'S LEGS
339
00:20:08,655 --> 00:20:12,035
AND LACERATED HIS SCALP,
AND THE BLAST CAUSED
340
00:20:12,176 --> 00:20:14,866
THE FIRST OF MANY SERIOUS
CONCUSSIONS
341
00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:19,316
HE WOULD ENDURE
DURING HIS LIFETIME.
342
00:20:19,425 --> 00:20:21,565
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I DIED THEN.
343
00:20:21,703 --> 00:20:26,503
I FELT MY SOUL OR SOMETHING
COMING RIGHT OUT OF MY BODY,
344
00:20:26,673 --> 00:20:28,613
LIKE YOU'D PULL
A SILK HANDKERCHIEF
345
00:20:28,744 --> 00:20:32,404
OUT OF A POCKET BY ONE CORNER.
346
00:20:32,541 --> 00:20:34,611
IT FLEW AROUND
AND THEN CAME BACK
347
00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:40,760
AND WENT IN AGAIN,
AND I WASN'T DEAD ANYMORE.
348
00:20:40,894 --> 00:20:43,454
NARRATOR: AS STRETCHER-BEARERS
STRUGGLED TO GET HEMINGWAY
349
00:20:43,587 --> 00:20:44,997
TO AN AID STATION,
350
00:20:45,105 --> 00:20:47,865
AN ENEMY MACHINE GUNNER
OPENED UP.
351
00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:51,219
BULLETS LODGED
IN HIS RIGHT KNEE AND FOOT.
352
00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:54,109
HE REFUSED TO BE TREATED
FOR A TIME BECAUSE HE SAID
353
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:58,773
THERE WERE OTHER MEN
MORE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED THAN HE.
354
00:20:58,912 --> 00:21:01,712
HE THEN ENDURED THE REMOVAL
OF THE LARGEST PIECES
355
00:21:01,812 --> 00:21:04,472
OF SHRAPNEL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC.
356
00:21:04,608 --> 00:21:07,128
BECAUSE HIS WOUNDS
SEEMED SO SEVERE,
357
00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:11,546
A CATHOLIC PRIEST ADMINISTERED
EXTREME UNCTION.
358
00:21:11,718 --> 00:21:14,928
ITALY WOULD EVENTUALLY
AWARD HIM ITS SILVER MEDAL
359
00:21:15,066 --> 00:21:17,066
FOR WHAT THE CITATION CALLED
360
00:21:17,172 --> 00:21:21,252
HIS "ADMIRABLE SPIRIT
OF FRATERNITY."
361
00:21:21,349 --> 00:21:24,389
HEMINGWAY FINALLY REACHED
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL
362
00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:28,560
IN MILAN AND UNDERWENT
A FURTHER SERIES OF SURGERIES
363
00:21:28,735 --> 00:21:34,145
TO REMOVE THE REMAINING SHRAPNEL
AND THE MACHINE GUN BULLETS.
364
00:21:35,777 --> 00:21:39,227
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR FOLKS,
THIS IS A PEACH OF A HOSPITAL.
365
00:21:39,332 --> 00:21:41,652
THERE ARE ABOUT 18
AMERICAN NURSES
366
00:21:41,783 --> 00:21:44,233
TO TAKE CARE OF 4 PATIENTS.
367
00:21:44,406 --> 00:21:46,856
I'M ENCLOSING A PICTURE
OF ME IN BED.
368
00:21:46,995 --> 00:21:49,065
IT LOOKS LIKE MY LEFT LEG
WAS A STUMP,
369
00:21:49,238 --> 00:21:50,688
BUT IT REALLY ISN'T,
370
00:21:50,826 --> 00:21:54,106
JUST BENT SO IT LOOKS THAT WAY.
371
00:21:54,243 --> 00:21:56,323
THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU
TO WORRY ABOUT
372
00:21:56,453 --> 00:21:59,083
BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN FAIRLY
CONCLUSIVELY PROVED
373
00:21:59,179 --> 00:22:01,799
THAT I CAN'T BE BUMPED OFF,
374
00:22:01,941 --> 00:22:03,671
AND WOUNDS DON'T MATTER.
375
00:22:03,805 --> 00:22:06,145
I WOULDN'T MIND BEING WOUNDED
AGAIN SO MUCH
376
00:22:06,290 --> 00:22:09,600
BECAUSE I KNOW
JUST WHAT IT IS LIKE,
377
00:22:09,707 --> 00:22:12,677
AND YOU CAN ONLY SUFFER
SO MUCH, YOU KNOW,
378
00:22:12,814 --> 00:22:15,754
AND IT DOES GIVE YOU AN AWFULLY
SATISFACTORY FEELING
379
00:22:15,851 --> 00:22:17,161
TO BE WOUNDED.
380
00:22:17,301 --> 00:22:22,031
IT'S GETTING BEATEN UP
IN A GOOD CAUSE.
381
00:22:22,168 --> 00:22:25,788
THERE ARE NO HEROES IN THIS WAR.
382
00:22:25,930 --> 00:22:27,970
ALL THE HEROES ARE DEAD,
383
00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:31,800
AND THE REAL HEROES
ARE THE PARENTS.
384
00:22:31,971 --> 00:22:34,491
DYING IS A VERY SIMPLE THING.
385
00:22:34,629 --> 00:22:38,289
I'VE LOOKED AT DEATH,
AND REALLY I KNOW.
386
00:22:38,391 --> 00:22:40,011
IF I SHOULD HAVE DIED,
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
387
00:22:40,151 --> 00:22:42,641
VERY EASY FOR ME,
388
00:22:42,809 --> 00:22:45,569
AND HOW MUCH BETTER TO DIE
IN ALL THE HAPPY PERIOD
389
00:22:45,709 --> 00:22:48,299
OF UNDISILLUSIONED YOUTH,
390
00:22:48,401 --> 00:22:50,891
TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF LIGHT,
391
00:22:51,024 --> 00:22:53,654
THAN TO HAVE YOUR BODY
WORN OUT AND OLD
392
00:22:53,820 --> 00:22:57,170
AND ILLUSIONS SHATTERED.
393
00:22:57,341 --> 00:23:01,761
SO, DEAR OLD FAMILY,
DON'T EVER WORRY ABOUT ME!
394
00:23:01,897 --> 00:23:04,137
IT ISN'T BAD TO BE WOUNDED:
395
00:23:04,313 --> 00:23:07,663
I KNOW BECAUSE
I'VE EXPERIENCED IT,
396
00:23:07,765 --> 00:23:11,665
AND IF I DIE, I'M LUCKY.
397
00:23:14,807 --> 00:23:16,947
WOMAN: AUGUST 26.
398
00:23:17,085 --> 00:23:20,045
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
IS GETTING EARNEST.
399
00:23:20,191 --> 00:23:22,091
HE WAS TALKING LAST NIGHT
OF WHAT MIGHT BE
400
00:23:22,228 --> 00:23:24,578
IF HE WAS 26 OR 28.
401
00:23:24,713 --> 00:23:29,273
IN SOME WAYS--AT SOME TIMES--
I WISH VERY MUCH THAT HE WAS.
402
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,718
HE IS ADORABLE,
AND WE ARE VERY CONGENIAL
403
00:23:31,858 --> 00:23:34,898
IN EVERY WAY.
404
00:23:35,034 --> 00:23:37,864
NARRATOR: AS HE WAS RECOVERING,
HEMINGWAY FELL IN LOVE
405
00:23:37,968 --> 00:23:39,418
WITH HIS NIGHT NURSE,
406
00:23:39,556 --> 00:23:42,896
AN AMERICAN NAMED
AGNES VON KUROWSKY.
407
00:23:43,042 --> 00:23:46,052
SHE WAS AUBURN-HAIRED AND 26,
408
00:23:46,148 --> 00:23:48,808
7 1/2 YEARS OLDER
THAN HER PATIENT,
409
00:23:48,944 --> 00:23:53,404
ENGAGED TO A DOCTOR BACK HOME,
AND FLIRTATIOUS.
410
00:23:53,535 --> 00:23:55,635
HE BEGAN CALLING HER "AG."
411
00:23:55,779 --> 00:23:58,819
SHE CALLED HIM "KID,"
AND OVER THE WEEKS
412
00:23:58,954 --> 00:24:01,994
THAT FOLLOWED, SHE GAVE HIM
A RING TO WEAR,
413
00:24:02,130 --> 00:24:04,200
ENJOYED WITH HIM THE WINE
AND COGNAC
414
00:24:04,304 --> 00:24:07,074
HE BRIBED THE PORTER
TO SMUGGLE IN,
415
00:24:07,169 --> 00:24:09,379
TOOK WALKS
AND CARRIAGE RIDES WITH HIM
416
00:24:09,482 --> 00:24:12,242
AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE
TO LEAVE HIS ROOM,
417
00:24:12,416 --> 00:24:15,446
AND SHE WAS ONCE REPRIMANDED
BY HER SUPERIOR
418
00:24:15,592 --> 00:24:20,322
FOR HAVING LEFT A GOLD HAIR-PIN
BENEATH HIS PILLOW.
419
00:24:20,459 --> 00:24:22,739
WHEN AGNES WAS TRANSFERRED
TO AN ARMY HOSPITAL
420
00:24:22,909 --> 00:24:26,289
IN FLORENCE, ERNEST WROTE HER
SO MANY LETTERS,
421
00:24:26,430 --> 00:24:29,740
SHE URGED HIM TO SLOW DOWN,
422
00:24:29,916 --> 00:24:33,196
BUT SHE ALSO TOLD HIM
SHE WAS LOST WITHOUT HIM,
423
00:24:33,333 --> 00:24:35,753
WISHED SHE COULD PUT
HER ARMS AROUND HIM,
424
00:24:35,853 --> 00:24:37,823
DREAMED OF HIM EVERY NIGHT.
425
00:24:37,959 --> 00:24:41,579
"I SOMETIMES WISH WE COULD
MARRY OVER HERE," SHE WROTE,
426
00:24:41,756 --> 00:24:45,476
AND SHE SIGNED SOME
OF HER LETTERS "MRS. KID,"
427
00:24:45,622 --> 00:24:52,212
BUT SHE SIGNED OTHERS SIMPLY,
"YOURS TILL THE WAR IS OVER."
428
00:24:52,352 --> 00:24:54,422
TO FILL THE HOURS
WHILE SHE WAS AWAY,
429
00:24:54,527 --> 00:24:56,767
ERNEST BEGAN TO WRITE
A SHORT STORY
430
00:24:56,943 --> 00:24:59,813
ABOUT A HIDEOUSLY WOUNDED
AMERICAN SOLDIER,
431
00:24:59,946 --> 00:25:04,016
WHO MUSES OVER THE MEDALS
HE'D BEEN GIVEN FOR HIS HEROISM
432
00:25:04,157 --> 00:25:07,607
AND THE MEANINGLESS CITATION
THAT ACCOMPANIED THEM
433
00:25:07,713 --> 00:25:12,793
AND THEN DECIDES
TO KILL HIMSELF.
434
00:25:12,890 --> 00:25:15,620
BY THE TIME HEMINGWAY WAS
FINALLY WELL ENOUGH TO SAIL
435
00:25:15,790 --> 00:25:19,620
FOR HOME IN EARLY 1919,
THE WAR HAD ENDED,
436
00:25:19,725 --> 00:25:23,375
AND HE WAS DETERMINED, HE SAID,
TO "MAKE THE WORLD SAFE
437
00:25:23,522 --> 00:25:25,632
FOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY."
438
00:25:25,731 --> 00:25:28,461
AS SOON AS HIS WRITING PROVIDED
HIM WITH A LIVING,
439
00:25:28,561 --> 00:25:31,251
HE AND AGNES WOULD MARRY.
440
00:25:31,391 --> 00:25:35,501
NARRATOR: AS HEMINGWAY LIMPED
DOWN THE GANGPLANK IN NEW YORK,
441
00:25:35,637 --> 00:25:37,737
A REPORTER FROM
THE "NEW YORK SUN"
442
00:25:37,881 --> 00:25:39,401
WAS THERE TO MEET HIM.
443
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,088
HE MADE THE FIRST
OF THE HUNDREDS
444
00:25:41,229 --> 00:25:45,469
OF NATIONAL HEADLINES HE WOULD
MAKE DURING HIS LIFETIME.
445
00:25:47,856 --> 00:25:51,516
HE RETURNED TO OAK PARK
TO A HERO'S WELCOME.
446
00:25:51,653 --> 00:25:54,553
HE LOVED THE ADULATION,
WAS DELIGHTED
447
00:25:54,691 --> 00:25:57,561
WHEN AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN
DELEGATION CAME OUT
448
00:25:57,694 --> 00:26:00,524
FROM CHICAGO
TO HIS MOTHER'S MUSIC ROOM
449
00:26:00,628 --> 00:26:05,488
TO HONOR HIM FOR HIS COURAGE
UNTIL HIS TEETOTALING PARENTS--
450
00:26:05,667 --> 00:26:08,327
APPALLED
BY THE FREE-FLOWING WINE--
451
00:26:08,497 --> 00:26:11,327
PUT A STOP TO SUCH VISITS.
452
00:26:11,431 --> 00:26:13,191
WHENEVER HE LEFT
HIS PARENTS' HOUSE,
453
00:26:13,330 --> 00:26:14,850
HE WORE HIS UNIFORM,
454
00:26:14,952 --> 00:26:18,202
COMPLETE WITH
A BLACK VELVET ITALIAN CAPE,
455
00:26:18,369 --> 00:26:20,129
AND HE APPEARED
BEFORE LOCAL GROUPS,
456
00:26:20,268 --> 00:26:25,198
RETELLING AND EMBELLISHING
HIS WAR STORIES FOR A FEE,
457
00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:27,026
THOUGH HE SAID HE HAD
NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT
458
00:26:27,206 --> 00:26:32,176
FOR THOSE WHO WANTED TO BE
"VICARIOUSLY HORRIFIED."
459
00:26:34,972 --> 00:26:37,732
BUT NOW HE CLAIMED,
DESPITE HIS WOUNDS,
460
00:26:37,872 --> 00:26:40,912
HE'D MANAGED TO CARRY
AN INJURED MAN TO SAFETY
461
00:26:41,047 --> 00:26:44,217
BEFORE COLLAPSING,
AND HE LET HIS AUDIENCES BELIEVE
462
00:26:44,326 --> 00:26:47,396
THAT, ALTHOUGH HE STILL
COULD NOT WALK WITHOUT A CANE,
463
00:26:47,571 --> 00:26:50,331
HE'D SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE
TO RETURN TO THE FRONT
464
00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:54,370
AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE AN ELITE
UNIT OF THE ITALIAN ARMY
465
00:26:54,474 --> 00:26:57,444
BEFORE THE SHOOTING STOPPED.
466
00:27:00,135 --> 00:27:02,025
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO BE
LISTENED TO AT ALL HE
467
00:27:02,206 --> 00:27:03,656
HAD TO LIE,
468
00:27:03,794 --> 00:27:05,554
AND AFTER HE HAD
DONE THIS TWICE,
469
00:27:05,727 --> 00:27:08,387
HE, TOO, HAD A REACTION
AGAINST THE WAR
470
00:27:08,557 --> 00:27:10,487
AND AGAINST TALKING ABOUT IT.
471
00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,249
A DISTASTE FOR EVERYTHING THAT
HAD HAPPENED TO HIM
472
00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:15,740
IN THE WAR SET IN
473
00:27:15,841 --> 00:27:19,911
BECAUSE OF THE LIES
HE HAD TOLD.
474
00:27:20,017 --> 00:27:22,947
NARRATOR: WHEN ERNEST WAS NOT
MAKING PUBLIC APPEARANCES,
475
00:27:23,089 --> 00:27:26,089
HE WAS IN HIS THIRD-FLOOR
BEDROOM UNDER THE EAVES,
476
00:27:26,265 --> 00:27:29,855
HUNCHED OVER AN OLD TYPEWRITER,
WRITING WAR STORIES
477
00:27:29,993 --> 00:27:32,693
AND SENDING THEM OFF TO
THE "SATURDAY EVENING POST"
478
00:27:32,823 --> 00:27:36,833
AND "REDBOOK," TRYING TO
SHOW AGNES AND HIS PARENTS
479
00:27:36,965 --> 00:27:39,995
THAT HE COULD
MAKE IT AS A WRITER.
480
00:27:40,141 --> 00:27:43,421
ALL THE STORIES WERE REJECTED.
481
00:27:43,592 --> 00:27:45,152
DESPITE THE BRAVADO
WITH WHICH
482
00:27:45,284 --> 00:27:48,534
HE FACED HIS NEIGHBORS,
HE HAD BEEN DEEPLY AFFECTED
483
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:51,457
BY THE WAR AND BY HIS WOUNDING.
484
00:27:51,635 --> 00:27:54,875
AN OLD FRIEND WHO VISITED HIM
THAT WINTER REMEMBERED
485
00:27:55,018 --> 00:27:58,678
THAT "HE CAME BACK FIGURATIVELY
AS WELL AS LITERALLY
486
00:27:58,815 --> 00:28:00,365
SHOT TO PIECES."
487
00:28:00,506 --> 00:28:02,366
HE COULD NOT SLEEP
WITHOUT A LIGHT
488
00:28:02,508 --> 00:28:04,538
BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED
AT NIGHT
489
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,823
AND HAD COME TO BELIEVE,
HE WOULD WRITE,
490
00:28:06,961 --> 00:28:11,281
"THAT IF I EVER SHUT MY EYES
IN THE DARK AND LET MYSELF GO,
491
00:28:11,448 --> 00:28:15,618
MY SOUL WOULD GO
OUT OF MY BODY."
492
00:28:15,728 --> 00:28:18,318
HIS SISTER URSULA SOMETIMES
SLEPT IN HIS ROOM
493
00:28:18,455 --> 00:28:20,215
TO SOOTHE HIS FEARS.
494
00:28:20,353 --> 00:28:24,983
ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD BE
FRIGHTENED OF SLEEPING ALONE.
495
00:28:25,151 --> 00:28:28,641
HIS GREAT CONSOLATION WAS
THAT AGNES WOULD SOON
496
00:28:28,741 --> 00:28:33,161
BE COMING HOME TO MARRY HIM.
497
00:28:33,332 --> 00:28:37,162
WOMAN, AS AGNES: MARCH 7, 1919.
498
00:28:37,336 --> 00:28:39,986
ERNIE, DEAR BOY,
I AM WRITING THIS
499
00:28:40,097 --> 00:28:43,377
LATE AT NIGHT AFTER
A LONG THINK BY MYSELF,
500
00:28:43,514 --> 00:28:45,764
AND I AM AFRAID IT IS
GOING TO HURT YOU,
501
00:28:45,896 --> 00:28:49,306
BUT I'M SURE IT WON'T
HARM YOU PERMANENTLY.
502
00:28:49,486 --> 00:28:51,106
FOR QUITE A WHILE
BEFORE YOU LEFT,
503
00:28:51,246 --> 00:28:56,556
I WAS TRYING TO CONVINCE MYSELF
IT WAS A REAL LOVE-AFFAIR,
504
00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:00,600
BUT NOW, AFTER A COUPLE
OF MONTHS AWAY FROM YOU,
505
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:03,189
I KNOW THAT I AM STILL
VERY FOND OF YOU,
506
00:29:03,293 --> 00:29:06,953
BUT IT IS MORE AS A MOTHER
THAN AS A SWEETHEART,
507
00:29:07,090 --> 00:29:08,680
AND I CAN'T GET AWAY
FROM THE FACT
508
00:29:08,850 --> 00:29:12,340
THAT YOU'RE JUST A BOY, A KID.
509
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,790
I EXPECT TO BE MARRIED SOON.
510
00:29:16,927 --> 00:29:19,207
AND I HOPE AND PRAY THAT
AFTER YOU HAVE THOUGHT
511
00:29:19,309 --> 00:29:21,859
THINGS OUT, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO
FORGIVE ME AND START
512
00:29:22,036 --> 00:29:26,486
A WONDERFUL CAREER AND SHOW
WHAT A MAN YOU REALLY ARE.
513
00:29:26,626 --> 00:29:32,866
EVER ADMIRINGLY AND FONDLY,
YOUR FRIEND, AGGIE.
514
00:29:32,978 --> 00:29:35,638
NARRATOR: ERNEST IMMEDIATELY
WROTE TO BILL HORNE,
515
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:38,854
A FRIEND FROM
THE AMBULANCE SERVICE.
516
00:29:42,056 --> 00:29:45,056
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IT HAS HIT ME SO SUDDEN.
517
00:29:45,231 --> 00:29:47,201
SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME, BILL.
518
00:29:47,371 --> 00:29:49,061
SHE TAKES IT ALL BACK.
519
00:29:49,235 --> 00:29:54,375
A "MISTAKE," ONE OF THOSE
LITTLE MISTAKES, YOU KNOW.
520
00:29:54,551 --> 00:29:56,241
OH, BILL,
I CAN'T KID ABOUT IT
521
00:29:56,415 --> 00:29:58,445
BECAUSE I'M JUST
SMASHED BY IT,
522
00:29:58,589 --> 00:29:59,899
BUT SHE DOESN'T
LOVE ME NOW, BILL,
523
00:30:00,074 --> 00:30:03,424
AND SHE IS GOING TO
MARRY SOMEONE ELSE,
524
00:30:03,594 --> 00:30:05,804
AND SHE HOPES THAT
AFTER I HAVE FORGIVEN HER
525
00:30:05,942 --> 00:30:09,772
I WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL CAREER
AND EVERYTHING,
526
00:30:09,911 --> 00:30:13,781
BUT, BILL, I DON'T WANT
A WONDERFUL CAREER.
527
00:30:13,915 --> 00:30:17,185
ALL I WANTED WAS AG
AND HAPPINESS,
528
00:30:17,332 --> 00:30:22,032
AND NOW THE BOTTOM HAS DROPPED
OUT OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
529
00:30:22,165 --> 00:30:25,265
NARRATOR: HE DEVELOPED A FEVER,
REFUSED TO SEE ANYONE,
530
00:30:25,444 --> 00:30:28,274
BEGAN DRINKING SECRETLY
FROM BOTTLES OF LIQUEUR
531
00:30:28,378 --> 00:30:32,658
HE HID IN HIS BOOKCASE,
STOPPED WRITING FOR A TIME.
532
00:30:32,796 --> 00:30:36,796
THERE SEEMED TO BE NO POINT.
533
00:30:36,904 --> 00:30:40,364
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH
HE TRUSTED WOMEN AFTER THAT.
534
00:30:40,493 --> 00:30:42,363
I JUST DON'T,
535
00:30:42,495 --> 00:30:45,665
BUT I DO KNOW HE LOVED
BEING IN LOVE.
536
00:30:48,777 --> 00:30:51,017
NARRATOR: HE'D BEEN
A BIG-CITY NEWSPAPERMAN,
537
00:30:51,159 --> 00:30:54,649
HAD EXPERIENCED WAR
AND NEARLY BEEN KILLED,
538
00:30:54,783 --> 00:30:56,863
HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE
539
00:30:56,993 --> 00:31:00,483
AND SOMEHOW NOW FOUND
HIMSELF BACK HOME,
540
00:31:00,582 --> 00:31:03,312
STILL BEING TREATED
AS IF HE WERE A BOY,
541
00:31:03,413 --> 00:31:06,973
AS IF NONE OF IT HAD HAPPENED.
542
00:31:07,072 --> 00:31:09,182
KATAKIS:
THINGS WERE OUT THERE.
543
00:31:09,315 --> 00:31:13,835
HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN HUNGRY
FROM AN EARLY AGE,
544
00:31:13,975 --> 00:31:17,495
AND HE COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN
IN MY OPINION,
545
00:31:17,668 --> 00:31:20,018
ESPECIALLY AFTER
THE FIRST WORLD WAR,
546
00:31:20,154 --> 00:31:27,404
CONTAINED BY OAK PARK'S
QUIET SUNDAYS AND PERFECT LAWNS.
547
00:31:27,540 --> 00:31:29,750
I THINK THAT WAS
IMPOSSIBLE THEN.
548
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:34,408
SO THAT, OF COURSE, LED
TO A CONFLICT WITH HIS FAMILY,
549
00:31:34,547 --> 00:31:37,337
WHO FELT AFTER WAR
YOU SHOULD BE
550
00:31:37,447 --> 00:31:40,547
WHAT THEY PERCEIVED YOU
TO BE BEFORE YOU LEFT,
551
00:31:40,691 --> 00:31:42,521
BUT YOU'RE
NO LONGER THE SAME PERSON.
552
00:31:42,624 --> 00:31:46,014
HE WAS NO LONGER
THE SAME PERSON.
553
00:31:46,111 --> 00:31:49,561
NARRATOR: THE PAIN OF LOSING
AGNES EVENTUALLY EASED.
554
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,810
THAT SUMMER,
ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND,
555
00:31:51,944 --> 00:31:55,884
HE UNDERWENT WHAT HE CALLED
A "PROCESS OF CAUTERIZATION
556
00:31:55,983 --> 00:31:59,713
"IN WHICH COGNAC AND 2 OR 3
GIRLS I CARED NOTHING ABOUT
557
00:31:59,814 --> 00:32:04,684
BUT VIOLENTLY RUSHED
TOOK THE PLACE OF THE RED IRON."
558
00:32:07,718 --> 00:32:11,688
HEMINGWAY EVENTUALLY RETURNED
TO HIS TYPEWRITER THAT FALL,
559
00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:14,550
FIRST WRITING MORE STORIES
IN A RENTED ROOM
560
00:32:14,725 --> 00:32:18,035
IN PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN,
THEN IN TORONTO,
561
00:32:18,212 --> 00:32:21,282
WRITING FREELANCE PIECES
FOR THE "DAILY STAR"
562
00:32:21,422 --> 00:32:25,742
AND "STAR WEEKLY" ABOUT FISHING
AND CHICAGO GANGSTERS
563
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,530
AND THE DANGERS
OF ACCEPTING A FREE SHAVE
564
00:32:28,705 --> 00:32:31,185
AT A BARBER'S COLLEGE.
565
00:32:34,124 --> 00:32:36,754
BUT WHEN HE RETURNED
TO HIS FAMILY AT WALLOON LAKE
566
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,960
IN THE SUMMER OF 1920,
THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.
567
00:32:42,098 --> 00:32:45,238
HE SEEMED UNINTERESTED
IN LOOKING FOR A STEADY JOB,
568
00:32:45,411 --> 00:32:47,481
SPOKE VAGUELY
OF BOARDING A FREIGHTER
569
00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:49,310
AND SAILING AROUND THE WORLD
570
00:32:49,450 --> 00:32:53,800
AS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WRITERS
JACK LONDON HAD DONE.
571
00:32:53,937 --> 00:32:57,007
WHEN HIS MOTHER OBJECTED,
HE SNAPPED AT HER.
572
00:32:57,147 --> 00:33:00,627
HIS FATHER EXHORTED HIM TO
"SOFTEN YOUR TEMPER
573
00:33:00,771 --> 00:33:04,951
AND FEAR GOD
AND RESPECT WOMAN."
574
00:33:05,052 --> 00:33:10,092
THINGS CAME TO A HEAD 6 DAYS
AFTER HIS 21st BIRTHDAY.
575
00:33:10,264 --> 00:33:13,304
HE AND TWO OF HIS YOUNGER
SISTERS JOINED FRIENDS,
576
00:33:13,439 --> 00:33:16,129
INCLUDING THEIR NEIGHBOR'S
TEENAGE DAUGHTERS,
577
00:33:16,270 --> 00:33:20,930
AT A SECRET MOONLIGHT PARTY
ACROSS THE LAKE.
578
00:33:21,102 --> 00:33:24,112
WHEN HIS MOTHER FOUND OUT
ABOUT IT, SHE WAS FURIOUS.
579
00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:27,039
HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW
BETTER, SHE TOLD HIM.
580
00:33:27,177 --> 00:33:29,867
HE WAS CORRUPTING
THE MORALS OF MINORS,
581
00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:33,528
HE WAS A DISGRACE TO HIS FAMILY.
582
00:33:33,666 --> 00:33:35,386
SHE HANDED HIM
A LETTER ADDRESSED
583
00:33:35,530 --> 00:33:38,710
TO "MY DEAR SON ERNEST."
584
00:33:38,844 --> 00:33:41,644
IT BEGAN WITH A CATALOGUE
OF THE SACRIFICES
585
00:33:41,812 --> 00:33:46,372
SHE SAID SHE HAD MADE
FOR HIS BENEFIT.
586
00:33:46,507 --> 00:33:49,857
"A MOTHER'S LOVE," SHE TOLD HIM,
WAS "LIKE A BANK."
587
00:33:49,993 --> 00:33:52,723
SHE HAD MADE ALL
THE EARLY DEPOSITS--
588
00:33:52,858 --> 00:33:55,788
THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH,
THE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS,
589
00:33:55,895 --> 00:33:58,305
THE YEARS OF PATIENT
UNDERSTANDING
590
00:33:58,415 --> 00:34:00,725
AND ENCOURAGEMENT,
591
00:34:00,866 --> 00:34:03,136
BUT NOW THAT "FULL MANHOOD"
WAS HERE,
592
00:34:03,317 --> 00:34:09,147
IT WAS HIS TURN TO MAKE
"DEPOSITS" OF HIS OWN, SHE SAID.
593
00:34:09,254 --> 00:34:11,674
WOMAN, AS GRACE: UNLESS YOU,
MY SON, ERNEST,
594
00:34:11,773 --> 00:34:14,983
COME TO YOURSELF,
CEASE YOUR LAZY LOAFING
595
00:34:15,156 --> 00:34:18,156
AND PLEASURE SEEKING--
BORROWING WITH NO THOUGHT
596
00:34:18,332 --> 00:34:19,752
OF RETURNING--
597
00:34:19,885 --> 00:34:22,265
STOP TRYING TO GRAFT
A LIVING OFF ANYBODY,
598
00:34:22,405 --> 00:34:26,195
AND EVERYBODY, SPENDING
ALL YOUR EARNINGS
599
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:30,690
LAVISHLY AND WASTEFULLY
ON LUXURIES FOR YOURSELF--
600
00:34:30,792 --> 00:34:33,352
STOP TRADING
ON YOUR HANDSOME FACE
601
00:34:33,519 --> 00:34:36,699
TO FOOL LITTLE GULLIBLE GIRLS,
602
00:34:36,867 --> 00:34:39,417
AND NEGLECTING YOUR DUTIES
TO GOD
603
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,910
AND YOUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
604
00:34:42,045 --> 00:34:46,355
UNLESS, IN OTHER WORDS,
YOU COME INTO YOUR MANHOOD,
605
00:34:46,532 --> 00:34:50,922
THERE IS NOTHING BEFORE YOU,
BUT BANKRUPTCY.
606
00:34:51,054 --> 00:34:54,374
YOU HAVE OVERDRAWN.
607
00:34:54,540 --> 00:34:57,060
NARRATOR: ERNEST WAS TO LEAVE
HOME, SHE SAID,
608
00:34:57,198 --> 00:34:59,958
AND NOT "COME BACK
UNTIL YOUR TONGUE HAS LEARNED
609
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:03,718
NOT TO INSULT
AND SHAME YOUR MOTHER."
610
00:35:03,825 --> 00:35:05,895
"MAKES A GUY FEEL
KIND OF ROTTEN,"
611
00:35:06,034 --> 00:35:07,974
ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND,
"TO KNOW THAT
612
00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:12,556
HE HASN'T ANY HOME,
EVEN IF HE DOESN'T USE IT."
613
00:35:12,731 --> 00:35:16,391
HE AND HIS MOTHER WOULD
EVENTUALLY RECONCILE,
614
00:35:16,562 --> 00:35:17,872
BUT HEMINGWAY'S ANTIPATHY
615
00:35:17,977 --> 00:35:20,767
TOWARD HER
WOULD NEVER DISSIPATE,
616
00:35:20,911 --> 00:35:23,291
YET OF ALL HER CHILDREN,
HE WOULD BECOME
617
00:35:23,431 --> 00:35:27,571
THE MOST LIKE HER--
OPINIONATED, JUDGMENTAL,
618
00:35:27,746 --> 00:35:32,406
CONTROLLING, SELF-DRAMATIZING.
619
00:35:32,509 --> 00:35:36,169
ERNEST MOVED TO CHICAGO,
ROOMED WITH OLD FRIENDS,
620
00:35:36,306 --> 00:35:39,686
AND GOT TO KNOW THE CELEBRATED
WRITER SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
621
00:35:39,827 --> 00:35:42,107
WHO BECAME SOMETHING
OF A MENTOR.
622
00:35:42,243 --> 00:35:45,493
HEMINGWAY SUPPORTED HIMSELF
WRITING AD COPY
623
00:35:45,626 --> 00:35:49,006
AND WORKED AWAY
AT SHORT STORIES AT NIGHT.
624
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:52,077
NO ONE SEEMED INTERESTED
IN THEM.
625
00:35:52,184 --> 00:35:55,084
WOMAN: ALL WRITERS
ARE NARCISSISTIC.
626
00:35:55,256 --> 00:35:56,976
THAT'S NOT THE SAME
AS BEING A NARCISSIST,
627
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,500
AS BEING A SOCIOPATH,
628
00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:00,989
BUT NO ONE CAN SIT
IN A ROOM BY THEMSELVES
629
00:36:01,124 --> 00:36:04,684
12 HOURS A DAY, THINKING
ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE THINKING
630
00:36:04,817 --> 00:36:06,607
AND NOT BE A LITTLE MORE
SELF-FOCUSED
631
00:36:06,716 --> 00:36:08,166
THAN THE NORMAL PERSON.
632
00:36:08,304 --> 00:36:11,794
YOU'RE DEFINITELY ON THE FAR END
OF THE BELL CURVE.
633
00:36:15,138 --> 00:36:18,488
WOMAN: OH, MR. HEMINGWAY,
HOW I LOVE YOU.
634
00:36:18,624 --> 00:36:20,214
HOW EXCITING YOU ARE.
635
00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:22,900
HOW A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN
AROUND YOU,
636
00:36:23,042 --> 00:36:27,742
AND BESIDES ALL THAT,
I LOVE YOU ANYWAY.
637
00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:30,185
HOW I LOVE
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME,
638
00:36:30,326 --> 00:36:34,706
AND YOUR FLANNEL SHIRT SEEMS
A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL THING,
639
00:36:34,847 --> 00:36:37,297
AND IT SMELLS SO GOOD BESIDES.
640
00:36:37,471 --> 00:36:40,751
SOME DAY, IF I DON'T WATCH OUT,
THERE'LL BE A POEM
641
00:36:40,888 --> 00:36:42,748
ON THE SMELL
OF A CLEAN WHITE SHIRT
642
00:36:42,890 --> 00:36:45,550
THAT'LL RAISE UP THE HAIR
ON THE DEAD.
643
00:36:45,686 --> 00:36:48,066
HADLEY RICHARDSON.
644
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,660
NARRATOR: ONE OCTOBER EVENING
IN 1920,
645
00:36:54,764 --> 00:36:57,664
HEMINGWAY ATTENDED A PARTY
AT A FRIEND'S APARTMENT
646
00:36:57,836 --> 00:37:02,076
AND WAS INTRODUCED
TO A VISITOR FROM ST. LOUIS.
647
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:03,910
"THE MOMENT SHE ENTERED
THE ROOM,
648
00:37:04,049 --> 00:37:05,979
AN INTENSE FEELING
CAME OVER ME,"
649
00:37:06,085 --> 00:37:08,495
HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED
MANY YEARS LATER.
650
00:37:08,605 --> 00:37:13,195
"I KNEW SHE WAS THE GIRL
I WAS GOING TO MARRY."
651
00:37:13,334 --> 00:37:16,374
ELIZABETH HADLEY RICHARDSON
WAS 28,
652
00:37:16,510 --> 00:37:19,200
THE SHY PRODUCT
OF A WELL-TO-DO FAMILY
653
00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:23,280
FAR MORE TENSE AND TROUBLED
EVEN THAN HIS.
654
00:37:23,413 --> 00:37:27,423
HER ALCOHOLIC FATHER HAD SHOT
HIMSELF WHEN SHE WAS 13.
655
00:37:27,555 --> 00:37:30,075
A BELOVED SISTER
HAD BURNED TO DEATH.
656
00:37:30,213 --> 00:37:32,533
SHE HERSELF HAD SUFFERED
A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
657
00:37:32,629 --> 00:37:35,769
AT BRYN MAWR AND BEEN FORCED
TO SPEND THE LAST 8 YEARS
658
00:37:35,908 --> 00:37:40,598
AT HOME, CARING FOR HER ERRATIC
AND DOMINEERING MOTHER,
659
00:37:40,741 --> 00:37:43,711
SOMETIMES DRIVEN TO SUCH DESPAIR
660
00:37:43,813 --> 00:37:47,273
THAT HADLEY CONSIDERED SUICIDE.
661
00:37:47,403 --> 00:37:51,483
HER MOTHER HAD DIED JUST WEEKS
BEFORE SHE MET HEMINGWAY.
662
00:37:51,614 --> 00:37:54,624
SHE WAS EAGER, SHE RECALLED,
TO FIND SOMEONE
663
00:37:54,755 --> 00:37:59,345
WITH WHOM SHE COULD BEGIN
TO BUILD A LIFE OF HER OWN.
664
00:38:03,557 --> 00:38:06,627
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I NEED YOU
IN EVERY PART OF MY LIFE.
665
00:38:06,767 --> 00:38:08,387
I WANT TO BE KISSED.
666
00:38:08,493 --> 00:38:10,393
I WANT TO PULL YOUR HEAD DOWN
ON MY HEART
667
00:38:10,495 --> 00:38:13,145
AND HOLD IT VERY CLOSE
AND CRADLE YOU THERE
668
00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:16,951
FOR HOURS,
YOU BLESSED THING.
669
00:38:17,087 --> 00:38:23,437
LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU,
YOUR OWNEST IN THE WORLD.
670
00:38:23,577 --> 00:38:26,577
NARRATOR: FALLING IN LOVE
WITH HEMINGWAY, HADLEY SAID,
671
00:38:26,683 --> 00:38:30,483
WAS A "GREAT EXPLOSION
INTO LIFE."
672
00:38:30,618 --> 00:38:33,408
WITHIN 6 WEEKS,
HE WAS CALLING HER "HASH,"
673
00:38:33,587 --> 00:38:36,307
AND THEY WERE TALKING
OF MARRIAGE.
674
00:38:36,452 --> 00:38:39,282
THEY WOULD NOT ACTUALLY WED
FOR NEARLY A YEAR
675
00:38:39,420 --> 00:38:42,110
AND WERE APART
MOST OF THAT TIME,
676
00:38:42,216 --> 00:38:47,456
BUT THEY WROTE ONE ANOTHER
ALMOST DAILY.
677
00:38:47,601 --> 00:38:49,641
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
'COURSE I LOVE YOU.
678
00:38:49,775 --> 00:38:51,665
I LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME.
679
00:38:51,812 --> 00:38:54,472
WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING
AND HAVE TO CLIMB OUT OF BED
680
00:38:54,608 --> 00:38:57,678
AND SPLASH AROUND AND SHAVE,
I LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE
681
00:38:57,818 --> 00:39:00,128
AND THINK ABOUT YOU,
682
00:39:00,303 --> 00:39:04,723
AND IN THE EVENING,
IT'S TOO MUCH TO STAND.
683
00:39:04,859 --> 00:39:07,479
'NIGHT, MY DEAREST HASH.
684
00:39:07,621 --> 00:39:10,351
I'D LIKE TO HOLD YOU SO
AND KISS YOU SO
685
00:39:10,486 --> 00:39:14,386
THAT YOU WOULDN'T DOUBT
WHETHER I WANTED TO OR NOT.
686
00:39:14,524 --> 00:39:18,394
LOVE YOU--ERNESTO
687
00:39:18,528 --> 00:39:21,318
NARRATOR: HIS LOVE RESTORED
HER SELF-CONFIDENCE
688
00:39:21,462 --> 00:39:24,092
AFTER YEARS OF SELF-DOUBT.
689
00:39:24,223 --> 00:39:26,783
"WE'RE THE SAME FIRM,"
SHE TOLD HIM.
690
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:28,190
"THE WORLD'S A JAIL,
691
00:39:28,331 --> 00:39:30,821
AND WE'RE GONNA
BREAK IT TOGETHER."
692
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:35,650
HER CONFIDENCE IN HIM WOULD
HELP HIM REALIZE HIS TALENT.
693
00:39:35,821 --> 00:39:39,761
WHEN ERNEST TOLD HADLEY HE NOW
FELT READY TO START A NOVEL
694
00:39:39,894 --> 00:39:43,074
BASED UPON HIS OWN BOYHOOD
WITH "REAL PEOPLE,
695
00:39:43,208 --> 00:39:45,588
TALKING AND SAYING
WHAT THEY THINK,"
696
00:39:45,728 --> 00:39:49,418
SHE SENT HIM
A NEW CORONA TYPEWRITER.
697
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:51,909
FROM THE FIRST,
SHE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND
698
00:39:52,044 --> 00:39:53,844
WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO.
699
00:39:53,943 --> 00:39:57,333
SHE LOVED IT THAT HIS STYLE
"ELIMINATED EVERYTHING
700
00:39:57,498 --> 00:40:01,638
EXCEPT WHAT IS NECESSARY
AND STRENGTHENING"...
701
00:40:04,609 --> 00:40:06,709
BUT AS THEIR WEDDING DAY
APPROACHED,
702
00:40:06,852 --> 00:40:11,372
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
AGAIN ENVELOPED HIM.
703
00:40:11,512 --> 00:40:14,452
HE LOST WEIGHT, WORRIED
THAT MARRIED LIFE
704
00:40:14,584 --> 00:40:16,934
MIGHT NOT BE FOR HIM AFTER ALL
705
00:40:17,069 --> 00:40:20,999
OR THAT HADLEY WOULD
BETRAY HIM THE WAY AGNES HAD.
706
00:40:21,108 --> 00:40:23,698
HE GREW DARKER AND DARKER.
707
00:40:23,869 --> 00:40:29,879
HE HINTED TO HADLEY THAT
HE WAS CONSIDERING SUICIDE.
708
00:40:29,979 --> 00:40:32,219
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I KNOW HOW
IT FEELS 'CAUSE I HAVE
709
00:40:32,326 --> 00:40:35,916
SO VERY MANY TIMES
WANTED TO GO AND COULDN'T
710
00:40:36,054 --> 00:40:39,614
ON ACCOUNT OF THE MESS I'D
LEAVE SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN,
711
00:40:39,747 --> 00:40:44,647
BUT REMEMBER IT WOULD KILL ME
TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES.
712
00:40:44,787 --> 00:40:49,717
DON'T EVER GET CONFUSED
WHEN SUCH A MOMENT COMES.
713
00:40:49,861 --> 00:40:51,411
YOU GOTTA LIVE--
714
00:40:51,552 --> 00:40:55,632
FIRST FOR YOU AND THEN
FOR MY HAPPINESS.
715
00:40:55,763 --> 00:41:00,083
YOU MUSTN'T FEEL SO HORRIBLY,
DEAR ERN.
716
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:03,530
I'M ARRIVING SATURDAY
TO LOVE YOU CLOSER.
717
00:41:05,601 --> 00:41:09,811
NARRATOR: ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
SEPTEMBER 3, 1921,
718
00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:13,230
IN A METHODIST CHURCH NOT FAR
FROM THE FAMILY COTTAGE
719
00:41:13,332 --> 00:41:16,272
ON WALLOON LAKE,
HADLEY RICHARDSON
720
00:41:16,404 --> 00:41:22,274
BECAME MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
721
00:41:22,410 --> 00:41:36,980
♪
722
00:41:37,115 --> 00:41:39,835
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: JANUARY 1922.
723
00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:42,330
DEAR FAMILY,
HASH JUST CAME IN
724
00:41:42,465 --> 00:41:44,605
AND SAYS TO SEND LOTS
OF LOVE TO YOU
725
00:41:44,709 --> 00:41:46,779
AND TELL YOU
ABOUT OUR APARTMENT.
726
00:41:46,952 --> 00:41:50,512
IT IS AT 74 RUE
DU CARDINAL LEMOINE
727
00:41:50,646 --> 00:41:53,816
AND IS THE JOLLIEST PLACE
YOU EVER SAW.
728
00:41:53,959 --> 00:41:57,519
WE RENTED IT FURNISHED
FOR 250 FRANCS A MONTH,
729
00:41:57,653 --> 00:41:58,963
ABOUT $18.
730
00:41:59,068 --> 00:42:01,798
IT IS THE MOST COMFORTABLE
AND CHEAPEST WAY TO LIVE,
731
00:42:01,967 --> 00:42:04,627
AND HASH HAS A PIANO,
AND WE HAVE ALL OUR PICTURES
732
00:42:04,798 --> 00:42:08,218
UP ON THE WALLS
AND AN OPEN FIREPLACE.
733
00:42:08,353 --> 00:42:10,153
IT IS ON TOP OF A HIGH HILL
734
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,430
IN THE VERY OLDEST PART
OF PARIS.
735
00:42:13,565 --> 00:42:16,495
NARRATOR: THE NEWLY-WED
HEMINGWAYS' FIRST REAL HOME
736
00:42:16,637 --> 00:42:20,187
WAS A FOURTH-FLOOR WALKUP
IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
737
00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,540
EACH EVENING,
ACCORDION MUSIC DRIFTED UP
738
00:42:22,678 --> 00:42:25,818
FROM THE WORKING-MAN'S
DANCE-HALL NEXT DOOR.
739
00:42:25,922 --> 00:42:28,482
HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
740
00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:31,830
HAD PERSUADED ERNEST THAT
FOR A YOUNG WRITER
741
00:42:31,997 --> 00:42:34,337
PARIS WAS THE PLACE TO BE.
742
00:42:34,517 --> 00:42:37,757
ONE COULD LIVE CHEAPLY THERE,
AND THE LEFT BANK TEEMED
743
00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:42,180
WITH REVOLUTIONARY ARTISTS
AND WRITERS FROM EVERYWHERE--
744
00:42:42,318 --> 00:42:45,668
PABLO PICASSO AND JOAN MIR Ó;
745
00:42:45,770 --> 00:42:48,880
IGOR STRAVINSKY AND ERIK SATIE;
746
00:42:49,014 --> 00:42:53,614
JAMES JOYCE AND GERTRUDE STEIN,
WHO REMEMBERED PARIS
747
00:42:53,743 --> 00:42:58,963
AS "THE PLACE WHERE
THE 20th CENTURY WAS."
748
00:42:59,093 --> 00:43:03,203
ERNEST WAS JUST 22 YEARS OLD,
WORKING AS A CORRESPONDENT
749
00:43:03,339 --> 00:43:05,129
FOR THE "TORONTO STAR,"
750
00:43:05,272 --> 00:43:08,032
OTHERWISE UNPUBLISHED
AND UNKNOWN,
751
00:43:08,206 --> 00:43:11,376
BUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON HAD
WRITTEN LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION
752
00:43:11,485 --> 00:43:15,445
TO 3 INFLUENTIAL FRIENDS,
GENEROUSLY DESCRIBING HIM
753
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,973
AS A "QUITE WONDERFUL
NEWSPAPERMAN"
754
00:43:18,112 --> 00:43:21,912
WHOSE "EXTRAORDINARY TALENT"
WAS SURE TO TAKE HIM
755
00:43:22,047 --> 00:43:25,087
FAR BEYOND JOURNALISM.
756
00:43:25,223 --> 00:43:26,573
VAILL: HE'S TALL.
757
00:43:26,707 --> 00:43:28,917
HE IS AS HANDSOME
AS A MOVIE STAR.
758
00:43:29,054 --> 00:43:31,234
HE HAS DIMPLES.
759
00:43:31,332 --> 00:43:35,472
HE HAS A SWASHBUCKLING
QUALITY TO HIM,
760
00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:38,133
BUT HE HAS THIS KIND OF
MIDWESTERN SWEETNESS
761
00:43:38,270 --> 00:43:39,760
AT THE SAME TIME.
762
00:43:39,893 --> 00:43:42,103
THE FACT IS THAT
IF HE WOULD WALK INTO A ROOM
763
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:45,380
PEOPLE LOVED HIM
THE MINUTE THEY SAW HIM,
764
00:43:45,553 --> 00:43:47,423
AND THAT GIVES YOU A KIND
OF CONFIDENCE
765
00:43:47,555 --> 00:43:50,725
THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.
766
00:43:50,904 --> 00:43:53,084
NARRATOR: SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S
FRIENDS DID
767
00:43:53,182 --> 00:43:55,082
WHAT THEY COULD
FOR THE NEWCOMER.
768
00:43:55,184 --> 00:43:59,084
THE FIRST WAS THE AMERICAN
EXPATRIATE POET EZRA POUND.
769
00:43:59,257 --> 00:44:02,667
HE WAS WELL-CONNECTED
IN AVANT-GARDE LITERARY CIRCLES
770
00:44:02,812 --> 00:44:07,442
AND TALKED ERNEST UP TO
EVERY MAGAZINE EDITOR HE KNEW.
771
00:44:07,541 --> 00:44:10,611
GERTRUDE STEIN PRESIDED
OVER A SALON AT THE HOME
772
00:44:10,751 --> 00:44:14,481
SHE SHARED WITH HER PARTNER
ALICE B. TOKLAS.
773
00:44:14,617 --> 00:44:17,277
ART COLLECTOR,
AVANT-GARDE WRITER,
774
00:44:17,378 --> 00:44:20,238
CHAMPION OF MODERNISM
IN ALL ITS FORMS,
775
00:44:20,416 --> 00:44:22,306
SHE TOOK A LIKING
TO THE HANDSOME,
776
00:44:22,452 --> 00:44:24,632
EAGER YOUNG VISITOR
WITH WHAT SHE REMEMBERED
777
00:44:24,765 --> 00:44:29,695
AS "DARK LUMINOUS EYES"
AND "A FLASHING SMILE."
778
00:44:29,839 --> 00:44:32,769
SHE LIKED HIS TERSE,
DECLARATIVE STYLE, TOO,
779
00:44:32,946 --> 00:44:36,706
AND OFFERED ENCOURAGEMENT
AND USEFUL ADVICE.
780
00:44:36,846 --> 00:44:40,296
"MISS STEIN HAD DISCOVERED
MANY TRUTHS ABOUT RHYTHMS
781
00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:42,780
AND THE USES OF WORDS
IN REPETITION,"
782
00:44:42,887 --> 00:44:45,677
HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED,
THAT ECHOED THE COUNTERPOINT
783
00:44:45,821 --> 00:44:50,961
HE'D FIRST ENCOUNTERED
IN THE MUSIC OF BACH.
784
00:44:51,136 --> 00:44:56,066
STEIN ALSO INTRODUCED HIM
TO THE WORLD OF MODERN ART.
785
00:44:56,210 --> 00:44:59,590
HE WAS ESPECIALLY DRAWN
TO THE WORK OF PAUL C ÉZANNE,
786
00:44:59,731 --> 00:45:03,421
WHO PAINTED THE SAME SUBJECTS
OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
787
00:45:03,562 --> 00:45:06,152
BUILDING UP EACH IMAGE
FROM THOUSANDS
788
00:45:06,255 --> 00:45:09,045
OF REPETITIVE BRUSH STROKES.
789
00:45:09,189 --> 00:45:12,229
MAN: C ÉZANNE--HE'S TRYING
TO BREAK DOWN
790
00:45:12,364 --> 00:45:13,994
NORMAL HABITS OF SEEING,
791
00:45:14,090 --> 00:45:17,060
AND I THINK THAT'S
WHAT HEMINGWAY LIKED.
792
00:45:17,197 --> 00:45:23,377
THE GREAT ENEMY FOR HEMINGWAY
IS BOREDOM AND ROUTINE
793
00:45:23,513 --> 00:45:26,593
AND ANYTHING ACCUSTOMED,
794
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:30,664
AND I THINK HE SAW IN C ÉZANNE
A MODEL FOR TAKING
795
00:45:30,762 --> 00:45:32,382
THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER,
796
00:45:32,522 --> 00:45:33,872
LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE,
LANDSCAPE,
797
00:45:34,007 --> 00:45:36,037
THE SAME MOUNTAIN,
THE SAME MOUNTAIN,
798
00:45:36,181 --> 00:45:39,501
AND RENDERING IT NEW
799
00:45:39,667 --> 00:45:42,357
BY LOOKING AT IT
IN DIFFERENT WAYS,
800
00:45:42,463 --> 00:45:45,713
AND I THINK THAT'S
THE MODEL FOR HIM.
801
00:45:45,881 --> 00:45:49,261
NARRATOR: SYLVIA BEACH BECAME
HEMINGWAY'S FRIEND, TOO.
802
00:45:49,401 --> 00:45:51,021
SHE RAN SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY,
803
00:45:51,196 --> 00:45:56,026
A BOOKSTORE AND LENDING LIBRARY,
AT 12 RUE DE L'ODEON.
804
00:45:56,201 --> 00:45:57,931
SYLVIA BEACH: HE CAME
INTO MY SHOP,
805
00:45:58,065 --> 00:46:01,335
AND HE HAD AN INTRODUCTION
FROM SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
806
00:46:01,448 --> 00:46:02,968
BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE THAT.
807
00:46:03,105 --> 00:46:04,685
HE'D FORGOTTEN TO BRING IT,
AND HE DIDN'T NEED IT
808
00:46:04,796 --> 00:46:06,896
BECAUSE I THOUGHT
HE WAS SO INTERESTING,
809
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,250
AND HE SAID, "WOULD YOU
LIKE TO SEE MY WOUNDS?"
810
00:46:11,389 --> 00:46:12,599
AND I SAID, "YES, INDEED,"
811
00:46:12,735 --> 00:46:15,385
AND HE TOOK OFF HIS SHOE
AND HIS SOCK
812
00:46:15,496 --> 00:46:17,356
AND SHOWED ME
ALL THESE DREADFUL SCARS
813
00:46:17,464 --> 00:46:19,544
ON HIS LEG AND FOOT,
814
00:46:19,638 --> 00:46:23,058
AND THEN WE BECAME
GREAT FRIENDS.
815
00:46:23,228 --> 00:46:24,948
NARRATOR: SHAKESPEARE
AND COMPANY WAS
816
00:46:25,092 --> 00:46:28,542
A GATHERING PLACE FOR
EXPATRIATE ARTISTS AND WRITERS.
817
00:46:28,716 --> 00:46:30,576
HEMINGWAY CHARMED THEM ALL,
818
00:46:30,684 --> 00:46:34,414
INCLUDING THE IRISH WRITER
JAMES JOYCE,
819
00:46:34,515 --> 00:46:37,305
WHOSE DARINGLY EXPLICIT NOVEL
"ULYSSES"
820
00:46:37,449 --> 00:46:40,799
SYLVIA BEACH HAD JUST PUBLISHED,
821
00:46:40,936 --> 00:46:43,416
AND HE SET OUT
TO EDUCATE HIMSELF,
822
00:46:43,593 --> 00:46:48,083
BORROWING BOOKS FROM HER SHOP
BY D.H. LAWRENCE, TURGENEV,
823
00:46:48,253 --> 00:46:52,433
DOSTOEVSKY, TOLSTOY.
824
00:46:52,602 --> 00:46:55,472
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
FEBRUARY 14, 1922.
825
00:46:55,605 --> 00:46:58,155
WE KNOW A GOOD BATCH
OF PEOPLE NOW IN PARIS
826
00:46:58,298 --> 00:47:00,708
AND IF WE ALLOWED IT WOULD
HAVE ALL OUR TIME
827
00:47:00,852 --> 00:47:03,862
TAKEN UP SOCIALLY,
BUT I AM WORKING VERY HARD,
828
00:47:03,993 --> 00:47:07,453
AND WE KEEP PLENTY OF TIME
TO OURSELVES.
829
00:47:07,548 --> 00:47:11,098
PARIS IS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL
THAT IT SATISFIES SOMETHING
830
00:47:11,207 --> 00:47:14,657
IN YOU THAT IS
ALWAYS HUNGRY IN AMERICA.
831
00:47:17,179 --> 00:47:18,799
NARRATOR: FOR THE REST
OF HIS LIFE,
832
00:47:18,939 --> 00:47:21,629
HEMINGWAY WOULD INSIST
THAT HE AND HADLEY
833
00:47:21,735 --> 00:47:26,015
HAD BEEN VIRTUALLY PENNILESS
WHEN THEY LIVED IN PARIS.
834
00:47:26,153 --> 00:47:27,643
THEY WERE NOT.
835
00:47:27,810 --> 00:47:31,610
BESIDES HIS SALARY,
SHE HAD AN INHERITANCE.
836
00:47:31,710 --> 00:47:33,400
"WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY
FOR ANYTHING
837
00:47:33,540 --> 00:47:36,340
WE REALLY WANTED TO DO,"
HADLEY REMEMBERED,
838
00:47:36,474 --> 00:47:40,654
"AND WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY
FOR WHISKEY."
839
00:47:40,754 --> 00:47:42,964
THE FIRST YEAR
OF THEIR MARRIAGE CONSTITUTED
840
00:47:43,136 --> 00:47:47,996
A SORT OF EXTENDED HONEYMOON--
EXPLORING PARIS, TREKKING,
841
00:47:48,141 --> 00:47:53,701
FISHING, SKIING,
BOBSLEDDING IN THE ALPS.
842
00:47:53,836 --> 00:47:55,666
CUSHMAN: ONE OF THE THINGS
ABOUT HIM IS THAT
843
00:47:55,803 --> 00:47:58,193
HE'S COMMITTED TO TRAVEL.
844
00:47:58,323 --> 00:47:59,983
HE LIKES, I THINK,
MORE THAN ANYTHING,
845
00:48:00,153 --> 00:48:03,983
TO BE A FOREIGNER,
A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
846
00:48:04,157 --> 00:48:07,567
EVERYTHING IS HEIGHTENED,
AND TASTE IS HEIGHTENED,
847
00:48:07,712 --> 00:48:12,032
VISION IS HEIGHTENED,
SMELLS ARE HEIGHTENED.
848
00:48:12,165 --> 00:48:15,055
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY WROTE
ABOUT EVERYTHING--
849
00:48:15,202 --> 00:48:18,172
PARIS NIGHTLIFE
AND GERMAN MANNERS,
850
00:48:18,274 --> 00:48:22,734
FASCISM AND COMMUNISM
AND WOMEN'S HATS--
851
00:48:22,865 --> 00:48:26,895
ALWAYS WITH A WEARY,
INSIDER'S TONE REMARKABLE
852
00:48:27,042 --> 00:48:30,842
FOR A YOUNG MAN
IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES,
853
00:48:30,942 --> 00:48:33,012
AND WHENEVER HE COULD FIND
THE TIME,
854
00:48:33,117 --> 00:48:35,527
HE WORKED ON SHORT STORIES
AND THE NOVEL
855
00:48:35,671 --> 00:48:38,541
HE HAD BEGUN IN CHICAGO.
856
00:48:38,708 --> 00:48:42,778
SOMETIMES, HE TOOK HADLEY ALONG
ON ASSIGNMENT FOR THE "STAR"--
857
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,680
TO ITALY, WHERE HE SHOWED
HER THE PLACE
858
00:48:44,783 --> 00:48:46,653
WHERE HE'D BEEN WOUNDED,
859
00:48:46,785 --> 00:48:49,545
TO THE BLACK FOREST
FOR TROUT FISHING,
860
00:48:49,650 --> 00:48:51,760
ABOARD A PIONEERING
PASSENGER FLIGHT
861
00:48:51,894 --> 00:48:54,864
FROM PARIS TO STRASBOURG--
862
00:48:55,035 --> 00:48:57,615
BUT MORE OFTEN,
HE TRAVELED ALONE,
863
00:48:57,762 --> 00:49:00,212
GETTING TO KNOW
HIS FELLOW REPORTERS,
864
00:49:00,385 --> 00:49:04,455
COVERING AN INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AT GENOA,
865
00:49:04,596 --> 00:49:07,496
RIOTS IN COLOGNE,
866
00:49:07,634 --> 00:49:11,054
AND IN THE AUTUMN OF 1922,
OPEN WARFARE
867
00:49:11,155 --> 00:49:15,565
BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY
THAT SEEMED FOR A TIME
868
00:49:15,711 --> 00:49:20,581
TO THREATEN A NEW WORLD WAR.
869
00:49:20,750 --> 00:49:23,410
HE STOOD AND WATCHED
AS A 20-MILE COLUMN
870
00:49:23,581 --> 00:49:26,581
OF GREEK REFUGEES PASSED
SLOWLY BY
871
00:49:26,722 --> 00:49:31,242
IN FLIGHT FROM THE TURKISH ARMY.
872
00:49:31,347 --> 00:49:33,827
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IT IS A SILENT PROCESSION.
873
00:49:33,971 --> 00:49:35,771
NOBODY EVEN GRUNTS.
874
00:49:35,903 --> 00:49:39,183
IT IS ALL THEY CAN DO
TO KEEP MOVING.
875
00:49:39,321 --> 00:49:42,771
THEIR BRILLIANT PEASANT COSTUMES
ARE SOAKED AND DRAGGLED.
876
00:49:42,945 --> 00:49:46,735
CHICKENS DANGLE BY THEIR FEET
FROM THE CARTS.
877
00:49:46,914 --> 00:49:49,264
AN OLD MAN MARCHES
UNDER A YOUNG PIG,
878
00:49:49,365 --> 00:49:52,265
A SCYTHE AND A GUN,
WITH A CHICKEN TIED
879
00:49:52,368 --> 00:49:53,988
TO HIS SCYTHE.
880
00:49:54,129 --> 00:49:57,029
A HUSBAND SPREADS A BLANKET
OVER A WOMAN IN LABOR
881
00:49:57,166 --> 00:50:00,786
IN ONE OF THE CARTS TO
KEEP OFF THE DRIVING RAIN.
882
00:50:00,894 --> 00:50:04,524
SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON
MAKING A SOUND.
883
00:50:04,656 --> 00:50:06,756
HER LITTLE DAUGHTER LOOKS
AT HER IN HORROR
884
00:50:06,865 --> 00:50:09,445
AND BEGINS TO CRY.
885
00:50:09,627 --> 00:50:12,077
AND THE PROCESSION KEEPS MOVING.
886
00:50:15,115 --> 00:50:17,805
NARRATOR: LATER, HEMINGWAY
JOINED OTHER REPORTERS
887
00:50:17,980 --> 00:50:21,230
AT LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND,
WHERE EUROPEAN STATESMEN
888
00:50:21,363 --> 00:50:24,883
WERE TRYING TO STOP
THE FIGHTING.
889
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:27,302
ONE OF THE REPORTERS
WITH WHOM HEMINGWAY DRANK
890
00:50:27,403 --> 00:50:31,653
EACH EVENING WAS THE VETERAN
CORRESPONDENT LINCOLN STEFFENS.
891
00:50:31,752 --> 00:50:34,762
STEFFENS WAS IMPRESSED
BY THE PIECE ERNEST HAD WRITTEN
892
00:50:34,893 --> 00:50:37,973
ABOUT THE GREEK REFUGEES
AND ASKED IF HE COULD SEE
893
00:50:38,069 --> 00:50:40,589
MORE OF THE YOUNG MAN'S WRITING.
894
00:50:40,727 --> 00:50:44,177
SO WHEN ERNEST ASKED HADLEY
TO JOIN HIM IN SWITZERLAND,
895
00:50:44,317 --> 00:50:48,047
SHE DECIDED TO BRING
ALONG HIS WORK.
896
00:50:48,183 --> 00:50:52,153
ON DECEMBER 2, 1922,
SHE PACKED INTO A VALISE
897
00:50:52,256 --> 00:50:54,806
ALL THE MANUSCRIPTS
SHE COULD FIND AND TOOK
898
00:50:54,982 --> 00:50:58,162
A TAXI TO THE GARE DE LYON.
899
00:50:58,262 --> 00:51:01,682
A PORTER CARRIED THE VALISE
ONTO A TRAIN.
900
00:51:01,851 --> 00:51:05,341
WHEN SHE GOT TO HER COMPARTMENT,
IT WASN'T THERE.
901
00:51:09,169 --> 00:51:13,099
THE FIRST CHAPTERS
OF HIS NOVEL WERE LOST.
902
00:51:13,242 --> 00:51:16,902
SO WERE SEVERAL SHORT STORIES.
903
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:19,179
HADLEY WEPT ALL THE WAY
TO LAUSANNE
904
00:51:19,283 --> 00:51:22,083
AND WHEN SHE GOT THERE
COULD BARELY BRING HERSELF
905
00:51:22,217 --> 00:51:27,217
TO TELL HER HUSBAND
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
906
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,220
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
SHE HAD CRIED AND CRIED
907
00:51:29,362 --> 00:51:30,982
AND COULD NOT TELL ME.
908
00:51:31,122 --> 00:51:33,372
I TOLD HER THAT NO MATTER WHAT
THE DREADFUL THING WAS
909
00:51:33,538 --> 00:51:37,018
THAT HAD HAPPENED
NOTHING COULD BE THAT BAD,
910
00:51:37,197 --> 00:51:40,197
AND WHATEVER IT WAS,
IT WAS ALL RIGHT
911
00:51:40,304 --> 00:51:41,684
AND NOT TO WORRY.
912
00:51:41,857 --> 00:51:44,097
WE WOULD WORK IT OUT.
913
00:51:46,068 --> 00:51:48,858
NARRATOR: BUT THEY DID NOT
REALLY WORK IT OUT.
914
00:51:49,036 --> 00:51:50,616
HEMINGWAY WAS ANGRY.
915
00:51:50,762 --> 00:51:52,902
HE'D LOST, HE CLAIMED
TO A FRIEND,
916
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,150
"EVERYTHING I'VE DONE
FOR TWO YEARS."
917
00:51:56,285 --> 00:51:58,905
HE WOULD HAVE TO START
ALL OVER AGAIN,
918
00:51:59,012 --> 00:52:02,222
THOUGH IN FACT,
SOME WRITING SURVIVED.
919
00:52:02,395 --> 00:52:04,845
HE WAS FURTHER SHAKEN
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER
920
00:52:04,983 --> 00:52:07,573
WHEN HADLEY TOLD HIM
SHE WAS PREGNANT.
921
00:52:07,710 --> 00:52:09,920
HE WAS JUST 23.
922
00:52:10,092 --> 00:52:14,132
"I AM TOO YOUNG TO BE A FATHER,"
HE TOLD GERTRUDE STEIN,
923
00:52:14,269 --> 00:52:18,889
AND HE SAID IT, SHE REMEMBERED
"WITH REAL BITTERNESS."
924
00:52:24,762 --> 00:52:27,772
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WAS TRYING TO LEARN TO WRITE,
925
00:52:27,868 --> 00:52:30,178
COMMENCING
WITH THE SIMPLEST THINGS,
926
00:52:30,319 --> 00:52:32,249
AND ONE
OF THE SIMPLEST THINGS OF ALL
927
00:52:32,425 --> 00:52:36,285
AND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL
IS VIOLENT DEATH,
928
00:52:36,429 --> 00:52:39,089
SO I WENT TO SPAIN
TO SEE BULLFIGHTS
929
00:52:39,190 --> 00:52:42,440
AND TO TRY TO WRITE
ABOUT THEM FOR MYSELF.
930
00:52:42,538 --> 00:52:45,608
[CROWD CHEERING, HOOFBEATS]
931
00:52:45,714 --> 00:52:50,554
I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE SIMPLE
AND BARBAROUS AND CRUEL
932
00:52:50,684 --> 00:52:52,624
AND THAT I WOULD NOT LIKE THEM,
933
00:52:52,721 --> 00:52:55,551
BUT THAT I WOULD SEE
CERTAIN DEFINITE ACTION
934
00:52:55,689 --> 00:52:58,619
WHICH WOULD GIVE ME
THE FEELING OF LIFE AND DEATH
935
00:52:58,727 --> 00:53:01,797
THAT I WAS WORKING FOR.
936
00:53:01,902 --> 00:53:04,772
WOMAN: HE TALKED
ABOUT SEEING HIS FIRST BULL.
937
00:53:04,871 --> 00:53:06,111
HE HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT.
938
00:53:06,217 --> 00:53:08,457
HE COULD SEE
THE BULL VERY WELL,
939
00:53:08,633 --> 00:53:11,023
AND HE SAID HE WAS STRUCK
BY THE POWER OF IT
940
00:53:11,153 --> 00:53:13,783
AND THE SIZE OF IT,
941
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,190
THIS NATURAL STRENGTH OF IT.
942
00:53:17,332 --> 00:53:20,132
I THINK MAYBE SOME OF THAT
SPOKE TO HIM BECAUSE
943
00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:22,200
HE HAD POWER
AND NATURAL STRENGTH,
944
00:53:22,337 --> 00:53:25,477
AND HE WAS A FORCE
OF NATURE, TOO,
945
00:53:25,581 --> 00:53:30,171
AND THAT'S WHAT AN ARTIST DOES
WITH HIS SUBJECT MATTER.
946
00:53:30,310 --> 00:53:32,310
WITH YOUR STRENGTH,
WITH YOUR WILL,
947
00:53:32,416 --> 00:53:35,136
WITH YOUR SKILLS,
YOU GO IN,
948
00:53:35,246 --> 00:53:37,136
AND YOU CONTROL
THE SUBJECT MATTER,
949
00:53:37,317 --> 00:53:39,527
AND YOU MAKE SOMETHING
BEAUTIFUL FROM IT.
950
00:53:39,664 --> 00:53:42,324
[CROWD CHEERING]
951
00:53:42,426 --> 00:53:45,946
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY FELL
IN LOVE WITH SPAIN.
952
00:53:46,084 --> 00:53:48,674
HE WAS SURE, HE WROTE,
THAT BULLFIGHTING
953
00:53:48,846 --> 00:53:52,016
"WILL MAKE FINE STORIES SOMEDAY.
954
00:53:52,194 --> 00:53:55,234
"IT'S JUST LIKE HAVING
A RINGSIDE SEAT AT THE WAR
955
00:53:55,370 --> 00:53:58,510
WITH NOTHING GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOU."
956
00:53:58,614 --> 00:54:01,414
HADLEY REMEMBERED SITTING
IN THE STANDS,
957
00:54:01,548 --> 00:54:03,208
STITCHING BABY CLOTHES,
958
00:54:03,309 --> 00:54:08,179
"EMBROIDERING IN THE PRESENCE
OF ALL THAT BRUTALITY."
959
00:54:11,558 --> 00:54:13,248
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
TORONTO, CANADA,
960
00:54:13,388 --> 00:54:16,628
NOVEMBER 7, 1923.
961
00:54:16,770 --> 00:54:20,910
THE BABY HAS TAKEN TO SQUALLING
AND IS A FINE NUISANCE.
962
00:54:21,050 --> 00:54:22,740
I SUPPOSE HE WILL YELL
HIS HEAD OFF
963
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,920
FOR THE NEXT 2 OR 3 YEARS.
964
00:54:25,054 --> 00:54:27,714
IT SEEMS HIS ONLY FORM
OF ENTERTAINMENT.
965
00:54:27,885 --> 00:54:31,405
NO ONE GETS AS MUCH PLEASURE
OUT OF IT AS HE DOES.
966
00:54:31,544 --> 00:54:34,444
NARRATOR: JOHN HADLEY
NICANOR HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
967
00:54:34,581 --> 00:54:40,071
IN TORONTO
ON OCTOBER 10, 1923.
968
00:54:40,242 --> 00:54:43,042
"NICANOR" WAS IN HONOR
OF A SPANISH BULLFIGHTER
969
00:54:43,141 --> 00:54:46,141
HEMINGWAY ESPECIALLY ADMIRED.
970
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:48,603
HADLEY NICKNAMED
THE BABY "BUMBY"
971
00:54:48,733 --> 00:54:51,743
BECAUSE, SHE SAID,
"OF THE ROUND, SOLID FEEL
972
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,570
OF HIM," IN HER ARMS.
973
00:54:54,670 --> 00:54:56,880
THE HEMINGWAYS HAD COME BACK
TO NORTH AMERICA
974
00:54:56,983 --> 00:54:58,953
EARLIER THAT YEAR.
975
00:54:59,088 --> 00:55:01,228
ERNEST THOUGHT HE SHOULD HAVE
A STEADY JOB
976
00:55:01,401 --> 00:55:03,961
AT LEAST FOR THE BABY'S
FIRST YEAR,
977
00:55:04,093 --> 00:55:06,163
AND THE "TORONTO STAR" WAS
EAGER TO HAVE
978
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:10,653
THEIR TALENTED CORRESPONDENT
BACK IN THE HOME OFFICE,
979
00:55:10,790 --> 00:55:13,100
BUT HE CAME TO HATE HIS EDITOR,
980
00:55:13,206 --> 00:55:16,416
LOATHED THE CUB REPORTER
ASSIGNMENTS HE WAS GIVEN,
981
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,590
COULD FIND NO TIME
TO WRITE FOR HIMSELF,
982
00:55:19,695 --> 00:55:23,345
AND LONGED FOR PARIS, WHERE,
HE TOLD HIS SISTER,
983
00:55:23,492 --> 00:55:27,152
"THERE ARE FEW BATH TUBS,
NO ELECTRIC FIXTURES,
984
00:55:27,289 --> 00:55:31,189
"BUT VERY NEARLY ALL THE CHARM,
ALL THE GOOD FOOD,
985
00:55:31,328 --> 00:55:35,258
AND MOST OF THE GOOD PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD."
986
00:55:37,610 --> 00:55:41,650
IN FEBRUARY, 1924,
AFTER LESS THAN 4 MONTHS,
987
00:55:41,786 --> 00:55:46,196
THEY RETURNED TO PARIS AND MOVED
INTO A SECOND-FLOOR APARTMENT
988
00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:52,633
ABOVE A NOISY SAWMILL AT
113 RUE NOTRE-DAME-DES-CHAMPS.
989
00:55:52,797 --> 00:55:56,347
"WE LIVED AS SAVAGES AND KEPT
OUR OWN TRIBAL RULES,"
990
00:55:56,491 --> 00:55:59,491
HEMINGWAY WROTE,
"AND HAD OUR OWN CUSTOMS
991
00:55:59,632 --> 00:56:05,152
AND OUR OWN STANDARDS, SECRETS,
TABOOS, AND DELIGHTS."
992
00:56:05,258 --> 00:56:09,498
HADLEY CUT HER HAIR SHORT,
AND HE GREW HIS LONG
993
00:56:09,642 --> 00:56:11,952
UNTIL THEY MATCHED.
994
00:56:14,474 --> 00:56:17,654
ERNEST HAD ALSO DECIDED TO
ABANDON JOURNALISM
995
00:56:17,753 --> 00:56:22,033
IN ORDER TO DO THE KIND
OF WRITING HE WANTED TO DO.
996
00:56:24,277 --> 00:56:27,347
"IN NEWSPAPER WORK," HE WOULD
EVENTUALLY EXPLAIN,
997
00:56:27,522 --> 00:56:30,732
"YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO FORGET
EVERY DAY WHAT HAPPENED
998
00:56:30,870 --> 00:56:32,350
"THE DAY BEFORE.
999
00:56:32,492 --> 00:56:35,432
"NEWSPAPER WORK IS VALUABLE UP
UNTIL THE POINT
1000
00:56:35,564 --> 00:56:39,914
THAT IT FORCIBLY BEGINS
TO DESTROY YOUR MEMORY."
1001
00:56:40,051 --> 00:56:41,711
WOLFF: WHAT DID HE SAY ONCE?
1002
00:56:41,846 --> 00:56:46,126
A WRITER MUST COME TO HIS WORK
LIKE A PRIEST TO THE ALTAR,
1003
00:56:46,264 --> 00:56:48,034
AND HE HAD THAT SENSE
OF THE SACRED
1004
00:56:48,163 --> 00:56:49,753
ABOUT HIS VOCATION.
1005
00:56:49,889 --> 00:56:52,199
HE REALLY DID.
HE WENT TO WORK,
1006
00:56:52,374 --> 00:56:55,104
AND I WOULD SAY THE COURAGE
THAT HE SHOWED IN THE WAR
1007
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,929
DOESN'T COMPARE TO ME
TO THE COURAGE
1008
00:56:57,068 --> 00:56:59,588
HE SHOWED IN HIS WRITING LIFE.
1009
00:57:01,556 --> 00:57:03,556
NARRATOR: WITH THE HELP OF
SYMPATHETIC FRIENDS,
1010
00:57:03,696 --> 00:57:06,796
HEMINGWAY WOULD PUBLISH
TWO SLENDER BOOKS,
1011
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:11,190
"THREE STORIES & TEN POEMS"
AND "IN OUR TIME".
1012
00:57:11,358 --> 00:57:13,148
THEY MEANT THE WORLD
TO HEMINGWAY,
1013
00:57:13,291 --> 00:57:16,541
BUT ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES
WERE PRINTED.
1014
00:57:16,709 --> 00:57:20,989
HEMINGWAY'S PARENTS ORDERED
6 COPIES OF "IN OUR TIME."
1015
00:57:21,127 --> 00:57:24,367
HIS SISTER REMEMBERED THAT
WHEN HIS FATHER READ A STORY
1016
00:57:24,475 --> 00:57:26,475
ABOUT A WAR VETERAN,
WHO HAS BEEN JILTED
1017
00:57:26,615 --> 00:57:30,135
BY A NURSE NAMED AG
AND CONTRACTS GONORRHEA
1018
00:57:30,274 --> 00:57:33,074
FROM A SALESGIRL,
HE WROTE TO HIS SON
1019
00:57:33,208 --> 00:57:35,308
THAT THE BOOK WAS FILTH.
1020
00:57:35,452 --> 00:57:38,732
NO GENTLEMAN EVER MENTIONED
A VENEREAL DISEASE
1021
00:57:38,834 --> 00:57:41,564
OUTSIDE A DOCTOR'S OFFICE.
1022
00:57:41,665 --> 00:57:45,245
HIS MOTHER HAD HOPED
HE MIGHT BECOME AN ARTIST
1023
00:57:45,392 --> 00:57:49,332
BUT NOT THIS KIND.
1024
00:57:49,466 --> 00:57:53,436
ANOTHER STORY WAS SO DARING,
THAT EVEN GERTRUDE STEIN
1025
00:57:53,608 --> 00:57:58,028
HAD TOLD HEMINGWAY IT WAS
TOO OBSCENE TO BE PUBLISHED.
1026
00:57:58,164 --> 00:58:03,134
IT WAS CALLED "UP IN MICHIGAN."
1027
00:58:03,272 --> 00:58:04,652
KATAKIS: I THINK
"UP IN MICHIGAN"
1028
00:58:04,791 --> 00:58:08,241
IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE,
FIRST OF ALL,
1029
00:58:08,346 --> 00:58:10,936
HE IS SAYING
THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES.
1030
00:58:11,108 --> 00:58:14,108
"I'M GOING TO WRITE WITH
NO BOUNDARIES, NO RESTRICTIONS.
1031
00:58:14,283 --> 00:58:17,183
"I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN
TO YOU, POLITE WORLD.
1032
00:58:17,321 --> 00:58:20,121
"I'M GOING TO WHAT
I THINK IS TRUE,
1033
00:58:20,289 --> 00:58:22,599
"BUT I'M GOING TO SEE IT
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW
1034
00:58:22,775 --> 00:58:25,325
OF THE WOMAN."
1035
00:58:25,467 --> 00:58:28,297
NARRATOR: LIZ COATES IS
A TEEN-AGED GIRL WORKING
1036
00:58:28,435 --> 00:58:30,915
IN A BOARDING HOUSE
IN THE TINY TOWN
1037
00:58:31,093 --> 00:58:32,793
OF HORTONS BAY.
1038
00:58:32,888 --> 00:58:35,788
AMONG THE BOARDERS IS
A HANDSOME YOUNG BLACKSMITH
1039
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,690
NAMED JIM GILMORE.
1040
00:58:38,825 --> 00:58:44,175
ONE EVENING, THEY GO DOWN
TO THE DOCK.
1041
00:58:44,313 --> 00:58:47,353
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"DON'T, JIM," LIZ SAID.
1042
00:58:47,489 --> 00:58:50,319
JIM SLID THE HAND FURTHER UP.
1043
00:58:50,457 --> 00:58:52,107
"YOU MUSTN'T, JIM.
1044
00:58:52,218 --> 00:58:54,288
YOU MUSTN'T."
1045
00:58:54,461 --> 00:58:56,461
NEITHER JIM NOR JIM'S
BIG HAND PAID
1046
00:58:56,567 --> 00:58:58,287
ANY ATTENTION TO HER.
1047
00:58:58,465 --> 00:59:00,325
THE BOARDS WERE HARD.
1048
00:59:00,467 --> 00:59:02,297
JIM HAD HER DRESS UP
AND WAS TRYING TO DO
1049
00:59:02,469 --> 00:59:04,469
SOMETHING TO HER.
1050
00:59:04,644 --> 00:59:07,164
SHE WAS FRIGHTENED,
BUT SHE WANTED IT.
1051
00:59:07,336 --> 00:59:11,026
SHE HAD TO HAVE IT,
BUT IT FRIGHTENED HER.
1052
00:59:11,168 --> 00:59:13,858
"YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, JIM.
YOU MUSTN'T."
1053
00:59:13,998 --> 00:59:16,688
"I GOT TO.
I'M GOING TO.
1054
00:59:16,829 --> 00:59:19,309
YOU KNOW WE GOT TO."
1055
00:59:19,417 --> 00:59:22,897
"NO WE HAVEN'T, JIM.
WE AIN'T GOT TO.
1056
00:59:23,042 --> 00:59:24,422
"OH, IT ISN'T RIGHT.
1057
00:59:24,561 --> 00:59:27,151
"OH, IT'S SO BIG,
AND IT HURTS SO.
1058
00:59:27,322 --> 00:59:28,842
"YOU CAN'T.
1059
00:59:28,979 --> 00:59:30,429
"OH, JIM.
1060
00:59:30,567 --> 00:59:33,357
JIM. OH."
1061
00:59:36,020 --> 00:59:41,680
O'BRIEN: I THINK MANY WOMEN
FEEL, AND, INDEED,
1062
00:59:41,785 --> 00:59:49,375
UM, BROADCAST THE IDEA
THAT HEMINGWAY HATED WOMEN
1063
00:59:49,516 --> 00:59:53,866
AND WROTE ADVERSELY
ALWAYS ABOUT THEM.
1064
00:59:54,004 --> 00:59:56,284
THIS ISN'T TRUE.
1065
00:59:56,420 --> 00:59:58,770
"THE HEMLOCK PLANKS OF THE DOCK
WERE HARD
1066
00:59:58,905 --> 01:00:00,795
"AND SPLINTERY AND COLD,
1067
01:00:00,942 --> 01:00:04,912
"AND JIM WAS HEAVY ON HER,
AND HE HAD HURT HER.
1068
01:00:05,049 --> 01:00:06,399
"LIZ PUSHED HIM.
1069
01:00:06,533 --> 01:00:09,093
"SHE WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLE
AND CRAMPED.
1070
01:00:09,226 --> 01:00:11,536
"JIM WAS ASLEEP.
HE WOULDN'T MOVE.
1071
01:00:11,642 --> 01:00:13,822
"SHE WORKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM
1072
01:00:13,955 --> 01:00:17,885
"AND SAT UP AND STRAIGHTENED
HER SKIRT AND COAT
1073
01:00:17,993 --> 01:00:21,483
"AND TRIED TO DO SOMETHING
WITH HER HAIR.
1074
01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:24,658
"JIM WAS SLEEPING
WITH HIS MOUTH A LITTLE OPEN.
1075
01:00:24,793 --> 01:00:28,073
"LIZ LEANED OVER
AND KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK.
1076
01:00:28,210 --> 01:00:29,590
"HE WAS STILL ASLEEP.
1077
01:00:29,729 --> 01:00:33,319
"SHE LIFTED HIS HEAD
A LITTLE AND SHOOK IT.
1078
01:00:33,457 --> 01:00:36,007
"HE ROLLED HIS HEAD OVER
AND SWALLOWED.
1079
01:00:36,149 --> 01:00:38,319
"LIZ STARTED TO CRY.
1080
01:00:38,462 --> 01:00:40,572
"SHE WALKED OVER
TO THE EDGE OF THE DOCK
1081
01:00:40,671 --> 01:00:43,431
"AND LOOKED DOWN TO THE WATER.
1082
01:00:43,536 --> 01:00:46,086
"THERE WAS A MIST COMING UP
FROM THE BAY.
1083
01:00:46,263 --> 01:00:53,413
SHE WAS COLD AND MISERABLE
AND EVERYTHING FELT GONE."
1084
01:00:53,580 --> 01:00:58,860
NOW, I WOULD ASK,
UM, HIS DETRACTORS,
1085
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:03,110
FEMALE OR MALE,
JUST TO READ THAT STORY,
1086
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:08,460
AND COULD YOU IN ALL HONOR
SAY THAT THIS WAS A WRITER
1087
01:01:08,595 --> 01:01:12,355
WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
WOMEN'S EMOTIONS
1088
01:01:12,496 --> 01:01:13,666
AND WHO HATED WOMEN?
1089
01:01:13,808 --> 01:01:16,638
YOU COULDN'T.
NOBODY COULD.
1090
01:01:16,776 --> 01:01:19,156
KATAKIS:
THIS IS ABOUT DATE RAPE.
1091
01:01:19,296 --> 01:01:24,466
HE WAS DRILLING DOWN DEEPER
INTO THOSE DARK SIDES OF US,
1092
01:01:24,611 --> 01:01:28,441
AND MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T
WANT TO SEE THAT,
1093
01:01:28,615 --> 01:01:31,065
LIKE HIS PARENTS,
LIKE MS. STEIN,
1094
01:01:31,204 --> 01:01:34,144
LIKE SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE.
1095
01:01:34,242 --> 01:01:36,902
HE WAS UNCONCERNED WITH THAT,
1096
01:01:37,038 --> 01:01:42,178
AND I THINK AT THE END THAT'S
WHAT MAKES HIM AN ARTIST.
1097
01:01:42,319 --> 01:01:44,319
NARRATOR: THE CRITIC
EDMUND WILSON
1098
01:01:44,424 --> 01:01:46,674
PRAISED HEMINGWAY
FOR WRITING PROSE
1099
01:01:46,806 --> 01:01:49,666
OF "THE FIRST DISTINCTION"
AND FOR PROVIDING
1100
01:01:49,809 --> 01:01:52,469
"A HARROWING RECORD
OF THE BARBARITIES
1101
01:01:52,570 --> 01:01:57,020
OF THE PERIOD
IN WHICH WE LIVE."
1102
01:01:57,161 --> 01:01:59,821
FULL-TIME WRITING WASN'T EASY.
1103
01:01:59,923 --> 01:02:01,343
THE BABY CRIED.
1104
01:02:01,441 --> 01:02:04,341
FRIENDS DROPPED IN,
DAY AND NIGHT.
1105
01:02:04,513 --> 01:02:07,073
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SOMETIMES
WHEN I WAS STARTING A NEW STORY
1106
01:02:07,206 --> 01:02:10,896
AND I COULD NOT GET IT GOING,
I WOULD STAND AND LOOK OUT
1107
01:02:11,037 --> 01:02:15,277
OVER THE ROOFS OF PARIS
AND THINK, "DO NOT WORRY.
1108
01:02:15,421 --> 01:02:20,531
"YOU HAVE ALWAYS WRITTEN BEFORE,
AND YOU WILL WRITE NOW.
1109
01:02:20,702 --> 01:02:24,432
"ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WRITE
ONE TRUE SENTENCE.
1110
01:02:25,914 --> 01:02:30,024
WRITE THE TRUEST SENTENCE
THAT YOU KNOW."
1111
01:02:30,125 --> 01:02:33,265
SO FINALLY I WOULD WRITE
ONE TRUE SENTENCE
1112
01:02:33,404 --> 01:02:36,824
AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE.
1113
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,140
IT WAS EASY THEN BECAUSE THERE
WAS ALWAYS ONE TRUE SENTENCE
1114
01:02:40,273 --> 01:02:45,213
THAT YOU KNEW OR HAD SEEN
OR HEARD SOMEONE SAY.
1115
01:02:45,382 --> 01:02:47,732
IF I STARTED TO
WRITE ELABORATELY
1116
01:02:47,867 --> 01:02:51,077
OR LIKE SOMEONE INTRODUCING
OR PRESENTING SOMETHING,
1117
01:02:51,215 --> 01:02:54,215
I FOUND THAT I COULD CUT THAT
SCROLLWORK OR ORNAMENT OUT
1118
01:02:54,322 --> 01:02:57,392
AND THROW IT AWAY AND START
WITH THE FIRST TRUE,
1119
01:02:57,566 --> 01:03:01,046
SIMPLE DECLARATIVE SENTENCE
I HAD WRITTEN
1120
01:03:01,225 --> 01:03:04,495
AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE.
1121
01:03:04,642 --> 01:03:08,412
KATAKIS: THE SHORT STORIES
MEAN MORE TO ME NOW
1122
01:03:08,543 --> 01:03:11,133
BECAUSE IT IS A YOUNG MAN
1123
01:03:11,270 --> 01:03:14,760
AT THE BEGINNING
OF HIS ADVENTURE.
1124
01:03:14,894 --> 01:03:18,424
HE'S HUNGRY, HE'S EXCITED,
HIS OBSERVATIONS
1125
01:03:18,553 --> 01:03:21,563
ARE LIKE A HAWK.
1126
01:03:21,728 --> 01:03:23,728
HE'S FEELING EVERYTHING.
1127
01:03:23,903 --> 01:03:26,113
HE'S ANTICIPATING EVERYTHING.
1128
01:03:26,250 --> 01:03:30,430
HE'S TRYING TO MAKE
EVERYTHING GO HIS WAY.
1129
01:03:30,565 --> 01:03:34,115
IT'S TERRIBLY EXCITING.
1130
01:03:34,258 --> 01:03:36,918
VAILL: IF HE WERE A CAMERA,
HE WOULD BE COMING IN
1131
01:03:37,020 --> 01:03:39,160
FOR EXTREME CLOSEUP
ALL THE TIME.
1132
01:03:39,298 --> 01:03:41,848
HE'S COMING IN, IN, IN AT IT,
1133
01:03:41,990 --> 01:03:46,680
AND EVERY LITTLE DETAIL
SUDDENLY IS VERY, VERY BIG.
1134
01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:49,553
IT'S NOT LIKE THE WAY
19th CENTURY WRITERS
1135
01:03:49,687 --> 01:03:51,447
WOULD WRITE, WHICH WAS
VERY PANORAMIC,
1136
01:03:51,620 --> 01:03:53,480
WHERE THE CAMERA IS SET
WAY, WAY BACK,
1137
01:03:53,622 --> 01:03:56,972
AND YOU SEE A GIANT EXPANSE
OF EXPERIENCE,
1138
01:03:57,109 --> 01:04:00,219
AND YET HE'S REALLY
UP CLOSE AT IT.
1139
01:04:00,353 --> 01:04:03,123
YOU CAN SEE EVERY PORE
IN EVERYBODY'S SKIN
1140
01:04:03,218 --> 01:04:08,468
WHEN HE'S WRITING,
AND THIS IS EXTREMELY EXCITING.
1141
01:04:08,568 --> 01:04:11,298
NARRATOR: DURING THE FIRST
6 MONTHS OF 1924,
1142
01:04:11,468 --> 01:04:14,848
HEMINGWAY WROTE MORE STORIES,
HOPING TO INCLUDE THEM
1143
01:04:14,989 --> 01:04:20,129
IN A NEW AND EXPANDED COLLECTION
OF "IN OUR TIME."
1144
01:04:20,235 --> 01:04:24,545
CUSHMAN: "IN OUR TIME" JUST
REARRANGED THE GEOGRAPHY
1145
01:04:24,688 --> 01:04:28,758
OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A LOT
OF PEOPLE WRITING IN ENGLISH.
1146
01:04:28,899 --> 01:04:32,139
WHEN I GO BACK TO THAT BOOK
AND TRY TO FORGET ABOUT
1147
01:04:32,247 --> 01:04:35,797
WHO HE BECAME,
I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY.
1148
01:04:35,906 --> 01:04:39,526
THAT BOOK, IT TAKES
THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD OFF.
1149
01:04:39,668 --> 01:04:41,218
NARRATOR: THE BOOK WOULD
EVENTUALLY INCLUDE
1150
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,710
15 STORIES SEPARATED
BY BRIEF, ITALICIZED VIGNETTES
1151
01:04:46,848 --> 01:04:50,988
BASED ON THINGS HEMINGWAY
HAD SEEN OR BEEN TOLD ABOUT--
1152
01:04:51,163 --> 01:04:55,723
REFUGEES, A DYING BULLFIGHTER,
A HANGING,
1153
01:04:55,857 --> 01:05:00,167
AND THE WAR HE HAD
EXPERIENCED IN ITALY.
1154
01:05:00,275 --> 01:05:03,445
O'BRIEN: THERE'S SOMETHING
ABOUT THESE SHORT PIECES
1155
01:05:03,589 --> 01:05:07,209
THAT ARE IMMORTAL
IN MY OPINION.
1156
01:05:07,351 --> 01:05:11,491
I THINK THEY'RE
ABSOLUTE MIRACLES OF PROSE,
1157
01:05:11,597 --> 01:05:15,387
OF DESCRIPTION, OF EVOCATION,
1158
01:05:15,532 --> 01:05:21,192
AND OF, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
OF ALL, BEING THERE.
1159
01:05:21,296 --> 01:05:23,706
THEY TAKE YOU THERE.
1160
01:05:26,301 --> 01:05:27,921
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
WHILE THE BOMBARDMENT
1161
01:05:28,062 --> 01:05:30,862
WAS KNOCKING THE TRENCH
TO PIECES AT FOSSALTA,
1162
01:05:31,030 --> 01:05:33,760
HE LAY VERY FLAT AND SWEATED
AND PRAYED,
1163
01:05:33,895 --> 01:05:37,795
"O JESUS CHRIST
GET ME OUT OF HERE.
1164
01:05:37,934 --> 01:05:41,734
"DEAR JESUS, PLEASE GET ME OUT.
1165
01:05:41,868 --> 01:05:44,978
"CHRIST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
CHRIST.
1166
01:05:45,113 --> 01:05:46,913
"IF YOU'LL ONLY KEEP ME
FROM GETTING KILLED,
1167
01:05:47,046 --> 01:05:48,946
"I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY.
1168
01:05:49,083 --> 01:05:51,123
"I BELIEVE IN YOU,
AND I'LL TELL EVERYONE
1169
01:05:51,257 --> 01:05:54,467
"IN THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE
THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS.
1170
01:05:54,605 --> 01:05:58,705
PLEASE PLEASE DEAR JESUS."
1171
01:06:02,096 --> 01:06:05,436
THE SHELLING MOVED
FURTHER UP THE LINE.
1172
01:06:05,582 --> 01:06:07,892
WE WENT TO WORK ON THE TRENCH,
1173
01:06:07,998 --> 01:06:09,858
AND IN THE MORNING,
THE SUN CAME UP,
1174
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,040
AND THE DAY WAS HOT AND MUGGY
AND CHEERFUL AND QUIET.
1175
01:06:17,180 --> 01:06:19,110
THE NEXT NIGHT BACK AT MESTRE,
HE DID NOT TELL THE GIRL
1176
01:06:19,251 --> 01:06:25,291
HE WENT UPSTAIRS WITH
AT THE VILLA ROSSA ABOUT JESUS.
1177
01:06:25,429 --> 01:06:28,779
AND HE NEVER TOLD ANYBODY.
1178
01:06:28,950 --> 01:06:32,820
MAN: IT'S THE BETRAYAL
OF A PROMISE THAT APPEALS TO ME.
1179
01:06:32,954 --> 01:06:35,274
I THINK WE ALL DO IT IN
PETTY WAYS THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES.
1180
01:06:35,370 --> 01:06:39,100
"GET ME THROUGH THE CRISIS,
AND I'LL CHANGE MY WAYS,"
1181
01:06:39,271 --> 01:06:43,791
AND IT DOESN'T HAPPEN
IN THIS STORY.
1182
01:06:43,965 --> 01:06:47,035
NARRATOR: HALF THE STORIES
IN "IN OUR TIME" FEATURE
1183
01:06:47,175 --> 01:06:52,485
NICK ADAMS, A CHARACTER WHO IS
VERY LIKE THE YOUNG HEMINGWAY.
1184
01:06:52,629 --> 01:06:56,499
IN "INDIAN CAMP," HE IS
A LITTLE BOY WHO ACCOMPANIES
1185
01:06:56,633 --> 01:06:59,463
HIS PHYSICIAN FATHER
ACROSS A LAKE
1186
01:06:59,567 --> 01:07:01,497
TO AN ENCAMPMENT,
WHERE A WOMAN
1187
01:07:01,638 --> 01:07:05,228
HAS BEEN IN LABOR
FOR TWO DAYS.
1188
01:07:05,366 --> 01:07:08,126
PURE HORROR FOLLOWS.
1189
01:07:08,231 --> 01:07:10,891
AS THE BOY LOOKS ON,
HIS FATHER PERFORMS
1190
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:14,647
AN EMERGENCY CAESARIAN SECTION
BY LAMP LIGHT,
1191
01:07:14,754 --> 01:07:17,694
USING A JACKKNIFE
AND SUTURING THE WOUND
1192
01:07:17,826 --> 01:07:22,726
WITH FISHING LINE,
ALL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC.
1193
01:07:22,866 --> 01:07:25,316
WHEN NICK ASKS HIS FATHER
IF HE CAN'T DO SOMETHING
1194
01:07:25,489 --> 01:07:32,149
ABOUT HER SCREAMS, HE ANSWERS
"THEY ARE NOT IMPORTANT."
1195
01:07:32,324 --> 01:07:34,884
AFTERWARDS, THE FATHER
OF THE CHILD,
1196
01:07:35,016 --> 01:07:37,876
APPARENTLY UNABLE TO ENDURE
HIS HELPLESSNESS
1197
01:07:38,019 --> 01:07:40,569
DURING HIS WIFE'S ORDEAL,
IS FOUND
1198
01:07:40,711 --> 01:07:43,891
TO HAVE SLIT HIS OWN THROAT.
1199
01:07:46,338 --> 01:07:47,888
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"DO LADIES ALWAYS HAVE
1200
01:07:48,029 --> 01:07:51,339
SUCH A HARD TIME HAVING BABIES?"
NICK ASKED.
1201
01:07:51,515 --> 01:07:55,585
"NO, THAT WAS VERY,
VERY EXCEPTIONAL."
1202
01:07:55,726 --> 01:07:58,726
"WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF,
DADDY?"
1203
01:07:58,867 --> 01:08:00,557
"I DON'T KNOW, NICK.
1204
01:08:00,697 --> 01:08:03,697
HE COULDN'T STAND THINGS,
I GUESS."
1205
01:08:03,872 --> 01:08:06,672
"DO MANY MEN
KILL THEMSELVES, DADDY?"
1206
01:08:06,841 --> 01:08:08,711
"NOT VERY MANY, NICK."
1207
01:08:08,843 --> 01:08:10,603
"DO MANY WOMEN?"
1208
01:08:10,741 --> 01:08:12,611
"HARDLY EVER."
1209
01:08:12,743 --> 01:08:14,543
"DON'T THEY EVER?"
1210
01:08:14,642 --> 01:08:17,712
"OH, YES.
THEY DO SOMETIMES."
1211
01:08:17,852 --> 01:08:20,652
"IS DYING HARD, DADDY?"
1212
01:08:20,786 --> 01:08:24,066
"NO, I THINK IT'S
PRETTY EASY, NICK.
1213
01:08:24,203 --> 01:08:26,343
IT ALL DEPENDS."
1214
01:08:28,966 --> 01:08:31,796
THEY WERE SEATED IN THE BOAT,
NICK IN THE STERN,
1215
01:08:31,935 --> 01:08:34,315
HIS FATHER ROWING.
1216
01:08:34,455 --> 01:08:37,385
THE SUN WAS COMING UP
OVER THE HILLS.
1217
01:08:37,561 --> 01:08:41,291
A BASS JUMPED, MAKING
A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.
1218
01:08:41,427 --> 01:08:43,947
NICK TRAILED HIS HAND
IN THE WATER.
1219
01:08:44,085 --> 01:08:47,295
IT FELT WARM IN THE SHARP CHILL
OF THE MORNING.
1220
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:50,915
IN THE EARLY MORNING
ON THE LAKE,
1221
01:08:51,092 --> 01:08:54,852
SITTING IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT
WITH HIS FATHER ROWING,
1222
01:08:54,992 --> 01:08:58,792
HE FELT QUITE SURE
THAT HE WOULD NEVER DIE.
1223
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:04,690
WOLFF: "INDIAN CAMP," THAT'S ONE
1224
01:09:04,830 --> 01:09:07,700
OF MY FAVORITE STORIES
IN THE WORLD,
1225
01:09:07,833 --> 01:09:10,253
AND HE WAS A BABY
WHEN HE WROTE IT,
1226
01:09:10,422 --> 01:09:14,152
BUT IT IS COMPL--IT IS A WORK
OF GREAT SOPHISTICATION,
1227
01:09:14,288 --> 01:09:17,768
AND IT HANDLES
VERY SENSATIONAL MATERIAL
1228
01:09:17,946 --> 01:09:20,666
IN AN ABSOLUTELY
UNSENSATIONAL WAY.
1229
01:09:20,811 --> 01:09:25,821
AND WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IS
"YOU'RE GOING TO DIE."
1230
01:09:25,954 --> 01:09:28,514
HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO DIE.
HE'S SEEN IT,
1231
01:09:28,647 --> 01:09:32,477
BUT THERE'S THIS FEELING,
BEING WITH HIS FATHER,
1232
01:09:32,616 --> 01:09:36,276
BEING OUTDOORS IN THE DAWN,
1233
01:09:36,448 --> 01:09:42,388
THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO HOPE
OR DENY OR EVADE THAT TRUTH
1234
01:09:42,523 --> 01:09:44,803
FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
1235
01:09:46,975 --> 01:09:49,115
NARRATOR: THE LAST STORIES
IN THE COLLECTION
1236
01:09:49,288 --> 01:09:53,398
ARE "BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER,
PARTS I AND II."
1237
01:09:53,534 --> 01:09:56,124
THEY ARE ABOUT A NOW OLDER
NICK ADAMS,
1238
01:09:56,226 --> 01:09:58,776
A WRITER WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED
AND TRAUMATIZED
1239
01:09:58,884 --> 01:10:00,994
FROM THE GREAT WAR.
1240
01:10:01,162 --> 01:10:04,062
"IT WAS ABOUT THE WAR,"
HEMINGWAY LATER RECALLED,
1241
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,480
"BUT THERE WAS NO MENTION
OF THE WAR IN IT."
1242
01:10:10,033 --> 01:10:11,313
NICK JOURNEYS ALONE
1243
01:10:11,483 --> 01:10:13,693
TO THE UPPER PENINSULA
OF MICHIGAN,
1244
01:10:13,830 --> 01:10:18,490
WHERE HE HAD FREQUENTLY FISHED
FOR TROUT BEFORE THE WAR.
1245
01:10:18,593 --> 01:10:22,253
A FOREST FIRE HAS DESTROYED
THE TOWN HE HAD KNOWN.
1246
01:10:22,390 --> 01:10:24,980
HE FEARS THE RIVER
AND THE LIFE HE KNEW
1247
01:10:25,082 --> 01:10:28,222
BEFORE THE WAR
HAD BEEN RUINED, TOO.
1248
01:10:32,089 --> 01:10:34,439
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE RIVER WAS THERE.
1249
01:10:34,575 --> 01:10:38,855
IT SWIRLED AGAINST THE LOG PILES
OF THE BRIDGE.
1250
01:10:38,958 --> 01:10:41,338
NICK LOOKED DOWN
INTO THE CLEAR, BROWN WATER,
1251
01:10:41,444 --> 01:10:45,174
COLORED FROM THE PEBBLY BOTTOM,
AND WATCHED THE TROUT
1252
01:10:45,344 --> 01:10:47,424
KEEPING THEMSELVES STEADY
IN THE CURRENT
1253
01:10:47,553 --> 01:10:49,873
WITH WAVERING FINS.
1254
01:10:52,248 --> 01:10:54,458
AS HE WATCHED THEM,
THEY CHANGED THEIR POSITIONS
1255
01:10:54,595 --> 01:10:57,525
BY QUICK ANGLES,
ONLY TO HOLD STEADY
1256
01:10:57,632 --> 01:11:00,082
IN THE FAST WATER AGAIN.
1257
01:11:00,221 --> 01:11:03,221
NICK WATCHED THEM A LONG TIME.
1258
01:11:04,846 --> 01:11:06,706
IT WAS A HOT DAY.
1259
01:11:06,883 --> 01:11:09,543
A KINGFISHER FLEW UP THE STREAM.
1260
01:11:09,713 --> 01:11:12,683
IT WAS A LONG TIME SINCE NICK
HAD LOOKED INTO A STREAM
1261
01:11:12,785 --> 01:11:14,855
AND SEEN TROUT.
1262
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,690
THEY WERE VERY SATISFACTORY.
1263
01:11:18,791 --> 01:11:21,101
WOMAN: I LOVED IT.
1264
01:11:21,242 --> 01:11:24,452
I LOVED THE DESCRIPTION
OF THE SCENERY
1265
01:11:24,590 --> 01:11:30,320
WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING
ABOUT HIS INNER SITUATION.
1266
01:11:30,458 --> 01:11:33,048
HE HAD SOME HURT,
OR SOMETHING BAD,
1267
01:11:33,150 --> 01:11:35,430
IT WAS INSIDE OF HIMSELF.
1268
01:11:35,567 --> 01:11:39,567
BY FOLLOWING HIS DESCRIPTION
OF THE LANDSCAPE
1269
01:11:39,743 --> 01:11:46,443
AND WHAT HE DOES, WE FEEL
HE IS CURED, HEALED.
1270
01:11:49,477 --> 01:11:53,447
NARRATOR: IN 1925, THE NEW YORK
PUBLISHER HORACE LIVERIGHT
1271
01:11:53,585 --> 01:11:57,415
BROUGHT OUT THE EXPANDED EDITION
OF "IN OUR TIME,"
1272
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,250
BUT HE REFUSED TO INCLUDE
"UP IN MICHIGAN,"
1273
01:12:00,419 --> 01:12:04,799
THE STORY GERTRUDE STEIN
HAD SAID WAS UNPUBLISHABLE.
1274
01:12:04,941 --> 01:12:08,321
HEMINGWAY WAS DISAPPOINTED
BUT SAID HE HOPED THE BOOK
1275
01:12:08,462 --> 01:12:13,332
WOULD BE "PRAISED BY HIGHBROWS
AND CAN BE READ BY LOWBROWS.
1276
01:12:13,467 --> 01:12:15,607
"THERE IS NO WRITING IN IT
THAT ANYBODY
1277
01:12:15,710 --> 01:12:19,610
WITH A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
CANNOT READ."
1278
01:12:19,714 --> 01:12:21,134
CUSHMAN: ONE OF THE THINGS
TO THINK ABOUT,
1279
01:12:21,267 --> 01:12:23,267
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT MODERNISM,
1280
01:12:23,373 --> 01:12:27,003
AT LEAST ANGLO-IRISH,
AMERICAN, HIGH MODERNISM,
1281
01:12:27,135 --> 01:12:31,515
IS THERE WAS A CULT
OF DIFFICULTY:
1282
01:12:31,657 --> 01:12:35,177
JOYCE, DIFFICULT;
GERTRUDE STEIN, DIFFICULT;
1283
01:12:35,316 --> 01:12:39,316
FAULKNER, DIFFICULT;
E.E. CUMMINGS, DIFFICULT.
1284
01:12:39,458 --> 01:12:43,288
AND HEMINGWAY JUST WENT
AGAINST THE GRAIN ON THAT.
1285
01:12:43,393 --> 01:12:45,843
HE DARED TO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD
1286
01:12:45,982 --> 01:12:47,642
OR APPARENTLY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
1287
01:12:47,811 --> 01:12:52,161
HE DARED TO
IMPERSONATE SIMPLICITY.
1288
01:12:52,298 --> 01:12:55,368
HE HOOKS YOU
WITH THE LOWBROW APPEARANCE.
1289
01:12:55,509 --> 01:13:02,379
THEN, HE PLAYS YOU,
AND THEN, YOU'RE HIS TROPHY.
1290
01:13:02,516 --> 01:13:05,656
NARRATOR: THE BOOK WAS
A CRITICAL SENSATION.
1291
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,560
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAID
THAT HEMINGWAY PACKED
1292
01:13:08,694 --> 01:13:11,324
"A WHOLE CHARACTER
INTO A PHRASE,
1293
01:13:11,490 --> 01:13:15,110
AN ENTIRE SITUATION
INTO A SENTENCE OR TWO"
1294
01:13:15,252 --> 01:13:19,502
AND MADE "EACH WORD COUNT
3 OR 4 WAYS."
1295
01:13:19,602 --> 01:13:22,852
"ERNEST HEMINGWAY IS SOMEBODY,"
SAID "TIME,"
1296
01:13:23,019 --> 01:13:31,789
"A NEW, HONEST, UNLITERARY
TRANSCRIBER OF LIFE, A WRITER."
1297
01:13:31,924 --> 01:13:35,004
CUSHMAN: HE WAS
VERY RESTLESS AND AMBITIOUS,
1298
01:13:35,100 --> 01:13:36,860
VERY COMPETITIVE,
1299
01:13:36,964 --> 01:13:43,384
AND FAULKNER'S GETTING GOING,
FITZGERALD'S GETTING GOING,
1300
01:13:43,522 --> 01:13:46,282
JOYCE IS KING OF THE MOUNTAIN,
1301
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:50,772
AND HE KNEW THAT A NOVEL
HAD TO HAPPEN.
1302
01:13:50,909 --> 01:13:55,709
HOW DOES ONE GO
FROM THE MICROSTITCHING
1303
01:13:55,810 --> 01:13:58,740
OF SENTENCE TO SENTENCE
TO SENTENCE AND,
1304
01:13:58,882 --> 01:14:00,952
"OH, MY GOODNESS, A PARAGRAPH!
1305
01:14:01,091 --> 01:14:03,441
IT ONLY TOOK ME A MORNING"--
1306
01:14:03,577 --> 01:14:06,127
HOW DO YOU GO FROM THAT
TO A LONGER FORM?
1307
01:14:11,895 --> 01:14:15,035
I STARTED IN VALENCIA
ON MY 26th BIRTHDAY,
1308
01:14:15,140 --> 01:14:17,560
JULY 21st.
1309
01:14:17,729 --> 01:14:20,209
EVERYBODY MY AGE HAD
WRITTEN A NOVEL,
1310
01:14:20,317 --> 01:14:22,037
AND I WAS STILL HAVING
A DIFFICULT TIME
1311
01:14:22,216 --> 01:14:24,596
WRITING A PARAGRAPH,
1312
01:14:24,736 --> 01:14:27,386
SO I STARTED THE BOOK
ON MY BIRTHDAY,
1313
01:14:27,566 --> 01:14:31,256
WROTE ALL THROUGH THE FERIA,
IN BED IN THE MORNING,
1314
01:14:31,397 --> 01:14:34,947
WENT ON TO MADRID
AND WROTE THERE.
1315
01:14:35,091 --> 01:14:38,301
WE HAD A ROOM WITH A TABLE,
AND I WROTE IN GREAT LUXURY
1316
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:40,919
ON THE TABLE
AND AROUND THE CORNER
1317
01:14:41,097 --> 01:14:44,547
FROM THE HOTEL IN A BEER PLACE,
WHERE IT WAS COOL.
1318
01:14:44,721 --> 01:15:00,121
♪
1319
01:15:00,288 --> 01:15:05,118
NARRATOR: IN THE SUMMER OF 1925,
LEAVING BUMBY WITH A NANNY,
1320
01:15:05,293 --> 01:15:07,263
THE HEMINGWAYS RETURNED
TO PAMPLONA
1321
01:15:07,433 --> 01:15:11,023
FOR THE ANNUAL RUNNING
OF THE BULLS.
1322
01:15:11,161 --> 01:15:15,441
WITH THEM WENT A GROUP OF 5
AMERICAN AND BRITISH FRIENDS,
1323
01:15:15,614 --> 01:15:19,794
INCLUDING THE SEDUCTIVE
LADY DUFF TWYSDEN.
1324
01:15:19,894 --> 01:15:22,384
"EVERYBODY WAS DRINKING
ALL THE TIME,
1325
01:15:22,518 --> 01:15:25,038
AND EVERYBODY WAS HAVING
AFFAIRS ALL THE TIME,"
1326
01:15:25,175 --> 01:15:26,965
HADLEY REMEMBERED.
1327
01:15:27,143 --> 01:15:30,393
"I FOUND IT SORT OF UPSETTING."
1328
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:33,556
AFTERWARDS, ERNEST AND HADLEY
CONTINUED TO FOLLOW
1329
01:15:33,701 --> 01:15:41,261
THE BULLFIGHTS ACROSS SPAIN--
VALENCIA, MADRID, SAN SEBASTIAN,
1330
01:15:41,398 --> 01:15:44,918
AND AS THEY TRAVELED
ABOARD TRAINS AND BUSES,
1331
01:15:45,057 --> 01:15:49,057
ON RESTAURANT TABLES
AND IN HOTEL ROOMS AT NIGHT,
1332
01:15:49,199 --> 01:15:51,549
HE WORKED FEVERISHLY ON A NOVEL,
1333
01:15:51,685 --> 01:15:54,305
INSPIRED BY
THE TURBULENT TIME THEY'D HAD
1334
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:56,720
WITH THEIR FRIENDS
IN PAMPLONA.
1335
01:15:56,862 --> 01:16:02,212
IT WOULD BE CALLED
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1336
01:16:02,350 --> 01:16:06,390
THE FIRST DRAFT WAS FINISHED
IN JUST 8 WEEKS.
1337
01:16:06,527 --> 01:16:09,007
IT WOULD BE A CLEAR-EYED
AND SARDONIC PORTRAIT
1338
01:16:09,185 --> 01:16:13,525
OF WHAT GERTRUDE STEIN CALLED,
"THE LOST GENERATION,"
1339
01:16:13,672 --> 01:16:16,502
MEN AND WOMEN SCARRED
BY THE GREAT WAR,
1340
01:16:16,606 --> 01:16:21,366
WHO DID THEIR BEST
TO ERASE ITS MEMORY.
1341
01:16:21,542 --> 01:16:24,722
THE NARRATOR, A NEWSPAPERMAN
FROM KANSAS CITY,
1342
01:16:24,856 --> 01:16:30,686
WAS FIRST NAMED "HEM"
BEFORE HE BECAME JAKE BARNES.
1343
01:16:30,793 --> 01:16:33,553
BARNES IS A WAR VETERAN
WITH A MYSTERIOUS
1344
01:16:33,658 --> 01:16:38,768
AND UNEXPLAINED WOUND THAT
HAS MADE HIM IMPOTENT.
1345
01:16:38,904 --> 01:16:40,914
[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]
1346
01:16:52,538 --> 01:16:54,468
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
OUTSIDE A NIGHT TRAIN,
1347
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:56,300
RUNNING ON THE STREETCAR TRACKS,
1348
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:59,409
WENT BY CARRYING VEGETABLES
TO THE MARKETS.
1349
01:16:59,511 --> 01:17:03,481
THEY WERE NOISY AT NIGHT
WHEN YOU COULD NOT SLEEP.
1350
01:17:03,619 --> 01:17:06,239
UNDRESSING, I LOOKED
AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR
1351
01:17:06,414 --> 01:17:10,424
OF THE BIG ARMOIRE
BESIDE THE BED.
1352
01:17:10,556 --> 01:17:13,386
OF ALL THE WAYS TO BE WOUNDED.
1353
01:17:14,802 --> 01:17:17,322
[VARGAS LLOSA SPEAKING SPANISH]
1354
01:17:39,758 --> 01:17:42,108
NARRATOR: IN THE EARLY DRAFTS,
HEMINGWAY HAD USED
1355
01:17:42,209 --> 01:17:43,829
THE REAL NAMES OF HIS FRIENDS
1356
01:17:43,969 --> 01:17:47,459
FROM THEIR RECKLESS,
DRUNKEN TIME IN PAMPLONA.
1357
01:17:47,628 --> 01:17:51,838
FOR FEAR OF BEING SUED,
HE LATER CHANGED THEM.
1358
01:17:51,977 --> 01:17:55,327
LADY DUFF TWYSDEN,
WHO HAD CAPTIVATED HEMINGWAY
1359
01:17:55,463 --> 01:17:56,953
AND HAD WORRIED HADLEY,
1360
01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,710
WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME
THE THINLY DISGUISED
1361
01:17:59,847 --> 01:18:02,947
LADY BRETT ASHLEY,
THE PROMISCUOUS WOMAN
1362
01:18:03,057 --> 01:18:07,957
JAKE BARNES LONGS FOR
BUT CAN NEVER HAVE.
1363
01:18:08,062 --> 01:18:10,862
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
BRETT WAS DAMNED GOOD-LOOKING.
1364
01:18:10,996 --> 01:18:13,096
SHE WORE A SLIPOVER
JERSEY SWEATER
1365
01:18:13,205 --> 01:18:14,685
AND A TWEED SKIRT,
1366
01:18:14,828 --> 01:18:18,278
AND HER HAIR WAS BRUSHED BACK
LIKE A BOY'S.
1367
01:18:18,452 --> 01:18:20,972
SHE STARTED ALL THAT.
1368
01:18:21,144 --> 01:18:24,424
SHE WAS BUILT WITH CURVES LIKE
THE HULL OF A RACING YACHT,
1369
01:18:24,561 --> 01:18:28,431
AND YOU MISSED NONE OF IT
WITH THAT WOOL JERSEY.
1370
01:18:28,565 --> 01:18:31,215
MAN: SOMEBODY LIKE LADY BRETT
IS EFFECTIVELY
1371
01:18:31,361 --> 01:18:33,161
A VERY STRONG CHARACTER.
1372
01:18:33,260 --> 01:18:36,130
SHE ACTIVELY GOES OUT OF HER WAY
TO DRESS LIKE A MAN,
1373
01:18:36,297 --> 01:18:37,707
DRESS LIKE A BOY.
1374
01:18:37,851 --> 01:18:40,031
SHE WEARS A RUGBY SWEATER,
CUTS HER HAIR SHORT,
1375
01:18:40,163 --> 01:18:44,553
AND CHOOSES TO LIVE HER LIFE
AS A MAN WOULD IN THAT MOMENT.
1376
01:18:44,685 --> 01:18:49,615
THAT'S HIGHLY PROVOCATIVE
FOR A 1926 TEXT.
1377
01:18:49,759 --> 01:18:52,589
NARRATOR: ANOTHER MEMBER
OF THE PARTY HAROLD LOEB,
1378
01:18:52,728 --> 01:18:57,218
HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND JEWISH,
BECAME ROBERT COHN,
1379
01:18:57,353 --> 01:18:59,043
WEAK AND OBNOXIOUS,
1380
01:18:59,182 --> 01:19:04,022
SCORNED BY SOME IN THE GROUP
BECAUSE HE WAS A JEW.
1381
01:19:04,118 --> 01:19:06,358
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
BILL LOOKED AROUND, HALF-SHAVED,
1382
01:19:06,465 --> 01:19:08,015
AND THEN WENT ON TALKING
INTO THE MIRROR
1383
01:19:08,191 --> 01:19:10,611
WHILE HE LATHERED HIS FACE.
1384
01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:12,326
"HAVEN'T YOU GOT
SOME MORE JEWISH FRIENDS
1385
01:19:12,437 --> 01:19:14,467
YOU COULD BRING ALONG?"
1386
01:19:14,611 --> 01:19:17,101
HE RUBBED HIS CHIN WITH HIS
THUMB, LOOKED AT IT,
1387
01:19:17,235 --> 01:19:19,615
AND THEN STARTED SCRAPING AGAIN.
1388
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:22,515
"YOU'VE GOT SOME
FINE ONES YOURSELF."
1389
01:19:22,619 --> 01:19:25,379
"OH, YES.
I'VE GOT SOME DARBS.
1390
01:19:25,484 --> 01:19:28,044
"BUT NOT ALONGSIDE
OF THIS ROBERT COHN.
1391
01:19:28,211 --> 01:19:30,801
"THE FUNNY THING IS
HE'S NICE, TOO.
1392
01:19:30,938 --> 01:19:32,278
"I LIKE HIM.
1393
01:19:32,422 --> 01:19:35,082
BUT HE'S JUST SO AWFUL."
1394
01:19:35,218 --> 01:19:37,358
"HE CAN BE DAMNED NICE."
1395
01:19:37,462 --> 01:19:39,222
"I KNOW IT.
1396
01:19:39,395 --> 01:19:42,325
THAT'S THE TERRIBLE PART."
1397
01:19:42,467 --> 01:19:44,877
DEARBORN: I LOVE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES"
1398
01:19:45,056 --> 01:19:48,086
BUT IT'S TRAGIC
THAT HE MAKES HAROLD LOEB
1399
01:19:48,231 --> 01:19:51,371
INTO THIS DESPICABLE JEW.
1400
01:19:51,545 --> 01:19:56,095
IT'S JUST, UM, STUNNING.
1401
01:19:56,239 --> 01:19:58,519
IT'S JUST STUNNING,
1402
01:19:58,655 --> 01:20:01,485
AND HAROLD LOEB
COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
1403
01:20:01,624 --> 01:20:03,834
YOU KNOW, HE THOUGHT
THEY WERE SO CLOSE.
1404
01:20:03,971 --> 01:20:05,251
THEY WERE CLOSE,
1405
01:20:05,421 --> 01:20:08,421
AND HE JUST SAID, "I STILL
DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM.
1406
01:20:08,562 --> 01:20:11,052
HE WAS MY FRIEND."
1407
01:20:13,774 --> 01:20:16,434
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S
PROTAGONIST JAKE BARNES
1408
01:20:16,570 --> 01:20:19,470
IS A JADED INSIDER AT PAMPLONA.
1409
01:20:19,607 --> 01:20:21,677
HE SEEMS TO KNOW
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW
1410
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:24,127
ABOUT BULLFIGHTING.
1411
01:20:24,267 --> 01:20:28,507
THE STAR OF THE FIESTA IS
A MATADOR NAMED PEDRO ROMERO,
1412
01:20:28,651 --> 01:20:32,281
JUST 19, INNOCENT,
AND UNSPOILED.
1413
01:20:32,448 --> 01:20:36,348
THE BULLFIGHTING WORLD HOPES
TO KEEP HIM THAT WAY,
1414
01:20:36,486 --> 01:20:38,446
BUT JAKE BREAKS THE RULES
1415
01:20:38,626 --> 01:20:41,316
AND INTRODUCES HIM
TO BRETT ASHLEY,
1416
01:20:41,457 --> 01:20:46,117
THE WOMAN HE CAN NEVER
BE WITH HIMSELF.
1417
01:20:46,220 --> 01:20:48,530
MANDEL: JAKE BARNES
SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT.
1418
01:20:48,671 --> 01:20:51,641
SHE'S NOT A SERIOUS,
COMMITTED PERSON.
1419
01:20:51,743 --> 01:20:54,023
SHE'S A FREE WOMAN.
SHE'S A FREE WOMAN.
1420
01:20:54,159 --> 01:20:55,889
SHE INDULGES HERSELF,
1421
01:20:56,023 --> 01:20:58,473
AND SHE WANTS TO INDULGE HERSELF
WITH THE BULLFIGHTER.
1422
01:20:58,577 --> 01:21:00,547
JAKE BARNES
SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED
1423
01:21:00,683 --> 01:21:04,693
THIS YOUNG, VULNERABLE,
ETHICAL FIGURE,
1424
01:21:04,825 --> 01:21:08,035
AND AFTER THAT, THE PEOPLE
IN THE KNOW IN PAMPLONA
1425
01:21:08,173 --> 01:21:09,973
TURN AGAINST JAKE.
1426
01:21:10,141 --> 01:21:13,011
THEY BARELY TALK TO HIM.
THEY AVOID HIM,
1427
01:21:13,144 --> 01:21:16,914
AND THAT'S A BIG TURNING POINT
IN THIS CHARACTER.
1428
01:21:17,044 --> 01:21:20,914
OF COURSE,
HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID.
1429
01:21:21,048 --> 01:21:22,598
NARRATOR: AT THE END
OF THE NOVEL,
1430
01:21:22,739 --> 01:21:26,879
JAKE AND BRETT SHARE
A TAXI IN MADRID.
1431
01:21:28,953 --> 01:21:31,403
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE DRIVER
STARTED UP THE STREET.
1432
01:21:31,541 --> 01:21:33,061
I SETTLED BACK.
1433
01:21:33,198 --> 01:21:35,438
BRETT MOVED CLOSE TO ME.
1434
01:21:35,580 --> 01:21:38,170
WE SAT CLOSE AGAINST EACH OTHER.
1435
01:21:38,341 --> 01:21:39,651
I PUT MY ARM AROUND HER,
1436
01:21:39,825 --> 01:21:42,685
AND SHE RESTED
AGAINST ME COMFORTABLY.
1437
01:21:42,828 --> 01:21:44,828
IT WAS VERY HOT AND BRIGHT,
1438
01:21:45,003 --> 01:21:48,013
AND THE HOUSES LOOKED
SHARPLY WHITE.
1439
01:21:48,110 --> 01:21:51,350
WE TURNED OUT
ONTO THE GRAN VIA.
1440
01:21:51,492 --> 01:21:53,292
"OH, JAKE," BRETT SAID,
1441
01:21:53,425 --> 01:21:57,185
"WE COULD HAVE HAD SUCH
A DAMNED GOOD TIME TOGETHER."
1442
01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:02,090
AHEAD WAS A MOUNTED POLICEMAN
IN KHAKI DIRECTING TRAFFIC.
1443
01:22:02,227 --> 01:22:03,947
HE RAISED HIS BATON.
1444
01:22:04,091 --> 01:22:08,341
THE CAR SLOWED, SUDDENLY
PRESSING BRETT AGAINST ME.
1445
01:22:08,440 --> 01:22:10,930
"YES," I SAID.
1446
01:22:11,064 --> 01:22:14,214
ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?"
1447
01:22:14,377 --> 01:22:16,927
TIM O'BRIEN: "ISN'T IT PRETTY
TO THINK SO?"
1448
01:22:17,070 --> 01:22:20,730
IT'S THE WISTFULNESS
OF WHAT WE BOTH LOSE
1449
01:22:20,866 --> 01:22:23,796
AND NEVER HAD,
A WISTFULNESS.
1450
01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:25,939
"ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK
THAT MY DAD AND I
1451
01:22:26,079 --> 01:22:30,389
"COULD HAVE TALKED
ABOUT VIRTUALLY ANYTHING?
1452
01:22:30,497 --> 01:22:32,977
IT'S PRETTY TO THINK SO,"
1453
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:35,610
BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN,
AND IT WON'T HAPPEN,
1454
01:22:35,743 --> 01:22:39,853
AND SO THERE'S A SADNESS TO IT
THAT FEELS TO ME FULLY HUMAN.
1455
01:22:39,989 --> 01:22:42,649
"ALL THAT WILL NOT BE,"
WHICH IS GOING TO BE TRUE
1456
01:22:42,785 --> 01:22:45,235
FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING
IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER
1457
01:22:45,339 --> 01:22:48,409
ON THIS PLANET,
"ALL THAT WILL NEVER BE."
1458
01:22:48,515 --> 01:22:51,305
IT HAS A UNIVERSALITY TO IT.
1459
01:22:51,449 --> 01:22:54,589
"ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?"
1460
01:22:56,419 --> 01:22:58,899
NARRATOR: THE WAR HAD
OBLITERATED ANY ILLUSIONS
1461
01:22:59,077 --> 01:23:01,937
ABOUT THE FUTURE,
BUT HEMINGWAY SEEMED
1462
01:23:02,046 --> 01:23:05,906
TO BE SUGGESTING THAT EVEN
IN THE MOST DAMAGED LIVES,
1463
01:23:06,084 --> 01:23:09,024
DESPITE THE INDIGNITIES
MEN AND WOMEN INFLICT
1464
01:23:09,156 --> 01:23:15,126
UPON EACH OTHER, SOME HOPE,
SOME SWEETNESS COULD BE FOUND.
1465
01:23:15,266 --> 01:23:18,266
EDNA O'BRIEN: I LOVE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1466
01:23:18,372 --> 01:23:21,932
THE PITH OF IT, FOR ME.
1467
01:23:22,100 --> 01:23:25,550
THERE'S ALL THE HOTELS
AND THE DRINK
1468
01:23:25,690 --> 01:23:27,760
AND THE BULLFIGHTING
AND THE FISHING
1469
01:23:27,933 --> 01:23:30,283
AND THE MOUNTAINS
AND THEIR KNAPSACKS,
1470
01:23:30,453 --> 01:23:31,943
"THAT'S A DAMN FINE WINE,"
1471
01:23:32,110 --> 01:23:35,490
AND THERE'S ALL THAT BLUSTER,
1472
01:23:35,631 --> 01:23:38,121
AND THERE'S IMPOTENCE.
1473
01:23:38,220 --> 01:23:41,050
WHAT IT DID FOR ME,
WHEN I READ IT,
1474
01:23:41,188 --> 01:23:48,988
WAS TO INTRODUCE ME
TO AN EXOTICA, A GLAMOUR,
1475
01:23:49,127 --> 01:23:54,677
A LIFE THAT, COMING
FROM COUNTY CLARE IN IRELAND,
1476
01:23:54,822 --> 01:23:56,312
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
1477
01:23:56,410 --> 01:23:57,520
I WAS SEDUCED BY IT.
1478
01:23:57,653 --> 01:24:00,143
THAT IS THE WORD
I'M LOOKING FOR.
1479
01:24:00,311 --> 01:24:03,621
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
AUGUST 23, 1925.
1480
01:24:03,797 --> 01:24:05,937
IT IS A HELL OF A FINE NOVEL.
1481
01:24:06,075 --> 01:24:08,835
WRITTEN VERY SIMPLY AND FULL
OF THINGS HAPPENING
1482
01:24:08,940 --> 01:24:11,670
AND PEOPLE AND PLACES
AND EXCITING AS HELL
1483
01:24:11,839 --> 01:24:14,699
AND NO AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
FIRST NOVEL STUFF.
1484
01:24:14,842 --> 01:24:16,712
I THINK IT WILL BE A KNOCKOUT
1485
01:24:16,844 --> 01:24:18,404
AND WILL LET THESE BASTARDS
WHO SAY,
1486
01:24:18,536 --> 01:24:20,806
"YES, HE CAN WRITE VERY
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PARAGRAPHS KNOW
1487
01:24:20,986 --> 01:24:23,056
WHERE THEY GET OFF AT."
1488
01:24:23,196 --> 01:24:24,956
I'VE TRIED TO WRITE A HELL
OF A GOOD STORY
1489
01:24:25,094 --> 01:24:29,754
ABOUT PEOPLE WITHOUT FAKING,
PRECIOSITY, OR HORSESHIT.
1490
01:24:29,892 --> 01:24:32,522
EVERYBODY KNOWS LIFE IS
A TRAGIC SHOW,
1491
01:24:32,688 --> 01:24:36,108
I.E. BORN HERE, DIE THERE.
1492
01:24:36,243 --> 01:24:40,353
EVERYBODY DIES,
EVERYBODY GETS BITCHED.
1493
01:24:42,939 --> 01:24:45,359
NARRATOR: ERNEST WAS HAPPY
WITH HIS MANUSCRIPT
1494
01:24:45,459 --> 01:24:49,459
BUT UNHAPPY WITH HIS PUBLISHER
HORACE LIVERIGHT.
1495
01:24:49,601 --> 01:24:53,671
HIS LAST BOOK "IN OUR TIME"
HAD BEEN A CRITICAL SUCCESS,
1496
01:24:53,847 --> 01:24:55,777
BUT IT HADN'T SOLD.
1497
01:24:55,918 --> 01:24:58,918
BY CONTRACT, LIVERIGHT HAD
THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH
1498
01:24:59,059 --> 01:25:02,859
HIS NEXT TWO BOOKS PROVIDED
HE ACCEPTED THE FIRST ONE
1499
01:25:02,959 --> 01:25:06,099
WITHIN 60 DAYS
OF ITS SUBMISSION.
1500
01:25:06,239 --> 01:25:10,139
BY THIS TIME, THE CELEBRATED
NOVELIST F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
1501
01:25:10,277 --> 01:25:13,447
HAD BECOME A GOOD FRIEND
AND HAD ALERTED HIS OWN EDITOR
1502
01:25:13,591 --> 01:25:19,221
MAXWELL PERKINS OF SCRIBNER'S,
TO HEMINGWAY'S GREAT PROMISE.
1503
01:25:19,390 --> 01:25:21,770
MAN AS FITZGERALD:
DEAR MAX, THIS IS TO TELL YOU
1504
01:25:21,909 --> 01:25:24,459
ABOUT A YOUNG MAN NAMED
ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
1505
01:25:24,602 --> 01:25:26,162
WHO LIVES IN PARIS,
1506
01:25:26,293 --> 01:25:29,643
AN AMERICAN, WRITES FOR
THE "TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW,"
1507
01:25:29,779 --> 01:25:32,089
AND HAS A BRILLIANT FUTURE.
1508
01:25:32,230 --> 01:25:33,820
EZRA POUND PUBLISHED
A COLLECTION
1509
01:25:33,956 --> 01:25:35,436
OF HIS SHORT PIECES.
1510
01:25:35,578 --> 01:25:38,058
I HAVEN'T IT HERE NOW,
BUT IT'S REMARKABLE,
1511
01:25:38,236 --> 01:25:40,336
AND I'D LOOK HIM UP RIGHT AWAY.
1512
01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:42,240
HE'S THE REAL THING.
1513
01:25:42,413 --> 01:25:43,933
SCOTT.
1514
01:25:44,104 --> 01:25:46,974
NARRATOR: FITZGERALD WOULD
EVENTUALLY PERSUADE ERNEST
1515
01:25:47,107 --> 01:25:49,897
TO JETTISON
THE FIRST TWO CLUMSY CHAPTERS
1516
01:25:50,006 --> 01:25:52,456
OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES,"
THOUGH HEMINGWAY
1517
01:25:52,595 --> 01:25:57,425
WOULD LATER CLAIM IT
HAD BEEN HIS IDEA ALL ALONG.
1518
01:25:57,531 --> 01:26:00,471
NOW, FITZGERALD SUGGESTED A WAY
HEMINGWAY COULD GET
1519
01:26:00,603 --> 01:26:03,263
OUT OF HIS CONTRACT--
WRITE SOMETHING
1520
01:26:03,365 --> 01:26:07,745
HORACE LIVERIGHT
WOULD HAVE TO REJECT.
1521
01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:14,030
IN JUST 10 DAYS, ERNEST BANGED
OUT "THE TORRENTS OF SPRING,"
1522
01:26:14,169 --> 01:26:16,519
A CRUEL LAMPOON OF HIS FRIEND
1523
01:26:16,654 --> 01:26:17,974
SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
1524
01:26:18,103 --> 01:26:19,693
WHO HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY KIND
1525
01:26:19,829 --> 01:26:20,799
TO HEMINGWAY
1526
01:26:20,934 --> 01:26:22,324
AND WAS ONE OF LIVERIGHT'S
1527
01:26:22,453 --> 01:26:24,903
BEST-SELLING AUTHORS.
1528
01:26:25,041 --> 01:26:28,981
HADLEY THOUGHT THE PARODY
OF ANDERSON "DETESTABLE,"
1529
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:31,840
BUT ANOTHER WOMAN'S OPINION
HAD BEGUN TO MATTER
1530
01:26:31,979 --> 01:26:35,289
MORE TO HIM THAN HADLEY'S.
1531
01:26:35,397 --> 01:26:39,117
PAULINE PFEIFFER THOUGHT
THE MANUSCRIPT WAS HILARIOUS,
1532
01:26:39,297 --> 01:26:42,677
FURTHER EVIDENCE
OF ERNEST'S GENIUS.
1533
01:26:42,818 --> 01:26:46,238
SHE WAS WITTY, WEALTHY,
WELL-READ,
1534
01:26:46,373 --> 01:26:49,413
A REPORTER COVERING
PARIS FASHION FOR "VOGUE,"
1535
01:26:49,549 --> 01:26:51,409
AND A PRACTICING CATHOLIC.
1536
01:26:51,551 --> 01:26:54,211
SHE HAD BECOME
HADLEY'S FRIEND FIRST,
1537
01:26:54,347 --> 01:26:56,417
A FREQUENT VISITOR
AT THE APARTMENT
1538
01:26:56,556 --> 01:26:59,006
ABOVE THE SAWMILL.
1539
01:26:59,179 --> 01:27:01,909
ERNEST INVITED PAULINE TO JOIN
HIM AND HADLEY
1540
01:27:02,044 --> 01:27:04,364
FOR CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIA.
1541
01:27:04,495 --> 01:27:06,975
"PAULINE WAS NICE TO ME,"
HADLEY RECALLED.
1542
01:27:07,152 --> 01:27:09,402
"SHE WANTED TO BE FRIENDS."
1543
01:27:09,534 --> 01:27:11,674
THEY TOOK TURNS PLAYING
WITH BUMBY,
1544
01:27:11,778 --> 01:27:16,748
SKIED AND DRANK AND PLAYED
BRIDGE TOGETHER EVERY EVENING,
1545
01:27:16,886 --> 01:27:20,506
BUT IN THE AFTERNOONS,
IT WAS PAULINE, NOT HADLEY,
1546
01:27:20,614 --> 01:27:25,524
WHOM ERNEST TOOK FOR LONG WALKS
THROUGH THE SNOW.
1547
01:27:25,688 --> 01:27:27,928
"SHE DIDN'T GO STRAIGHT
FOR MY HUSBAND,"
1548
01:27:28,070 --> 01:27:30,350
HADLEY RECALLED YEARS LATER,
1549
01:27:30,521 --> 01:27:33,901
"BUT ONCE SHE MADE UP HER MIND
THAT HE WAS WHAT SHE WANTED,
1550
01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:36,771
"SHE WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE.
1551
01:27:36,906 --> 01:27:39,246
HE COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF."
1552
01:27:43,292 --> 01:27:46,432
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO REALLY
LOVE TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME,
1553
01:27:46,571 --> 01:27:51,021
TRULY LOVE THEM, IS THE MOST
DESTRUCTIVE AND TERRIBLE THING
1554
01:27:51,196 --> 01:27:53,536
THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN.
1555
01:27:53,647 --> 01:27:56,057
YOU DO THINGS THAT
ARE IMPOSSIBLE,
1556
01:27:56,167 --> 01:27:58,827
AND WHEN YOU ARE WITH ONE,
YOU LOVE HER,
1557
01:27:58,963 --> 01:28:01,793
AND WITH THE OTHER,
YOU LOVE HER,
1558
01:28:01,931 --> 01:28:04,561
AND TOGETHER,
YOU LOVE THEM BOTH.
1559
01:28:04,727 --> 01:28:08,077
YOU BREAK ALL PROMISES,
AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU KNEW
1560
01:28:08,179 --> 01:28:11,909
THAT YOU COULD NEVER DO
NOR WOULD WANT TO DO.
1561
01:28:12,010 --> 01:28:15,980
YOU LIE AND HATE IT,
AND IT DESTROYS YOU,
1562
01:28:16,118 --> 01:28:18,908
AND EVERY DAY IS MORE DANGEROUS.
1563
01:28:19,017 --> 01:28:21,257
EVERYTHING IS SPLIT
INSIDE OF YOU,
1564
01:28:21,399 --> 01:28:25,229
AND YOU LOVE TWO PEOPLE NOW
INSTEAD OF ONE,
1565
01:28:25,334 --> 01:28:29,414
AND THE STRANGE PART IS
THAT YOU ARE HAPPY.
1566
01:28:31,064 --> 01:28:32,414
NARRATOR: WHEN HEMINGWAY
SUBMITTED
1567
01:28:32,583 --> 01:28:34,933
"THE TORRENTS OF SPRING"
TO HORACE LIVERIGHT,
1568
01:28:35,102 --> 01:28:40,592
THE PUBLISHER REJECTED IT RIGHT
AWAY JUST AS ERNEST HAD HOPED.
1569
01:28:40,763 --> 01:28:44,563
HE WAS NOW FREE TO BRING IT
AND "THE SUN ALSO RISES"
1570
01:28:44,733 --> 01:28:46,323
TO SCRIBNER'S.
1571
01:28:46,459 --> 01:28:51,949
IN JANUARY 1926, ERNEST MADE
A 3-WEEK TRIP TO NEW YORK
1572
01:28:52,050 --> 01:28:56,300
TO MEET WITH HIS NEW EDITOR
MAX PERKINS.
1573
01:28:56,434 --> 01:28:59,514
HADLEY AND BUMBY STAYED ON
IN AUSTRIA.
1574
01:28:59,644 --> 01:29:02,134
AS SOON AS HER HUSBAND
RETURNED TO FRANCE,
1575
01:29:02,267 --> 01:29:05,097
HADLEY EXPECTED HIM
TO BOARD THE TRAIN
1576
01:29:05,201 --> 01:29:07,381
AND COME TO HER IN THE ALPS.
1577
01:29:07,514 --> 01:29:11,214
INSTEAD, HE WENT TO PARIS,
TO PAULINE'S APARTMENT,
1578
01:29:11,346 --> 01:29:15,136
A DECISION THAT WOULD
ONE DAY COME TO HAUNT HIM.
1579
01:29:19,354 --> 01:29:21,054
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE GIRL I WAS IN LOVE WITH
1580
01:29:21,183 --> 01:29:23,293
WAS IN PARIS NOW,
AND I DID NOT TAKE
1581
01:29:23,392 --> 01:29:27,152
THE FIRST TRAIN
OR THE SECOND OR THE THIRD,
1582
01:29:27,292 --> 01:29:29,642
AND WHERE WE WENT
AND WHAT WE DID
1583
01:29:29,812 --> 01:29:33,922
AND THE UNBELIEVABLE WRENCHING,
KICKING HAPPINESS,
1584
01:29:34,058 --> 01:29:37,678
THE SELFISHNESS AND TREACHERY
OF EVERYTHING WE DID,
1585
01:29:37,820 --> 01:29:39,370
GAVE ME SUCH HAPPINESS
1586
01:29:39,512 --> 01:29:44,242
AND UNKILLABLE DREADFUL
HAPPINESS
1587
01:29:44,379 --> 01:29:46,519
SO THAT THE BLACK REMORSE CAME
1588
01:29:46,657 --> 01:29:49,797
AND HATRED OF THE SIN
AND NO CONTRITION,
1589
01:29:49,970 --> 01:29:53,390
ONLY A TERRIBLE REMORSE.
1590
01:29:53,526 --> 01:29:58,526
NARRATOR: HE DID NOT GET TO
HADLEY FOR 3 DAYS.
1591
01:29:58,669 --> 01:30:00,329
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
WHEN I SAW MY WIFE AGAIN
1592
01:30:00,429 --> 01:30:03,049
STANDING BY THE TRACKS
AS THE TRAIN CAME IN
1593
01:30:03,190 --> 01:30:05,330
BY THE PILED LOGS
AT THE STATION,
1594
01:30:05,503 --> 01:30:07,713
I WISHED I HAD DIED
BEFORE I EVER LOVED
1595
01:30:07,850 --> 01:30:09,540
ANYONE BUT HER.
1596
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:12,680
SHE WAS SMILING,
THE SUN ON HER LOVELY FACE
1597
01:30:12,786 --> 01:30:17,336
TANNED BY THE SNOW AND SUN,
BEAUTIFULLY BUILT,
1598
01:30:17,446 --> 01:30:19,686
HER HAIR RED GOLD IN THE SUN
1599
01:30:19,793 --> 01:30:23,213
AND MR. BUMBY STANDING WITH HER,
BLONDE AND CHUNKY
1600
01:30:23,348 --> 01:30:26,518
AND WITH WINTER CHEEKS.
1601
01:30:26,628 --> 01:30:29,698
I LOVED HER,
AND I LOVED NO ONE ELSE,
1602
01:30:29,872 --> 01:30:33,392
AND WE HAD A LOVELY MAGIC TIME
WHILE WE WERE ALONE.
1603
01:30:33,531 --> 01:30:37,471
I WORKED WELL,
AND WE MADE GREAT TRIPS,
1604
01:30:37,604 --> 01:30:40,754
AND IT WASN'T UNTIL WE WERE OUT
OF THE MOUNTAINS IN LATE SPRING,
1605
01:30:40,883 --> 01:30:45,413
AND BACK IN PARIS THAT
THE OTHER THING STARTED AGAIN.
1606
01:30:47,821 --> 01:30:50,131
NARRATOR: ERNEST HOPED
THAT THINGS COULD SOMEHOW
1607
01:30:50,272 --> 01:30:53,382
GO ON THAT WAY,
STILL MARRIED TO HADLEY
1608
01:30:53,551 --> 01:30:56,731
BUT WITH HIS MISTRESS
CONVENIENTLY AT HAND,
1609
01:30:56,830 --> 01:31:00,560
BUT PAULINE WAS NOT CONTENT
TO REMAIN HIS MISTRESS.
1610
01:31:00,662 --> 01:31:04,222
SHE WAS DETERMINED
TO BECOME HIS WIFE.
1611
01:31:05,321 --> 01:31:07,631
HADLEY CONFRONTED HER HUSBAND.
1612
01:31:07,772 --> 01:31:10,292
"WE HAD A TERRIFIC SCENE,"
SHE RECALLED.
1613
01:31:10,430 --> 01:31:13,260
ERNEST LASHED OUT AT HER.
1614
01:31:13,433 --> 01:31:16,783
IF ONLY SHE HADN'T BROUGHT UP
HIS INFIDELITY, HE SAID,
1615
01:31:16,919 --> 01:31:19,609
THINGS COULD HAVE CONTINUED
AS THEY WERE,
1616
01:31:19,750 --> 01:31:21,990
BUT NOW THAT SHE HAD BROKEN
THE SPELL
1617
01:31:22,131 --> 01:31:24,791
THEIR LOVE WAS NO LONGER SAFE.
1618
01:31:24,927 --> 01:31:28,477
"IF I'D HAD ANY SENSE AT ALL,"
HADLEY REMEMBERED YEARS LATER,
1619
01:31:28,621 --> 01:31:30,621
"I'D HAVE LET HIM GO
WITH PAULINE
1620
01:31:30,761 --> 01:31:32,181
"AND BURN HIMSELF OUT,
1621
01:31:32,314 --> 01:31:35,284
AND THEN WE COULD HAVE
BEGUN AGAIN."
1622
01:31:35,420 --> 01:31:38,320
INSTEAD, IN SEPTEMBER,
SHE SCRIBBLED OUT
1623
01:31:38,458 --> 01:31:40,768
A SORT OF CONTRACT IN PENCIL.
1624
01:31:40,943 --> 01:31:45,533
ERNEST AND PAULINE WOULD
HAVE TO SPEND 100 DAYS APART,
1625
01:31:45,672 --> 01:31:49,092
AND AFTERWARDS IF THEY STILL
WANTED ONE ANOTHER,
1626
01:31:49,193 --> 01:31:51,953
SHE WOULD GRANT HIM A DIVORCE.
1627
01:31:52,058 --> 01:31:56,608
ERNEST AND PAULINE AGREED
TO ABIDE BY HER TERMS.
1628
01:31:56,718 --> 01:32:00,028
HE MOVED
TO A FRIEND'S APARTMENT.
1629
01:32:00,169 --> 01:32:03,309
PAULINE SAILED FOR HOME.
1630
01:32:03,448 --> 01:32:05,868
HER MOTHER WAS
INITIALLY APPALLED.
1631
01:32:06,003 --> 01:32:09,143
HER DAUGHTER HAD BROKEN UP
HEMINGWAY'S MARRIAGE.
1632
01:32:09,282 --> 01:32:11,282
ERNEST WAS NOT A CATHOLIC.
1633
01:32:11,387 --> 01:32:14,807
A CHILD WAS INVOLVED.
1634
01:32:14,977 --> 01:32:19,117
ALONE IN PARIS, DEPRESSION
AGAIN GRIPPED HEMINGWAY,
1635
01:32:19,292 --> 01:32:21,192
THIS TIME TINGED WITH GUILT
1636
01:32:21,328 --> 01:32:24,368
ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING
TO HADLEY.
1637
01:32:24,504 --> 01:32:27,994
HE DRANK TOO MUCH,
PICKED FIGHTS, COULDN'T SLEEP,
1638
01:32:28,094 --> 01:32:32,484
SOMEHOW CONVINCED HIMSELF
THAT HE WAS THE VICTIM.
1639
01:32:34,894 --> 01:32:39,314
ONLY TWO MONTHS LATER,
ON NOVEMBER 16, 1926,
1640
01:32:39,484 --> 01:32:42,144
HADLEY WROTE ERNEST THAT
IF HE AND PAULINE
1641
01:32:42,246 --> 01:32:44,346
REALLY WANTED TO BE TOGETHER
1642
01:32:44,489 --> 01:32:48,049
SHE WOULD NO LONGER
STAND IN THE WAY.
1643
01:32:48,183 --> 01:32:50,703
THEY WERE FREE TO MARRY.
1644
01:32:54,016 --> 01:32:55,596
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON:
THE ENTIRE PROBLEM BELONGS
1645
01:32:55,742 --> 01:32:57,852
TO YOU TWO.
1646
01:32:57,951 --> 01:33:02,021
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR YOUR FUTURE WELFARE.
1647
01:33:02,128 --> 01:33:04,988
I TOOK YOU ORIGINALLY
FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
1648
01:33:05,165 --> 01:33:08,615
AND MEANT IT!
1649
01:33:08,755 --> 01:33:11,855
BUT IN THE CASE OF YOUR
MARRYING SOMEONE ELSE,
1650
01:33:12,034 --> 01:33:16,524
I CAN STAND BY MY VOW ONLY
AS AN OUTSIDE FRIEND.
1651
01:33:19,386 --> 01:33:22,386
COME TO SEE BUMBY
AS MUCH AS YOU WANT--
1652
01:33:22,527 --> 01:33:25,287
HE IS YOURS AS MUCH AS MINE--
1653
01:33:25,427 --> 01:33:27,217
AND TAKE HIM OUT SOMETIMES
IF YOU FEEL LIKE
1654
01:33:27,360 --> 01:33:28,880
THAT KIND OF THING--
1655
01:33:29,051 --> 01:33:32,571
SO THAT HE WILL KNOW
YOU ARE HIS REAL PAPA.
1656
01:33:35,230 --> 01:33:39,540
NARRATOR: HADLEY AND BUMBY SOON
SAILED FOR THE UNITED STATES.
1657
01:33:39,717 --> 01:33:46,377
ERNEST STAYED IN PARIS.
PAULINE JOINED HIM.
1658
01:33:46,551 --> 01:33:49,071
MEANWHILE, SCRIBNER'S HAD
FINALLY PUBLISHED
1659
01:33:49,209 --> 01:33:51,419
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1660
01:33:51,591 --> 01:33:54,391
EDMUND WILSON DECLARED IT
THE BEST NOVEL WRITTEN
1661
01:33:54,559 --> 01:33:57,419
BY ANYONE
OF HEMINGWAY'S GENERATION.
1662
01:33:57,597 --> 01:34:00,567
A REVIEWER FOR "THE ATLANTIC"
SAID THAT HEMINGWAY
1663
01:34:00,738 --> 01:34:04,158
"WRITES AS IF HE HAD NEVER
READ ANYBODY'S WRITING,
1664
01:34:04,293 --> 01:34:08,403
AS IF HE HAD FASHIONED
THE ART OF WRITING HIMSELF."
1665
01:34:08,504 --> 01:34:10,964
THE BOOK SOLD WELL.
1666
01:34:11,093 --> 01:34:18,143
ITS AUTHOR INSISTED THAT ALL
THE ROYALTIES GO TO HADLEY.
1667
01:34:18,273 --> 01:34:21,483
ON MAY 10, 1927,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1668
01:34:21,621 --> 01:34:25,491
AND PAULINE PFEIFFER
WERE MARRIED IN PARIS.
1669
01:34:25,625 --> 01:34:29,415
THERE WERE TWO CEREMONIES,
ONE AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
1670
01:34:29,525 --> 01:34:32,735
AND A SECOND
AT A CATHOLIC CHURCH.
1671
01:34:32,874 --> 01:34:35,674
THE PFEIFFER FAMILY HAD COME
AROUND TO APPROVING PAULINE'S
1672
01:34:35,808 --> 01:34:38,048
DECISION TO MARRY HEMINGWAY.
1673
01:34:38,189 --> 01:34:41,779
HE NOW CLAIMED HE'D SECRETLY
ALWAYS BEEN A CATHOLIC
1674
01:34:41,952 --> 01:34:45,062
BECAUSE A PRIEST HAD GIVEN HIM
EXTREME UNCTION
1675
01:34:45,196 --> 01:34:47,056
AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED.
1676
01:34:47,198 --> 01:34:51,308
SINCE HIS FIRST MARRIAGE HAD
TAKEN PLACE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH,
1677
01:34:51,444 --> 01:34:53,964
THE CHURCH DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT.
1678
01:34:54,136 --> 01:34:56,966
HADLEY HAD NEVER REALLY
BEEN HIS WIFE,
1679
01:34:57,139 --> 01:35:01,799
AND, BY EXTENSION,
BUMBY WAS ILLEGITIMATE.
1680
01:35:03,767 --> 01:35:06,217
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY HOPED TO
LIVE THE SAME KIND OF LIFE
1681
01:35:06,355 --> 01:35:09,355
WITH PAULINE THAT
HE HAD LED WITH HADLEY--
1682
01:35:09,496 --> 01:35:12,776
PARIS CAF ÉS,
BULLFIGHTS, SKIING--
1683
01:35:12,914 --> 01:35:17,374
AND DREAMED OF HAVING ONE
LITERARY SUCCESS AFTER ANOTHER,
1684
01:35:17,504 --> 01:35:21,684
BUT THINGS DIDN'T GO
QUITE AS PLANNED.
1685
01:35:21,819 --> 01:35:24,999
HE STARTED A NOVEL
ABOUT A FATHER AND SON,
1686
01:35:25,098 --> 01:35:27,508
ONLY TO ABANDON IT.
1687
01:35:27,687 --> 01:35:31,547
A NEW BOOK OF 14 SHORT STORIES,
"MEN WITHOUT WOMEN,"
1688
01:35:31,691 --> 01:35:34,001
DID NOT SELL
AS WELL AS HE LIKED,
1689
01:35:34,176 --> 01:35:36,386
AND THERE WERE MIXED REVIEWS.
1690
01:35:36,523 --> 01:35:39,423
SOME READERS WERE PUT OFF
BY ITS THEMES,
1691
01:35:39,561 --> 01:35:45,021
INCLUDING HOMOSEXUALITY,
INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE.
1692
01:35:45,118 --> 01:35:47,738
AS ALWAYS, HEMINGWAY TRIED TO
MAKE HIS CHARACTERS
1693
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:51,470
SPEAK PRECISELY
AS HIS CONTEMPORARIES SPOKE,
1694
01:35:51,607 --> 01:35:55,057
INCLUDING THEIR USE OF RACIAL
EPITHETS.
1695
01:35:57,096 --> 01:35:59,996
DUDLEY: WHY USE
THE N-WORD MULTIPLE TIMES?
1696
01:36:02,584 --> 01:36:04,484
HEMINGWAY KNOWS THAT
IT'S PROBABLY ONE
1697
01:36:04,620 --> 01:36:06,420
OF THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORDS
HE COULD HAVE USED,
1698
01:36:06,553 --> 01:36:08,623
EVEN AT THIS TIME.
1699
01:36:08,763 --> 01:36:10,453
COULD YOU MAKE A CASE
FOR HEMINGWAY
1700
01:36:10,592 --> 01:36:13,982
BEING PREJUDICIAL IN HIS LIFE,
IN HIS WRITING?
1701
01:36:14,113 --> 01:36:16,843
ABSOLUTELY, YOU COULD,
BUT, AT THE SAME TIME,
1702
01:36:16,978 --> 01:36:18,978
YOU COULD PEEL BACK THE LAYERS,
AND YOU CAN GET A SENSE
1703
01:36:19,118 --> 01:36:24,328
OF A MAN TRYING TO CONVEY
A SENSE OF HIS TIME.
1704
01:36:24,468 --> 01:36:26,918
CUSHMAN: THAT'S NOT
AN EXCUSE FOR HIM.
1705
01:36:27,057 --> 01:36:30,887
I DON'T THINK YOU CAN
DRY CLEAN HEMINGWAY
1706
01:36:30,992 --> 01:36:35,722
INTO SOMEBODY WHO FITS
INTO WHAT WE NOW CONSIDER
1707
01:36:35,893 --> 01:36:39,763
SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY
ACCEPTABLE MUCH OF THE TIME.
1708
01:36:39,863 --> 01:36:42,453
NARRATOR: "MEN WITHOUT WOMEN"
ALSO INCLUDED A STORY
1709
01:36:42,589 --> 01:36:48,839
THAT IS AMONG HIS MASTERPIECES
"HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS."
1710
01:36:48,975 --> 01:36:52,835
IN IT, A COUPLE WAITING IN
A SMALL SPANISH TRAIN STATION
1711
01:36:52,979 --> 01:36:56,809
DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT THE WOMAN
WILL HAVE AN ABORTION
1712
01:36:56,949 --> 01:37:00,159
WITHOUT EVER MENTIONING
THE WORD.
1713
01:37:00,297 --> 01:37:03,087
EDNA O'BRIEN: WHAT'S NOT SAID
IS SO WONDERFUL.
1714
01:37:03,196 --> 01:37:08,436
SOMEHOW, THE WHOLE RELATIONSHIP,
WHICH WILL BE FOREVER SHADOWED,
1715
01:37:08,546 --> 01:37:11,236
IF NOT TO SAY DESTROYED,
BY THIS,
1716
01:37:11,411 --> 01:37:14,761
YOU GET A PICTURE OF IT
1717
01:37:14,863 --> 01:37:18,493
WITHOUT HIM SPELLING OUT
THE WORDS.
1718
01:37:18,625 --> 01:37:20,415
YOU SEE, THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
1719
01:37:20,524 --> 01:37:23,424
THAT EVASION THAT HE MASTERED
1720
01:37:23,596 --> 01:37:27,116
AND THAT CONTROL THAT HE
MASTERED
1721
01:37:27,289 --> 01:37:32,709
IS ONE OF HIS
SIGNATURE STROKES OF GENIUS.
1722
01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:34,397
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"IT'S REALLY AN AWFULLY
1723
01:37:34,538 --> 01:37:37,368
SIMPLE OPERATION, JIG,"
THE MAN SAID.
1724
01:37:37,506 --> 01:37:40,026
"IT'S NOT REALLY
AN OPERATION AT ALL."
1725
01:37:40,164 --> 01:37:44,414
THE GIRL LOOKED AT THE GROUND
THE TABLE LEGS RESTED ON.
1726
01:37:44,548 --> 01:37:46,648
"I KNOW YOU WOULDN'T
MIND IT, JIG.
1727
01:37:46,791 --> 01:37:48,521
"IT'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING.
1728
01:37:48,655 --> 01:37:51,725
IT'S JUST TO LET THE AIR IN."
1729
01:37:51,866 --> 01:37:53,826
THE GIRL DID NOT SAY ANYTHING.
1730
01:37:53,971 --> 01:37:56,081
"I'LL GO WITH YOU,
AND I'LL STAY WITH YOU
1731
01:37:56,215 --> 01:37:57,455
"ALL THE TIME.
1732
01:37:57,630 --> 01:37:58,910
"THEY JUST LET THE AIR IN,
1733
01:37:59,045 --> 01:38:01,355
AND THEN IT'S ALL
PERFECTLY NATURAL."
1734
01:38:01,496 --> 01:38:04,186
"THEN WHAT WILL WE DO
AFTERWARD?"
1735
01:38:04,326 --> 01:38:05,566
"WE'LL BE FINE AFTERWARD.
1736
01:38:05,707 --> 01:38:07,707
JUST LIKE WE WERE BEFORE."
1737
01:38:07,847 --> 01:38:10,367
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO?"
1738
01:38:10,505 --> 01:38:13,225
"THAT'S THE ONLY THING
THAT BOTHERS US.
1739
01:38:13,370 --> 01:38:16,960
IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'S
MADE US UNHAPPY."
1740
01:38:18,927 --> 01:38:21,787
MANDEL: HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS.
1741
01:38:21,930 --> 01:38:24,480
HE WANTS ONE THING,
IT'S "GET RID OF THIS THING,"
1742
01:38:24,657 --> 01:38:26,107
BUT HE CAN'T TELL HER THAT.
1743
01:38:26,245 --> 01:38:30,415
SO HE SAYS, "I ONLY WANT
WHAT YOU WANT."
1744
01:38:30,559 --> 01:38:32,839
HE SAYS, "I'LL DO
WHATEVER YOU SAY.
1745
01:38:32,941 --> 01:38:35,011
DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT
YOU DON'T WANT TO DO,"
1746
01:38:35,116 --> 01:38:39,116
BUT HE'S PUSHING AND PUSHING
AND PUSHING AND PUSHING.
1747
01:38:39,258 --> 01:38:42,568
IT IS PAINFUL TO WATCH
THIS GOING ON.
1748
01:38:42,709 --> 01:38:46,019
IT IS RECOGNIZABLE
FOR MOST WOMEN
1749
01:38:46,196 --> 01:38:48,646
TO--EVEN IF IT'S NOT
THE SITUATION--
1750
01:38:48,784 --> 01:38:54,414
THE PUSHING, THE INSISTENCE,
THE MASCULINE ASSERTION,
1751
01:38:54,549 --> 01:38:58,929
AND THEN, SHE FINALLY SAYS--
AND THIS IS, I THINK,
1752
01:38:59,071 --> 01:39:02,901
ONE OF GREAT
UNDERSTATED SENTENCES--
1753
01:39:03,006 --> 01:39:11,876
SHE SAYS TO HIM, "WOULD YOU
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
1754
01:39:11,980 --> 01:39:18,750
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
STOP TALKING?"
1755
01:39:20,092 --> 01:39:23,062
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
SHE'S GOING TO DECIDE.
1756
01:39:23,233 --> 01:39:26,413
SHE'S--MAYBE TO KEEP
THE RELATIONSHIP,
1757
01:39:26,546 --> 01:39:28,236
SHE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS,
1758
01:39:28,410 --> 01:39:31,410
BUT IF SHE DOES THAT,
THE RELATIONSHIP IS OVER.
1759
01:39:31,586 --> 01:39:36,826
MAYBE SHE WILL KEEP IT AND JUST
BE WITH HERSELF AND THE BABY.
1760
01:39:36,971 --> 01:39:39,281
MAYBE SHE WILL GET RID
OF THE BABY
1761
01:39:39,421 --> 01:39:40,911
AND CARRY ON HER LIFE.
1762
01:39:41,009 --> 01:39:44,429
WHATEVER SHE DOES,
HER LIFE WILL BE DIFFERENT.
1763
01:39:44,599 --> 01:39:46,499
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
HE DRANK AN ANIS AT THE BAR
1764
01:39:46,635 --> 01:39:48,875
AND LOOKED AT THE PEOPLE.
1765
01:39:49,017 --> 01:39:52,297
THEY WERE ALL WAITING
REASONABLY FOR THE TRAIN.
1766
01:39:54,816 --> 01:39:57,846
HE WENT OUT
THROUGH THE BEAD CURTAIN.
1767
01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:01,752
SHE WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE
AND SMILED AT HIM.
1768
01:40:01,857 --> 01:40:04,827
"DO YOU FEEL BETTER?" HE ASKED.
1769
01:40:04,964 --> 01:40:06,864
"I FEEL FINE," SHE SAID.
1770
01:40:07,001 --> 01:40:09,211
"THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.
1771
01:40:09,348 --> 01:40:11,588
I FEEL FINE."
1772
01:40:17,977 --> 01:40:19,697
NARRATOR: IN MARCH OF 1928,
1773
01:40:19,841 --> 01:40:23,291
HEMINGWAY AND PAULINE
LEFT FRANCE.
1774
01:40:23,396 --> 01:40:25,776
SHE WAS PREGNANT NOW,
AND THEY WANTED TO HAVE
1775
01:40:25,881 --> 01:40:28,441
THEIR BABY IN THE UNITED STATES.
1776
01:40:28,608 --> 01:40:29,948
HEMINGWAY WAS RECOVERING
1777
01:40:30,058 --> 01:40:32,988
FROM A SECOND SERIOUS
HEAD INJURY CAUSED
1778
01:40:33,096 --> 01:40:36,546
WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY PULLED
A SKYLIGHT DOWN ON HIS HEAD,
1779
01:40:36,685 --> 01:40:39,475
LEAVING A PERMANENT SCAR,
1780
01:40:39,585 --> 01:40:41,235
BUT HE HAD BEGUN A NEW NOVEL,
1781
01:40:41,380 --> 01:40:44,730
A STORY ABOUT A WOUNDED SOLDIER
WHO FALLS IN LOVE
1782
01:40:44,866 --> 01:40:47,896
WITH THE NURSE
WHO CARES FOR HIM.
1783
01:40:48,042 --> 01:40:51,322
THE HEMINGWAYS RENTED A HOUSE
IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA,
1784
01:40:51,424 --> 01:40:53,634
WHERE ERNEST ENJOYED
OCEAN FISHING
1785
01:40:53,737 --> 01:40:55,837
FOR THE FIRST TIME.
1786
01:40:57,982 --> 01:41:00,022
THEY THEN MOVED
TO PAULINE'S PARENTS' HOME
1787
01:41:00,192 --> 01:41:03,782
IN PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS,
AS THE BABY'S ARRIVAL NEARED,
1788
01:41:03,919 --> 01:41:09,339
AND SPENT A MONTH IN KANSAS CITY
WHERE, ON JUNE 28, 1928,
1789
01:41:09,442 --> 01:41:12,862
PATRICK HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
BY CAESARIAN SECTION
1790
01:41:12,997 --> 01:41:15,717
AFTER A DIFFICULT LABOR.
1791
01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:20,632
THEY RETURNED
TO ARKANSAS TOGETHER,
1792
01:41:20,764 --> 01:41:23,914
BUT THEN HEMINGWAY
HEADED WEST ALONE,
1793
01:41:24,043 --> 01:41:27,433
WRITING AS HE WENT,
WORKING AND REWORKING
1794
01:41:27,564 --> 01:41:30,194
THE BOOK THAT NOW CONSUMED HIM.
1795
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:34,670
IT WOULD BE CALLED
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS."
1796
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:38,400
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I REMEMBER LIVING IN THE BOOK
1797
01:41:38,540 --> 01:41:42,060
AND MAKING UP WHAT HAPPENED
IN IT EVERY DAY.
1798
01:41:42,199 --> 01:41:43,859
MAKING THE COUNTRY
AND THE PEOPLE
1799
01:41:44,028 --> 01:41:46,238
AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED,
1800
01:41:46,376 --> 01:41:50,066
I WAS HAPPIER
THAN I HAD EVER BEEN.
1801
01:41:50,173 --> 01:41:52,903
EACH DAY I READ THE BOOK THROUGH
FROM THE BEGINNING
1802
01:41:53,037 --> 01:41:55,587
TO THE POINT
WHERE I WENT ON WRITING,
1803
01:41:55,730 --> 01:41:59,220
AND EACH DAY I STOPPED
WHEN I WAS STILL GOING GOOD
1804
01:41:59,389 --> 01:42:02,049
AND WHEN I KNEW
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT.
1805
01:42:06,258 --> 01:42:09,158
IN THE LATE SUMMER OF THAT YEAR,
WE LIVED IN A HOUSE
1806
01:42:09,295 --> 01:42:11,675
IN A VILLAGE THAT LOOKED
ACROSS THE RIVER
1807
01:42:11,815 --> 01:42:14,955
AND THE PLAIN TO THE MOUNTAINS.
1808
01:42:15,094 --> 01:42:18,484
IN THE BED OF THE RIVER,
THERE WERE PEBBLES AND BOULDERS,
1809
01:42:18,615 --> 01:42:20,785
DRY AND WHITE IN THE SUN,
1810
01:42:20,927 --> 01:42:23,407
AND THE WATER WAS CLEAR
AND SWIFTLY MOVING
1811
01:42:23,516 --> 01:42:26,066
AND BLUE IN THE CHANNELS.
1812
01:42:26,243 --> 01:42:29,253
TROOPS WENT BY THE HOUSE
AND DOWN THE ROAD...
1813
01:42:29,350 --> 01:42:30,940
MAN AND EDNA O'BRIEN:
AND THE DUST THEY RAISED
1814
01:42:31,075 --> 01:42:33,485
POWDERED THE LEAVES
OF THE TREES.
1815
01:42:33,630 --> 01:42:35,080
THE TRUNKS OF THE TREES, TOO...
1816
01:42:35,252 --> 01:42:36,912
EDNA O'BRIEN: "WERE DUSTY,
1817
01:42:37,012 --> 01:42:39,432
"AND THE LEAVES FELL EARLY
THAT YEAR,
1818
01:42:39,532 --> 01:42:42,672
"AND WE SAW THE TROOPS MARCHING
ALONG THE ROAD
1819
01:42:42,811 --> 01:42:45,711
"AND THE DUST RISING
AND LEAVES,
1820
01:42:45,849 --> 01:42:47,989
"STIRRED BY THE BREEZE, FALLING
1821
01:42:48,127 --> 01:42:49,537
"AND THE SOLDIERS MARCHING
1822
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:53,790
"AND AFTERWARDS THE ROAD BARE
1823
01:42:53,891 --> 01:42:59,971
AND WHITE EXCEPT
FOR THE LEAVES."
1824
01:43:00,070 --> 01:43:02,660
CUSHMAN: I READ THAT PARAGRAPH,
AND I WANT TO CRY.
1825
01:43:02,797 --> 01:43:05,387
IT'S INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL.
1826
01:43:05,524 --> 01:43:10,184
HE BROKE EVERY RULE,
ALL THE REPETITION.
1827
01:43:10,322 --> 01:43:15,532
IN 4 SENTENCES,
THE WORD "AND" 15 TIMES.
1828
01:43:15,672 --> 01:43:20,852
WHAT'S GOING ON IS JUST
AN UNFORGETTABLE DISPLAY
1829
01:43:20,987 --> 01:43:23,817
OF RHYTHMIC MASTERY.
1830
01:43:23,990 --> 01:43:29,000
THERE'S A KIND--ALMOST A KIND
OF HYPNOSIS, AN INCANTATION
1831
01:43:29,133 --> 01:43:32,173
THAT I THINK IS
ABOUT THE FRAME OF MIND
1832
01:43:32,309 --> 01:43:34,859
THAT YOU'RE GOING
INTO THE WAR WITH.
1833
01:43:35,001 --> 01:43:39,141
[BACH'S "CELLO SUITE NO. 4,
PRELUDE" PLAYING]
1834
01:43:42,043 --> 01:43:44,773
EDNA O'BRIEN:
BY RELISTENING TO BACH
1835
01:43:44,908 --> 01:43:47,148
AND BY RECOGNIZING
THE REPETITION
1836
01:43:47,324 --> 01:43:50,854
OF PARTICULAR NOTES IN BACH,
1837
01:43:51,017 --> 01:43:56,367
THAT THAT WAS INSPIRATION FOR
WRITING "A FAREWELL TO ARMS."
1838
01:43:58,266 --> 01:44:01,676
NARRATOR: UNLIKE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES,"
1839
01:44:01,787 --> 01:44:05,447
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS" WAS
EXPLICITLY ABOUT THE GREAT WAR.
1840
01:44:05,584 --> 01:44:08,454
ITS PROTAGONIST
LIEUTENANT FREDERIC HENRY
1841
01:44:08,587 --> 01:44:13,067
IS AN AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER
ATTACHED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY,
1842
01:44:13,212 --> 01:44:16,152
WHO IS WOUNDED AND FALLS
IN LOVE WITH A NURSE
1843
01:44:16,284 --> 01:44:19,564
NAMED CATHERINE BARKLEY,
WHO IS MOURNING A LOVER
1844
01:44:19,701 --> 01:44:22,701
KILLED IN THE WAR.
1845
01:44:22,808 --> 01:44:26,358
DRAWN FROM HIS OWN EXPERIENCES,
THE STORIES HE HEARD,
1846
01:44:26,467 --> 01:44:29,917
AND HIS OWN DOGGED RESEARCH,
THE BOOK'S DISILLUSIONMENT
1847
01:44:30,056 --> 01:44:33,296
WITH THE WAR WOULD SPEAK TO--
AND FOR--
1848
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:35,959
THOSE WHO HAD LIVED THROUGH IT.
1849
01:44:40,377 --> 01:44:42,067
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WAS ALWAYS EMBARRASSED
1850
01:44:42,172 --> 01:44:46,802
BY THE WORDS SACRED, GLORIOUS,
AND SACRIFICE
1851
01:44:46,935 --> 01:44:49,895
AND THE EXPRESSION IN VAIN.
1852
01:44:52,009 --> 01:44:54,119
WE HAD HEARD THEM,
SOMETIMES STANDING
1853
01:44:54,253 --> 01:44:56,263
IN THE RAIN ALMOST
OUT OF EARSHOT,
1854
01:44:56,393 --> 01:44:59,263
SO THAT ONLY THE SHOUTED WORDS
CAME THROUGH,
1855
01:44:59,396 --> 01:45:01,566
AND HAD READ THEM
ON PROCLAMATIONS
1856
01:45:01,674 --> 01:45:03,444
THAT WERE SLAPPED UP
BY BILLPOSTERS
1857
01:45:03,573 --> 01:45:08,063
OVER OTHER PROCLAMATIONS,
NOW FOR A LONG TIME...
1858
01:45:09,958 --> 01:45:12,028
AND I HAD SEEN NOTHING SACRED,
1859
01:45:12,167 --> 01:45:15,337
AND THE THINGS THAT WERE
GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY,
1860
01:45:15,481 --> 01:45:18,001
AND THE SACRIFICES
WERE LIKE THE STOCKYARDS
1861
01:45:18,139 --> 01:45:20,349
AT CHICAGO
IF NOTHING WAS DONE
1862
01:45:20,486 --> 01:45:23,346
WITH THE MEAT
EXCEPT TO BURY IT.
1863
01:45:23,489 --> 01:45:27,109
THERE WERE MANY WORDS THAT
YOU COULD NOT STAND TO HEAR,
1864
01:45:27,217 --> 01:45:31,327
AND FINALLY ONLY THE NAMES
OF PLACES HAD DIGNITY.
1865
01:45:32,774 --> 01:45:36,544
CERTAIN NUMBERS WERE
THE SAME WAY AND CERTAIN DATES,
1866
01:45:36,675 --> 01:45:39,465
AND THESE WITH THE NAMES
OF THE PLACES WERE
1867
01:45:39,609 --> 01:45:43,959
ALL YOU COULD SAY
AND HAVE THEM MEAN ANYTHING.
1868
01:45:45,856 --> 01:45:49,266
WOLFF: I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE
UP TO THAT POINT
1869
01:45:49,377 --> 01:45:53,307
WHO HAD SAID THAT THAT WELL
1870
01:45:53,416 --> 01:45:58,556
BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEEM TO STOP
USING THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE
1871
01:45:58,697 --> 01:46:00,317
ABOUT WAR,
1872
01:46:00,457 --> 01:46:05,357
AND IT IS OUR DUTY
ALWAYS TO PUNCTURE IT,
1873
01:46:05,497 --> 01:46:10,187
BUT NO ONE HAS EVER DONE IT
THIS ELOQUENTLY.
1874
01:46:10,329 --> 01:46:14,399
THE ACCUMULATING WEIGHT
OF THOSE SENTENCES
1875
01:46:14,540 --> 01:46:17,920
AND THE EMOTION, THE DISGUST,
1876
01:46:18,061 --> 01:46:22,891
AND ALSO THE REVERENCE FOR
WHAT HAS BEEN, IN FACT, DONE,
1877
01:46:23,031 --> 01:46:24,651
THE DIGNITY OF THOSE PLACES
1878
01:46:24,826 --> 01:46:27,756
THAT GATHER IN THOSE SENTENCES
AS THEY GO ON,
1879
01:46:27,898 --> 01:46:31,418
IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL.
1880
01:46:31,557 --> 01:46:34,347
NARRATOR: IN THE NOVEL,
LIEUTENANT HENRY DESERTS
1881
01:46:34,526 --> 01:46:38,496
AND FLEES TO NEUTRAL SWITZERLAND
WITH CATHERINE BARKLEY.
1882
01:46:38,599 --> 01:46:40,839
THEY HOPE TO MARRY AND BUILD
A LIFE TOGETHER
1883
01:46:40,980 --> 01:46:43,330
ONCE THE WAR IS OVER.
1884
01:46:43,431 --> 01:46:46,681
SHE IS PREGNANT,
BUT SOMETHING GOES
1885
01:46:46,848 --> 01:46:49,988
TERRIBLY WRONG
IN THE DELIVERY ROOM.
1886
01:46:50,093 --> 01:46:52,723
DOCTORS PERFORM A CAESARIAN.
1887
01:46:52,854 --> 01:46:55,274
THE BABY IS STILLBORN.
1888
01:46:55,409 --> 01:46:59,029
CATHERINE'S LIFE EBBS AWAY.
1889
01:47:01,138 --> 01:47:03,558
HEMINGWAY AGONIZED
OVER THE ENDING,
1890
01:47:03,693 --> 01:47:07,083
WRITING 47 VERSIONS
OF THE FINAL PAGES
1891
01:47:07,213 --> 01:47:09,873
BEFORE HE WAS SATISFIED.
1892
01:47:10,009 --> 01:47:30,369
♪
1893
01:47:30,547 --> 01:47:33,407
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM.
1894
01:47:33,516 --> 01:47:36,856
"YOU CAN'T COME IN NOW," ONE
OF THE NURSES SAID.
1895
01:47:36,967 --> 01:47:39,827
"YES I CAN," I SAID.
1896
01:47:39,970 --> 01:47:42,590
"YOU CAN'T COME IN YET."
1897
01:47:42,732 --> 01:47:44,042
"YOU GET OUT," I SAID.
1898
01:47:44,147 --> 01:47:48,077
"THE OTHER ONE TOO."
1899
01:47:48,254 --> 01:47:50,744
BUT AFTER I HAD GOT THEM OUT
AND SHUT THE DOOR
1900
01:47:50,843 --> 01:47:55,473
AND TURNED OFF THE LIGHT,
IT WASN'T ANY GOOD.
1901
01:47:55,607 --> 01:47:58,747
IT WAS LIKE SAYING GOODBYE
TO A STATUE.
1902
01:47:58,851 --> 01:48:01,341
[RAIN FALLING, THUNDER]
1903
01:48:01,475 --> 01:48:05,575
AFTER A WHILE, I WENT OUT
AND LEFT THE HOSPITAL
1904
01:48:05,686 --> 01:48:09,546
AND WALKED BACK
TO THE HOTEL IN THE RAIN.
1905
01:48:13,314 --> 01:48:15,354
EDNA O'BRIEN: PARTS
OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
1906
01:48:15,489 --> 01:48:18,179
COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
BY A WOMAN.
1907
01:48:18,319 --> 01:48:21,119
NOW, I REGARD THAT
AS A COMPLIMENT.
1908
01:48:21,287 --> 01:48:23,597
HEMINGWAY MIGHT REGARD IT
AS AN INSULT,
1909
01:48:23,773 --> 01:48:29,123
BUT I DON'T BECAUSE IT IS
THE ANDROGYNY
1910
01:48:29,226 --> 01:48:34,226
IN A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT ALLOWS
THEM, EVEN IF BRIEFLY,
1911
01:48:34,369 --> 01:48:36,819
NOT UTTERLY, TO BE ABLE
TO PUT THEMSELVES
1912
01:48:36,958 --> 01:48:40,718
INSIDE THE SKIN
OF THE OPPOSITE THING.
1913
01:48:40,859 --> 01:48:44,099
IN MANY WAYS, I THINK IT'S
HIS GREATEST NOVEL.
1914
01:48:44,276 --> 01:48:47,616
I DO.
IT'S THE TRUEST.
1915
01:48:47,797 --> 01:48:50,277
IT'S ALSO HEARTBREAKING.
1916
01:48:50,454 --> 01:48:54,674
I REMEMBER CRYING
AND CRYING AND CRYING.
1917
01:48:54,804 --> 01:48:58,954
HE GETS THE--ALL
THE--THE "BOY" STUFF,
1918
01:48:59,118 --> 01:49:00,288
THE "MAN" STUFF.
1919
01:49:00,395 --> 01:49:02,325
HE GETS THE HORROR OF THE WAR,
1920
01:49:02,466 --> 01:49:05,396
BUT WHEN PEOPLE
PUT THAT BOOK DOWN,
1921
01:49:05,539 --> 01:49:07,539
WHAT DO THEY REMEMBER?
1922
01:49:07,679 --> 01:49:11,339
THEY REMEMBER A WOMAN DYING
IN CHILDBIRTH.
1923
01:49:12,891 --> 01:49:14,721
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IF PEOPLE BRING SO MUCH COURAGE
1924
01:49:14,858 --> 01:49:17,858
TO THIS WORLD,
THE WORLD HAS TO KILL THEM
1925
01:49:17,999 --> 01:49:19,479
TO BREAK THEM,
1926
01:49:19,656 --> 01:49:23,696
SO OF COURSE IT KILLS THEM.
1927
01:49:23,833 --> 01:49:26,593
THE WORLD BREAKS EVERYONE,
AND AFTERWARD,
1928
01:49:26,732 --> 01:49:31,082
MANY ARE STRONG
AT THE BROKEN PLACES,
1929
01:49:31,219 --> 01:49:35,259
BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK
IT KILLS.
1930
01:49:35,396 --> 01:49:38,086
IT KILLS THE VERY GOOD
AND THE VERY GENTLE
1931
01:49:38,226 --> 01:49:42,126
AND THE VERY BRAVE IMPARTIALLY.
1932
01:49:42,265 --> 01:49:44,435
IF YOU ARE NONE OF THESE,
YOU CAN BE SURE
1933
01:49:44,578 --> 01:49:46,608
IT WILL KILL YOU, TOO,
1934
01:49:46,752 --> 01:49:49,582
BUT THERE WILL BE
NO SPECIAL HURRY.
1935
01:49:55,796 --> 01:49:58,066
NARRATOR: IN THE LATE FALL
OF 1928,
1936
01:49:58,212 --> 01:50:02,732
HEMINGWAY'S FATHER'S LIFE WAS
SPIRALING SLOWLY DOWNWARD.
1937
01:50:02,872 --> 01:50:07,322
THE ANXIETY THAT HAD ALWAYS
HAUNTED HIM INTENSIFIED.
1938
01:50:07,462 --> 01:50:10,262
HIS PERIODS
OF DEPRESSION LENGTHENED.
1939
01:50:10,396 --> 01:50:13,226
HE SEEMED SUSPICIOUS
OF EVERYONE AROUND HIM
1940
01:50:13,399 --> 01:50:16,679
AND UNABLE TO SHAKE
A SENSE OF DREAD.
1941
01:50:18,888 --> 01:50:22,548
ON DECEMBER 6, ED HEMINGWAY
CAME HOME AT NOON,
1942
01:50:22,719 --> 01:50:25,449
BURNED SOME PERSONAL PAPERS
IN THE BASEMENT,
1943
01:50:25,584 --> 01:50:28,764
TOLD HIS WIFE HE THOUGHT HE'D
LIE DOWN BEFORE LUNCH,
1944
01:50:28,898 --> 01:50:32,828
AND CLIMBED THE STAIRS
TO HIS BEDROOM.
1945
01:50:32,971 --> 01:50:39,391
THEN HE SHOT HIMSELF WITH HIS
FATHER'S CIVIL WAR REVOLVER.
1946
01:50:40,910 --> 01:50:43,150
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
MY FATHER WAS A COWARD.
1947
01:50:43,291 --> 01:50:46,161
HE SHOT HIMSELF
WITHOUT NECESSITY.
1948
01:50:46,294 --> 01:50:48,264
AT LEAST I THOUGHT SO.
1949
01:50:48,365 --> 01:50:52,745
I HAD GONE THROUGH IT MYSELF
UNTIL I FIGURED IT IN MY HEAD.
1950
01:50:52,853 --> 01:50:55,273
I KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE
A COWARD
1951
01:50:55,372 --> 01:50:58,892
AND WHAT IT WAS TO CEASE
BEING A COWARD.
1952
01:51:00,826 --> 01:51:04,236
NARRATOR: ERNEST PROMISED TO PAY
HIS MOTHER A MONTHLY STIPEND,
1953
01:51:04,347 --> 01:51:06,177
BUT HE WOULD PRIVATELY BLAME HER
1954
01:51:06,314 --> 01:51:10,354
FOR DRIVING HIS FATHER
TO SUICIDE.
1955
01:51:10,491 --> 01:51:11,631
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I HATED MY MOTHER
1956
01:51:11,768 --> 01:51:13,528
AS SOON AS I KNEW THE SCORE
1957
01:51:13,667 --> 01:51:15,807
AND LOVED MY FATHER
UNTIL HE EMBARRASSED ME
1958
01:51:15,945 --> 01:51:17,765
WITH HIS COWARDICE.
1959
01:51:17,878 --> 01:51:21,608
MY MOTHER IS AN ALL-TIME,
ALL-AMERICAN BITCH,
1960
01:51:21,709 --> 01:51:24,229
AND SHE WOULD MAKE
A PACK MULE SHOOT HIMSELF,
1961
01:51:24,367 --> 01:51:27,717
LET ALONE POOR BLOODY FATHER.
1962
01:51:27,853 --> 01:51:30,863
HENDRICKSON: I THINK HEMINGWAY,
AMONG HIS MANY, MANY FEARS,
1963
01:51:30,994 --> 01:51:34,484
WAS TERRIFIED
"WILL THAT HAPPEN TO ME?
1964
01:51:34,618 --> 01:51:37,518
WILL I BECOME MY FATHER?"
1965
01:51:37,656 --> 01:51:44,176
IN THIS CHRISTIAN, MIDWESTERN,
SUBURBAN ILLINOIS FAMILY
1966
01:51:44,318 --> 01:51:48,808
OF A UNIT OF 8,
OF 2 PARENTS
1967
01:51:48,909 --> 01:51:50,979
AND 6 CHILDREN--
1968
01:51:51,152 --> 01:51:56,852
4, AT LEAST 4 DESTROYED
THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN HAND,
1969
01:51:56,986 --> 01:51:59,296
4 OUT OF THE 8.
1970
01:52:03,820 --> 01:52:07,760
NARRATOR: IN SEPTEMBER OF 1929,
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
1971
01:52:07,893 --> 01:52:09,833
WAS PUBLISHED.
1972
01:52:09,999 --> 01:52:14,689
THE REACTION WAS EVERYTHING
HEMINGWAY HAD HOPED FOR.
1973
01:52:14,866 --> 01:52:19,526
"SCRIBNER'S" MAGAZINE HAD PAID
$16,000 TO SERIALIZE IT--
1974
01:52:19,698 --> 01:52:23,558
MORE THAN IT HAD EVER PAID
ANYONE BEFORE--
1975
01:52:23,702 --> 01:52:26,532
AND WHEN THE JUNE ISSUE WAS
BANNED IN BOSTON
1976
01:52:26,636 --> 01:52:30,326
BECAUSE SOME PASSAGES WERE
THOUGHT TOO "SALACIOUS,"
1977
01:52:30,502 --> 01:52:33,262
IT ONLY BOOSTED SALES.
1978
01:52:33,401 --> 01:52:37,411
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS" CLIMBED
ONTO THE BEST-SELLER LISTS
1979
01:52:37,543 --> 01:52:41,063
AND STAYED THERE
WEEK AFTER WEEK.
1980
01:52:41,202 --> 01:52:47,552
PARAMOUNT PICTURES PAID ANOTHER
$24,000 FOR THE MOVIE RIGHTS.
1981
01:52:47,691 --> 01:52:50,141
BY THE AGE OF 30,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1982
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:54,110
HAD SURVIVED HIS WAR WOUNDS,
HAD MARRIED TWO WOMEN,
1983
01:52:54,250 --> 01:52:56,420
AND FATHERED TWO SONS,
1984
01:52:56,562 --> 01:52:59,912
HAD BURIED HIS FATHER,
PUBLISHED 5 BOOKS
1985
01:53:00,049 --> 01:53:05,709
AND WAS NOW THE MOST FAMOUS
WRITER IN THE UNITED STATES.
1986
01:53:05,813 --> 01:53:08,643
HIS FRIEND, THE NOVELIST
JOHN DOS PASSOS,
1987
01:53:08,782 --> 01:53:10,752
WROTE TO CONGRATULATE HIM.
1988
01:53:10,887 --> 01:53:13,577
"DEAR HEM," HE SAID,
"DO YOU REALIZE THAT
1989
01:53:13,752 --> 01:53:17,792
YOU'RE NOW THE KING
OF THE FICTION RACKET?"
1990
01:53:21,415 --> 01:53:24,065
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I AM VERY
PREJUDICED AGAINST SUICIDE
1991
01:53:24,176 --> 01:53:27,456
BECAUSE SOMEHOW I WOULD NOT LIKE
TO EVEN RUN A CHANCE
1992
01:53:27,593 --> 01:53:29,293
OF HAVING TO SPEND THE REST
OF THE TIME
1993
01:53:29,423 --> 01:53:32,913
WITH A LOT OF THE SORT
OF PEOPLE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE.
1994
01:53:33,013 --> 01:53:35,153
ALTHOUGH OF COURSE
THAT DOESN'T HOLD TRUE
1995
01:53:35,291 --> 01:53:37,811
BECAUSE THERE ARE
SOME SWELL ONES.
1996
01:53:39,295 --> 01:53:41,705
THE REAL REASON FOR NOT
COMMITTING SUICIDE
1997
01:53:41,849 --> 01:53:44,579
IS BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KNOW
HOW SWELL LIFE GETS AGAIN
1998
01:53:44,679 --> 01:53:46,649
AFTER THE HELL IS OVER.
1999
01:53:46,785 --> 01:53:50,785
SO YOU HAVE TO RESOLVE
IN ADVANCE TO LAST OUT THE TIME
2000
01:53:50,927 --> 01:53:53,587
WHEN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
2001
01:53:53,757 --> 01:53:57,067
♪
2002
01:54:00,247 --> 01:54:05,797
♪
2003
01:54:28,378 --> 01:54:36,868
♪
2004
01:54:57,304 --> 01:55:02,554
♪
2005
01:55:21,845 --> 01:55:27,505
♪
2006
01:55:51,599 --> 01:55:57,189
♪
2007
01:56:18,557 --> 01:56:24,737
♪
160149
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.