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HEMINGWAY WAS A WRITER
WHO HAPPENED TO BE AMERICAN,
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BUT HIS PALETTE
WAS INCREDIBLY WIDE
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AND DELICIOUS AND VIOLENT
AND BRUTAL AND UGLY,
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ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
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IT'S SOMETHING EVERY CULTURE
CAN BASICALLY UNDERSTAND.
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EVERY CULTURE CAN UNDERSTAND
FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE,
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THE LOSS OF THAT PERSON,
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OF HOW GREAT A MEAL TASTES,
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HOW EXTRAORDINARY
THIS JOURNEY IS.
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THAT IS NOT NATIONALISTIC.
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IT'S HUMAN,
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AND I THINK WITH ALL
OF HIS FLAWS,
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WITH ALL THE DIFFICULTIES,
HIS PERSONAL LIFE, WHATEVER,
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HE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND
HUMAN BEINGS.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: YOU SEE,
I'M TRYING IN ALL MY STORIES
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TO GET THE FEELING
OF THE ACTUAL LIFE ACROSS...
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NOT JUST TO DEPICT LIFE
OR CRITICIZE IT...
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BUT TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT ALIVE
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SO THAT WHEN YOU'VE READ
SOMETHING BY ME
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YOU ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE
THE THING.
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YOU CAN'T DO THIS
WITHOUT PUTTING IN
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THE BAD AND THE UGLY,
AS WELL AS WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL,
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BECAUSE IF IT IS ALL BEAUTIFUL
YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IN IT.
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THINGS AREN'T THAT WAY.
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IT IS ONLY BY SHOWING
BOTH SIDES...
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3 DIMENSIONS AND IF POSSIBLE 4...
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THAT YOU CAN WRITE
THE WAY I WANT TO.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
REMADE AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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HE PARED STORY-TELLING
TO ITS ESSENTIALS,
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CHANGED THE WAY
CHARACTERS SPEAK,
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EXPANDED THE WORLDS A WRITER
COULD LEGITIMATELY EXPLORE,
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AND LEFT AN INDELIBLE RECORD
OF HOW MEN AND WOMEN LIVED
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DURING HIS LIFETIME.
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GENERATIONS OF WRITERS
WOULD FIND THEIR WORK
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MEASURED AGAINST HIS.
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SOME FOLLOWED
THE PATH HE'D BLAZED.
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OTHERS REBELLED AGAINST IT.
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NONE COULD ESCAPE IT.
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HE MADE HIMSELF THE MOST
CELEBRATED AMERICAN WRITER
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SINCE MARK TWAIN,
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READ... AND REVERED...
AROUND THE WORLD.
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IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE
A WRITER TODAY
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WHO HASN'T BEEN IN SOME WAY
INFLUENCED BY HIM.
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IT'S LIKE HE CHANGED
ALL THE FURNITURE
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IN THE ROOM, RIGHT,
AND WE ALL HAVE TO SIT IN IT
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TO SOME... YOU KNOW,
WE CAN KIND OF SIT
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ON THE EDGE OF THE ARMCHAIR,
ON THE ARM OR DO THIS,
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BUT, YOU KNOW HE CHANGED
THE FURNITURE IN THE ROOM.
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THE VALUE OF THE AMERICAN
DECLARATIVE SENTENCE, RIGHT,
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THE WAY YOU BUILD A HOUSE
BRICK BY BRICK OUT OF THOSE.
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WITHIN A FEW SENTENCES
OF READING A HEMINGWAY STORY,
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YOU WERE NOT IN ANY CONFUSION
AS TO WHO HAD WRITTEN IT.
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I CAN'T IMAGINE
HOW IT'S POSSIBLE
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THAT ANY ONE WRITER COULD HAVE
SO CHANGED THE LANGUAGE.
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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COPYING HIM
FOR NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS,
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AND THEY HAVEN'T SUCCEEDED
IN EQUALING WHAT HE DID.
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IF YOU'RE A WRITER,
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE HEMINGWAY.
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HE'S SO DAMN POPULAR THAT YOU
CAN'T BEGIN TO WRITE
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TILL YOU TRY AND KILL
HIS GHOST IN YOU
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OR EMBRACE IT,
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AND I THINK I IDENTIFY THAT
MOST ABOUT HEMINGWAY
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IS THAT HE WAS
ALWAYS QUESTING.
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THE PERFECT LINE
HAD NOT HAPPENED YET.
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IT IS ALWAYS A STRUGGLE
TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT,
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AND YOU NEVER WILL.
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FOR 3 DECADES,
PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT READ
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A WORD HE'D WRITTEN THOUGHT
THEY KNEW HIM...
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WOUNDED VETERAN
AND BATTLEFIELD CORRESPONDENT,
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BIG-GAME HUNTER
AND DEEP-SEA FISHERMAN,
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BULL-FIGHT AFICIONADO,
BRAWLER, AND LOVER
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AND MAN ABOUT TOWN...
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BUT BEHIND THE PUBLIC FIGURE WAS
A TROUBLED AND CONFLICTED MAN,
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WHO BELONGED TO A TROUBLED
AND CONFLICTED FAMILY
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WITH ITS OWN DRAMA AND DARKNESS
AND CLOSELY-HELD SECRETS.
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THE WORLD SAW HIM
AS A MAN'S MAN,
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BUT ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD
PRIVATELY BE INTRIGUED
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BY THE BLURRED LINES
BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE,
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MEN AND WOMEN.
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THERE WERE SO MANY SIDES
TO HIM,
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THE FIRST OF HIS
4 WIVES REMEMBERED,
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THAT HE DEFIED GEOMETRY.
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HE WAS OPEN TO LIFE.
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HE WAS OPEN TO TRAGEDY.
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HE WAS OPEN
TO FEELING.
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I LIKED THAT HE FELL IN LOVE,
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AND HE FELL IN LOVE
QUITE A FEW TIMES.
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HE ALWAYS HAD THE NEXT WOMAN
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BEFORE HE LEFT
THE EXISTING WOMAN.
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HE WAS OFTEN KIND
AND GENEROUS TO THOSE
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IN NEED OF HELP
AND SOMETIMES JUST AS CRUEL
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AND VENGEFUL TO THOSE
WHO HAD HELPED HIM.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I HAVE ALWAYS
HAD THE ILLUSION
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IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT,
OR AS IMPORTANT,
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TO BE A GOOD MAN
AS TO BE A GREAT WRITER.
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I MAY TURN OUT TO BE NEITHER
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BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE BOTH.
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HEMINGWAY'S STORY
IS A TALE OLDER EVEN
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THAN THE WRITTEN WORD...
OF A YOUNG MAN
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WHOSE AMBITION AND IMAGINATION,
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ENERGY AND ENORMOUS GIFTS
BRING HIM WEALTH AND FAME
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BEYOND IMAGINING,
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WHO DESTROYS HIMSELF TRYING
TO REMAIN TRUE
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TO THE CHARACTER
HE HAS INVENTED.
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ONE OF HIS WEAKNESSES...
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I WAS GOING TO SAY, "FAILINGS,"
AND IT WAS A GREAT PITY...
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IT'S A GREAT PITY
FOR ANY WRITER...
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HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE.
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HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE,
AND IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE,
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HE LOST THE BEST PART OF HIMSELF
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BY TRYING TO IMPRESS
THE AUDIENCE.
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I HATE
THE MYTH OF HEMINGWAY,
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AND THE REASON I HATE THE MYTH
OF HEMINGWAY,
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IT OBSCURES THE MAN,
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AND THE MAN IS MUCH MORE
INTERESTING THAN THE MYTH.
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I THINK HE WAS
A TERRIFIC FATHER SOMETIMES.
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I THINK THAT HE WAS
A LOVING HUSBAND SOMETIMES.
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I THINK HE WAS LIKE
SO MANY PEOPLE
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EXCEPT THIS ENORMOUS TALENT.
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HEMINGWAY IS COMPLICATED.
HE'S VERY COMPLICATED.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE GREAT THING IS TO LAST
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AND GET YOUR WORK DONE
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AND SEE AND HEAR AND LEARN
AND UNDERSTAND;
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AND WRITE WHEN THERE IS
SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW;
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AND NOT BEFORE;
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AND NOT TOO DAMNED MUCH AFTER.
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WOMAN, AS GRACE HEMINGWAY:
MY BOY DELIGHTS IN SHOOTING
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IMAGINARY WOLVES, BEARS, LIONS.
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ALSO LIKES TO PRETEND
HE IS A SOLDIER.
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HE STORMS AND KICKS AND DANCES
WITH RAGE WHEN THWARTED.
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WHEN ASKED WHAT HE IS AFRAID OF,
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HE SHOUTS OUT
"'FRAID OF NOTHING!"
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ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
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JULY 21, 1899,
THE SECOND OF 6 CHILDREN
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AND ENJOYED WHAT SEEMED TO BE
AN IDYLLIC BOYHOOD.
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HE HAD 4 ADORING SISTERS
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AND A WORSHIPFUL
YOUNGER BROTHER.
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THEY ALL LIVED
IN A BIG, COMFORTABLE HOME
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IN THE PROSPEROUS
CHICAGO SUBURB OF OAK PARK,
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A COMPLACENT,
WELL-MANNERED COMMUNITY
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WITH NO SALOONS
AND SO MANY CHURCHES
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IT LIKED TO CALL ITSELF
"SAINT'S REST."
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THE HEMINGWAYS SPENT
LONG SUMMERS AT WINDEMERE,
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THEIR COTTAGE ON WALLOON LAKE
IN MICHIGAN.
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ERNEST'S FATHER
CLARENCE HEMINGWAY...
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KNOWN TO EVERYONE AS ED...
WAS A FAMILY DOCTOR.
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HE KEPT OFFICE HOURS
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
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BUT WAS OFTEN FORCED
TO MAKE HOUSE CALLS
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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
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PERFORMING EMERGENCY
CESAREAN SECTIONS
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BY LANTERN LIGHT.
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SOMETIMES, HE FAILED TO SAVE
THE MOTHER OR THE BABY OR BOTH.
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"MY FATHER WAS VERY DEVOTED
TO MY MOTHER,"
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ERNEST'S YOUNGEST SISTER
REMEMBERED,
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"BUT SHE WAS DEVOTED
TO HERSELF."
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HIS MOTHER GRACE HALL HEMINGWAY
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HAD MARRIED AFTER ABANDONING
HER DREAM
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OF BEING AN OPERA SINGER,
BUT SHE GAVE
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VOICE AND VIOLIN
AND PIANO LESSONS,
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DIRECTED A CHOIR,
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AND EARNED MORE
THAN HER HUSBAND.
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GRACE EXPOSED ALL
OF HER CHILDREN TO THE ARTS,
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BUT SHE NEVER LET THEM FORGET
THAT SHE HAD SACRIFICED
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A CONCERT CAREER TO RAISE THEM.
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IF THEY LOVED HER,
SHE SAID, THEY WOULD DO
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WHATEVER SHE TOLD THEM TO DO.
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IT AMUSED HER FOR A TIME TO
PRETEND THAT ERNEST
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AND HIS OLDER SISTER
MARCELLINE WERE SOMEHOW TWINS,
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SOMETIMES TWO BOYS,
SOMETIMES TWO GIRLS.
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SHE DID THIS THING
OF TWINNING HIM WITH HIS SISTER.
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SHE DRESSED THEM ALIKE.
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SHE DRESSED THEM
IN DRESSES OFTEN,
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BUT THEN SHE'D PUT THEM
IN OVERALLS.
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SHE DIDN'T ONLY DRESS HIM UP
AS A GIRL.
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SOMETIMES, SHE'D DRESS
THE GIRLS UP AS BOYS,
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AND THERE'S THIS... THERE IS
THIS ANDROGYNY GOING ON.
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WOMAN, AS MARCELLINE: WE WORE
OUR HAIR EXACTLY THE SAME
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IN A SQUARE-CUT DUTCH BOB.
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WE PLAYED WITH SMALL
CHINA TEA SETS.
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WE HAD DOLLS ALIKE,
AND WHEN ERNEST WAS GIVEN
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A LITTLE AIR RIFLE,
I HAD ONE, TOO.
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ONE OF HIS TEACHERS
THOUGHT GRACE TOO CLOSE
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TO HER SON, TOO CONTROLLING.
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SHE REMEMBERED WONDERING IF,
"GIVEN THE LUSH MOTHERHOOD HE
KNEW,
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HE WOULD EVER FIND WIFE."
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HIS FATHER
CAME BACK TO HIM
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IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR,
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OR IN THE EARLY SPRING
WHEN THERE HAD BEEN JACKSNIPE
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ON THE PRAIRIE,
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OR WHEN HE SAW SHOCKS OF CORN,
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OR WHEN HE SAW A LAKE,
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OR IF HE EVER SAW
A HORSE AND BUGGY,
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OR WHEN HE SAW, OR HEARD,
WILD GEESE,
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OR IN A DUCK BLIND.
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HIS FATHER WAS
WITH HIM, SUDDENLY,
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IN DESERTED ORCHARDS
AND IN NEW-PLOWED FIELDS,
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IN THICKETS, ON SMALL HILLS,
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OR WHEN GOING
THROUGH DEAD GRASS,
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WHENEVER SPLITTING WOOD
OR HAULING WATER,
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BY GRIST MILLS,
CIDER MILLS, AND DAMS
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AND ALWAYS WITH OPEN FIRES.
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ERNEST WORSHIPPED
HIS FATHER,
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WHO SPENT HOURS TEACHING HIM
HOW TO HUNT AND FISH AND CANOE,
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INCULCATING
A LIFE-LONG FASCINATION
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WITH THE OUTDOORS
AND WITH LEARNING PRECISELY
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HOW THINGS SHOULD BE DONE.
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HE INSTILLED IN THIS BOY
BEFORE THE BOY
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ALMOST COULD WALK
THIS PRIMAL FEELING
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FOR THE BEAUTY OF NATURE,
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JUST THE ORGANIC LOVE
FOR THE WOODS, FOR WATER.
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BUT ED HEMINGWAY
WAS ALSO SEVERE, PIOUS,
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OPPOSED TO DRINKING,
CARD-PLAYING, AND DANCING
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AND, AS ERNEST GREW OLDER,
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INCREASINGLY ANXIOUS,
MOODY, AND UNPREDICTABLE.
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ONE MINUTE HE WAS LAUGHING
WITH HIS CHILDREN,
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00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:16,290
THE NEXT HE WAS PUNISHING THEM
WITH A LEATHER STRAP.
219
00:13:16,329 --> 00:13:19,993
TWICE, HEMINGWAY'S FATHER WAS
SO CRIPPLED BY DEPRESSION
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00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:22,901
THAT HE HAD TO LEAVE TOWN
FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
221
00:13:22,935 --> 00:13:25,404
IN ORDER TO REST
WHAT HIS WIFE CALLED
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00:13:25,438 --> 00:13:29,876
"THE WORRYING PLACE
IN YOUR BRAIN."
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00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:33,175
BY THE TIME ERNEST WAS
A TEENAGER, HE REMEMBERED,
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HIS ADMIRATION FOR HIS FATHER
HAD BEGUN TO TURN TO PITY.
225
00:13:37,350 --> 00:13:40,320
HE CAME TO SEE HIM
AS WEAK AND SUBMISSIVE
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00:13:40,353 --> 00:13:44,017
AND BLAMED HIS MOTHER FOR
HIS FATHER'S UNHAPPINESS.
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00:13:46,025 --> 00:13:49,257
ERNEST DREAMED OF ONE DAY
BECOMING A NATURALIST
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OR AN EXPLORER LIKE HIS HERO
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,059
HE WAS ALSO A GOOD STUDENT
AND A FERVENT READER,
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WHO LOVED O. HENRY, JACK LONDON,
AND RUDYARD KIPLING.
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00:14:03,009 --> 00:14:04,477
AT HIS MOTHER'S URGING,
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HE SANG IN HER
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR
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00:14:07,146 --> 00:14:09,115
AND PLAYED THE CELLO.
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00:14:09,148 --> 00:14:12,084
HE REMEMBERED THAT HE ESPECIALLY
ENJOYED THE REPETITION
235
00:14:12,118 --> 00:14:15,520
AND COUNTERPOINT,
COUNTERPOINT AND REPETITION
236
00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:19,185
THAT RAN THROUGH THE WORKS
OF BACH.
237
00:14:19,225 --> 00:14:22,059
SHE ALSO TAUGHT HER KIDS
WHAT EVERY MUSICIAN
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00:14:22,095 --> 00:14:25,156
TEACHES THEIR KIDS,
TO PRACTICE.
239
00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:29,465
"DON'T COME TO ME AND SAY
THAT YOU LOVE ART
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"IF YOU DON'T PRACTICE YOUR ART
BECAUSE PRACTICE IS LOVE.
241
00:14:33,106 --> 00:14:35,007
WORK IS LOVE."
242
00:14:35,041 --> 00:14:36,509
AND THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE,
243
00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:39,910
HE WAS A TREMENDOUSLY
DISCIPLINED WRITER.
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00:14:39,946 --> 00:14:42,882
IN HIS JUNIOR YEAR,
HE BEGAN TO WRITE,
245
00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:46,352
CONTRIBUTING SPORTS STORIES
AND TALES OF ADVENTURE
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00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:50,289
TO THE HIGH SCHOOL PAPER
AND ITS LITERARY MAGAZINE,
247
00:14:50,323 --> 00:14:53,157
BUT HE WAS REMEMBERED MOST
BY HIS CLASSMATES
248
00:14:53,192 --> 00:14:56,993
AS A BIG, HANDSOME,
SLIGHTLY AWKWARD BOY
249
00:14:57,029 --> 00:15:00,625
FOND OF BOXING BUT
TOO NEARSIGHTED AND TOO CLUMSY
250
00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:03,261
TO EXCEL AT TEAM SPORTS,
251
00:15:03,302 --> 00:15:06,500
WHO WAS SHY WITH GIRLS
AND PREFERRED TO HUNT
252
00:15:06,539 --> 00:15:08,667
AND HIKE AND FISH
IN THE WOODS
253
00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:13,039
OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN
WHENEVER HE GOT THE CHANCE.
254
00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:16,447
HIS SHYNESS WITH WOMEN
WOULD EVENTUALLY EVAPORATE,
255
00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:19,179
BUT HE WOULD REMAIN EAGER
ALL HIS LIFE
256
00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:21,949
FOR THE COMPANY OF MEN
WHO SHARED HIS LOVE
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00:15:21,988 --> 00:15:25,288
OF GOOD TIMES
AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
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00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:40,665
♪
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00:15:57,657 --> 00:16:01,526
ON APRIL 6, 1917,
THE UNITED STATES
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00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:04,326
ENTERED THE GREAT WAR THAT
HAD BEEN UNDERWAY
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00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:08,198
IN EUROPE FOR NEARLY 3 YEARS.
262
00:16:08,234 --> 00:16:12,035
MILLIONS OF YOUNG MEN HAD
ALREADY BEEN SLAUGHTERED.
263
00:16:12,071 --> 00:16:16,133
THE WORLD ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S
PARENTS HAD PREPARED HIM FOR
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00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:20,112
HAD DISAPPEARED.
265
00:16:20,146 --> 00:16:22,240
SEVERAL OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL
CLASSMATES
266
00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:25,547
HAD ALREADY VOLUNTEERED
TO GO TO WAR.
267
00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:30,319
HE HOPED TO GO, TOO,
BUT HE WAS TOO YOUNG AT 17,
268
00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:32,587
AND HIS PARENTS WOULD NOT
SIGN THE PAPERS
269
00:16:32,625 --> 00:16:35,094
THAT WOULD HAVE WAIVED
THAT REQUIREMENT.
270
00:16:35,127 --> 00:16:37,653
THEY WANTED HIM TO GO
TO COLLEGE.
271
00:16:37,697 --> 00:16:42,101
HE REFUSED.
272
00:16:42,134 --> 00:16:44,569
A COMPROMISE
WAS EVENTUALLY REACHED.
273
00:16:44,604 --> 00:16:49,599
AN UNCLE GOT THE BOY A JOB
AT A NEWSPAPER IN KANSAS CITY.
274
00:16:49,642 --> 00:16:52,771
KANSAS CITY WAS A TOUGH,
WIDE-OPEN TOWN,
275
00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,641
AND THE "KANSAS CITY STAR"
WAS ONE OF THE BEST PAPERS
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00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:57,411
IN THE COUNTRY,
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00:16:57,450 --> 00:17:02,548
A PIONEER IN CRISP, CLEAR,
IMMEDIATE REPORTING.
278
00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:05,649
ITS STYLE-SHEET SET THE TONE.
279
00:17:05,691 --> 00:17:07,751
USE SHORT SENTENCES.
280
00:17:07,793 --> 00:17:10,388
USE SHORT FIRST PARAGRAPHS.
281
00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:12,625
USE VIGOROUS ENGLISH.
282
00:17:12,665 --> 00:17:15,362
BE POSITIVE, NOT NEGATIVE.
283
00:17:15,401 --> 00:17:18,462
AVOID THE USE OF ADJECTIVES.
284
00:17:18,504 --> 00:17:21,269
HEMINGWAY COVERED
SHOOTINGS, STABBINGS,
285
00:17:21,307 --> 00:17:24,300
LABOR TROUBLES,
A SMALLPOX SCARE.
286
00:17:24,343 --> 00:17:27,108
HE WAS FASCINATED BY ALL OF IT,
287
00:17:27,146 --> 00:17:30,605
AND ECHOES OF WHAT HE HAD HEARD
AND SEEN IN KANSAS CITY
288
00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:35,179
WOULD APPEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN
IN HIS LATER WRITING.
289
00:17:35,221 --> 00:17:36,861
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR DAD,
WE ARE HAVING
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00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:38,422
A LAUNDRY STRIKE HERE,
291
00:17:38,457 --> 00:17:40,426
AND I AM HANDLING
THE POLICE END.
292
00:17:40,459 --> 00:17:42,223
THE VIOLENCE STORIES.
293
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:44,696
WRECKING TRUCKS,
RUNNING THEM OVER CLIFFS,
294
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:48,132
AND YESTERDAY, THEY MURDERED
A NON-UNION GUARD.
295
00:17:48,167 --> 00:17:49,692
FOR OVER A MONTH
I HAVE AVERAGED
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00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:52,603
OVER A COLUMN A DAY.
297
00:17:54,607 --> 00:17:56,599
AFTER HEMINGWAY
TURNED 18,
298
00:17:56,642 --> 00:18:01,171
HE NO LONGER NEEDED HIS PARENTS'
PERMISSION TO JOIN THE ARMY,
299
00:18:01,213 --> 00:18:03,239
BUT HE WAS CONVINCED
HE WOULD BE REJECTED
300
00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:05,547
BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED
AND JOINED
301
00:18:05,585 --> 00:18:09,352
THE RED CROSS
AMBULANCE SERVICE INSTEAD.
302
00:18:09,388 --> 00:18:16,090
NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HIM
FOR WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SEE.
303
00:18:16,128 --> 00:18:18,188
HEMINGWAY WAS SENT TO ITALY,
304
00:18:18,230 --> 00:18:20,392
WHERE HE WAS IMMEDIATELY
DISPATCHED TO THE SCENE
305
00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:22,868
OF A HORRIFIC DISASTER.
306
00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,799
A MUNITIONS FACTORY
HAD EXPLODED.
307
00:18:25,838 --> 00:18:30,276
35 WORKERS
WERE BLOWN TO PIECES.
308
00:18:30,309 --> 00:18:33,507
HE HELPED GATHER UP THE DEAD,
INCLUDING THE CORPSE
309
00:18:33,546 --> 00:18:36,641
OF A HEADLESS, LEGLESS WOMAN.
310
00:18:36,682 --> 00:18:39,117
"HEMMIE AND I NEARLY
PASSED OUT COLD,"
311
00:18:39,151 --> 00:18:42,212
A FRIEND REMEMBERED,
"BUT GRITTED OUR TEETH
312
00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:46,589
AND LAID THE THING
ON THE STRETCHER."
313
00:18:46,626 --> 00:18:50,586
HEMINGWAY'S RED CROSS UNIT WAS
ASSIGNED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY,
314
00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,428
FIGHTING THE AUSTRIANS
IN THE FOOTHILLS
315
00:18:52,465 --> 00:18:55,629
OF THE ITALIAN ALPS.
316
00:18:55,668 --> 00:18:58,661
HE DROVE AN AMBULANCE
FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS,
317
00:18:58,704 --> 00:19:01,139
BRINGING WOUNDED ITALIAN
SOLDIERS DOWN
318
00:19:01,173 --> 00:19:03,836
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
319
00:19:03,876 --> 00:19:05,708
"THERE'S NOTHING HERE
BUT SCENERY
320
00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:08,647
AND TOO DAMN MUCH OF THAT,"
HE TOLD A FRIEND.
321
00:19:08,681 --> 00:19:10,912
"I'M GOING TO GET OUT
OF THIS AMBULANCE SECTION
322
00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:16,555
AND SEE IF I CAN'T FIND OUT
WHERE THE WAR IS."
323
00:19:16,589 --> 00:19:20,253
ERNEST VOLUNTEERED TO BICYCLE UP
TO THE FRONTLINE TRENCHES
324
00:19:20,292 --> 00:19:23,262
NEAR THE TOWN OF FOSSALTA
AND DISTRIBUTE
325
00:19:23,295 --> 00:19:26,163
CANDY AND CIGARETTES
TO THE MEN.
326
00:19:26,198 --> 00:19:30,636
LESS THAN A WEEK LATER,
ON JULY 8, 1918,
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00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,798
HE WAS PASSING OUT
CHOCOLATE BARS
328
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:35,603
IN A FORWARD LISTENING POST
ON THE WEST BANK
329
00:19:35,641 --> 00:19:37,473
OF THE PIAVE RIVER
330
00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:43,882
WHEN AN ENEMY MORTAR SHELL
EXPLODED JUST 3 FEET AWAY.
331
00:19:43,916 --> 00:19:46,317
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED.
332
00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:50,221
ANOTHER HAD HIS LEGS BLOWN OFF.
333
00:19:50,256 --> 00:19:55,285
MORE THAN 220 SHARDS OF SHRAPNEL
RIPPED INTO HEMINGWAY'S LEGS
334
00:19:55,327 --> 00:19:58,661
AND LACERATED HIS SCALP,
AND THE BLAST CAUSED
335
00:19:58,698 --> 00:20:01,463
THE FIRST OF MANY SERIOUS
CONCUSSIONS
336
00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,904
HE WOULD ENDURE
DURING HIS LIFETIME.
337
00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:08,373
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I DIED THEN.
338
00:20:08,407 --> 00:20:13,311
I FELT MY SOUL OR SOMETHING
COMING RIGHT OUT OF MY BODY,
339
00:20:13,345 --> 00:20:15,211
LIKE YOU'D PULL
A SILK HANDKERCHIEF
340
00:20:15,247 --> 00:20:19,207
OUT OF A POCKET BY ONE CORNER.
341
00:20:19,251 --> 00:20:21,413
IT FLEW AROUND
AND THEN CAME BACK
342
00:20:21,454 --> 00:20:27,553
AND WENT IN AGAIN,
AND I WASN'T DEAD ANYMORE.
343
00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:29,858
AS STRETCHER-BEARERS
STRUGGLED TO GET HEMINGWAY
344
00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:31,591
TO AN AID STATION,
345
00:20:31,630 --> 00:20:34,464
AN ENEMY MACHINE GUNNER
OPENED UP.
346
00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:37,766
BULLETS LODGED
IN HIS RIGHT KNEE AND FOOT.
347
00:20:37,803 --> 00:20:40,705
HE REFUSED TO BE TREATED
FOR A TIME BECAUSE HE SAID
348
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:45,576
THERE WERE OTHER MEN
MORE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED THAN HE.
349
00:20:45,611 --> 00:20:48,274
HE THEN ENDURED THE REMOVAL
OF THE LARGEST PIECES
350
00:20:48,314 --> 00:20:51,284
OF SHRAPNEL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC.
351
00:20:51,317 --> 00:20:53,718
BECAUSE HIS WOUNDS
SEEMED SO SEVERE,
352
00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:58,350
A CATHOLIC PRIEST ADMINISTERED
EXTREME UNCTION.
353
00:20:58,390 --> 00:21:01,554
ITALY WOULD EVENTUALLY
AWARD HIM ITS SILVER MEDAL
354
00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:03,620
FOR WHAT THE CITATION CALLED
355
00:21:03,662 --> 00:21:07,793
HIS "ADMIRABLE SPIRIT
OF FRATERNITY."
356
00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:10,962
HEMINGWAY FINALLY REACHED
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL
357
00:21:11,003 --> 00:21:15,373
IN MILAN AND UNDERWENT
A FURTHER SERIES OF SURGERIES
358
00:21:15,407 --> 00:21:20,436
TO REMOVE THE REMAINING SHRAPNEL
AND THE MACHINE GUN BULLETS.
359
00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:25,815
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR FOLKS,
THIS IS A PEACH OF A HOSPITAL.
360
00:21:25,851 --> 00:21:28,047
THERE ARE ABOUT 18
AMERICAN NURSES
361
00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:30,847
TO TAKE CARE OF 4 PATIENTS.
362
00:21:30,890 --> 00:21:33,450
I'M ENCLOSING A PICTURE
OF ME IN BED.
363
00:21:33,492 --> 00:21:35,688
IT LOOKS LIKE MY LEFT LEG
WAS A STUMP,
364
00:21:35,728 --> 00:21:37,287
BUT IT REALLY ISN'T,
365
00:21:37,329 --> 00:21:40,731
JUST BENT SO IT LOOKS THAT WAY.
366
00:21:40,766 --> 00:21:42,928
THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU
TO WORRY ABOUT
367
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:45,665
BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN FAIRLY
CONCLUSIVELY PROVED
368
00:21:45,704 --> 00:21:48,435
THAT I CAN'T BE BUMPED OFF,
369
00:21:48,474 --> 00:21:50,466
AND WOUNDS DON'T MATTER.
370
00:21:50,509 --> 00:21:52,774
I WOULDN'T MIND BEING WOUNDED
AGAIN SO MUCH
371
00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:56,374
BECAUSE I KNOW
JUST WHAT IT IS LIKE,
372
00:21:56,415 --> 00:21:59,476
AND YOU CAN ONLY SUFFER
SO MUCH, YOU KNOW,
373
00:21:59,518 --> 00:22:02,352
AND IT DOES GIVE YOU AN AWFULLY
SATISFACTORY FEELING
374
00:22:02,388 --> 00:22:03,788
TO BE WOUNDED.
375
00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:08,659
IT'S GETTING BEATEN UP
IN A GOOD CAUSE.
376
00:22:08,694 --> 00:22:12,426
THERE ARE NO HEROES IN THIS WAR.
377
00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:14,524
ALL THE HEROES ARE DEAD,
378
00:22:14,567 --> 00:22:18,402
AND THE REAL HEROES
ARE THE PARENTS.
379
00:22:18,437 --> 00:22:21,100
DYING IS A VERY SIMPLE THING.
380
00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:24,868
I'VE LOOKED AT DEATH,
AND REALLY I KNOW.
381
00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:26,640
IF I SHOULD HAVE DIED,
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
382
00:22:26,679 --> 00:22:29,444
VERY EASY FOR ME,
383
00:22:29,481 --> 00:22:31,973
AND HOW MUCH BETTER TO DIE
IN ALL THE HAPPY PERIOD
384
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:34,885
OF UNDISILLUSIONED YOUTH,
385
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,480
TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF LIGHT,
386
00:22:37,523 --> 00:22:40,049
THAN TO HAVE YOUR BODY
WORN OUT AND OLD
387
00:22:40,092 --> 00:22:43,756
AND ILLUSIONS SHATTERED.
388
00:22:43,796 --> 00:22:48,359
SO, DEAR OLD FAMILY,
DON'T EVER WORRY ABOUT ME!
389
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,767
IT ISN'T BAD TO BE WOUNDED:
390
00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:54,035
I KNOW BECAUSE
I'VE EXPERIENCED IT,
391
00:22:54,073 --> 00:22:57,976
AND IF I DIE, I'M LUCKY.
392
00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:03,547
AUGUST 26.
393
00:23:03,582 --> 00:23:06,643
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
IS GETTING EARNEST.
394
00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,711
HE WAS TALKING LAST NIGHT
OF WHAT MIGHT BE
395
00:23:08,754 --> 00:23:11,383
IF HE WAS 26 OR 28.
396
00:23:11,423 --> 00:23:15,884
IN SOME WAYS... AT SOME TIMES...
I WISH VERY MUCH THAT HE WAS.
397
00:23:15,928 --> 00:23:18,159
HE IS ADORABLE,
AND WE ARE VERY CONGENIAL
398
00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:21,697
IN EVERY WAY.
399
00:23:21,734 --> 00:23:24,431
AS HE WAS RECOVERING,
HEMINGWAY FELL IN LOVE
400
00:23:24,470 --> 00:23:26,029
WITH HIS NIGHT NURSE,
401
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,508
AN AMERICAN NAMED
AGNES VON KUROWSKY.
402
00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:32,602
SHE WAS AUBURN-HAIRED AND 26,
403
00:23:32,645 --> 00:23:35,615
7 1/2 YEARS OLDER
THAN HER PATIENT,
404
00:23:35,648 --> 00:23:40,018
ENGAGED TO A DOCTOR BACK HOME,
AND FLIRTATIOUS.
405
00:23:40,052 --> 00:23:42,453
HE BEGAN CALLING HER "AG."
406
00:23:42,488 --> 00:23:45,617
SHE CALLED HIM "KID,"
AND OVER THE WEEKS
407
00:23:45,658 --> 00:23:48,594
THAT FOLLOWED, SHE GAVE HIM
A RING TO WEAR,
408
00:23:48,627 --> 00:23:50,789
ENJOYED WITH HIM THE WINE
AND COGNAC
409
00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:53,628
HE BRIBED THE PORTER
TO SMUGGLE IN,
410
00:23:53,666 --> 00:23:55,965
TOOK WALKS
AND CARRIAGE RIDES WITH HIM
411
00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:58,835
AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE
TO LEAVE HIS ROOM,
412
00:23:58,871 --> 00:24:02,035
AND SHE WAS ONCE REPRIMANDED
BY HER SUPERIOR
413
00:24:02,074 --> 00:24:06,910
FOR HAVING LEFT A GOLD HAIR-PIN
BENEATH HIS PILLOW.
414
00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:09,541
WHEN AGNES WAS TRANSFERRED
TO AN ARMY HOSPITAL
415
00:24:09,581 --> 00:24:12,915
IN FLORENCE, ERNEST WROTE HER
SO MANY LETTERS,
416
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:16,548
SHE URGED HIM TO SLOW DOWN,
417
00:24:16,588 --> 00:24:19,786
BUT SHE ALSO TOLD HIM
SHE WAS LOST WITHOUT HIM,
418
00:24:19,825 --> 00:24:22,124
WISHED SHE COULD PUT
HER ARMS AROUND HIM,
419
00:24:22,161 --> 00:24:24,630
DREAMED OF HIM EVERY NIGHT.
420
00:24:24,663 --> 00:24:28,191
"I SOMETIMES WISH WE COULD
MARRY OVER HERE," SHE WROTE,
421
00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:32,068
AND SHE SIGNED SOME
OF HER LETTERS "MRS. KID,"
422
00:24:32,104 --> 00:24:38,806
BUT SHE SIGNED OTHERS SIMPLY,
"YOURS TILL THE WAR IS OVER."
423
00:24:38,844 --> 00:24:41,006
TO FILL THE HOURS
WHILE SHE WAS AWAY,
424
00:24:41,046 --> 00:24:43,572
ERNEST BEGAN TO WRITE
A SHORT STORY
425
00:24:43,615 --> 00:24:46,608
ABOUT A HIDEOUSLY WOUNDED
AMERICAN SOLDIER,
426
00:24:46,652 --> 00:24:50,817
WHO MUSES OVER THE MEDALS
HE'D BEEN GIVEN FOR HIS HEROISM
427
00:24:50,856 --> 00:24:54,190
AND THE MEANINGLESS CITATION
THAT ACCOMPANIED THEM
428
00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:59,563
AND THEN DECIDES
TO KILL HIMSELF.
429
00:24:59,598 --> 00:25:02,227
BY THE TIME HEMINGWAY WAS
FINALLY WELL ENOUGH TO SAIL
430
00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:06,204
FOR HOME IN EARLY 1919,
THE WAR HAD ENDED,
431
00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:10,005
AND HE WAS DETERMINED, HE SAID,
TO "MAKE THE WORLD SAFE
432
00:25:10,042 --> 00:25:12,204
FOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY."
433
00:25:12,244 --> 00:25:15,043
AS SOON AS HIS WRITING PROVIDED
HIM WITH A LIVING,
434
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,050
HE AND AGNES WOULD MARRY.
435
00:25:18,083 --> 00:25:22,111
AS HEMINGWAY LIMPED
DOWN THE GANGPLANK IN NEW YORK,
436
00:25:22,154 --> 00:25:24,146
A REPORTER FROM
THE "NEW YORK SUN"
437
00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:26,021
WAS THERE TO MEET HIM.
438
00:25:26,058 --> 00:25:27,890
HE MADE THE FIRST
OF THE HUNDREDS
439
00:25:27,926 --> 00:25:31,761
OF NATIONAL HEADLINES HE WOULD
MAKE DURING HIS LIFETIME.
440
00:25:34,566 --> 00:25:38,128
HE RETURNED TO OAK PARK
TO A HERO'S WELCOME.
441
00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:41,163
HE LOVED THE ADULATION,
WAS DELIGHTED
442
00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:44,176
WHEN AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN
DELEGATION CAME OUT
443
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:47,077
FROM CHICAGO
TO HIS MOTHER'S MUSIC ROOM
444
00:25:47,112 --> 00:25:52,107
TO HONOR HIM FOR HIS COURAGE
UNTIL HIS TEETOTALING PARENTS...
445
00:25:52,151 --> 00:25:54,950
APPALLED
BY THE FREE-FLOWING WINE...
446
00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:57,923
PUT A STOP TO SUCH VISITS.
447
00:25:57,956 --> 00:25:59,822
WHENEVER HE LEFT
HIS PARENTS' HOUSE,
448
00:25:59,858 --> 00:26:01,622
HE WORE HIS UNIFORM,
449
00:26:01,660 --> 00:26:04,789
COMPLETE WITH
A BLACK VELVET ITALIAN CAPE,
450
00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:06,924
AND HE APPEARED
BEFORE LOCAL GROUPS,
451
00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:11,801
RETELLING AND EMBELLISHING
HIS WAR STORIES FOR A FEE,
452
00:26:11,837 --> 00:26:13,829
THOUGH HE SAID HE HAD
NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT
453
00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:18,674
FOR THOSE WHO WANTED TO BE
"VICARIOUSLY HORRIFIED."
454
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,343
BUT NOW HE CLAIMED,
DESPITE HIS WOUNDS,
455
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:27,712
HE'D MANAGED TO CARRY
AN INJURED MAN TO SAFETY
456
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:30,985
BEFORE COLLAPSING,
AND HE LET HIS AUDIENCES BELIEVE
457
00:26:31,023 --> 00:26:33,993
THAT, ALTHOUGH HE STILL
COULD NOT WALK WITHOUT A CANE,
458
00:26:34,026 --> 00:26:36,928
HE'D SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE
TO RETURN TO THE FRONT
459
00:26:36,962 --> 00:26:40,956
AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE AN ELITE
UNIT OF THE ITALIAN ARMY
460
00:26:40,999 --> 00:26:43,730
BEFORE THE SHOOTING STOPPED.
461
00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:48,671
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO BE
LISTENED TO AT ALL HE
462
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:50,266
HAD TO LIE,
463
00:26:50,309 --> 00:26:52,175
AND AFTER HE HAD
DONE THIS TWICE,
464
00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:55,010
HE, TOO, HAD A REACTION
AGAINST THE WAR
465
00:26:55,047 --> 00:26:57,073
AND AGAINST TALKING ABOUT IT.
466
00:26:57,116 --> 00:26:59,881
A DISTASTE FOR EVERYTHING THAT
HAD HAPPENED TO HIM
467
00:26:59,918 --> 00:27:02,319
IN THE WAR SET IN
468
00:27:02,354 --> 00:27:06,689
BECAUSE OF THE LIES
HE HAD TOLD.
469
00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:09,752
WHEN ERNEST WAS NOT
MAKING PUBLIC APPEARANCES,
470
00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:12,890
HE WAS IN HIS THIRD-FLOOR
BEDROOM UNDER THE EAVES,
471
00:27:12,931 --> 00:27:16,663
HUNCHED OVER AN OLD TYPEWRITER,
WRITING WAR STORIES
472
00:27:16,702 --> 00:27:19,297
AND SENDING THEM OFF TO
THE "SATURDAY EVENING POST"
473
00:27:19,338 --> 00:27:23,639
AND "REDBOOK," TRYING TO
SHOW AGNES AND HIS PARENTS
474
00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:26,406
THAT HE COULD
MAKE IT AS A WRITER.
475
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:30,047
ALL THE STORIES WERE REJECTED.
476
00:27:30,082 --> 00:27:31,948
DESPITE THE BRAVADO
WITH WHICH
477
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:35,148
HE FACED HIS NEIGHBORS,
HE HAD BEEN DEEPLY AFFECTED
478
00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:38,055
BY THE WAR AND BY HIS WOUNDING.
479
00:27:38,090 --> 00:27:41,686
AN OLD FRIEND WHO VISITED HIM
THAT WINTER REMEMBERED
480
00:27:41,727 --> 00:27:45,095
THAT "HE CAME BACK FIGURATIVELY
AS WELL AS LITERALLY
481
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:46,962
SHOT TO PIECES."
482
00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:48,991
HE COULD NOT SLEEP
WITHOUT A LIGHT
483
00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:51,162
BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED
AT NIGHT
484
00:27:51,203 --> 00:27:53,434
AND HAD COME TO BELIEVE,
HE WOULD WRITE,
485
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:57,905
"THAT IF I EVER SHUT MY EYES
IN THE DARK AND LET MYSELF GO,
486
00:27:57,943 --> 00:28:02,210
MY SOUL WOULD GO
OUT OF MY BODY."
487
00:28:02,247 --> 00:28:04,944
HIS SISTER URSULA SOMETIMES
SLEPT IN HIS ROOM
488
00:28:04,983 --> 00:28:07,009
TO SOOTHE HIS FEARS.
489
00:28:07,052 --> 00:28:11,786
ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD BE
FRIGHTENED OF SLEEPING ALONE.
490
00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:15,225
HIS GREAT CONSOLATION WAS
THAT AGNES WOULD SOON
491
00:28:15,260 --> 00:28:19,755
BE COMING HOME TO MARRY HIM.
492
00:28:19,798 --> 00:28:23,758
WOMAN, AS AGNES: MARCH 7, 1919.
493
00:28:23,802 --> 00:28:26,772
ERNIE, DEAR BOY,
I AM WRITING THIS
494
00:28:26,805 --> 00:28:29,969
LATE AT NIGHT AFTER
A LONG THINK BY MYSELF,
495
00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:32,375
AND I AM AFRAID IT IS
GOING TO HURT YOU,
496
00:28:32,411 --> 00:28:35,939
BUT I'M SURE IT WON'T
HARM YOU PERMANENTLY.
497
00:28:35,981 --> 00:28:37,916
FOR QUITE A WHILE
BEFORE YOU LEFT,
498
00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:43,150
I WAS TRYING TO CONVINCE MYSELF
IT WAS A REAL LOVE-AFFAIR,
499
00:28:43,188 --> 00:28:47,216
BUT NOW, AFTER A COUPLE
OF MONTHS AWAY FROM YOU,
500
00:28:47,259 --> 00:28:49,956
I KNOW THAT I AM STILL
VERY FOND OF YOU,
501
00:28:49,995 --> 00:28:53,762
BUT IT IS MORE AS A MOTHER
THAN AS A SWEETHEART,
502
00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:55,290
AND I CAN'T GET AWAY
FROM THE FACT
503
00:28:55,334 --> 00:28:58,793
THAT YOU'RE JUST A BOY, A KID.
504
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:03,407
I EXPECT TO BE MARRIED SOON.
505
00:29:03,442 --> 00:29:05,968
AND I HOPE AND PRAY THAT
AFTER YOU HAVE THOUGHT
506
00:29:06,011 --> 00:29:08,480
THINGS OUT, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO
FORGIVE ME AND START
507
00:29:08,513 --> 00:29:13,076
A WONDERFUL CAREER AND SHOW
WHAT A MAN YOU REALLY ARE.
508
00:29:13,118 --> 00:29:19,456
EVER ADMIRINGLY AND FONDLY,
YOUR FRIEND, AGGIE.
509
00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:22,256
ERNEST IMMEDIATELY
WROTE TO BILL HORNE,
510
00:29:22,294 --> 00:29:25,162
A FRIEND FROM
THE AMBULANCE SERVICE.
511
00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:31,464
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IT HAS HIT ME SO SUDDEN.
512
00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:33,836
SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME, BILL.
513
00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:35,864
SHE TAKES IT ALL BACK.
514
00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:41,005
A "MISTAKE," ONE OF THOSE
LITTLE MISTAKES, YOU KNOW.
515
00:29:41,046 --> 00:29:42,844
OH, BILL,
I CAN'T KID ABOUT IT
516
00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:45,043
BECAUSE I'M JUST
SMASHED BY IT,
517
00:29:45,083 --> 00:29:46,517
BUT SHE DOESN'T
LOVE ME NOW, BILL,
518
00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:50,010
AND SHE IS GOING TO
MARRY SOMEONE ELSE,
519
00:29:50,055 --> 00:29:52,422
AND SHE HOPES THAT
AFTER I HAVE FORGIVEN HER
520
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:56,394
I WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL CAREER
AND EVERYTHING,
521
00:29:56,428 --> 00:30:00,388
BUT, BILL, I DON'T WANT
A WONDERFUL CAREER.
522
00:30:00,432 --> 00:30:03,994
ALL I WANTED WAS AG
AND HAPPINESS,
523
00:30:04,036 --> 00:30:08,838
AND NOW THE BOTTOM HAS DROPPED
OUT OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
524
00:30:08,874 --> 00:30:12,072
HE DEVELOPED A FEVER,
REFUSED TO SEE ANYONE,
525
00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:15,046
BEGAN DRINKING SECRETLY
FROM BOTTLES OF LIQUEUR
526
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,279
HE HID IN HIS BOOKCASE,
STOPPED WRITING FOR A TIME.
527
00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:23,346
THERE SEEMED TO BE NO POINT.
528
00:30:23,388 --> 00:30:26,984
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH
HE TRUSTED WOMEN AFTER THAT.
529
00:30:27,025 --> 00:30:28,960
I JUST DON'T,
530
00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:31,964
BUT I DO KNOW HE LOVED
BEING IN LOVE.
531
00:30:35,267 --> 00:30:37,827
HE'D BEEN
A BIG-CITY NEWSPAPERMAN,
532
00:30:37,869 --> 00:30:41,271
HAD EXPERIENCED WAR
AND NEARLY BEEN KILLED,
533
00:30:41,306 --> 00:30:43,468
HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE
534
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:47,036
AND SOMEHOW NOW FOUND
HIMSELF BACK HOME,
535
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,878
STILL BEING TREATED
AS IF HE WERE A BOY,
536
00:30:49,915 --> 00:30:53,545
AS IF NONE OF IT HAD HAPPENED.
537
00:30:53,585 --> 00:30:55,986
THINGS WERE OUT THERE.
538
00:30:56,021 --> 00:31:00,459
HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN HUNGRY
FROM AN EARLY AGE,
539
00:31:00,492 --> 00:31:04,088
AND HE COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN
IN MY OPINION,
540
00:31:04,129 --> 00:31:06,621
ESPECIALLY AFTER
THE FIRST WORLD WAR,
541
00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:13,999
CONTAINED BY OAK PARK'S
QUIET SUNDAYS AND PERFECT LAWNS.
542
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,338
I THINK THAT WAS
IMPOSSIBLE THEN.
543
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:21,006
SO THAT, OF COURSE, LED
TO A CONFLICT WITH HIS FAMILY,
544
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:24,107
WHO FELT AFTER WAR
YOU SHOULD BE
545
00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:27,142
WHAT THEY PERCEIVED YOU
TO BE BEFORE YOU LEFT,
546
00:31:27,185 --> 00:31:29,086
BUT YOU'RE
NO LONGER THE SAME PERSON.
547
00:31:29,121 --> 00:31:32,580
HE WAS NO LONGER
THE SAME PERSON.
548
00:31:32,624 --> 00:31:36,152
THE PAIN OF LOSING
AGNES EVENTUALLY EASED.
549
00:31:36,194 --> 00:31:38,390
THAT SUMMER,
ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND,
550
00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:42,424
HE UNDERWENT WHAT HE CALLED
A "PROCESS OF CAUTERIZATION
551
00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:46,268
"IN WHICH COGNAC AND 2 OR 3
GIRLS I CARED NOTHING ABOUT
552
00:31:46,304 --> 00:31:50,969
BUT VIOLENTLY RUSHED
TOOK THE PLACE OF THE RED IRON."
553
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:58,316
HEMINGWAY EVENTUALLY RETURNED
TO HIS TYPEWRITER THAT FALL,
554
00:31:58,350 --> 00:32:01,149
FIRST WRITING MORE STORIES
IN A RENTED ROOM
555
00:32:01,186 --> 00:32:04,645
IN PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN,
THEN IN TORONTO,
556
00:32:04,689 --> 00:32:08,091
WRITING FREELANCE PIECES
FOR THE "DAILY STAR"
557
00:32:08,126 --> 00:32:12,291
AND "STAR WEEKLY" ABOUT FISHING
AND CHICAGO GANGSTERS
558
00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:15,164
AND THE DANGERS
OF ACCEPTING A FREE SHAVE
559
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,465
AT A BARBER'S COLLEGE.
560
00:32:20,639 --> 00:32:23,336
BUT WHEN HE RETURNED
TO HIS FAMILY AT WALLOON LAKE
561
00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:28,575
IN THE SUMMER OF 1920,
THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.
562
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:32,050
HE SEEMED UNINTERESTED
IN LOOKING FOR A STEADY JOB,
563
00:32:32,083 --> 00:32:34,109
SPOKE VAGUELY
OF BOARDING A FREIGHTER
564
00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,121
AND SAILING AROUND THE WORLD
565
00:32:36,154 --> 00:32:40,387
AS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WRITERS
JACK LONDON HAD DONE.
566
00:32:40,425 --> 00:32:43,623
WHEN HIS MOTHER OBJECTED,
HE SNAPPED AT HER.
567
00:32:43,662 --> 00:32:47,258
HIS FATHER EXHORTED HIM TO
"SOFTEN YOUR TEMPER
568
00:32:47,299 --> 00:32:51,498
AND FEAR GOD
AND RESPECT WOMAN."
569
00:32:51,536 --> 00:32:56,702
THINGS CAME TO A HEAD 6 DAYS
AFTER HIS 21st BIRTHDAY.
570
00:32:56,741 --> 00:33:00,109
HE AND TWO OF HIS YOUNGER
SISTERS JOINED FRIENDS,
571
00:33:00,145 --> 00:33:02,740
INCLUDING THEIR NEIGHBOR'S
TEENAGE DAUGHTERS,
572
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:07,544
AT A SECRET MOONLIGHT PARTY
ACROSS THE LAKE.
573
00:33:07,586 --> 00:33:10,681
WHEN HIS MOTHER FOUND OUT
ABOUT IT, SHE WAS FURIOUS.
574
00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:13,658
HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW
BETTER, SHE TOLD HIM.
575
00:33:13,692 --> 00:33:16,491
HE WAS CORRUPTING
THE MORALS OF MINORS,
576
00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:20,124
HE WAS A DISGRACE TO HIS FAMILY.
577
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:21,997
SHE HANDED HIM
A LETTER ADDRESSED
578
00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:25,299
TO "MY DEAR SON ERNEST."
579
00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:28,239
IT BEGAN WITH A CATALOGUE
OF THE SACRIFICES
580
00:33:28,273 --> 00:33:33,177
SHE SAID SHE HAD MADE
FOR HIS BENEFIT.
581
00:33:33,211 --> 00:33:36,477
"A MOTHER'S LOVE," SHE TOLD HIM,
WAS "LIKE A BANK."
582
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:39,314
SHE HAD MADE ALL
THE EARLY DEPOSITS...
583
00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:42,378
THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH,
THE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS,
584
00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:44,685
THE YEARS OF PATIENT
UNDERSTANDING
585
00:33:44,723 --> 00:33:47,318
AND ENCOURAGEMENT,
586
00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:49,760
BUT NOW THAT "FULL MANHOOD"
WAS HERE,
587
00:33:49,794 --> 00:33:55,734
IT WAS HIS TURN TO MAKE
"DEPOSITS" OF HIS OWN, SHE SAID.
588
00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:58,236
WOMAN, AS GRACE: UNLESS YOU,
MY SON, ERNEST,
589
00:33:58,270 --> 00:34:01,604
COME TO YOURSELF,
CEASE YOUR LAZY LOAFING
590
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,576
AND PLEASURE SEEKING...
BORROWING WITH NO THOUGHT
591
00:34:04,609 --> 00:34:06,339
OF RETURNING...
592
00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:09,075
STOP TRYING TO GRAFT
A LIVING OFF ANYBODY,
593
00:34:09,114 --> 00:34:12,812
AND EVERYBODY, SPENDING
ALL YOUR EARNINGS
594
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:17,250
LAVISHLY AND WASTEFULLY
ON LUXURIES FOR YOURSELF...
595
00:34:17,289 --> 00:34:19,758
STOP TRADING
ON YOUR HANDSOME FACE
596
00:34:19,791 --> 00:34:23,284
TO FOOL LITTLE GULLIBLE GIRLS,
597
00:34:23,328 --> 00:34:25,820
AND NEGLECTING YOUR DUTIES
TO GOD
598
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,499
AND YOUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
599
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:33,164
UNLESS, IN OTHER WORDS,
YOU COME INTO YOUR MANHOOD,
600
00:34:33,204 --> 00:34:37,539
THERE IS NOTHING BEFORE YOU,
BUT BANKRUPTCY.
601
00:34:37,576 --> 00:34:41,172
YOU HAVE OVERDRAWN.
602
00:34:41,212 --> 00:34:43,681
ERNEST WAS TO LEAVE
HOME, SHE SAID,
603
00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:46,583
AND NOT "COME BACK
UNTIL YOUR TONGUE HAS LEARNED
604
00:34:46,618 --> 00:34:50,282
NOT TO INSULT
AND SHAME YOUR MOTHER."
605
00:34:50,322 --> 00:34:52,518
"MAKES A GUY FEEL
KIND OF ROTTEN,"
606
00:34:52,557 --> 00:34:54,549
ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND,
"TO KNOW THAT
607
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:59,361
HE HASN'T ANY HOME,
EVEN IF HE DOESN'T USE IT."
608
00:34:59,397 --> 00:35:02,799
HE AND HIS MOTHER WOULD
EVENTUALLY RECONCILE,
609
00:35:02,834 --> 00:35:04,462
BUT HEMINGWAY'S ANTIPATHY
610
00:35:04,502 --> 00:35:07,370
TOWARD HER
WOULD NEVER DISSIPATE,
611
00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:10,102
YET OF ALL HER CHILDREN,
HE WOULD BECOME
612
00:35:10,141 --> 00:35:14,169
THE MOST LIKE HER...
OPINIONATED, JUDGMENTAL,
613
00:35:14,212 --> 00:35:19,173
CONTROLLING, SELF-DRAMATIZING.
614
00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:22,745
ERNEST MOVED TO CHICAGO,
ROOMED WITH OLD FRIENDS,
615
00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:26,280
AND GOT TO KNOW THE CELEBRATED
WRITER SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
616
00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:28,725
WHO BECAME SOMETHING
OF A MENTOR.
617
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,288
HEMINGWAY SUPPORTED HIMSELF
WRITING AD COPY
618
00:35:32,330 --> 00:35:35,630
AND WORKED AWAY
AT SHORT STORIES AT NIGHT.
619
00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:38,660
NO ONE SEEMED INTERESTED
IN THEM.
620
00:35:38,703 --> 00:35:41,696
ALL WRITERS
ARE NARCISSISTIC.
621
00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:43,606
THAT'S NOT THE SAME
AS BEING A NARCISSIST,
622
00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:45,304
AS BEING A SOCIOPATH,
623
00:35:45,343 --> 00:35:47,574
BUT NO ONE CAN SIT
IN A ROOM BY THEMSELVES
624
00:35:47,612 --> 00:35:51,276
12 HOURS A DAY, THINKING
ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE THINKING
625
00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:53,182
AND NOT BE A LITTLE MORE
SELF-FOCUSED
626
00:35:53,218 --> 00:35:54,777
THAN THE NORMAL PERSON.
627
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:58,278
YOU'RE DEFINITELY ON THE FAR END
OF THE BELL CURVE.
628
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:04,892
OH, MR. HEMINGWAY,
HOW I LOVE YOU.
629
00:36:04,929 --> 00:36:06,830
HOW EXCITING YOU ARE.
630
00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:09,494
HOW A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN
AROUND YOU,
631
00:36:09,534 --> 00:36:14,336
AND BESIDES ALL THAT,
I LOVE YOU ANYWAY.
632
00:36:14,372 --> 00:36:16,773
HOW I LOVE
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME,
633
00:36:16,808 --> 00:36:21,303
AND YOUR FLANNEL SHIRT SEEMS
A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL THING,
634
00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:23,906
AND IT SMELLS SO GOOD BESIDES.
635
00:36:23,948 --> 00:36:27,350
SOME DAY, IF I DON'T WATCH OUT,
THERE'LL BE A POEM
636
00:36:27,385 --> 00:36:29,354
ON THE SMELL
OF A CLEAN WHITE SHIRT
637
00:36:29,387 --> 00:36:32,186
THAT'LL RAISE UP THE HAIR
ON THE DEAD.
638
00:36:32,223 --> 00:36:34,351
HADLEY RICHARDSON.
639
00:36:38,730 --> 00:36:41,427
ONE OCTOBER EVENING
IN 1920,
640
00:36:41,466 --> 00:36:44,459
HEMINGWAY ATTENDED A PARTY
AT A FRIEND'S APARTMENT
641
00:36:44,502 --> 00:36:48,701
AND WAS INTRODUCED
TO A VISITOR FROM ST. LOUIS.
642
00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:50,538
"THE MOMENT SHE ENTERED
THE ROOM,
643
00:36:50,575 --> 00:36:52,567
AN INTENSE FEELING
CAME OVER ME,"
644
00:36:52,610 --> 00:36:55,273
HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED
MANY YEARS LATER.
645
00:36:55,313 --> 00:36:59,808
"I KNEW SHE WAS THE GIRL
I WAS GOING TO MARRY."
646
00:36:59,851 --> 00:37:02,980
ELIZABETH HADLEY RICHARDSON
WAS 28,
647
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,816
THE SHY PRODUCT
OF A WELL-TO-DO FAMILY
648
00:37:05,857 --> 00:37:09,885
FAR MORE TENSE AND TROUBLED
EVEN THAN HIS.
649
00:37:09,928 --> 00:37:14,229
HER ALCOHOLIC FATHER HAD SHOT
HIMSELF WHEN SHE WAS 13.
650
00:37:14,265 --> 00:37:16,666
A BELOVED SISTER
HAD BURNED TO DEATH.
651
00:37:16,701 --> 00:37:19,296
SHE HERSELF HAD SUFFERED
A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
652
00:37:19,337 --> 00:37:22,569
AT BRYN MAWR AND BEEN FORCED
TO SPEND THE LAST 8 YEARS
653
00:37:22,607 --> 00:37:27,011
AT HOME, CARING FOR HER ERRATIC
AND DOMINEERING MOTHER,
654
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:30,272
SOMETIMES DRIVEN TO SUCH DESPAIR
655
00:37:30,315 --> 00:37:33,843
THAT HADLEY CONSIDERED SUICIDE.
656
00:37:33,885 --> 00:37:38,289
HER MOTHER HAD DIED JUST WEEKS
BEFORE SHE MET HEMINGWAY.
657
00:37:38,323 --> 00:37:41,418
SHE WAS EAGER, SHE RECALLED,
TO FIND SOMEONE
658
00:37:41,459 --> 00:37:45,658
WITH WHOM SHE COULD BEGIN
TO BUILD A LIFE OF HER OWN.
659
00:37:50,034 --> 00:37:53,027
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I NEED YOU
IN EVERY PART OF MY LIFE.
660
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:54,967
I WANT TO BE KISSED.
661
00:37:55,006 --> 00:37:56,975
I WANT TO PULL YOUR HEAD DOWN
ON MY HEART
662
00:37:57,008 --> 00:37:59,773
AND HOLD IT VERY CLOSE
AND CRADLE YOU THERE
663
00:37:59,811 --> 00:38:03,543
FOR HOURS,
YOU BLESSED THING.
664
00:38:03,581 --> 00:38:10,044
LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU,
YOUR OWNEST IN THE WORLD.
665
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:13,349
FALLING IN LOVE
WITH HEMINGWAY, HADLEY SAID,
666
00:38:13,391 --> 00:38:17,294
WAS A "GREAT EXPLOSION
INTO LIFE."
667
00:38:17,328 --> 00:38:20,025
WITHIN 6 WEEKS,
HE WAS CALLING HER "HASH,"
668
00:38:20,064 --> 00:38:22,932
AND THEY WERE TALKING
OF MARRIAGE.
669
00:38:22,967 --> 00:38:25,903
THEY WOULD NOT ACTUALLY WED
FOR NEARLY A YEAR
670
00:38:25,937 --> 00:38:28,668
AND WERE APART
MOST OF THAT TIME,
671
00:38:28,706 --> 00:38:34,077
BUT THEY WROTE ONE ANOTHER
ALMOST DAILY.
672
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,042
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
'COURSE I LOVE YOU.
673
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,481
I LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME.
674
00:38:38,516 --> 00:38:41,076
WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING
AND HAVE TO CLIMB OUT OF BED
675
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:44,084
AND SPLASH AROUND AND SHAVE,
I LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE
676
00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:46,723
AND THINK ABOUT YOU,
677
00:38:46,758 --> 00:38:51,321
AND IN THE EVENING,
IT'S TOO MUCH TO STAND.
678
00:38:51,362 --> 00:38:54,093
'NIGHT, MY DEAREST HASH.
679
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,961
I'D LIKE TO HOLD YOU SO
AND KISS YOU SO
680
00:38:57,001 --> 00:39:00,802
THAT YOU WOULDN'T DOUBT
WHETHER I WANTED TO OR NOT.
681
00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:05,004
LOVE YOU... ERNESTO
682
00:39:05,043 --> 00:39:07,945
HIS LOVE RESTORED
HER SELF-CONFIDENCE
683
00:39:07,979 --> 00:39:10,676
AFTER YEARS OF SELF-DOUBT.
684
00:39:10,715 --> 00:39:13,412
"WE'RE THE SAME FIRM,"
SHE TOLD HIM.
685
00:39:13,451 --> 00:39:14,817
"THE WORLD'S A JAIL,
686
00:39:14,853 --> 00:39:17,584
AND WE'RE GONNA
BREAK IT TOGETHER."
687
00:39:17,622 --> 00:39:22,458
HER CONFIDENCE IN HIM WOULD
HELP HIM REALIZE HIS TALENT.
688
00:39:22,493 --> 00:39:26,555
WHEN ERNEST TOLD HADLEY HE NOW
FELT READY TO START A NOVEL
689
00:39:26,598 --> 00:39:29,659
BASED UPON HIS OWN BOYHOOD
WITH "REAL PEOPLE,
690
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:32,398
TALKING AND SAYING
WHAT THEY THINK,"
691
00:39:32,437 --> 00:39:36,033
SHE SENT HIM
A NEW CORONA TYPEWRITER.
692
00:39:36,074 --> 00:39:38,543
FROM THE FIRST,
SHE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND
693
00:39:38,576 --> 00:39:40,602
WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO.
694
00:39:40,645 --> 00:39:43,945
SHE LOVED IT THAT HIS STYLE
"ELIMINATED EVERYTHING
695
00:39:43,982 --> 00:39:47,919
EXCEPT WHAT IS NECESSARY
AND STRENGTHENING"...
696
00:39:51,122 --> 00:39:53,523
BUT AS THEIR WEDDING DAY
APPROACHED,
697
00:39:53,558 --> 00:39:57,996
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
AGAIN ENVELOPED HIM.
698
00:39:58,029 --> 00:40:01,056
HE LOST WEIGHT, WORRIED
THAT MARRIED LIFE
699
00:40:01,099 --> 00:40:03,728
MIGHT NOT BE FOR HIM AFTER ALL
700
00:40:03,768 --> 00:40:07,603
OR THAT HADLEY WOULD
BETRAY HIM THE WAY AGNES HAD.
701
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:10,507
HE GREW DARKER AND DARKER.
702
00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:16,640
HE HINTED TO HADLEY THAT
HE WAS CONSIDERING SUICIDE.
703
00:40:16,681 --> 00:40:18,792
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I KNOW HOW
IT FEELS 'CAUSE I HAVE
704
00:40:18,816 --> 00:40:22,719
SO VERY MANY TIMES
WANTED TO GO AND COULDN'T
705
00:40:22,754 --> 00:40:26,418
ON ACCOUNT OF THE MESS I'D
LEAVE SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN,
706
00:40:26,457 --> 00:40:31,452
BUT REMEMBER IT WOULD KILL ME
TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES.
707
00:40:31,496 --> 00:40:36,161
DON'T EVER GET CONFUSED
WHEN SUCH A MOMENT COMES.
708
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,032
YOU GOTTA LIVE...
709
00:40:38,069 --> 00:40:42,439
FIRST FOR YOU AND THEN
FOR MY HAPPINESS.
710
00:40:42,473 --> 00:40:46,672
YOU MUSTN'T FEEL SO HORRIBLY,
UNWORTHY DEAR ERN.
711
00:40:46,711 --> 00:40:49,806
I'M ARRIVING SATURDAY
TO LOVE YOU CLOSER.
712
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:56,611
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
SEPTEMBER 3, 1921,
713
00:40:56,654 --> 00:40:59,818
IN A METHODIST CHURCH NOT FAR
FROM THE FAMILY COTTAGE
714
00:40:59,857 --> 00:41:02,884
ON WALLOON LAKE,
HADLEY RICHARDSON
715
00:41:02,927 --> 00:41:08,696
BECAME MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
716
00:41:08,733 --> 00:41:16,733
♪
717
00:41:23,614 --> 00:41:26,243
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: JANUARY 1922.
718
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:28,953
DEAR FAMILY,
HASH JUST CAME IN
719
00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:31,183
AND SAYS TO SEND LOTS
OF LOVE TO YOU
720
00:41:31,222 --> 00:41:33,589
AND TELL YOU
ABOUT OUR APARTMENT.
721
00:41:33,624 --> 00:41:37,117
IT IS AT 74 RUE
DU CARDINAL LEMOINE
722
00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:40,620
AND IS THE JOLLIEST PLACE
YOU EVER SAW.
723
00:41:40,665 --> 00:41:43,931
WE RENTED IT FURNISHED
FOR 250 FRANCS A MONTH,
724
00:41:43,968 --> 00:41:45,732
ABOUT $18.
725
00:41:45,770 --> 00:41:48,604
IT IS THE MOST COMFORTABLE
AND CHEAPEST WAY TO LIVE,
726
00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:51,234
AND HASH HAS A PIANO,
AND WE HAVE ALL OUR PICTURES
727
00:41:51,275 --> 00:41:54,837
UP ON THE WALLS
AND AN OPEN FIREPLACE.
728
00:41:54,879 --> 00:41:56,745
IT IS ON TOP OF A HIGH HILL
729
00:41:56,781 --> 00:42:00,013
IN THE VERY OLDEST PART
OF PARIS.
730
00:42:00,051 --> 00:42:03,112
THE NEWLY-WED
HEMINGWAYS' FIRST REAL HOME
731
00:42:03,154 --> 00:42:06,784
WAS A FOURTH-FLOOR WALKUP
IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
732
00:42:06,824 --> 00:42:09,157
EACH EVENING,
ACCORDION MUSIC DRIFTED UP
733
00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:12,595
FROM THE WORKING-MAN'S
DANCE-HALL NEXT DOOR.
734
00:42:12,630 --> 00:42:15,065
HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
735
00:42:15,099 --> 00:42:18,228
HAD PERSUADED ERNEST THAT
FOR A YOUNG WRITER
736
00:42:18,269 --> 00:42:20,932
PARIS WAS THE PLACE TO BE.
737
00:42:20,972 --> 00:42:24,568
ONE COULD LIVE CHEAPLY THERE,
AND THE LEFT BANK TEEMED
738
00:42:24,609 --> 00:42:28,808
WITH REVOLUTIONARY ARTISTS
AND WRITERS FROM EVERYWHERE...
739
00:42:28,846 --> 00:42:32,248
PABLO PICASSO AND JOAN MIRÓ;
740
00:42:32,283 --> 00:42:35,685
IGOR STRAVINSKY AND ERIK SATIE;
741
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:40,215
JAMES JOYCE AND GERTRUDE STEIN,
WHO REMEMBERED PARIS
742
00:42:40,258 --> 00:42:45,754
AS "THE PLACE WHERE
THE 20th CENTURY WAS."
743
00:42:45,797 --> 00:42:49,825
ERNEST WAS JUST 22 YEARS OLD,
WORKING AS A CORRESPONDENT
744
00:42:49,867 --> 00:42:51,733
FOR THE "TORONTO STAR,"
745
00:42:51,769 --> 00:42:54,830
OTHERWISE UNPUBLISHED
AND UNKNOWN,
746
00:42:54,872 --> 00:42:57,933
BUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON HAD
WRITTEN LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION
747
00:42:57,975 --> 00:43:02,071
TO 3 INFLUENTIAL FRIENDS,
GENEROUSLY DESCRIBING HIM
748
00:43:02,113 --> 00:43:04,776
AS A "QUITE WONDERFUL
NEWSPAPERMAN"
749
00:43:04,816 --> 00:43:08,309
WHOSE "EXTRAORDINARY TALENT"
WAS SURE TO TAKE HIM
750
00:43:08,352 --> 00:43:11,720
FAR BEYOND JOURNALISM.
751
00:43:11,756 --> 00:43:13,190
HE'S TALL.
752
00:43:13,224 --> 00:43:15,352
HE IS AS HANDSOME
AS A MOVIE STAR.
753
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,789
HE HAS DIMPLES.
754
00:43:17,829 --> 00:43:22,062
HE HAS A SWASHBUCKLING
QUALITY TO HIM,
755
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,763
BUT HE HAS THIS KIND OF
MIDWESTERN SWEETNESS
756
00:43:24,802 --> 00:43:26,361
AT THE SAME TIME.
757
00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:28,698
THE FACT IS THAT
IF HE WOULD WALK INTO A ROOM
758
00:43:28,739 --> 00:43:32,005
PEOPLE LOVED HIM
THE MINUTE THEY SAW HIM,
759
00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:34,035
AND THAT GIVES YOU A KIND
OF CONFIDENCE
760
00:43:34,078 --> 00:43:37,344
THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.
761
00:43:37,381 --> 00:43:39,646
SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S
FRIENDS DID
762
00:43:39,684 --> 00:43:41,846
WHAT THEY COULD
FOR THE NEWCOMER.
763
00:43:41,886 --> 00:43:45,880
THE FIRST WAS THE AMERICAN
EXPATRIATE POET EZRA POUND.
764
00:43:45,923 --> 00:43:49,257
HE WAS WELL-CONNECTED
IN AVANT-GARDE LITERARY CIRCLES
765
00:43:49,293 --> 00:43:53,993
AND TALKED ERNEST UP TO
EVERY MAGAZINE EDITOR HE KNEW.
766
00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:57,229
GERTRUDE STEIN PRESIDED
OVER A SALON AT THE HOME
767
00:43:57,268 --> 00:44:01,103
SHE SHARED WITH HER PARTNER
ALICE B. TOKLAS.
768
00:44:01,139 --> 00:44:03,836
ART COLLECTOR,
AVANT-GARDE WRITER,
769
00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:06,868
CHAMPION OF MODERNISM
IN ALL ITS FORMS,
770
00:44:06,911 --> 00:44:08,903
SHE TOOK A LIKING
TO THE HANDSOME,
771
00:44:08,946 --> 00:44:11,245
EAGER YOUNG VISITOR
WITH WHAT SHE REMEMBERED
772
00:44:11,282 --> 00:44:16,311
AS "DARK LUMINOUS EYES"
AND "A FLASHING SMILE."
773
00:44:16,354 --> 00:44:19,381
SHE LIKED HIS TERSE,
DECLARATIVE STYLE, TOO,
774
00:44:19,423 --> 00:44:23,326
AND OFFERED ENCOURAGEMENT
AND USEFUL ADVICE.
775
00:44:23,361 --> 00:44:26,889
"MISS STEIN HAD DISCOVERED
MANY TRUTHS ABOUT RHYTHMS
776
00:44:26,931 --> 00:44:29,366
AND THE USES OF WORDS
IN REPETITION,"
777
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,302
HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED,
THAT ECHOED THE COUNTERPOINT
778
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:37,775
HE'D FIRST ENCOUNTERED
IN THE MUSIC OF BACH.
779
00:44:37,808 --> 00:44:42,872
STEIN ALSO INTRODUCED HIM
TO THE WORLD OF MODERN ART.
780
00:44:42,914 --> 00:44:46,180
HE WAS ESPECIALLY DRAWN
TO THE WORK OF PAUL CÉZANNE,
781
00:44:46,217 --> 00:44:50,018
WHO PAINTED THE SAME SUBJECTS
OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
782
00:44:50,054 --> 00:44:52,717
BUILDING UP EACH IMAGE
FROM THOUSANDS
783
00:44:52,757 --> 00:44:55,852
OF REPETITIVE BRUSH STROKES.
784
00:44:55,893 --> 00:44:58,863
CÉZANNE... HE'S TRYING
TO BREAK DOWN
785
00:44:58,896 --> 00:45:00,762
NORMAL HABITS OF SEEING,
786
00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:03,859
AND I THINK THAT'S
WHAT HEMINGWAY LIKED.
787
00:45:03,901 --> 00:45:10,000
THE GREAT ENEMY FOR HEMINGWAY
IS BOREDOM AND ROUTINE
788
00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:13,170
AND ANYTHING ACCUSTOMED,
789
00:45:13,211 --> 00:45:17,239
AND I THINK HE SAW IN CÉZANNE
A MODEL FOR TAKING
790
00:45:17,281 --> 00:45:19,011
THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER,
791
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:20,484
LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE,
LANDSCAPE,
792
00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:22,448
THE SAME MOUNTAIN,
THE SAME MOUNTAIN,
793
00:45:22,486 --> 00:45:26,116
AND RENDERING IT NEW
794
00:45:26,157 --> 00:45:28,922
BY LOOKING AT IT
IN DIFFERENT WAYS,
795
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,294
AND I THINK THAT'S
THE MODEL FOR HIM.
796
00:45:32,330 --> 00:45:35,858
SYLVIA BEACH BECAME
HEMINGWAY'S FRIEND, TOO.
797
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:37,835
SHE RAN SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY,
798
00:45:37,868 --> 00:45:42,829
A BOOKSTORE AND LENDING LIBRARY,
AT 12 RUE DE L'ODEON.
799
00:45:42,873 --> 00:45:44,739
HE CAME
INTO MY SHOP,
800
00:45:44,775 --> 00:45:47,939
AND HE HAD AN INTRODUCTION
FROM SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
801
00:45:47,979 --> 00:45:49,777
BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE THAT.
802
00:45:49,814 --> 00:45:51,291
HE'D FORGOTTEN TO BRING IT,
AND HE DIDN'T NEED IT
803
00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:53,511
BECAUSE I THOUGHT
HE WAS SO INTERESTING,
804
00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:57,882
AND HE SAID, "WOULD YOU
LIKE TO SEE MY WOUNDS?"
805
00:45:57,922 --> 00:45:59,220
AND I SAID, "YES, INDEED,"
806
00:45:59,257 --> 00:46:01,954
AND HE TOOK OFF HIS SHOE
AND HIS SOCK
807
00:46:01,993 --> 00:46:03,962
AND SHOWED ME
ALL THESE DREADFUL SCARS
808
00:46:03,995 --> 00:46:06,123
ON HIS LEG AND FOOT,
809
00:46:06,163 --> 00:46:09,861
AND THEN WE BECAME
GREAT FRIENDS.
810
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:11,766
SHAKESPEARE
AND COMPANY WAS
811
00:46:11,802 --> 00:46:15,170
A GATHERING PLACE FOR
EXPATRIATE ARTISTS AND WRITERS.
812
00:46:15,206 --> 00:46:17,141
HEMINGWAY CHARMED THEM ALL,
813
00:46:17,174 --> 00:46:20,975
INCLUDING THE IRISH WRITER
JAMES JOYCE,
814
00:46:21,012 --> 00:46:23,914
WHOSE DARINGLY EXPLICIT NOVEL
"ULYSSES"
815
00:46:23,948 --> 00:46:27,407
SYLVIA BEACH HAD JUST PUBLISHED,
816
00:46:27,451 --> 00:46:30,216
AND HE SET OUT
TO EDUCATE HIMSELF,
817
00:46:30,254 --> 00:46:34,487
BORROWING BOOKS FROM HER SHOP
BY D.H. LAWRENCE, TURGENEV,
818
00:46:34,525 --> 00:46:39,020
DOSTOEVSKY, TOLSTOY.
819
00:46:39,063 --> 00:46:42,056
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
FEBRUARY 14, 1922.
820
00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:44,967
WE KNOW A GOOD BATCH
OF PEOPLE NOW IN PARIS
821
00:46:45,002 --> 00:46:47,301
AND IF WE ALLOWED IT WOULD
HAVE ALL OUR TIME
822
00:46:47,338 --> 00:46:50,467
TAKEN UP SOCIALLY,
BUT I AM WORKING VERY HARD,
823
00:46:50,508 --> 00:46:54,206
AND WE KEEP PLENTY OF TIME
TO OURSELVES.
824
00:46:54,245 --> 00:46:57,875
PARIS IS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL
THAT IT SATISFIES SOMETHING
825
00:46:57,915 --> 00:47:00,942
IN YOU THAT IS
ALWAYS HUNGRY IN AMERICA.
826
00:47:03,888 --> 00:47:05,413
FOR THE REST
OF HIS LIFE,
827
00:47:05,456 --> 00:47:08,187
HEMINGWAY WOULD INSIST
THAT HE AND HADLEY
828
00:47:08,225 --> 00:47:12,424
HAD BEEN VIRTUALLY PENNILESS
WHEN THEY LIVED IN PARIS.
829
00:47:12,463 --> 00:47:14,227
THEY WERE NOT.
830
00:47:14,265 --> 00:47:18,202
BESIDES HIS SALARY,
SHE HAD AN INHERITANCE.
831
00:47:18,235 --> 00:47:19,999
"WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY
FOR ANYTHING
832
00:47:20,037 --> 00:47:22,939
WE REALLY WANTED TO DO,"
HADLEY REMEMBERED,
833
00:47:22,973 --> 00:47:27,206
"AND WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY
FOR WHISKEY."
834
00:47:27,244 --> 00:47:29,577
THE FIRST YEAR
OF THEIR MARRIAGE CONSTITUTED
835
00:47:29,613 --> 00:47:34,608
A SORT OF EXTENDED HONEYMOON...
EXPLORING PARIS, TREKKING,
836
00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:40,314
FISHING, SKIING,
BOBSLEDDING IN THE ALPS.
837
00:47:40,358 --> 00:47:42,293
ONE OF THE THINGS
ABOUT HIM IS THAT
838
00:47:42,326 --> 00:47:44,989
HE'S COMMITTED TO TRAVEL.
839
00:47:45,029 --> 00:47:46,588
HE LIKES, I THINK,
MORE THAN ANYTHING,
840
00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:50,590
TO BE A FOREIGNER,
A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
841
00:47:50,634 --> 00:47:54,162
EVERYTHING IS HEIGHTENED,
AND TASTE IS HEIGHTENED,
842
00:47:54,205 --> 00:47:58,643
VISION IS HEIGHTENED,
SMELLS ARE HEIGHTENED.
843
00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:01,869
HEMINGWAY WROTE
ABOUT EVERYTHING...
844
00:48:01,912 --> 00:48:04,939
PARIS NIGHTLIFE
AND GERMAN MANNERS,
845
00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:09,317
FASCISM AND COMMUNISM
AND WOMEN'S HATS...
846
00:48:09,353 --> 00:48:13,518
ALWAYS WITH A WEARY,
INSIDER'S TONE REMARKABLE
847
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:17,426
FOR A YOUNG MAN
IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES,
848
00:48:17,461 --> 00:48:19,589
AND WHENEVER HE COULD FIND
THE TIME,
849
00:48:19,630 --> 00:48:22,156
HE WORKED ON SHORT STORIES
AND THE NOVEL
850
00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:25,328
HE HAD BEGUN IN CHICAGO.
851
00:48:25,369 --> 00:48:29,397
SOMETIMES, HE TOOK HADLEY ALONG
ON ASSIGNMENT FOR THE "STAR"...
852
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,272
TO ITALY, WHERE HE SHOWED
HER THE PLACE
853
00:48:31,308 --> 00:48:33,243
WHERE HE'D BEEN WOUNDED,
854
00:48:33,277 --> 00:48:36,111
TO THE BLACK FOREST
FOR TROUT FISHING,
855
00:48:36,147 --> 00:48:38,378
ABOARD A PIONEERING
PASSENGER FLIGHT
856
00:48:38,416 --> 00:48:41,477
FROM PARIS TO STRASBOURG...
857
00:48:41,519 --> 00:48:44,216
BUT MORE OFTEN,
HE TRAVELED ALONE,
858
00:48:44,255 --> 00:48:47,020
GETTING TO KNOW
HIS FELLOW REPORTERS,
859
00:48:47,057 --> 00:48:51,085
COVERING AN INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AT GENOA,
860
00:48:51,128 --> 00:48:54,098
RIOTS IN COLOGNE,
861
00:48:54,131 --> 00:48:57,624
AND IN THE AUTUMN OF 1922,
OPEN WARFARE
862
00:48:57,668 --> 00:49:02,197
BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY
THAT SEEMED FOR A TIME
863
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:07,177
TO THREATEN A NEW WORLD WAR.
864
00:49:07,211 --> 00:49:10,010
HE STOOD AND WATCHED
AS A 20-MILE COLUMN
865
00:49:10,047 --> 00:49:13,211
OF GREEK REFUGEES PASSED
SLOWLY BY
866
00:49:13,250 --> 00:49:18,018
IN FLIGHT FROM THE TURKISH ARMY.
867
00:49:18,055 --> 00:49:20,456
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IT IS A SILENT PROCESSION.
868
00:49:20,491 --> 00:49:22,392
NOBODY EVEN GRUNTS.
869
00:49:22,426 --> 00:49:25,988
IT IS ALL THEY CAN DO
TO KEEP MOVING.
870
00:49:26,030 --> 00:49:29,364
THEIR BRILLIANT PEASANT COSTUMES
ARE SOAKED AND DRAGGLED.
871
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,360
CHICKENS DANGLE BY THEIR FEET
FROM THE CARTS.
872
00:49:33,404 --> 00:49:36,033
AN OLD MAN MARCHES
UNDER A YOUNG PIG,
873
00:49:36,073 --> 00:49:38,633
A SCYTHE AND A GUN,
WITH A CHICKEN TIED
874
00:49:38,676 --> 00:49:40,611
TO HIS SCYTHE.
875
00:49:40,644 --> 00:49:43,637
A HUSBAND SPREADS A BLANKET
OVER A WOMAN IN LABOR
876
00:49:43,681 --> 00:49:47,345
IN ONE OF THE CARTS TO
KEEP OFF THE DRIVING RAIN.
877
00:49:47,384 --> 00:49:51,116
SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON
MAKING A SOUND.
878
00:49:51,155 --> 00:49:53,351
HER LITTLE DAUGHTER LOOKS
AT HER IN HORROR
879
00:49:53,390 --> 00:49:56,053
AND BEGINS TO CRY.
880
00:49:56,093 --> 00:49:58,392
AND THE PROCESSION KEEPS MOVING.
881
00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:04,398
LATER, HEMINGWAY
JOINED OTHER REPORTERS
882
00:50:04,435 --> 00:50:08,031
AT LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND,
WHERE EUROPEAN STATESMEN
883
00:50:08,072 --> 00:50:11,474
WERE TRYING TO STOP
THE FIGHTING.
884
00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,069
ONE OF THE REPORTERS
WITH WHOM HEMINGWAY DRANK
885
00:50:14,111 --> 00:50:18,412
EACH EVENING WAS THE VETERAN
CORRESPONDENT LINCOLN STEFFENS.
886
00:50:18,449 --> 00:50:21,351
STEFFENS WAS IMPRESSED
BY THE PIECE ERNEST HAD WRITTEN
887
00:50:21,385 --> 00:50:24,549
ABOUT THE GREEK REFUGEES
AND ASKED IF HE COULD SEE
888
00:50:24,588 --> 00:50:27,387
MORE OF THE YOUNG MAN'S WRITING.
889
00:50:27,424 --> 00:50:30,792
SO WHEN ERNEST ASKED HADLEY
TO JOIN HIM IN SWITZERLAND,
890
00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:34,658
SHE DECIDED TO BRING
ALONG HIS WORK.
891
00:50:34,698 --> 00:50:38,726
ON DECEMBER 2, 1922,
SHE PACKED INTO A VALISE
892
00:50:38,769 --> 00:50:41,432
ALL THE MANUSCRIPTS
SHE COULD FIND AND TOOK
893
00:50:41,472 --> 00:50:44,738
A TAXI TO THE GARE DE LYON.
894
00:50:44,775 --> 00:50:48,268
A PORTER CARRIED THE VALISE
ONTO A TRAIN.
895
00:50:48,312 --> 00:50:51,646
WHEN SHE GOT TO HER COMPARTMENT,
IT WASN'T THERE.
896
00:50:55,686 --> 00:50:59,714
THE FIRST CHAPTERS
OF HIS NOVEL WERE LOST.
897
00:50:59,757 --> 00:51:03,524
SO WERE SEVERAL SHORT STORIES.
898
00:51:03,561 --> 00:51:05,757
HADLEY WEPT ALL THE WAY
TO LAUSANNE
899
00:51:05,796 --> 00:51:08,698
AND WHEN SHE GOT THERE
COULD BARELY BRING HERSELF
900
00:51:08,732 --> 00:51:13,830
TO TELL HER HUSBAND
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
901
00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:15,649
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
SHE HAD CRIED AND CRIED
902
00:51:15,673 --> 00:51:17,574
AND COULD NOT TELL ME.
903
00:51:17,608 --> 00:51:20,168
I TOLD HER THAT NO MATTER WHAT
THE DREADFUL THING WAS
904
00:51:20,210 --> 00:51:23,647
THAT HAD HAPPENED
NOTHING COULD BE THAT BAD,
905
00:51:23,681 --> 00:51:26,583
AND WHATEVER IT WAS,
IT WAS ALL RIGHT
906
00:51:26,617 --> 00:51:28,313
AND NOT TO WORRY.
907
00:51:28,352 --> 00:51:30,378
WE WOULD WORK IT OUT.
908
00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:35,492
BUT THEY DID NOT
REALLY WORK IT OUT.
909
00:51:35,526 --> 00:51:37,222
HEMINGWAY WAS ANGRY.
910
00:51:37,261 --> 00:51:39,526
HE'D LOST, HE CLAIMED
TO A FRIEND,
911
00:51:39,563 --> 00:51:42,761
"EVERYTHING I'VE DONE
FOR TWO YEARS."
912
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,463
HE WOULD HAVE TO START
ALL OVER AGAIN,
913
00:51:45,502 --> 00:51:48,836
THOUGH IN FACT,
SOME WRITING SURVIVED.
914
00:51:48,872 --> 00:51:51,432
HE WAS FURTHER SHAKEN
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER
915
00:51:51,475 --> 00:51:54,206
WHEN HADLEY TOLD HIM
SHE WAS PREGNANT.
916
00:51:54,244 --> 00:51:56,509
HE WAS JUST 23.
917
00:51:56,547 --> 00:52:00,712
"I AM TOO YOUNG TO BE A FATHER,"
HE TOLD GERTRUDE STEIN,
918
00:52:00,751 --> 00:52:05,155
AND HE SAID IT, SHE REMEMBERED
"WITH REAL BITTERNESS."
919
00:52:11,428 --> 00:52:14,330
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WAS TRYING TO LEARN TO WRITE,
920
00:52:14,365 --> 00:52:16,800
COMMENCING
WITH THE SIMPLEST THINGS,
921
00:52:16,834 --> 00:52:18,860
AND ONE
OF THE SIMPLEST THINGS OF ALL
922
00:52:18,902 --> 00:52:22,896
AND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL
IS VIOLENT DEATH,
923
00:52:23,140 --> 00:52:25,666
SO I WENT TO SPAIN
TO SEE BULLFIGHTS
924
00:52:25,709 --> 00:52:28,804
AND TO TRY TO WRITE
ABOUT THEM FOR MYSELF.
925
00:52:32,416 --> 00:52:37,150
I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE SIMPLE
AND BARBAROUS AND CRUEL
926
00:52:37,187 --> 00:52:39,383
AND THAT I WOULD NOT LIKE THEM,
927
00:52:39,423 --> 00:52:42,359
BUT THAT I WOULD SEE
CERTAIN DEFINITE ACTION
928
00:52:42,393 --> 00:52:45,192
WHICH WOULD GIVE ME
THE FEELING OF LIFE AND DEATH
929
00:52:45,229 --> 00:52:48,358
THAT I WAS WORKING FOR.
930
00:52:48,399 --> 00:52:51,369
HE TALKED
ABOUT SEEING HIS FIRST BULL.
931
00:52:51,402 --> 00:52:52,700
HE HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT.
932
00:52:52,736 --> 00:52:55,262
HE COULD SEE
THE BULL VERY WELL,
933
00:52:55,305 --> 00:52:57,638
AND HE SAID HE WAS STRUCK
BY THE POWER OF IT
934
00:52:57,675 --> 00:53:00,372
AND THE SIZE OF IT,
935
00:53:00,411 --> 00:53:03,813
THIS NATURAL STRENGTH OF IT.
936
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:06,749
I THINK MAYBE SOME OF THAT
SPOKE TO HIM BECAUSE
937
00:53:06,784 --> 00:53:08,810
HE HAD POWER
AND NATURAL STRENGTH,
938
00:53:08,852 --> 00:53:12,254
AND HE WAS A FORCE
OF NATURE, TOO,
939
00:53:12,289 --> 00:53:16,784
AND THAT'S WHAT AN ARTIST DOES
WITH HIS SUBJECT MATTER.
940
00:53:16,827 --> 00:53:18,887
WITH YOUR STRENGTH,
WITH YOUR WILL,
941
00:53:18,929 --> 00:53:21,728
WITH YOUR SKILLS,
YOU GO IN,
942
00:53:21,765 --> 00:53:23,757
AND YOU CONTROL
THE SUBJECT MATTER,
943
00:53:23,801 --> 00:53:25,963
AND YOU MAKE SOMETHING
BEAUTIFUL FROM IT.
944
00:53:28,939 --> 00:53:32,535
HEMINGWAY FELL
IN LOVE WITH SPAIN.
945
00:53:32,576 --> 00:53:35,273
HE WAS SURE, HE WROTE,
THAT BULLFIGHTING
946
00:53:35,312 --> 00:53:38,612
"WILL MAKE FINE STORIES SOMEDAY.
947
00:53:38,649 --> 00:53:41,847
"IT'S JUST LIKE HAVING
A RINGSIDE SEAT AT THE WAR
948
00:53:41,885 --> 00:53:45,287
WITH NOTHING GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOU."
949
00:53:45,322 --> 00:53:47,814
HADLEY REMEMBERED SITTING
IN THE STANDS,
950
00:53:47,858 --> 00:53:49,759
STITCHING BABY CLOTHES,
951
00:53:49,793 --> 00:53:54,458
"EMBROIDERING IN THE PRESENCE
OF ALL THAT BRUTALITY."
952
00:53:58,268 --> 00:53:59,668
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
TORONTO, CANADA,
953
00:53:59,703 --> 00:54:03,435
NOVEMBER 7, 1923.
954
00:54:03,474 --> 00:54:07,502
THE BABY HAS TAKEN TO SQUALLING
AND IS A FINE NUISANCE.
955
00:54:07,544 --> 00:54:09,376
I SUPPOSE HE WILL YELL
HIS HEAD OFF
956
00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,507
FOR THE NEXT 2 OR 3 YEARS.
957
00:54:11,548 --> 00:54:14,518
IT SEEMS HIS ONLY FORM
OF ENTERTAINMENT.
958
00:54:14,551 --> 00:54:18,010
NO ONE GETS AS MUCH PLEASURE
OUT OF IT AS HE DOES.
959
00:54:18,255 --> 00:54:21,248
JOHN HADLEY
NICANOR HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
960
00:54:21,291 --> 00:54:26,662
IN TORONTO
ON OCTOBER 10, 1923.
961
00:54:26,697 --> 00:54:29,633
"NICANOR" WAS IN HONOR
OF A SPANISH BULLFIGHTER
962
00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:32,761
HEMINGWAY ESPECIALLY ADMIRED.
963
00:54:32,803 --> 00:54:35,398
HADLEY NICKNAMED
THE BABY "BUMBY"
964
00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:38,307
BECAUSE, SHE SAID,
"OF THE ROUND, SOLID FEEL
965
00:54:38,342 --> 00:54:41,335
OF HIM," IN HER ARMS.
966
00:54:41,378 --> 00:54:43,472
THE HEMINGWAYS HAD COME BACK
TO NORTH AMERICA
967
00:54:43,514 --> 00:54:45,540
EARLIER THAT YEAR.
968
00:54:45,582 --> 00:54:47,847
ERNEST THOUGHT HE SHOULD HAVE
A STEADY JOB
969
00:54:47,885 --> 00:54:50,548
AT LEAST FOR THE BABY'S
FIRST YEAR,
970
00:54:50,587 --> 00:54:52,749
AND THE "TORONTO STAR" WAS
EAGER TO HAVE
971
00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:57,057
THEIR TALENTED CORRESPONDENT
BACK IN THE HOME OFFICE,
972
00:54:57,294 --> 00:54:59,661
BUT HE CAME TO HATE HIS EDITOR,
973
00:54:59,696 --> 00:55:02,996
LOATHED THE CUB REPORTER
ASSIGNMENTS HE WAS GIVEN,
974
00:55:03,033 --> 00:55:06,367
COULD FIND NO TIME
TO WRITE FOR HIMSELF,
975
00:55:06,403 --> 00:55:09,965
AND LONGED FOR PARIS, WHERE,
HE TOLD HIS SISTER,
976
00:55:10,007 --> 00:55:13,739
"THERE ARE FEW BATH TUBS,
NO ELECTRIC FIXTURES,
977
00:55:13,777 --> 00:55:17,805
"BUT VERY NEARLY ALL THE CHARM,
ALL THE GOOD FOOD,
978
00:55:17,848 --> 00:55:21,546
AND MOST OF THE GOOD PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD."
979
00:55:24,087 --> 00:55:28,457
IN FEBRUARY, 1924,
AFTER LESS THAN 4 MONTHS,
980
00:55:28,492 --> 00:55:32,793
THEY RETURNED TO PARIS AND MOVED
INTO A SECOND-FLOOR APARTMENT
981
00:55:32,830 --> 00:55:39,430
ABOVE A NOISY SAWMILL AT
113 RUE NOTRE-DAME-DES-CHAMPS.
982
00:55:39,469 --> 00:55:42,962
"WE LIVED AS SAVAGES AND KEPT
OUR OWN TRIBAL RULES,"
983
00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:46,101
HEMINGWAY WROTE,
"AND HAD OUR OWN CUSTOMS
984
00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:51,714
AND OUR OWN STANDARDS, SECRETS,
TABOOS, AND DELIGHTS."
985
00:55:51,748 --> 00:55:55,913
HADLEY CUT HER HAIR SHORT,
AND HE GREW HIS LONG
986
00:55:55,953 --> 00:55:58,445
UNTIL THEY MATCHED.
987
00:56:00,958 --> 00:56:04,417
ERNEST HAD ALSO DECIDED TO
ABANDON JOURNALISM
988
00:56:04,461 --> 00:56:08,125
IN ORDER TO DO THE KIND
OF WRITING HE WANTED TO DO.
989
00:56:10,767 --> 00:56:13,931
"IN NEWSPAPER WORK," HE WOULD
EVENTUALLY EXPLAIN,
990
00:56:13,971 --> 00:56:17,373
"YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO FORGET
EVERY DAY WHAT HAPPENED
991
00:56:17,407 --> 00:56:18,966
"THE DAY BEFORE.
992
00:56:19,009 --> 00:56:22,036
"NEWSPAPER WORK IS VALUABLE UP
UNTIL THE POINT
993
00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:26,540
THAT IT FORCIBLY BEGINS
TO DESTROY YOUR MEMORY."
994
00:56:26,583 --> 00:56:28,518
WHAT DID HE SAY ONCE?
995
00:56:28,552 --> 00:56:32,717
A WRITER MUST COME TO HIS WORK
LIKE A PRIEST TO THE ALTAR,
996
00:56:32,756 --> 00:56:34,657
AND HE HAD THAT SENSE
OF THE SACRED
997
00:56:34,691 --> 00:56:36,159
ABOUT HIS VOCATION.
998
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:38,794
HE REALLY DID.
HE WENT TO WORK,
999
00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:41,697
AND I WOULD SAY THE COURAGE
THAT HE SHOWED IN THE WAR
1000
00:56:41,732 --> 00:56:43,530
DOESN'T COMPARE TO ME
TO THE COURAGE
1001
00:56:43,567 --> 00:56:45,900
HE SHOWED IN HIS WRITING LIFE.
1002
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:50,165
WITH THE HELP OF
SYMPATHETIC FRIENDS,
1003
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,605
HEMINGWAY WOULD PUBLISH
TWO SLENDER BOOKS,
1004
00:56:53,644 --> 00:56:57,809
"THREE STORIES & TEN POEMS"
AND "IN OUR TIME".
1005
00:56:57,848 --> 00:56:59,749
THEY MEANT THE WORLD
TO HEMINGWAY,
1006
00:56:59,783 --> 00:57:03,151
BUT ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES
WERE PRINTED.
1007
00:57:03,186 --> 00:57:07,783
HEMINGWAY'S PARENTS ORDERED
6 COPIES OF "IN OUR TIME."
1008
00:57:07,824 --> 00:57:10,953
HIS SISTER REMEMBERED THAT
WHEN HIS FATHER READ A STORY
1009
00:57:10,994 --> 00:57:13,088
ABOUT A WAR VETERAN,
WHO HAS BEEN JILTED
1010
00:57:13,130 --> 00:57:16,726
BY A NURSE NAMED AG
AND CONTRACTS GONORRHEA
1011
00:57:16,767 --> 00:57:19,703
FROM A SALESGIRL,
HE WROTE TO HIS SON
1012
00:57:19,736 --> 00:57:21,898
THAT THE BOOK WAS FILTH.
1013
00:57:21,939 --> 00:57:25,103
NO GENTLEMAN EVER MENTIONED
A VENEREAL DISEASE
1014
00:57:25,142 --> 00:57:28,135
OUTSIDE A DOCTOR'S OFFICE.
1015
00:57:28,178 --> 00:57:31,876
HIS MOTHER HAD HOPED
HE MIGHT BECOME AN ARTIST
1016
00:57:31,915 --> 00:57:35,909
BUT NOT THIS KIND.
1017
00:57:35,953 --> 00:57:40,015
ANOTHER STORY WAS SO DARING,
THAT EVEN GERTRUDE STEIN
1018
00:57:40,057 --> 00:57:44,620
HAD TOLD HEMINGWAY IT WAS
TOO OBSCENE TO BE PUBLISHED.
1019
00:57:44,661 --> 00:57:49,759
IT WAS CALLED "UP IN MICHIGAN."
1020
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,462
I THINK
"UP IN MICHIGAN"
1021
00:57:51,501 --> 00:57:54,835
IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE,
FIRST OF ALL,
1022
00:57:54,871 --> 00:57:57,739
HE IS SAYING
THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES.
1023
00:57:57,774 --> 00:58:00,710
"I'M GOING TO WRITE WITH
NO BOUNDARIES, NO RESTRICTIONS.
1024
00:58:00,744 --> 00:58:03,805
"I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN
TO YOU, POLITE WORLD.
1025
00:58:03,847 --> 00:58:06,715
"I'M GOING TO WHAT
I THINK IS TRUE,
1026
00:58:06,750 --> 00:58:09,015
"BUT I'M GOING TO SEE IT
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW
1027
00:58:09,052 --> 00:58:11,920
OF THE WOMAN."
1028
00:58:11,955 --> 00:58:14,925
LIZ COATES IS
A TEEN-AGED GIRL WORKING
1029
00:58:14,958 --> 00:58:17,553
IN A BOARDING HOUSE
IN THE TINY TOWN
1030
00:58:17,594 --> 00:58:19,563
OF HORTONS BAY.
1031
00:58:19,596 --> 00:58:22,191
AMONG THE BOARDERS IS
A HANDSOME YOUNG BLACKSMITH
1032
00:58:22,232 --> 00:58:25,498
NAMED JIM GILMORE.
1033
00:58:25,535 --> 00:58:30,769
ONE EVENING, THEY GO DOWN
TO THE DOCK.
1034
00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:33,971
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"DON'T, JIM," LIZ SAID.
1035
00:58:34,011 --> 00:58:36,947
JIM SLID THE HAND FURTHER UP.
1036
00:58:36,980 --> 00:58:38,710
"YOU MUSTN'T, JIM.
1037
00:58:38,749 --> 00:58:40,911
YOU MUSTN'T."
1038
00:58:40,951 --> 00:58:43,045
NEITHER JIM NOR JIM'S
BIG HAND PAID
1039
00:58:43,086 --> 00:58:44,918
ANY ATTENTION TO HER.
1040
00:58:44,955 --> 00:58:46,947
THE BOARDS WERE HARD.
1041
00:58:46,990 --> 00:58:48,925
JIM HAD HER DRESS UP
AND WAS TRYING TO DO
1042
00:58:48,959 --> 00:58:51,087
SOMETHING TO HER.
1043
00:58:51,128 --> 00:58:53,757
SHE WAS FRIGHTENED,
BUT SHE WANTED IT.
1044
00:58:53,797 --> 00:58:57,632
SHE HAD TO HAVE IT,
BUT IT FRIGHTENED HER.
1045
00:58:57,667 --> 00:59:00,262
"YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, JIM.
YOU MUSTN'T."
1046
00:59:00,303 --> 00:59:03,102
"I GOT TO.
I'M GOING TO.
1047
00:59:03,140 --> 00:59:05,905
YOU KNOW WE GOT TO."
1048
00:59:05,942 --> 00:59:09,310
"NO WE HAVEN'T, JIM.
WE AIN'T GOT TO.
1049
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:11,037
"OH, IT ISN'T RIGHT.
1050
00:59:11,081 --> 00:59:13,778
"OH, IT'S SO BIG,
AND IT HURTS SO.
1051
00:59:13,817 --> 00:59:15,285
"YOU CAN'T.
1052
00:59:15,318 --> 00:59:16,843
"OH, JIM.
1053
00:59:16,887 --> 00:59:19,652
JIM. OH."
1054
00:59:22,692 --> 00:59:28,256
I THINK MANY WOMEN
FEEL, AND, INDEED,
1055
00:59:28,298 --> 00:59:36,001
UM, BROADCAST THE IDEA
THAT HEMINGWAY HATED WOMEN
1056
00:59:36,039 --> 00:59:40,306
AND WROTE ADVERSELY
ALWAYS ABOUT THEM.
1057
00:59:40,343 --> 00:59:42,869
THIS ISN'T TRUE.
1058
00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:45,178
"THE HEMLOCK PLANKS OF THE DOCK
WERE HARD
1059
00:59:45,215 --> 00:59:47,616
"AND SPLINTERY AND COLD,
1060
00:59:47,651 --> 00:59:51,349
"AND JIM WAS HEAVY ON HER,
AND HE HAD HURT HER.
1061
00:59:51,588 --> 00:59:53,022
"LIZ PUSHED HIM.
1062
00:59:53,056 --> 00:59:55,685
"SHE WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLE
AND CRAMPED.
1063
00:59:55,725 --> 00:59:58,126
"JIM WAS ASLEEP.
HE WOULDN'T MOVE.
1064
00:59:58,161 --> 01:00:00,630
"SHE WORKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM
1065
01:00:00,664 --> 01:00:04,658
"AND SAT UP AND STRAIGHTENED
HER SKIRT AND COAT
1066
01:00:04,701 --> 01:00:08,069
"AND TRIED TO DO SOMETHING
WITH HER HAIR.
1067
01:00:08,105 --> 01:00:11,269
"JIM WAS SLEEPING
WITH HIS MOUTH A LITTLE OPEN.
1068
01:00:11,308 --> 01:00:14,710
"LIZ LEANED OVER
AND KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK.
1069
01:00:14,744 --> 01:00:16,212
"HE WAS STILL ASLEEP.
1070
01:00:16,246 --> 01:00:19,910
"SHE LIFTED HIS HEAD
A LITTLE AND SHOOK IT.
1071
01:00:19,950 --> 01:00:22,613
"HE ROLLED HIS HEAD OVER
AND SWALLOWED.
1072
01:00:22,652 --> 01:00:24,917
"LIZ STARTED TO CRY.
1073
01:00:24,955 --> 01:00:27,151
"SHE WALKED OVER
TO THE EDGE OF THE DOCK
1074
01:00:27,190 --> 01:00:29,989
"AND LOOKED DOWN TO THE WATER.
1075
01:00:30,026 --> 01:00:32,894
"THERE WAS A MIST COMING UP
FROM THE BAY.
1076
01:00:32,929 --> 01:00:40,029
SHE WAS COLD AND MISERABLE
AND EVERYTHING FELT GONE."
1077
01:00:40,070 --> 01:00:45,668
NOW, I WOULD ASK,
UM, HIS DETRACTORS,
1078
01:00:45,709 --> 01:00:49,908
FEMALE OR MALE,
JUST TO READ THAT STORY,
1079
01:00:49,946 --> 01:00:55,078
AND COULD YOU IN ALL HONOR
SAY THAT THIS WAS A WRITER
1080
01:00:55,118 --> 01:00:58,987
WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
WOMEN'S EMOTIONS
1081
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:00,285
AND WHO HATED WOMEN?
1082
01:01:00,323 --> 01:01:03,259
YOU COULDN'T.
NOBODY COULD.
1083
01:01:03,293 --> 01:01:05,956
THIS IS ABOUT DATE RAPE.
1084
01:01:05,996 --> 01:01:11,094
HE WAS DRILLING DOWN DEEPER
INTO THOSE DARK SIDES OF US,
1085
01:01:11,134 --> 01:01:15,071
AND MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T
WANT TO SEE THAT,
1086
01:01:15,105 --> 01:01:17,665
LIKE HIS PARENTS,
LIKE MS. STEIN,
1087
01:01:17,707 --> 01:01:20,700
LIKE SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE.
1088
01:01:20,744 --> 01:01:23,714
HE WAS UNCONCERNED WITH THAT,
1089
01:01:23,747 --> 01:01:28,776
AND I THINK AT THE END THAT'S
WHAT MAKES HIM AN ARTIST.
1090
01:01:28,818 --> 01:01:30,878
THE CRITIC
EDMUND WILSON
1091
01:01:30,921 --> 01:01:33,288
PRAISED HEMINGWAY
FOR WRITING PROSE
1092
01:01:33,323 --> 01:01:36,293
OF "THE FIRST DISTINCTION"
AND FOR PROVIDING
1093
01:01:36,326 --> 01:01:39,057
"A HARROWING RECORD
OF THE BARBARITIES
1094
01:01:39,095 --> 01:01:43,430
OF THE PERIOD
IN WHICH WE LIVE."
1095
01:01:43,466 --> 01:01:46,197
FULL-TIME WRITING WASN'T EASY.
1096
01:01:46,236 --> 01:01:47,898
THE BABY CRIED.
1097
01:01:47,938 --> 01:01:51,136
FRIENDS DROPPED IN,
DAY AND NIGHT.
1098
01:01:51,174 --> 01:01:53,871
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SOMETIMES
WHEN I WAS STARTING A NEW STORY
1099
01:01:53,910 --> 01:01:57,711
AND I COULD NOT GET IT GOING,
I WOULD STAND AND LOOK OUT
1100
01:01:57,747 --> 01:02:02,082
OVER THE ROOFS OF PARIS
AND THINK, "DO NOT WORRY.
1101
01:02:02,118 --> 01:02:07,113
"YOU HAVE ALWAYS WRITTEN BEFORE,
AND YOU WILL WRITE NOW.
1102
01:02:07,157 --> 01:02:10,719
"ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WRITE
ONE TRUE SENTENCE.
1103
01:02:12,429 --> 01:02:16,799
WRITE THE TRUEST SENTENCE
THAT YOU KNOW."
1104
01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:19,894
SO FINALLY I WOULD WRITE
ONE TRUE SENTENCE
1105
01:02:19,936 --> 01:02:23,395
AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE.
1106
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:26,933
IT WAS EASY THEN BECAUSE THERE
WAS ALWAYS ONE TRUE SENTENCE
1107
01:02:26,977 --> 01:02:31,813
THAT YOU KNEW OR HAD SEEN
OR HEARD SOMEONE SAY.
1108
01:02:31,848 --> 01:02:34,340
IF I STARTED TO
WRITE ELABORATELY
1109
01:02:34,384 --> 01:02:37,877
OR LIKE SOMEONE INTRODUCING
OR PRESENTING SOMETHING,
1110
01:02:37,921 --> 01:02:40,982
I FOUND THAT I COULD CUT THAT
SCROLLWORK OR ORNAMENT OUT
1111
01:02:41,024 --> 01:02:43,994
AND THROW IT AWAY AND START
WITH THE FIRST TRUE,
1112
01:02:44,027 --> 01:02:47,464
SIMPLE DECLARATIVE SENTENCE
I HAD WRITTEN
1113
01:02:47,497 --> 01:02:51,093
AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE.
1114
01:02:51,134 --> 01:02:55,037
THE SHORT STORIES
MEAN MORE TO ME NOW
1115
01:02:55,071 --> 01:02:57,540
BECAUSE IT IS A YOUNG MAN
1116
01:02:57,774 --> 01:03:01,370
AT THE BEGINNING
OF HIS ADVENTURE.
1117
01:03:01,411 --> 01:03:05,041
HE'S HUNGRY, HE'S EXCITED,
HIS OBSERVATIONS
1118
01:03:05,081 --> 01:03:08,176
ARE LIKE A HAWK.
1119
01:03:08,218 --> 01:03:10,346
HE'S FEELING EVERYTHING.
1120
01:03:10,387 --> 01:03:12,913
HE'S ANTICIPATING EVERYTHING.
1121
01:03:12,956 --> 01:03:17,052
HE'S TRYING TO MAKE
EVERYTHING GO HIS WAY.
1122
01:03:17,093 --> 01:03:20,928
IT'S TERRIBLY EXCITING.
1123
01:03:20,964 --> 01:03:23,490
IF HE WERE A CAMERA,
HE WOULD BE COMING IN
1124
01:03:23,533 --> 01:03:25,559
FOR EXTREME CLOSE-UP
ALL THE TIME.
1125
01:03:25,802 --> 01:03:28,465
HE'S COMING IN, IN, IN AT IT,
1126
01:03:28,505 --> 01:03:33,307
AND EVERY LITTLE DETAIL
SUDDENLY IS VERY, VERY BIG.
1127
01:03:33,343 --> 01:03:36,142
IT'S NOT LIKE THE WAY
19th CENTURY WRITERS
1128
01:03:36,179 --> 01:03:38,045
WOULD WRITE, WHICH WAS
VERY PANORAMIC,
1129
01:03:38,081 --> 01:03:40,073
WHERE THE CAMERA IS SET
WAY, WAY BACK,
1130
01:03:40,116 --> 01:03:43,575
AND YOU SEE A GIANT EXPANSE
OF EXPERIENCE,
1131
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:47,018
AND YET HE'S REALLY
UP CLOSE AT IT.
1132
01:03:47,057 --> 01:03:49,891
YOU CAN SEE EVERY PORE
IN EVERYBODY'S SKIN
1133
01:03:49,926 --> 01:03:55,024
WHEN HE'S WRITING,
AND THIS IS EXTREMELY EXCITING.
1134
01:03:55,065 --> 01:03:58,092
DURING THE FIRST
6 MONTHS OF 1924,
1135
01:03:58,134 --> 01:04:01,468
HEMINGWAY WROTE MORE STORIES,
HOPING TO INCLUDE THEM
1136
01:04:01,504 --> 01:04:06,909
IN A NEW AND EXPANDED COLLECTION
OF "IN OUR TIME."
1137
01:04:06,943 --> 01:04:11,347
"IN OUR TIME" JUST
REARRANGED THE GEOGRAPHY
1138
01:04:11,381 --> 01:04:15,341
OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A LOT
OF PEOPLE WRITING IN ENGLISH.
1139
01:04:15,385 --> 01:04:18,913
WHEN I GO BACK TO THAT BOOK
AND TRY TO FORGET ABOUT
1140
01:04:18,955 --> 01:04:22,392
WHO HE BECAME,
I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY.
1141
01:04:22,425 --> 01:04:26,123
THAT BOOK, IT TAKES
THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD OFF.
1142
01:04:26,162 --> 01:04:28,028
THE BOOK WOULD
EVENTUALLY INCLUDE
1143
01:04:28,064 --> 01:04:33,298
15 STORIES SEPARATED
BY BRIEF, ITALICIZED VIGNETTES
1144
01:04:33,336 --> 01:04:37,603
BASED ON THINGS HEMINGWAY
HAD SEEN OR BEEN TOLD ABOUT...
1145
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:42,340
REFUGEES, A DYING BULLFIGHTER,
A HANGING,
1146
01:04:42,379 --> 01:04:46,942
AND THE WAR HE HAD
EXPERIENCED IN ITALY.
1147
01:04:46,983 --> 01:04:50,044
THERE'S SOMETHING
ABOUT THESE SHORT PIECES
1148
01:04:50,086 --> 01:04:54,023
THAT ARE IMMORTAL
IN MY OPINION.
1149
01:04:54,057 --> 01:04:58,085
I THINK THEY'RE
ABSOLUTE MIRACLES OF PROSE,
1150
01:04:58,128 --> 01:05:02,190
OF DESCRIPTION, OF EVOCATION,
1151
01:05:02,232 --> 01:05:07,569
AND OF, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
OF ALL, BEING THERE.
1152
01:05:07,604 --> 01:05:10,005
THEY TAKE YOU THERE.
1153
01:05:13,009 --> 01:05:14,553
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
WHILE THE BOMBARDMENT
1154
01:05:14,577 --> 01:05:17,479
WAS KNOCKING THE TRENCH
TO PIECES AT FOSSALTA,
1155
01:05:17,514 --> 01:05:20,382
HE LAY VERY FLAT AND SWEATED
AND PRAYED,
1156
01:05:20,417 --> 01:05:24,411
"O JESUS CHRIST
GET ME OUT OF HERE.
1157
01:05:24,454 --> 01:05:28,357
"DEAR JESUS, PLEASE GET ME OUT.
1158
01:05:28,391 --> 01:05:31,589
"CHRIST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
CHRIST.
1159
01:05:31,628 --> 01:05:33,529
"IF YOU'LL ONLY KEEP ME
FROM GETTING KILLED,
1160
01:05:33,563 --> 01:05:35,555
"I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY.
1161
01:05:35,598 --> 01:05:37,931
"I BELIEVE IN YOU,
AND I'LL TELL EVERYONE
1162
01:05:37,967 --> 01:05:41,096
"IN THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE
THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS.
1163
01:05:41,137 --> 01:05:44,972
PLEASE PLEASE DEAR JESUS."
1164
01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:52,048
THE SHELLING MOVED
FURTHER UP THE LINE.
1165
01:05:52,081 --> 01:05:54,482
WE WENT TO WORK ON THE TRENCH,
1166
01:05:54,517 --> 01:05:56,452
AND IN THE MORNING,
THE SUN CAME UP,
1167
01:05:56,486 --> 01:06:00,321
AND THE DAY WAS HOT AND MUGGY
AND CHEERFUL AND QUIET.
1168
01:06:03,693 --> 01:06:05,853
THE NEXT NIGHT BACK AT MESTRE,
HE DID NOT TELL THE GIRL
1169
01:06:05,962 --> 01:06:11,697
HE WENT UPSTAIRS WITH
AT THE VILLA ROSSA ABOUT JESUS.
1170
01:06:11,734 --> 01:06:15,364
AND HE NEVER TOLD ANYBODY.
1171
01:06:15,405 --> 01:06:19,399
IT'S THE BETRAYAL
OF A PROMISE THAT APPEALS TO ME.
1172
01:06:19,442 --> 01:06:22,037
I THINK WE ALL DO IT IN
PETTY WAYS THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES.
1173
01:06:22,078 --> 01:06:25,708
"GET ME THROUGH THE CRISIS,
AND I'LL CHANGE MY WAYS,"
1174
01:06:25,748 --> 01:06:30,379
AND IT DOESN'T HAPPEN
IN THIS STORY.
1175
01:06:30,420 --> 01:06:33,618
HALF THE STORIES
IN "IN OUR TIME" FEATURE
1176
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:39,288
NICK ADAMS, A CHARACTER WHO IS
VERY LIKE THE YOUNG HEMINGWAY.
1177
01:06:39,329 --> 01:06:43,096
IN "INDIAN CAMP," HE IS
A LITTLE BOY WHO ACCOMPANIES
1178
01:06:43,132 --> 01:06:46,034
HIS PHYSICIAN FATHER
ACROSS A LAKE
1179
01:06:46,069 --> 01:06:48,095
TO AN ENCAMPMENT,
WHERE A WOMAN
1180
01:06:48,137 --> 01:06:51,630
HAS BEEN IN LABOR
FOR TWO DAYS.
1181
01:06:51,674 --> 01:06:54,701
PURE HORROR FOLLOWS.
1182
01:06:54,744 --> 01:06:57,509
AS THE BOY LOOKS ON,
HIS FATHER PERFORMS
1183
01:06:57,547 --> 01:07:01,211
AN EMERGENCY CAESARIAN SECTION
BY LAMP LIGHT,
1184
01:07:01,251 --> 01:07:04,278
USING A JACKKNIFE
AND SUTURING THE WOUND
1185
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:09,315
WITH FISHING LINE,
ALL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC.
1186
01:07:09,359 --> 01:07:12,124
WHEN NICK ASKS HIS FATHER
IF HE CAN'T DO SOMETHING
1187
01:07:12,161 --> 01:07:18,761
ABOUT HER SCREAMS, HE ANSWERS
"THEY ARE NOT IMPORTANT."
1188
01:07:18,801 --> 01:07:21,464
AFTERWARDS, THE FATHER
OF THE CHILD,
1189
01:07:21,504 --> 01:07:24,497
APPARENTLY UNABLE TO ENDURE
HIS HELPLESSNESS
1190
01:07:24,541 --> 01:07:27,204
DURING HIS WIFE'S ORDEAL,
IS FOUND
1191
01:07:27,243 --> 01:07:30,179
TO HAVE SLIT HIS OWN THROAT.
1192
01:07:32,815 --> 01:07:34,511
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"DO LADIES ALWAYS HAVE
1193
01:07:34,551 --> 01:07:38,147
SUCH A HARD TIME HAVING BABIES?"
NICK ASKED.
1194
01:07:38,187 --> 01:07:42,181
"NO, THAT WAS VERY,
VERY EXCEPTIONAL."
1195
01:07:42,225 --> 01:07:45,354
"WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF,
DADDY?"
1196
01:07:45,395 --> 01:07:47,159
"I DON'T KNOW, NICK.
1197
01:07:47,196 --> 01:07:50,291
HE COULDN'T STAND THINGS,
I GUESS."
1198
01:07:50,333 --> 01:07:53,303
"DO MANY MEN
KILL THEMSELVES, DADDY?"
1199
01:07:53,336 --> 01:07:55,328
"NOT VERY MANY, NICK."
1200
01:07:55,371 --> 01:07:57,237
"DO MANY WOMEN?"
1201
01:07:57,273 --> 01:07:59,242
"HARDLY EVER."
1202
01:07:59,275 --> 01:08:01,107
"DON'T THEY EVER?"
1203
01:08:01,144 --> 01:08:04,342
"OH, YES.
THEY DO SOMETIMES."
1204
01:08:04,380 --> 01:08:07,248
"IS DYING HARD, DADDY?"
1205
01:08:07,283 --> 01:08:10,481
"NO, I THINK IT'S
PRETTY EASY, NICK.
1206
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,648
IT ALL DEPENDS."
1207
01:08:15,458 --> 01:08:18,428
THEY WERE SEATED IN THE BOAT,
NICK IN THE STERN,
1208
01:08:18,461 --> 01:08:21,124
HIS FATHER ROWING.
1209
01:08:21,164 --> 01:08:24,191
THE SUN WAS COMING UP
OVER THE HILLS.
1210
01:08:24,233 --> 01:08:28,102
A BASS JUMPED, MAKING
A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.
1211
01:08:28,137 --> 01:08:30,538
NICK TRAILED HIS HAND
IN THE WATER.
1212
01:08:30,573 --> 01:08:33,600
IT FELT WARM IN THE SHARP CHILL
OF THE MORNING.
1213
01:08:35,645 --> 01:08:37,511
IN THE EARLY MORNING
ON THE LAKE,
1214
01:08:37,547 --> 01:08:41,450
SITTING IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT
WITH HIS FATHER ROWING,
1215
01:08:41,484 --> 01:08:44,886
HE FELT QUITE SURE
THAT HE WOULD NEVER DIE.
1216
01:08:47,757 --> 01:08:51,285
"INDIAN CAMP," THAT'S ONE
1217
01:08:51,327 --> 01:08:54,297
OF MY FAVORITE STORIES
IN THE WORLD,
1218
01:08:54,330 --> 01:08:56,856
AND HE WAS A BABY
WHEN HE WROTE IT,
1219
01:08:56,899 --> 01:09:00,768
BUT IT IS COMPL... IT IS A WORK
OF GREAT SOPHISTICATION,
1220
01:09:00,803 --> 01:09:04,365
AND IT HANDLES
VERY SENSATIONAL MATERIAL
1221
01:09:04,407 --> 01:09:07,468
IN AN ABSOLUTELY
UNSENSATIONAL WAY.
1222
01:09:07,510 --> 01:09:12,414
AND WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IS
"YOU'RE GOING TO DIE."
1223
01:09:12,448 --> 01:09:15,316
HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO DIE.
HE'S SEEN IT,
1224
01:09:15,351 --> 01:09:18,879
BUT THERE'S THIS FEELING,
BEING WITH HIS FATHER,
1225
01:09:18,921 --> 01:09:22,881
BEING OUTDOORS IN THE DAWN,
1226
01:09:22,925 --> 01:09:28,796
THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO HOPE
OR DENY OR EVADE THAT TRUTH
1227
01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:31,300
FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
1228
01:09:33,436 --> 01:09:35,735
THE LAST STORIES
IN THE COLLECTION
1229
01:09:35,772 --> 01:09:40,210
ARE "BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER,
PARTS I AND II."
1230
01:09:40,243 --> 01:09:42,712
THEY ARE ABOUT A NOW OLDER
NICK ADAMS,
1231
01:09:42,745 --> 01:09:45,374
A WRITER WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED
AND TRAUMATIZED
1232
01:09:45,415 --> 01:09:47,577
FROM THE GREAT WAR.
1233
01:09:47,617 --> 01:09:50,678
"IT WAS ABOUT THE WAR,"
HEMINGWAY LATER RECALLED,
1234
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,781
"BUT THERE WAS NO MENTION
OF THE WAR IN IT."
1235
01:09:56,559 --> 01:09:57,925
NICK JOURNEYS ALONE
1236
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,486
TO THE UPPER PENINSULA
OF MICHIGAN,
1237
01:10:00,530 --> 01:10:05,264
WHERE HE HAD FREQUENTLY FISHED
FOR TROUT BEFORE THE WAR.
1238
01:10:05,301 --> 01:10:08,863
A FOREST FIRE HAS DESTROYED
THE TOWN HE HAD KNOWN.
1239
01:10:08,905 --> 01:10:11,568
HE FEARS THE RIVER
AND THE LIFE HE KNEW
1240
01:10:11,607 --> 01:10:14,509
BEFORE THE WAR
HAD BEEN RUINED, TOO.
1241
01:10:18,581 --> 01:10:21,244
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE RIVER WAS THERE.
1242
01:10:21,284 --> 01:10:25,415
IT SWIRLED AGAINST THE LOG PILES
OF THE BRIDGE.
1243
01:10:25,455 --> 01:10:27,924
NICK LOOKED DOWN
INTO THE CLEAR, BROWN WATER,
1244
01:10:27,957 --> 01:10:31,792
COLORED FROM THE PEBBLY BOTTOM,
AND WATCHED THE TROUT
1245
01:10:31,828 --> 01:10:33,820
KEEPING THEMSELVES STEADY
IN THE CURRENT
1246
01:10:33,863 --> 01:10:36,355
WITH WAVERING FINS.
1247
01:10:38,735 --> 01:10:41,261
AS HE WATCHED THEM,
THEY CHANGED THEIR POSITIONS
1248
01:10:41,304 --> 01:10:43,899
BY QUICK ANGLES,
ONLY TO HOLD STEADY
1249
01:10:43,940 --> 01:10:46,705
IN THE FAST WATER AGAIN.
1250
01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:49,508
NICK WATCHED THEM A LONG TIME.
1251
01:10:51,380 --> 01:10:53,315
IT WAS A HOT DAY.
1252
01:10:53,349 --> 01:10:56,342
A KINGFISHER FLEW UP THE STREAM.
1253
01:10:56,385 --> 01:10:59,287
IT WAS A LONG TIME SINCE NICK
HAD LOOKED INTO A STREAM
1254
01:10:59,322 --> 01:11:01,450
AND SEEN TROUT.
1255
01:11:01,491 --> 01:11:05,292
THEY WERE VERY SATISFACTORY.
1256
01:11:05,328 --> 01:11:07,729
I LOVED IT.
1257
01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:11,257
I LOVED THE DESCRIPTION
OF THE SCENERY
1258
01:11:11,300 --> 01:11:16,932
WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING
ABOUT HIS INNER SITUATION.
1259
01:11:16,973 --> 01:11:19,636
HE HAD SOME HURT,
OR SOMETHING BAD,
1260
01:11:19,675 --> 01:11:22,042
IT WAS INSIDE OF HIMSELF.
1261
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:26,374
BY FOLLOWING HIS DESCRIPTION
OF THE LANDSCAPE
1262
01:11:26,415 --> 01:11:32,753
AND WHAT HE DOES, WE FEEL
HE IS CURED, HEALED.
1263
01:11:35,958 --> 01:11:40,054
IN 1925, THE NEW YORK
PUBLISHER HORACE LIVERIGHT
1264
01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:43,994
BROUGHT OUT THE EXPANDED EDITION
OF "IN OUR TIME,"
1265
01:11:44,033 --> 01:11:46,867
BUT HE REFUSED TO INCLUDE
"UP IN MICHIGAN,"
1266
01:11:46,903 --> 01:11:51,603
THE STORY GERTRUDE STEIN
HAD SAID WAS UNPUBLISHABLE.
1267
01:11:51,641 --> 01:11:54,907
HEMINGWAY WAS DISAPPOINTED
BUT SAID HE HOPED THE BOOK
1268
01:11:54,944 --> 01:11:59,939
WOULD BE "PRAISED BY HIGHBROWS
AND CAN BE READ BY LOWBROWS.
1269
01:11:59,982 --> 01:12:02,383
"THERE IS NO WRITING IN IT
THAT ANYBODY
1270
01:12:02,418 --> 01:12:06,378
WITH A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
CANNOT READ."
1271
01:12:06,422 --> 01:12:07,766
ONE OF THE THINGS
TO THINK ABOUT,
1272
01:12:07,790 --> 01:12:09,850
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT MODERNISM,
1273
01:12:09,892 --> 01:12:13,590
AT LEAST ANGLO-IRISH,
AMERICAN, HIGH MODERNISM,
1274
01:12:13,629 --> 01:12:18,329
IS THERE WAS A CULT
OF DIFFICULTY:
1275
01:12:18,367 --> 01:12:21,769
JOYCE, DIFFICULT;
GERTRUDE STEIN, DIFFICULT;
1276
01:12:21,804 --> 01:12:25,935
FAULKNER, DIFFICULT;
E.E. CUMMINGS, DIFFICULT.
1277
01:12:25,975 --> 01:12:29,878
AND HEMINGWAY JUST WENT
AGAINST THE GRAIN ON THAT.
1278
01:12:29,912 --> 01:12:32,438
HE DARED TO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD
1279
01:12:32,481 --> 01:12:34,450
OR APPARENTLY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
1280
01:12:34,483 --> 01:12:38,784
HE DARED TO
IMPERSONATE SIMPLICITY.
1281
01:12:38,821 --> 01:12:41,985
HE HOOKS YOU
WITH THE LOWBROW APPEARANCE.
1282
01:12:42,024 --> 01:12:48,988
THEN, HE PLAYS YOU,
AND THEN, YOU'RE HIS TROPHY.
1283
01:12:49,031 --> 01:12:52,433
THE BOOK WAS
A CRITICAL SENSATION.
1284
01:12:52,468 --> 01:12:55,370
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAID
THAT HEMINGWAY PACKED
1285
01:12:55,404 --> 01:12:57,930
"A WHOLE CHARACTER
INTO A PHRASE,
1286
01:12:57,974 --> 01:13:01,706
AN ENTIRE SITUATION
INTO A SENTENCE OR TWO"
1287
01:13:01,744 --> 01:13:06,079
AND MADE "EACH WORD COUNT
3 OR 4 WAYS."
1288
01:13:06,115 --> 01:13:09,643
"ERNEST HEMINGWAY IS SOMEBODY,"
SAID "TIME,"
1289
01:13:09,685 --> 01:13:17,685
"A NEW, HONEST, UNLITERARY
TRANSCRIBER OF LIFE, A WRITER."
1290
01:13:18,628 --> 01:13:21,598
HE WAS
VERY RESTLESS AND AMBITIOUS,
1291
01:13:21,631 --> 01:13:23,623
VERY COMPETITIVE,
1292
01:13:23,666 --> 01:13:30,004
AND FAULKNER'S GETTING GOING,
FITZGERALD'S GETTING GOING,
1293
01:13:30,039 --> 01:13:32,907
JOYCE IS KING OF THE MOUNTAIN,
1294
01:13:32,942 --> 01:13:37,573
AND HE KNEW THAT A NOVEL
HAD TO HAPPEN.
1295
01:13:37,613 --> 01:13:42,483
HOW DOES ONE GO
FROM THE MICRO STITCHING
1296
01:13:42,518 --> 01:13:45,147
OF SENTENCE TO SENTENCE
TO SENTENCE AND,
1297
01:13:45,187 --> 01:13:47,588
"OH, MY GOODNESS, A PARAGRAPH!
1298
01:13:47,623 --> 01:13:50,058
IT ONLY TOOK ME A MORNING"...
1299
01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:52,425
HOW DO YOU GO FROM THAT
TO A LONGER FORM?
1300
01:13:58,601 --> 01:14:01,628
I STARTED IN VALENCIA
ON MY 26th BIRTHDAY,
1301
01:14:01,671 --> 01:14:04,163
JULY 21st.
1302
01:14:04,206 --> 01:14:06,801
EVERYBODY MY AGE HAD
WRITTEN A NOVEL,
1303
01:14:06,842 --> 01:14:08,674
AND I WAS STILL HAVING
A DIFFICULT TIME
1304
01:14:08,711 --> 01:14:11,203
WRITING A PARAGRAPH,
1305
01:14:11,447 --> 01:14:14,007
SO I STARTED THE BOOK
ON MY BIRTHDAY,
1306
01:14:14,050 --> 01:14:17,885
WROTE ALL THROUGH THE FERIA,
IN BED IN THE MORNING,
1307
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:21,755
WENT ON TO MADRID
AND WROTE THERE.
1308
01:14:21,791 --> 01:14:24,920
WE HAD A ROOM WITH A TABLE,
AND I WROTE IN GREAT LUXURY
1309
01:14:24,961 --> 01:14:27,726
ON THE TABLE
AND AROUND THE CORNER
1310
01:14:27,763 --> 01:14:30,995
FROM THE HOTEL IN A BEER PLACE,
WHERE IT WAS COOL.
1311
01:14:31,033 --> 01:14:39,033
♪
1312
01:14:46,949 --> 01:14:51,717
IN THE SUMMER OF 1925,
LEAVING BUMBY WITH A NANNY,
1313
01:14:51,754 --> 01:14:53,882
THE HEMINGWAYS RETURNED
TO PAMPLONA
1314
01:14:53,923 --> 01:14:57,826
FOR THE ANNUAL RUNNING
OF THE BULLS.
1315
01:14:57,860 --> 01:15:02,059
WITH THEM WENT A GROUP OF 5
AMERICAN AND BRITISH FRIENDS,
1316
01:15:02,098 --> 01:15:06,559
INCLUDING THE SEDUCTIVE
LADY DUFF TWYSDEN.
1317
01:15:06,602 --> 01:15:08,969
"EVERYBODY WAS DRINKING
ALL THE TIME,
1318
01:15:09,005 --> 01:15:11,668
AND EVERYBODY WAS HAVING
AFFAIRS ALL THE TIME,"
1319
01:15:11,707 --> 01:15:13,573
HADLEY REMEMBERED.
1320
01:15:13,609 --> 01:15:16,977
"I FOUND IT SORT OF UPSETTING."
1321
01:15:17,013 --> 01:15:20,142
AFTERWARDS, ERNEST AND HADLEY
CONTINUED TO FOLLOW
1322
01:15:20,182 --> 01:15:27,851
THE BULLFIGHTS ACROSS SPAIN...
VALENCIA, MADRID, SAN SEBASTIAN,
1323
01:15:27,890 --> 01:15:31,725
AND AS THEY TRAVELED
ABOARD TRAINS AND BUSES,
1324
01:15:31,761 --> 01:15:35,664
ON RESTAURANT TABLES
AND IN HOTEL ROOMS AT NIGHT,
1325
01:15:35,698 --> 01:15:38,167
HE WORKED FEVERISHLY ON A NOVEL,
1326
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:40,931
INSPIRED BY
THE TURBULENT TIME THEY'D HAD
1327
01:15:40,970 --> 01:15:43,530
WITH THEIR FRIENDS
IN PAMPLONA.
1328
01:15:43,572 --> 01:15:48,806
IT WOULD BE CALLED
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1329
01:15:48,844 --> 01:15:52,975
THE FIRST DRAFT WAS FINISHED
IN JUST 8 WEEKS.
1330
01:15:53,015 --> 01:15:55,814
IT WOULD BE A CLEAR-EYED
AND SARDONIC PORTRAIT
1331
01:15:55,851 --> 01:16:00,152
OF WHAT GERTRUDE STEIN CALLED,
"THE LOST GENERATION,"
1332
01:16:00,189 --> 01:16:03,091
MEN AND WOMEN SCARRED
BY THE GREAT WAR,
1333
01:16:03,125 --> 01:16:07,961
WHO DID THEIR BEST
TO ERASE ITS MEMORY.
1334
01:16:07,997 --> 01:16:11,331
THE NARRATOR, A NEWSPAPERMAN
FROM KANSAS CITY,
1335
01:16:11,567 --> 01:16:17,268
WAS FIRST NAMED "HEM"
BEFORE HE BECAME JAKE BARNES.
1336
01:16:17,306 --> 01:16:20,105
BARNES IS A WAR VETERAN
WITH A MYSTERIOUS
1337
01:16:20,142 --> 01:16:25,171
AND UNEXPLAINED WOUND THAT
HAS MADE HIM IMPOTENT.
1338
01:16:39,028 --> 01:16:41,088
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
OUTSIDE A NIGHT TRAIN,
1339
01:16:41,130 --> 01:16:42,894
RUNNING ON THE STREETCAR TRACKS,
1340
01:16:42,932 --> 01:16:45,959
WENT BY CARRYING VEGETABLES
TO THE MARKETS.
1341
01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:50,063
THEY WERE NOISY AT NIGHT
WHEN YOU COULD NOT SLEEP.
1342
01:16:50,106 --> 01:16:52,837
UNDRESSING, I LOOKED
AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR
1343
01:16:52,875 --> 01:16:57,040
OF THE BIG ARMOIRE
BESIDE THE BED.
1344
01:16:57,079 --> 01:16:59,674
OF ALL THE WAYS TO BE WOUNDED.
1345
01:17:26,242 --> 01:17:28,677
IN THE EARLY DRAFTS,
HEMINGWAY HAD USED
1346
01:17:28,711 --> 01:17:30,646
THE REAL NAMES OF HIS FRIENDS
1347
01:17:30,679 --> 01:17:34,047
FROM THEIR RECKLESS,
DRUNKEN TIME IN PAMPLONA.
1348
01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:38,646
FOR FEAR OF BEING SUED,
HE LATER CHANGED THEM.
1349
01:17:38,687 --> 01:17:41,953
LADY DUFF TWYSDEN,
WHO HAD CAPTIVATED HEMINGWAY
1350
01:17:41,991 --> 01:17:43,755
AND HAD WORRIED HADLEY,
1351
01:17:43,792 --> 01:17:46,318
WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME
THE THINLY DISGUISED
1352
01:17:46,362 --> 01:17:49,730
LADY BRETT ASHLEY,
THE PROMISCUOUS WOMAN
1353
01:17:49,765 --> 01:17:54,726
JAKE BARNES LONGS FOR
BUT CAN NEVER HAVE.
1354
01:17:54,770 --> 01:17:57,672
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
BRETT WAS DAMNED GOOD-LOOKING.
1355
01:17:57,706 --> 01:17:59,698
SHE WORE A SLIPOVER
JERSEY SWEATER
1356
01:17:59,742 --> 01:18:01,301
AND A TWEED SKIRT,
1357
01:18:01,343 --> 01:18:04,905
AND HER HAIR WAS BRUSHED BACK
LIKE A BOY'S.
1358
01:18:04,947 --> 01:18:07,781
SHE STARTED ALL THAT.
1359
01:18:07,816 --> 01:18:11,014
SHE WAS BUILT WITH CURVES LIKE
THE HULL OF A RACING YACHT,
1360
01:18:11,053 --> 01:18:15,013
AND YOU MISSED NONE OF IT
WITH THAT WOOL JERSEY.
1361
01:18:15,057 --> 01:18:17,856
SOMEBODY LIKE LADY BRETT
IS EFFECTIVELY
1362
01:18:17,893 --> 01:18:19,919
A VERY STRONG CHARACTER.
1363
01:18:19,962 --> 01:18:22,761
SHE ACTIVELY GOES OUT OF HER WAY
TO DRESS LIKE A MAN,
1364
01:18:22,798 --> 01:18:24,323
DRESS LIKE A BOY.
1365
01:18:24,366 --> 01:18:26,835
SHE WEARS A RUGBY SWEATER,
CUTS HER HAIR SHORT,
1366
01:18:26,869 --> 01:18:31,170
AND CHOOSES TO LIVE HER LIFE
AS A MAN WOULD IN THAT MOMENT.
1367
01:18:31,207 --> 01:18:36,202
THAT'S HIGHLY PROVOCATIVE
FOR A 1926 TEXT.
1368
01:18:36,245 --> 01:18:39,181
ANOTHER MEMBER
OF THE PARTY HAROLD LOEB,
1369
01:18:39,215 --> 01:18:43,846
HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND JEWISH,
BECAME ROBERT COHN,
1370
01:18:43,886 --> 01:18:45,855
WEAK AND OBNOXIOUS,
1371
01:18:45,888 --> 01:18:50,792
SCORNED BY SOME IN THE GROUP
BECAUSE HE WAS A JEW.
1372
01:18:50,826 --> 01:18:52,920
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
BILL LOOKED AROUND, HALF-SHAVED,
1373
01:18:52,962 --> 01:18:54,439
AND THEN WENT ON TALKING
INTO THE MIRROR
1374
01:18:54,463 --> 01:18:57,228
WHILE HE LATHERED HIS FACE.
1375
01:18:57,266 --> 01:18:58,928
"HAVEN'T YOU GOT
SOME MORE JEWISH FRIENDS
1376
01:18:58,968 --> 01:19:01,062
YOU COULD BRING ALONG?"
1377
01:19:01,103 --> 01:19:03,504
HE RUBBED HIS CHIN WITH HIS
THUMB, LOOKED AT IT,
1378
01:19:03,739 --> 01:19:06,231
AND THEN STARTED SCRAPING AGAIN.
1379
01:19:06,275 --> 01:19:09,109
"YOU'VE GOT SOME
FINE ONES YOURSELF."
1380
01:19:09,144 --> 01:19:11,943
"OH, YES.
I'VE GOT SOME DARBS.
1381
01:19:11,981 --> 01:19:14,849
"BUT NOT ALONGSIDE
OF THIS ROBERT COHN.
1382
01:19:14,883 --> 01:19:17,216
"THE FUNNY THING IS
HE'S NICE, TOO.
1383
01:19:17,253 --> 01:19:18,915
"I LIKE HIM.
1384
01:19:18,954 --> 01:19:21,480
BUT HE'S JUST SO AWFUL."
1385
01:19:21,523 --> 01:19:23,958
"HE CAN BE DAMNED NICE."
1386
01:19:23,993 --> 01:19:25,825
"I KNOW IT.
1387
01:19:25,861 --> 01:19:28,922
THAT'S THE TERRIBLE PART."
1388
01:19:28,964 --> 01:19:31,490
I LOVE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES"
1389
01:19:31,533 --> 01:19:34,503
BUT IT'S TRAGIC
THAT HE MAKES HAROLD LOEB
1390
01:19:34,536 --> 01:19:37,995
INTO THIS DESPICABLE JEW.
1391
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:42,501
IT'S JUST, UM, STUNNING.
1392
01:19:42,544 --> 01:19:45,104
IT'S JUST STUNNING,
1393
01:19:45,147 --> 01:19:48,083
AND HAROLD LOEB
COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
1394
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:50,245
YOU KNOW, HE THOUGHT
THEY WERE SO CLOSE.
1395
01:19:50,286 --> 01:19:52,050
THEY WERE CLOSE,
1396
01:19:52,087 --> 01:19:55,057
AND HE JUST SAID, "I STILL
DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM.
1397
01:19:55,090 --> 01:19:57,321
HE WAS MY FRIEND."
1398
01:20:00,229 --> 01:20:03,063
HEMINGWAY'S
PROTAGONIST JAKE BARNES
1399
01:20:03,098 --> 01:20:06,068
IS A JADED INSIDER AT PAMPLONA.
1400
01:20:06,101 --> 01:20:08,297
HE SEEMS TO KNOW
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW
1401
01:20:08,337 --> 01:20:10,932
ABOUT BULLFIGHTING.
1402
01:20:10,973 --> 01:20:15,138
THE STAR OF THE FIESTA IS
A MATADOR NAMED PEDRO ROMERO,
1403
01:20:15,177 --> 01:20:19,080
JUST 19, INNOCENT,
AND UNSPOILED.
1404
01:20:19,114 --> 01:20:22,983
THE BULLFIGHTING WORLD HOPES
TO KEEP HIM THAT WAY,
1405
01:20:23,018 --> 01:20:25,044
BUT JAKE BREAKS THE RULES
1406
01:20:25,087 --> 01:20:27,921
AND INTRODUCES HIM
TO BRETT ASHLEY,
1407
01:20:27,956 --> 01:20:32,894
THE WOMAN HE CAN NEVER
BE WITH HIMSELF.
1408
01:20:32,928 --> 01:20:35,124
JAKE BARNES
SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT.
1409
01:20:35,164 --> 01:20:38,191
SHE'S NOT A SERIOUS,
COMMITTED PERSON.
1410
01:20:38,233 --> 01:20:40,429
SHE'S A FREE WOMAN.
SHE'S A FREE WOMAN.
1411
01:20:40,469 --> 01:20:42,495
SHE INDULGES HERSELF,
1412
01:20:42,538 --> 01:20:45,030
AND SHE WANTS TO INDULGE HERSELF
WITH THE BULLFIGHTER.
1413
01:20:45,074 --> 01:20:47,134
JAKE BARNES
SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED
1414
01:20:47,176 --> 01:20:51,272
THIS YOUNG, VULNERABLE,
ETHICAL FIGURE,
1415
01:20:51,313 --> 01:20:54,442
AND AFTER THAT, THE PEOPLE
IN THE KNOW IN PAMPLONA
1416
01:20:54,483 --> 01:20:56,577
TURN AGAINST JAKE.
1417
01:20:56,618 --> 01:20:59,611
THEY BARELY TALK TO HIM.
THEY AVOID HIM,
1418
01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:03,519
AND THAT'S A BIG TURNING POINT
IN THIS CHARACTER.
1419
01:21:03,559 --> 01:21:07,519
OF COURSE,
HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID.
1420
01:21:07,563 --> 01:21:09,191
AT THE END
OF THE NOVEL,
1421
01:21:09,231 --> 01:21:13,168
JAKE AND BRETT SHARE
A TAXI IN MADRID.
1422
01:21:15,437 --> 01:21:18,032
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE DRIVER
STARTED UP THE STREET.
1423
01:21:18,073 --> 01:21:19,473
I SETTLED BACK.
1424
01:21:19,508 --> 01:21:22,034
BRETT MOVED CLOSE TO ME.
1425
01:21:22,077 --> 01:21:24,569
WE SAT CLOSE AGAINST EACH OTHER.
1426
01:21:24,613 --> 01:21:26,275
I PUT MY ARM AROUND HER,
1427
01:21:26,315 --> 01:21:29,308
AND SHE RESTED
AGAINST ME COMFORTABLY.
1428
01:21:29,351 --> 01:21:31,445
IT WAS VERY HOT AND BRIGHT,
1429
01:21:31,487 --> 01:21:34,582
AND THE HOUSES LOOKED
SHARPLY WHITE.
1430
01:21:34,623 --> 01:21:37,991
WE TURNED OUT
ONTO THE GRAN VIA.
1431
01:21:38,026 --> 01:21:40,086
"OH, JAKE," BRETT SAID,
1432
01:21:40,129 --> 01:21:43,998
"WE COULD HAVE HAD SUCH
A DAMNED GOOD TIME TOGETHER."
1433
01:21:44,032 --> 01:21:48,493
AHEAD WAS A MOUNTED POLICEMAN
IN KHAKI DIRECTING TRAFFIC.
1434
01:21:48,537 --> 01:21:50,563
HE RAISED HIS BATON.
1435
01:21:50,606 --> 01:21:54,941
THE CAR SLOWED, SUDDENLY
PRESSING BRETT AGAINST ME.
1436
01:21:54,977 --> 01:21:57,537
"YES," I SAID.
1437
01:21:57,579 --> 01:22:01,016
ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?"
1438
01:22:01,049 --> 01:22:03,541
"ISN'T IT PRETTY
TO THINK SO?"
1439
01:22:03,585 --> 01:22:07,352
IT'S THE WISTFULNESS
OF WHAT WE BOTH LOSE
1440
01:22:07,389 --> 01:22:10,416
AND NEVER HAD,
A WISTFULNESS.
1441
01:22:10,459 --> 01:22:12,553
"ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK
THAT MY DAD AND I
1442
01:22:12,594 --> 01:22:16,964
"COULD HAVE TALKED
ABOUT VIRTUALLY ANYTHING?
1443
01:22:16,999 --> 01:22:19,594
IT'S PRETTY TO THINK SO,"
1444
01:22:19,635 --> 01:22:22,400
BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN,
AND IT WON'T HAPPEN,
1445
01:22:22,438 --> 01:22:26,432
AND SO THERE'S A SADNESS TO IT
THAT FEELS TO ME FULLY HUMAN.
1446
01:22:26,475 --> 01:22:29,240
"ALL THAT WILL NOT BE,"
WHICH IS GOING TO BE TRUE
1447
01:22:29,278 --> 01:22:32,009
FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING
IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER
1448
01:22:32,047 --> 01:22:34,983
ON THIS PLANET,
"ALL THAT WILL NEVER BE."
1449
01:22:35,017 --> 01:22:37,714
IT HAS A UNIVERSALITY TO IT.
1450
01:22:37,953 --> 01:22:41,082
"ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?"
1451
01:22:43,091 --> 01:22:45,526
THE WAR HAD
OBLITERATED ANY ILLUSIONS
1452
01:22:45,561 --> 01:22:48,497
ABOUT THE FUTURE,
BUT HEMINGWAY SEEMED
1453
01:22:48,530 --> 01:22:52,524
TO BE SUGGESTING THAT EVEN
IN THE MOST DAMAGED LIVES,
1454
01:22:52,568 --> 01:22:55,595
DESPITE THE INDIGNITIES
MEN AND WOMEN INFLICT
1455
01:22:55,637 --> 01:23:01,736
UPON EACH OTHER, SOME HOPE,
SOME SWEETNESS COULD BE FOUND.
1456
01:23:01,977 --> 01:23:04,640
I LOVE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1457
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:08,549
THE PITH OF IT, FOR ME.
1458
01:23:08,584 --> 01:23:12,146
THERE'S ALL THE HOTELS
AND THE DRINK
1459
01:23:12,187 --> 01:23:14,383
AND THE BULLFIGHTING
AND THE FISHING
1460
01:23:14,423 --> 01:23:16,688
AND THE MOUNTAINS
AND THEIR KNAPSACKS,
1461
01:23:16,725 --> 01:23:18,557
"THAT'S A DAMN FINE WINE,"
1462
01:23:18,594 --> 01:23:22,122
AND THERE'S ALL THAT BLUSTER,
1463
01:23:22,164 --> 01:23:24,690
AND THERE'S IMPOTENCE.
1464
01:23:24,733 --> 01:23:27,669
WHAT IT DID FOR ME,
WHEN I READ IT,
1465
01:23:27,703 --> 01:23:35,611
WAS TO INTRODUCE ME
TO AN EXOTICA, A GLAMOUR,
1466
01:23:35,644 --> 01:23:41,311
A LIFE THAT, COMING
FROM COUNTY CLARE IN IRELAND,
1467
01:23:41,350 --> 01:23:42,682
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
1468
01:23:42,718 --> 01:23:44,118
I WAS SEDUCED BY IT.
1469
01:23:44,152 --> 01:23:46,747
THAT IS THE WORD
I'M LOOKING FOR.
1470
01:23:46,788 --> 01:23:50,247
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
AUGUST 23, 1925.
1471
01:23:50,292 --> 01:23:52,523
IT IS A HELL OF A FINE NOVEL.
1472
01:23:52,561 --> 01:23:55,395
WRITTEN VERY SIMPLY AND FULL
OF THINGS HAPPENING
1473
01:23:55,430 --> 01:23:58,264
AND PEOPLE AND PLACES
AND EXCITING AS HELL
1474
01:23:58,300 --> 01:24:01,327
AND NO AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
FIRST NOVEL STUFF.
1475
01:24:01,370 --> 01:24:03,305
I THINK IT WILL BE A KNOCKOUT
1476
01:24:03,338 --> 01:24:05,204
AND WILL LET THESE BASTARDS
WHO SAY,
1477
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,440
"YES, HE CAN WRITE VERY
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PARAGRAPHS KNOW
1478
01:24:07,476 --> 01:24:09,672
WHERE THEY GET OFF AT."
1479
01:24:09,711 --> 01:24:11,543
I'VE TRIED TO WRITE A HELL
OF A GOOD STORY
1480
01:24:11,580 --> 01:24:16,348
ABOUT PEOPLE WITHOUT FAKING,
PRECIOSITY, OR HORSESHIT.
1481
01:24:16,385 --> 01:24:19,116
EVERYBODY KNOWS LIFE IS
A TRAGIC SHOW,
1482
01:24:19,154 --> 01:24:22,716
I.E. BORN HERE, DIE THERE.
1483
01:24:22,758 --> 01:24:26,661
EVERYBODY DIES,
EVERYBODY GETS BITCHED.
1484
01:24:29,431 --> 01:24:32,128
ERNEST WAS HAPPY
WITH HIS MANUSCRIPT
1485
01:24:32,167 --> 01:24:36,263
BUT UNHAPPY WITH HIS PUBLISHER
HORACE LIVERIGHT.
1486
01:24:36,305 --> 01:24:40,299
HIS LAST BOOK "IN OUR TIME"
HAD BEEN A CRITICAL SUCCESS,
1487
01:24:40,342 --> 01:24:42,368
BUT IT HADN'T SOLD.
1488
01:24:42,411 --> 01:24:45,506
BY CONTRACT, LIVERIGHT HAD
THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH
1489
01:24:45,547 --> 01:24:49,450
HIS NEXT TWO BOOKS PROVIDED
HE ACCEPTED THE FIRST ONE
1490
01:24:49,484 --> 01:24:52,682
WITHIN 60 DAYS
OF ITS SUBMISSION.
1491
01:24:52,721 --> 01:24:56,749
BY THIS TIME, THE CELEBRATED
NOVELIST F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
1492
01:24:56,792 --> 01:25:00,251
HAD BECOME A GOOD FRIEND
AND HAD ALERTED HIS OWN EDITOR
1493
01:25:00,295 --> 01:25:05,825
MAXWELL PERKINS OF SCRIBNER'S,
TO HEMINGWAY'S GREAT PROMISE.
1494
01:25:05,867 --> 01:25:08,359
DEAR MAX, THIS IS TO TELL YOU
1495
01:25:08,403 --> 01:25:10,872
ABOUT A YOUNG MAN NAMED
ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
1496
01:25:11,106 --> 01:25:12,768
WHO LIVES IN PARIS,
1497
01:25:12,808 --> 01:25:16,267
AN AMERICAN, WRITES FOR
THE "TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW,"
1498
01:25:16,311 --> 01:25:18,712
AND HAS A BRILLIANT FUTURE.
1499
01:25:18,747 --> 01:25:20,443
EZRA POUND PUBLISHED
A COLLECTION
1500
01:25:20,482 --> 01:25:22,246
OF HIS SHORT PIECES.
1501
01:25:22,284 --> 01:25:24,685
I HAVEN'T IT HERE NOW,
BUT IT'S REMARKABLE,
1502
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:26,746
AND I'D LOOK HIM UP RIGHT AWAY.
1503
01:25:26,788 --> 01:25:28,654
HE'S THE REAL THING.
1504
01:25:28,690 --> 01:25:30,522
SCOTT.
1505
01:25:30,559 --> 01:25:33,552
FITZGERALD WOULD
EVENTUALLY PERSUADE ERNEST
1506
01:25:33,595 --> 01:25:36,497
TO JETTISON
THE FIRST TWO CLUMSY CHAPTERS
1507
01:25:36,531 --> 01:25:39,262
OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES,"
THOUGH HEMINGWAY
1508
01:25:39,301 --> 01:25:44,205
WOULD LATER CLAIM IT
HAD BEEN HIS IDEA ALL ALONG.
1509
01:25:44,239 --> 01:25:47,266
NOW, FITZGERALD SUGGESTED A WAY
HEMINGWAY COULD GET
1510
01:25:47,309 --> 01:25:49,835
OUT OF HIS CONTRACT...
WRITE SOMETHING
1511
01:25:49,878 --> 01:25:54,213
HORACE LIVERIGHT
WOULD HAVE TO REJECT.
1512
01:25:56,151 --> 01:26:00,646
IN JUST 10 DAYS, ERNEST BANGED
OUT "THE TORRENTS OF SPRING,"
1513
01:26:00,689 --> 01:26:02,920
A CRUEL LAMPOON OF HIS FRIEND
1514
01:26:03,158 --> 01:26:04,592
SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
1515
01:26:04,626 --> 01:26:06,322
WHO HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY KIND
1516
01:26:06,361 --> 01:26:07,420
TO HEMINGWAY
1517
01:26:07,462 --> 01:26:08,725
AND WAS ONE OF LIVERIGHT'S
1518
01:26:08,764 --> 01:26:11,495
BEST-SELLING AUTHORS.
1519
01:26:11,533 --> 01:26:15,527
HADLEY THOUGHT THE PARODY
OF ANDERSON "DETESTABLE,"
1520
01:26:15,570 --> 01:26:18,472
BUT ANOTHER WOMAN'S OPINION
HAD BEGUN TO MATTER
1521
01:26:18,507 --> 01:26:21,875
MORE TO HIM THAN HADLEY'S.
1522
01:26:21,910 --> 01:26:25,745
PAULINE PFEIFFER THOUGHT
THE MANUSCRIPT WAS HILARIOUS,
1523
01:26:25,781 --> 01:26:29,274
FURTHER EVIDENCE
OF ERNEST'S GENIUS.
1524
01:26:29,317 --> 01:26:32,845
SHE WAS WITTY, WEALTHY,
WELL-READ,
1525
01:26:32,888 --> 01:26:35,824
A REPORTER COVERING
PARIS FASHION FOR "VOGUE,"
1526
01:26:35,857 --> 01:26:38,224
AND A PRACTICING CATHOLIC.
1527
01:26:38,260 --> 01:26:40,820
SHE HAD BECOME
HADLEY'S FRIEND FIRST,
1528
01:26:40,862 --> 01:26:42,831
A FREQUENT VISITOR
AT THE APARTMENT
1529
01:26:42,864 --> 01:26:45,595
ABOVE THE SAWMILL.
1530
01:26:45,634 --> 01:26:48,536
ERNEST INVITED PAULINE TO JOIN
HIM AND HADLEY
1531
01:26:48,570 --> 01:26:50,971
FOR CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIA.
1532
01:26:51,206 --> 01:26:53,607
"PAULINE WAS NICE TO ME,"
HADLEY RECALLED.
1533
01:26:53,642 --> 01:26:56,202
"SHE WANTED TO BE FRIENDS."
1534
01:26:56,244 --> 01:26:58,440
THEY TOOK TURNS PLAYING
WITH BUMBY,
1535
01:26:58,480 --> 01:27:03,544
SKIED AND DRANK AND PLAYED
BRIDGE TOGETHER EVERY EVENING,
1536
01:27:03,585 --> 01:27:07,283
BUT IN THE AFTERNOONS,
IT WAS PAULINE, NOT HADLEY,
1537
01:27:07,322 --> 01:27:12,317
WHOM ERNEST TOOK FOR LONG WALKS
THROUGH THE SNOW.
1538
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:14,556
"SHE DIDN'T GO STRAIGHT
FOR MY HUSBAND,"
1539
01:27:14,596 --> 01:27:16,963
HADLEY RECALLED YEARS LATER,
1540
01:27:16,998 --> 01:27:20,526
"BUT ONCE SHE MADE UP HER MIND
THAT HE WAS WHAT SHE WANTED,
1541
01:27:20,569 --> 01:27:23,403
"SHE WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE.
1542
01:27:23,438 --> 01:27:25,532
HE COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF."
1543
01:27:29,778 --> 01:27:33,237
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO REALLY
LOVE TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME,
1544
01:27:33,281 --> 01:27:37,651
TRULY LOVE THEM, IS THE MOST
DESTRUCTIVE AND TERRIBLE THING
1545
01:27:37,686 --> 01:27:40,315
THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN.
1546
01:27:40,355 --> 01:27:42,620
YOU DO THINGS THAT
ARE IMPOSSIBLE,
1547
01:27:42,657 --> 01:27:45,422
AND WHEN YOU ARE WITH ONE,
YOU LOVE HER,
1548
01:27:45,460 --> 01:27:48,396
AND WITH THE OTHER,
YOU LOVE HER,
1549
01:27:48,430 --> 01:27:51,366
AND TOGETHER,
YOU LOVE THEM BOTH.
1550
01:27:51,399 --> 01:27:54,631
YOU BREAK ALL PROMISES,
AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU KNEW
1551
01:27:54,669 --> 01:27:58,470
THAT YOU COULD NEVER DO
NOR WOULD WANT TO DO.
1552
01:27:58,507 --> 01:28:02,603
YOU LIE AND HATE IT,
AND IT DESTROYS YOU,
1553
01:28:02,644 --> 01:28:05,478
AND EVERY DAY IS MORE DANGEROUS.
1554
01:28:05,514 --> 01:28:07,881
EVERYTHING IS SPLIT
INSIDE OF YOU,
1555
01:28:07,916 --> 01:28:11,819
AND YOU LOVE TWO PEOPLE NOW
INSTEAD OF ONE,
1556
01:28:11,853 --> 01:28:15,722
AND THE STRANGE PART IS
THAT YOU ARE HAPPY.
1557
01:28:17,592 --> 01:28:19,026
WHEN HEMINGWAY
SUBMITTED
1558
01:28:19,060 --> 01:28:21,723
"THE TORRENTS OF SPRING"
TO HORACE LIVERIGHT,
1559
01:28:21,763 --> 01:28:27,395
THE PUBLISHER REJECTED IT RIGHT
AWAY JUST AS ERNEST HAD HOPED.
1560
01:28:27,435 --> 01:28:30,997
HE WAS NOW FREE TO BRING IT
AND "THE SUN ALSO RISES"
1561
01:28:31,039 --> 01:28:32,940
TO SCRIBNER'S.
1562
01:28:32,974 --> 01:28:38,504
IN JANUARY 1926, ERNEST MADE
A 3-WEEK TRIP TO NEW YORK
1563
01:28:38,547 --> 01:28:42,917
TO MEET WITH HIS NEW EDITOR
MAX PERKINS.
1564
01:28:42,951 --> 01:28:46,319
HADLEY AND BUMBY STAYED ON
IN AUSTRIA.
1565
01:28:46,354 --> 01:28:48,755
AS SOON AS HER HUSBAND
RETURNED TO FRANCE,
1566
01:28:48,790 --> 01:28:51,692
HADLEY EXPECTED HIM
TO BOARD THE TRAIN
1567
01:28:51,726 --> 01:28:53,991
AND COME TO HER IN THE ALPS.
1568
01:28:54,029 --> 01:28:57,796
INSTEAD, HE WENT TO PARIS,
TO PAULINE'S APARTMENT,
1569
01:28:57,833 --> 01:29:01,429
A DECISION THAT WOULD
ONE DAY COME TO HAUNT HIM.
1570
01:29:05,874 --> 01:29:07,652
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
THE GIRL I WAS IN LOVE WITH
1571
01:29:07,676 --> 01:29:09,872
WAS IN PARIS NOW,
AND I DID NOT TAKE
1572
01:29:09,911 --> 01:29:13,780
THE FIRST TRAIN
OR THE SECOND OR THE THIRD,
1573
01:29:13,815 --> 01:29:16,444
AND WHERE WE WENT
AND WHAT WE DID
1574
01:29:16,484 --> 01:29:20,717
AND THE UNBELIEVABLE WRENCHING,
KICKING HAPPINESS,
1575
01:29:20,755 --> 01:29:24,089
THE SELFISHNESS AND TREACHERY
OF EVERYTHING WE DID,
1576
01:29:24,125 --> 01:29:25,991
GAVE ME SUCH HAPPINESS
1577
01:29:26,027 --> 01:29:30,863
AND UNKILLABLE DREADFUL
HAPPINESS
1578
01:29:30,899 --> 01:29:33,130
SO THAT THE BLACK REMORSE CAME
1579
01:29:33,368 --> 01:29:36,429
AND HATRED OF THE SIN
AND NO CONTRITION,
1580
01:29:36,471 --> 01:29:39,999
ONLY A TERRIBLE REMORSE.
1581
01:29:40,041 --> 01:29:45,139
HE DID NOT GET TO
HADLEY FOR 3 DAYS.
1582
01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:46,924
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
WHEN I SAW MY WIFE AGAIN
1583
01:29:46,948 --> 01:29:49,645
STANDING BY THE TRACKS
AS THE TRAIN CAME IN
1584
01:29:49,684 --> 01:29:51,949
BY THE PILED LOGS
AT THE STATION,
1585
01:29:51,987 --> 01:29:54,149
I WISHED I HAD DIED
BEFORE I EVER LOVED
1586
01:29:54,389 --> 01:29:56,153
ANYONE BUT HER.
1587
01:29:56,391 --> 01:29:59,452
SHE WAS SMILING,
THE SUN ON HER LOVELY FACE
1588
01:29:59,494 --> 01:30:03,932
TANNED BY THE SNOW AND SUN,
BEAUTIFULLY BUILT,
1589
01:30:03,965 --> 01:30:06,457
HER HAIR RED GOLD IN THE SUN
1590
01:30:06,501 --> 01:30:09,835
AND MR. BUMBY STANDING WITH HER,
BLONDE AND CHUNKY
1591
01:30:09,871 --> 01:30:13,103
AND WITH WINTER CHEEKS.
1592
01:30:13,141 --> 01:30:16,509
I LOVED HER,
AND I LOVED NO ONE ELSE,
1593
01:30:16,544 --> 01:30:20,003
AND WE HAD A LOVELY MAGIC TIME
WHILE WE WERE ALONE.
1594
01:30:20,048 --> 01:30:24,042
I WORKED WELL,
AND WE MADE GREAT TRIPS,
1595
01:30:24,085 --> 01:30:27,544
AND IT WASN'T UNTIL WE WERE OUT
OF THE MOUNTAINS IN LATE SPRING,
1596
01:30:27,589 --> 01:30:31,685
AND BACK IN PARIS THAT
THE OTHER THING STARTED AGAIN.
1597
01:30:34,529 --> 01:30:36,725
ERNEST HOPED
THAT THINGS COULD SOMEHOW
1598
01:30:36,765 --> 01:30:39,997
GO ON THAT WAY,
STILL MARRIED TO HADLEY
1599
01:30:40,035 --> 01:30:43,494
BUT WITH HIS MISTRESS
CONVENIENTLY AT HAND,
1600
01:30:43,538 --> 01:30:47,134
BUT PAULINE WAS NOT CONTENT
TO REMAIN HIS MISTRESS.
1601
01:30:47,175 --> 01:30:50,509
SHE WAS DETERMINED
TO BECOME HIS WIFE.
1602
01:30:51,846 --> 01:30:54,441
HADLEY CONFRONTED HER HUSBAND.
1603
01:30:54,482 --> 01:30:56,917
"WE HAD A TERRIFIC SCENE,"
SHE RECALLED.
1604
01:30:56,952 --> 01:30:59,854
ERNEST LASHED OUT AT HER.
1605
01:30:59,888 --> 01:31:03,586
IF ONLY SHE HADN'T BROUGHT UP
HIS INFIDELITY, HE SAID,
1606
01:31:03,625 --> 01:31:06,220
THINGS COULD HAVE CONTINUED
AS THEY WERE,
1607
01:31:06,461 --> 01:31:08,589
BUT NOW THAT SHE HAD BROKEN
THE SPELL
1608
01:31:08,630 --> 01:31:11,600
THEIR LOVE WAS NO LONGER SAFE.
1609
01:31:11,633 --> 01:31:15,092
"IF I'D HAD ANY SENSE AT ALL,"
HADLEY REMEMBERED YEARS LATER,
1610
01:31:15,136 --> 01:31:17,037
"I'D HAVE LET HIM GO
WITH PAULINE
1611
01:31:17,072 --> 01:31:18,768
"AND BURN HIMSELF OUT,
1612
01:31:18,807 --> 01:31:21,902
AND THEN WE COULD HAVE
BEGUN AGAIN."
1613
01:31:21,943 --> 01:31:24,936
INSTEAD, IN SEPTEMBER,
SHE SCRIBBLED OUT
1614
01:31:24,980 --> 01:31:27,575
A SORT OF CONTRACT IN PENCIL.
1615
01:31:27,615 --> 01:31:32,144
ERNEST AND PAULINE WOULD
HAVE TO SPEND 100 DAYS APART,
1616
01:31:32,187 --> 01:31:35,680
AND AFTERWARDS IF THEY STILL
WANTED ONE ANOTHER,
1617
01:31:35,724 --> 01:31:38,717
SHE WOULD GRANT HIM A DIVORCE.
1618
01:31:38,760 --> 01:31:43,198
ERNEST AND PAULINE AGREED
TO ABIDE BY HER TERMS.
1619
01:31:43,231 --> 01:31:46,668
HE MOVED
TO A FRIEND'S APARTMENT.
1620
01:31:46,701 --> 01:31:49,933
PAULINE SAILED FOR HOME.
1621
01:31:49,971 --> 01:31:52,668
HER MOTHER WAS
INITIALLY APPALLED.
1622
01:31:52,707 --> 01:31:55,768
HER DAUGHTER HAD BROKEN UP
HEMINGWAY'S MARRIAGE.
1623
01:31:55,810 --> 01:31:57,870
ERNEST WAS NOT A CATHOLIC.
1624
01:31:57,912 --> 01:32:01,610
A CHILD WAS INVOLVED.
1625
01:32:01,649 --> 01:32:05,745
ALONE IN PARIS, DEPRESSION
AGAIN GRIPPED HEMINGWAY,
1626
01:32:05,787 --> 01:32:07,779
THIS TIME TINGED WITH GUILT
1627
01:32:07,822 --> 01:32:10,951
ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING
TO HADLEY.
1628
01:32:10,992 --> 01:32:14,759
HE DRANK TOO MUCH,
PICKED FIGHTS, COULDN'T SLEEP,
1629
01:32:14,796 --> 01:32:18,756
SOMEHOW CONVINCED HIMSELF
THAT HE WAS THE VICTIM.
1630
01:32:21,603 --> 01:32:25,938
ONLY TWO MONTHS LATER,
ON NOVEMBER 16, 1926,
1631
01:32:25,974 --> 01:32:28,739
HADLEY WROTE ERNEST THAT
IF HE AND PAULINE
1632
01:32:28,777 --> 01:32:30,973
REALLY WANTED TO BE TOGETHER
1633
01:32:31,012 --> 01:32:34,676
SHE WOULD NO LONGER
STAND IN THE WAY.
1634
01:32:34,716 --> 01:32:37,015
THEY WERE FREE TO MARRY.
1635
01:32:40,722 --> 01:32:42,033
WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON:
THE ENTIRE PROBLEM BELONGS
1636
01:32:42,057 --> 01:32:44,617
TO YOU TWO.
1637
01:32:44,659 --> 01:32:48,790
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR YOUR FUTURE WELFARE.
1638
01:32:48,830 --> 01:32:51,629
I TOOK YOU ORIGINALLY
FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
1639
01:32:51,666 --> 01:32:55,228
AND MEANT IT!
1640
01:32:55,270 --> 01:32:58,672
BUT IN THE CASE OF YOUR
MARRYING SOMEONE ELSE,
1641
01:32:58,706 --> 01:33:02,802
I CAN STAND BY MY VOW ONLY
AS AN OUTSIDE FRIEND.
1642
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:09,009
COME TO SEE BUMBY
AS MUCH AS YOU WANT...
1643
01:33:09,050 --> 01:33:11,884
HE IS YOURS AS MUCH AS MINE...
1644
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:13,855
AND TAKE HIM OUT SOMETIMES
IF YOU FEEL LIKE
1645
01:33:13,888 --> 01:33:15,686
THAT KIND OF THING...
1646
01:33:15,723 --> 01:33:18,852
SO THAT HE WILL KNOW
YOU ARE HIS REAL PAPA.
1647
01:33:21,896 --> 01:33:26,163
HADLEY AND BUMBY SOON
SAILED FOR THE UNITED STATES.
1648
01:33:26,201 --> 01:33:33,005
ERNEST STAYED IN PARIS.
PAULINE JOINED HIM.
1649
01:33:33,041 --> 01:33:35,704
MEANWHILE, SCRIBNER'S HAD
FINALLY PUBLISHED
1650
01:33:35,743 --> 01:33:38,008
"THE SUN ALSO RISES."
1651
01:33:38,046 --> 01:33:41,016
EDMUND WILSON DECLARED IT
THE BEST NOVEL WRITTEN
1652
01:33:41,049 --> 01:33:44,019
BY ANYONE
OF HEMINGWAY'S GENERATION.
1653
01:33:44,052 --> 01:33:47,181
A REVIEWER FOR "THE ATLANTIC"
SAID THAT HEMINGWAY
1654
01:33:47,222 --> 01:33:50,954
"WRITES AS IF HE HAD NEVER
READ ANYBODY'S WRITING,
1655
01:33:50,992 --> 01:33:54,986
AS IF HE HAD FASHIONED
THE ART OF WRITING HIMSELF."
1656
01:33:55,029 --> 01:33:57,760
THE BOOK SOLD WELL.
1657
01:33:57,799 --> 01:34:04,729
ITS AUTHOR INSISTED THAT ALL
THE ROYALTIES GO TO HADLEY.
1658
01:34:04,772 --> 01:34:08,072
ON MAY 10, 1927,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1659
01:34:08,109 --> 01:34:12,069
AND PAULINE PFEIFFER
WERE MARRIED IN PARIS.
1660
01:34:12,113 --> 01:34:16,016
THERE WERE TWO CEREMONIES,
ONE AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
1661
01:34:16,050 --> 01:34:19,316
AND A SECOND
AT A CATHOLIC CHURCH.
1662
01:34:19,354 --> 01:34:22,290
THE PFEIFFER FAMILY HAD COME
AROUND TO APPROVING PAULINE'S
1663
01:34:22,323 --> 01:34:24,849
DECISION TO MARRY HEMINGWAY.
1664
01:34:24,893 --> 01:34:28,386
HE NOW CLAIMED HE'D SECRETLY
ALWAYS BEEN A CATHOLIC
1665
01:34:28,429 --> 01:34:31,661
BECAUSE A PRIEST HAD GIVEN HIM
EXTREME UNCTION
1666
01:34:31,699 --> 01:34:33,861
AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED.
1667
01:34:33,902 --> 01:34:37,930
SINCE HIS FIRST MARRIAGE HAD
TAKEN PLACE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH,
1668
01:34:37,972 --> 01:34:40,771
THE CHURCH DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT.
1669
01:34:40,808 --> 01:34:43,778
HADLEY HAD NEVER REALLY
BEEN HIS WIFE,
1670
01:34:43,811 --> 01:34:48,112
AND, BY EXTENSION,
BUMBY WAS ILLEGITIMATE.
1671
01:34:50,251 --> 01:34:52,811
HEMINGWAY HOPED TO
LIVE THE SAME KIND OF LIFE
1672
01:34:52,854 --> 01:34:55,949
WITH PAULINE THAT
HE HAD LED WITH HADLEY...
1673
01:34:55,990 --> 01:34:59,358
PARIS CAFÉS,
BULLFIGHTS, SKIING...
1674
01:34:59,394 --> 01:35:03,957
AND DREAMED OF HAVING ONE
LITERARY SUCCESS AFTER ANOTHER,
1675
01:35:03,998 --> 01:35:08,299
BUT THINGS DIDN'T GO
QUITE AS PLANNED.
1676
01:35:08,336 --> 01:35:11,363
HE STARTED A NOVEL
ABOUT A FATHER AND SON,
1677
01:35:11,406 --> 01:35:14,103
ONLY TO ABANDON IT.
1678
01:35:14,142 --> 01:35:18,170
A NEW BOOK OF 14 SHORT STORIES,
"MEN WITHOUT WOMEN,"
1679
01:35:18,213 --> 01:35:20,409
DID NOT SELL
AS WELL AS HE LIKED,
1680
01:35:20,448 --> 01:35:22,974
AND THERE WERE MIXED REVIEWS.
1681
01:35:23,017 --> 01:35:26,010
SOME READERS WERE PUT OFF
BY ITS THEMES,
1682
01:35:26,054 --> 01:35:31,789
INCLUDING HOMOSEXUALITY,
INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE.
1683
01:35:31,826 --> 01:35:34,352
AS ALWAYS, HEMINGWAY TRIED TO
MAKE HIS CHARACTERS
1684
01:35:34,395 --> 01:35:38,059
SPEAK PRECISELY
AS HIS CONTEMPORARIES SPOKE,
1685
01:35:38,099 --> 01:35:41,365
INCLUDING THEIR USE OF RACIAL
EPITHETS.
1686
01:35:43,805 --> 01:35:46,297
WHY USE
THE N-WORD MULTIPLE TIMES?
1687
01:35:49,110 --> 01:35:51,079
HEMINGWAY KNOWS THAT
IT'S PROBABLY ONE
1688
01:35:51,112 --> 01:35:53,047
OF THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORDS
HE COULD HAVE USED,
1689
01:35:53,081 --> 01:35:55,243
EVEN AT THIS TIME.
1690
01:35:55,283 --> 01:35:57,047
COULD YOU MAKE A CASE
FOR HEMINGWAY
1691
01:35:57,085 --> 01:36:00,783
BEING PREJUDICIAL IN HIS LIFE,
IN HIS WRITING?
1692
01:36:00,822 --> 01:36:03,417
ABSOLUTELY, YOU COULD,
BUT, AT THE SAME TIME,
1693
01:36:03,458 --> 01:36:05,791
YOU COULD PEEL BACK THE LAYERS,
AND YOU CAN GET A SENSE
1694
01:36:05,827 --> 01:36:10,925
OF A MAN TRYING TO CONVEY
A SENSE OF HIS TIME.
1695
01:36:10,965 --> 01:36:13,525
THAT'S NOT
AN EXCUSE FOR HIM.
1696
01:36:13,768 --> 01:36:17,466
I DON'T THINK YOU CAN
DRY CLEAN HEMINGWAY
1697
01:36:17,505 --> 01:36:22,341
INTO SOMEBODY WHO FITS
INTO WHAT WE NOW CONSIDER
1698
01:36:22,377 --> 01:36:26,314
SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY
ACCEPTABLE MUCH OF THE TIME.
1699
01:36:26,347 --> 01:36:29,249
"MEN WITHOUT WOMEN"
ALSO INCLUDED A STORY
1700
01:36:29,284 --> 01:36:35,417
THAT IS AMONG HIS MASTERPIECES
"HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS."
1701
01:36:35,456 --> 01:36:39,450
IN IT, A COUPLE WAITING IN
A SMALL SPANISH TRAIN STATION
1702
01:36:39,494 --> 01:36:43,431
DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT THE WOMAN
WILL HAVE AN ABORTION
1703
01:36:43,464 --> 01:36:46,957
WITHOUT EVER MENTIONING
THE WORD.
1704
01:36:47,001 --> 01:36:49,869
WHAT'S NOT SAID
IS SO WONDERFUL.
1705
01:36:49,904 --> 01:36:55,002
SOMEHOW, THE WHOLE RELATIONSHIP,
WHICH WILL BE FOREVER SHADOWED,
1706
01:36:55,043 --> 01:36:57,877
IF NOT TO SAY DESTROYED,
BY THIS,
1707
01:36:57,912 --> 01:37:01,349
YOU GET A PICTURE OF IT
1708
01:37:01,382 --> 01:37:05,114
WITHOUT HIM SPELLING OUT
THE WORDS.
1709
01:37:05,153 --> 01:37:07,019
YOU SEE, THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
1710
01:37:07,055 --> 01:37:10,048
THAT EVASION THAT HE MASTERED
1711
01:37:10,091 --> 01:37:13,926
AND THAT CONTROL THAT HE
MASTERED
1712
01:37:13,961 --> 01:37:19,332
IS ONE OF HIS
SIGNATURE STROKES OF GENIUS.
1713
01:37:19,367 --> 01:37:21,007
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"IT'S REALLY AN AWFULLY
1714
01:37:21,035 --> 01:37:23,971
SIMPLE OPERATION, JIG,"
THE MAN SAID.
1715
01:37:24,005 --> 01:37:26,839
"IT'S NOT REALLY
AN OPERATION AT ALL."
1716
01:37:26,874 --> 01:37:31,005
THE GIRL LOOKED AT THE GROUND
THE TABLE LEGS RESTED ON.
1717
01:37:31,045 --> 01:37:33,276
"I KNOW YOU WOULDN'T
MIND IT, JIG.
1718
01:37:33,314 --> 01:37:35,146
"IT'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING.
1719
01:37:35,183 --> 01:37:38,347
IT'S JUST TO LET THE AIR IN."
1720
01:37:38,386 --> 01:37:40,446
THE GIRL DID NOT SAY ANYTHING.
1721
01:37:40,488 --> 01:37:42,480
"I'LL GO WITH YOU,
AND I'LL STAY WITH YOU
1722
01:37:42,523 --> 01:37:44,082
"ALL THE TIME.
1723
01:37:44,125 --> 01:37:45,525
"THEY JUST LET THE AIR IN,
1724
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,961
AND THEN IT'S ALL
PERFECTLY NATURAL."
1725
01:37:47,995 --> 01:37:50,590
"THEN WHAT WILL WE DO
AFTERWARD?"
1726
01:37:50,631 --> 01:37:52,190
"WE'LL BE FINE AFTERWARD.
1727
01:37:52,233 --> 01:37:54,327
JUST LIKE WE WERE BEFORE."
1728
01:37:54,369 --> 01:37:56,964
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO?"
1729
01:37:57,004 --> 01:38:00,031
"THAT'S THE ONLY THING
THAT BOTHERS US.
1730
01:38:00,074 --> 01:38:03,238
IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'S
MADE US UNHAPPY."
1731
01:38:05,446 --> 01:38:08,382
HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS.
1732
01:38:08,416 --> 01:38:11,113
HE WANTS ONE THING,
IT'S "GET RID OF THIS THING,"
1733
01:38:11,152 --> 01:38:12,916
BUT HE CAN'T TELL HER THAT.
1734
01:38:12,954 --> 01:38:17,016
SO HE SAYS, "I ONLY WANT
WHAT YOU WANT."
1735
01:38:17,058 --> 01:38:19,425
HE SAYS, "I'LL DO
WHATEVER YOU SAY.
1736
01:38:19,460 --> 01:38:21,588
DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT
YOU DON'T WANT TO DO,"
1737
01:38:21,629 --> 01:38:25,930
BUT HE'S PUSHING AND PUSHING
AND PUSHING AND PUSHING.
1738
01:38:25,967 --> 01:38:29,199
IT IS PAINFUL TO WATCH
THIS GOING ON.
1739
01:38:29,237 --> 01:38:32,639
IT IS RECOGNIZABLE
FOR MOST WOMEN
1740
01:38:32,673 --> 01:38:35,233
TO... EVEN IF IT'S NOT
THE SITUATION...
1741
01:38:35,276 --> 01:38:41,216
THE PUSHING, THE INSISTENCE,
THE MASCULINE ASSERTION,
1742
01:38:41,249 --> 01:38:45,550
AND THEN, SHE FINALLY SAYS...
AND THIS IS, I THINK,
1743
01:38:45,586 --> 01:38:49,455
ONE OF GREAT
UNDERSTATED SENTENCES...
1744
01:38:49,490 --> 01:38:57,490
SHE SAYS TO HIM, "WOULD YOU
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
1745
01:38:58,499 --> 01:39:05,030
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
STOP TALKING?"
1746
01:39:06,607 --> 01:39:09,668
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
SHE'S GOING TO DECIDE.
1747
01:39:09,710 --> 01:39:13,044
SHE'S... MAYBE TO KEEP
THE RELATIONSHIP,
1748
01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:15,049
SHE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS,
1749
01:39:15,082 --> 01:39:18,211
BUT IF SHE DOES THAT,
THE RELATIONSHIP IS OVER.
1750
01:39:18,252 --> 01:39:23,452
MAYBE SHE WILL KEEP IT AND JUST
BE WITH HERSELF AND THE BABY.
1751
01:39:23,491 --> 01:39:25,687
MAYBE SHE WILL GET RID
OF THE BABY
1752
01:39:25,726 --> 01:39:27,490
AND CARRY ON HER LIFE.
1753
01:39:27,528 --> 01:39:31,226
WHATEVER SHE DOES,
HER LIFE WILL BE DIFFERENT.
1754
01:39:31,265 --> 01:39:33,131
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
HE DRANK AN ANIS AT THE BAR
1755
01:39:33,167 --> 01:39:35,466
AND LOOKED AT THE PEOPLE.
1756
01:39:35,503 --> 01:39:38,598
THEY WERE ALL WAITING
REASONABLY FOR THE TRAIN.
1757
01:39:41,309 --> 01:39:44,438
HE WENT OUT
THROUGH THE BEAD CURTAIN.
1758
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:48,348
SHE WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE
AND SMILED AT HIM.
1759
01:39:48,382 --> 01:39:51,443
"DO YOU FEEL BETTER?" HE ASKED.
1760
01:39:51,486 --> 01:39:53,478
"I FEEL FINE," SHE SAID.
1761
01:39:53,521 --> 01:39:55,615
"THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.
1762
01:39:55,656 --> 01:39:58,091
I FEEL FINE."
1763
01:40:04,499 --> 01:40:06,297
IN MARCH OF 1928,
1764
01:40:06,334 --> 01:40:10,066
HEMINGWAY AND PAULINE
LEFT FRANCE.
1765
01:40:10,104 --> 01:40:12,369
SHE WAS PREGNANT NOW,
AND THEY WANTED TO HAVE
1766
01:40:12,406 --> 01:40:15,069
THEIR BABY IN THE UNITED STATES.
1767
01:40:15,109 --> 01:40:16,543
HEMINGWAY WAS RECOVERING
1768
01:40:16,577 --> 01:40:19,547
FROM A SECOND SERIOUS
HEAD INJURY CAUSED
1769
01:40:19,580 --> 01:40:23,176
WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY PULLED
A SKYLIGHT DOWN ON HIS HEAD,
1770
01:40:23,217 --> 01:40:26,051
LEAVING A PERMANENT SCAR,
1771
01:40:26,087 --> 01:40:28,056
BUT HE HAD BEGUN A NEW NOVEL,
1772
01:40:28,089 --> 01:40:31,355
A STORY ABOUT A WOUNDED SOLDIER
WHO FALLS IN LOVE
1773
01:40:31,392 --> 01:40:34,487
WITH THE NURSE
WHO CARES FOR HIM.
1774
01:40:34,529 --> 01:40:38,091
THE HEMINGWAYS RENTED A HOUSE
IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA,
1775
01:40:38,132 --> 01:40:40,226
WHERE ERNEST ENJOYED
OCEAN FISHING
1776
01:40:40,268 --> 01:40:42,134
FOR THE FIRST TIME.
1777
01:40:44,505 --> 01:40:46,599
THEY THEN MOVED
TO PAULINE'S PARENTS' HOME
1778
01:40:46,641 --> 01:40:50,373
IN PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS,
AS THE BABY'S ARRIVAL NEARED,
1779
01:40:50,411 --> 01:40:56,112
AND SPENT A MONTH IN KANSAS CITY
WHERE, ON JUNE 28, 1928,
1780
01:40:56,150 --> 01:40:59,484
PATRICK HEMINGWAY WAS BORN
BY CAESARIAN SECTION
1781
01:40:59,520 --> 01:41:02,319
AFTER A DIFFICULT LABOR.
1782
01:41:02,356 --> 01:41:07,226
THEY RETURNED
TO ARKANSAS TOGETHER,
1783
01:41:07,261 --> 01:41:10,493
BUT THEN HEMINGWAY
HEADED WEST ALONE,
1784
01:41:10,531 --> 01:41:13,831
WRITING AS HE WENT,
WORKING AND REWORKING
1785
01:41:14,068 --> 01:41:16,799
THE BOOK THAT NOW CONSUMED HIM.
1786
01:41:16,837 --> 01:41:21,172
IT WOULD BE CALLED
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS."
1787
01:41:23,110 --> 01:41:25,204
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I REMEMBER LIVING IN THE BOOK
1788
01:41:25,246 --> 01:41:28,683
AND MAKING UP WHAT HAPPENED
IN IT EVERY DAY.
1789
01:41:28,716 --> 01:41:30,480
MAKING THE COUNTRY
AND THE PEOPLE
1790
01:41:30,518 --> 01:41:32,851
AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED,
1791
01:41:33,087 --> 01:41:36,615
I WAS HAPPIER
THAN I HAD EVER BEEN.
1792
01:41:36,657 --> 01:41:39,525
EACH DAY I READ THE BOOK THROUGH
FROM THE BEGINNING
1793
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:42,394
TO THE POINT
WHERE I WENT ON WRITING,
1794
01:41:42,430 --> 01:41:45,832
AND EACH DAY I STOPPED
WHEN I WAS STILL GOING GOOD
1795
01:41:45,866 --> 01:41:48,301
AND WHEN I KNEW
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT.
1796
01:41:52,773 --> 01:41:55,766
IN THE LATE SUMMER OF THAT YEAR,
WE LIVED IN A HOUSE
1797
01:41:55,810 --> 01:41:58,279
IN A VILLAGE THAT LOOKED
ACROSS THE RIVER
1798
01:41:58,312 --> 01:42:01,544
AND THE PLAIN TO THE MOUNTAINS.
1799
01:42:01,582 --> 01:42:04,882
IN THE BED OF THE RIVER,
THERE WERE PEBBLES AND BOULDERS,
1800
01:42:05,119 --> 01:42:07,384
DRY AND WHITE IN THE SUN,
1801
01:42:07,421 --> 01:42:09,788
AND THE WATER WAS CLEAR
AND SWIFTLY MOVING
1802
01:42:09,824 --> 01:42:12,692
AND BLUE IN THE CHANNELS.
1803
01:42:12,727 --> 01:42:15,822
TROOPS WENT BY THE HOUSE
AND DOWN THE ROAD...
1804
01:42:15,863 --> 01:42:17,574
AND THE DUST THEY RAISED
1805
01:42:17,598 --> 01:42:19,897
POWDERED THE LEAVES
OF THE TREES.
1806
01:42:20,134 --> 01:42:21,693
THE TRUNKS OF THE TREES, TOO...
1807
01:42:21,736 --> 01:42:23,500
"WERE DUSTY,
1808
01:42:23,537 --> 01:42:26,200
"AND THE LEAVES FELL EARLY
THAT YEAR,
1809
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:29,267
"AND WE SAW THE TROOPS MARCHING
ALONG THE ROAD
1810
01:42:29,310 --> 01:42:32,303
"AND THE DUST RISING
AND LEAVES,
1811
01:42:32,346 --> 01:42:34,611
"STIRRED BY THE BREEZE, FALLING
1812
01:42:34,649 --> 01:42:36,140
"AND THE SOLDIERS MARCHING
1813
01:42:36,183 --> 01:42:40,348
"AND AFTERWARDS THE ROAD BARE
1814
01:42:40,388 --> 01:42:46,521
AND WHITE EXCEPT
FOR THE LEAVES."
1815
01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:49,291
I READ THAT PARAGRAPH,
AND I WANT TO CRY.
1816
01:42:49,330 --> 01:42:52,198
IT'S INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL.
1817
01:42:52,233 --> 01:42:56,796
HE BROKE EVERY RULE,
ALL THE REPETITION.
1818
01:42:56,837 --> 01:43:02,333
IN 4 SENTENCES,
THE WORD "AND" 15 TIMES.
1819
01:43:02,376 --> 01:43:07,474
WHAT'S GOING ON IS JUST
AN UNFORGETTABLE DISPLAY
1820
01:43:07,515 --> 01:43:10,610
OF RHYTHMIC MASTERY.
1821
01:43:10,651 --> 01:43:15,612
THERE'S A KIND... ALMOST A KIND
OF HYPNOSIS, AN INCANTATION
1822
01:43:15,656 --> 01:43:18,785
THAT I THINK IS
ABOUT THE FRAME OF MIND
1823
01:43:18,826 --> 01:43:21,455
THAT YOU'RE GOING
INTO THE WAR WITH.
1824
01:43:28,536 --> 01:43:31,370
BY RELISTENING TO BACH
1825
01:43:31,405 --> 01:43:33,772
AND BY RECOGNIZING
THE REPETITION
1826
01:43:33,808 --> 01:43:37,643
OF PARTICULAR NOTES IN BACH,
1827
01:43:37,678 --> 01:43:42,673
THAT THAT WAS INSPIRATION FOR
WRITING "A FAREWELL TO ARMS."
1828
01:43:44,785 --> 01:43:48,449
UNLIKE
"THE SUN ALSO RISES,"
1829
01:43:48,489 --> 01:43:52,256
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS" WAS
EXPLICITLY ABOUT THE GREAT WAR.
1830
01:43:52,293 --> 01:43:55,263
ITS PROTAGONIST
LIEUTENANT FREDERIC HENRY
1831
01:43:55,296 --> 01:43:59,700
IS AN AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER
ATTACHED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY,
1832
01:43:59,734 --> 01:44:02,727
WHO IS WOUNDED AND FALLS
IN LOVE WITH A NURSE
1833
01:44:02,770 --> 01:44:05,968
NAMED CATHERINE BARKLEY,
WHO IS MOURNING A LOVER
1834
01:44:06,006 --> 01:44:09,465
KILLED IN THE WAR.
1835
01:44:09,510 --> 01:44:12,947
DRAWN FROM HIS OWN EXPERIENCES,
THE STORIES HE HEARD,
1836
01:44:12,980 --> 01:44:16,508
AND HIS OWN DOGGED RESEARCH,
THE BOOK'S DISILLUSIONMENT
1837
01:44:16,550 --> 01:44:19,918
WITH THE WAR WOULD SPEAK TO...
AND FOR...
1838
01:44:19,954 --> 01:44:22,253
THOSE WHO HAD LIVED THROUGH IT.
1839
01:44:26,894 --> 01:44:28,624
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WAS ALWAYS EMBARRASSED
1840
01:44:28,662 --> 01:44:33,396
BY THE WORDS SACRED, GLORIOUS,
AND SACRIFICE
1841
01:44:33,434 --> 01:44:36,404
AND THE EXPRESSION "IN VAIN."
1842
01:44:38,506 --> 01:44:40,737
WE HAD HEARD THEM,
SOMETIMES STANDING
1843
01:44:40,775 --> 01:44:42,869
IN THE RAIN ALMOST
OUT OF EARSHOT,
1844
01:44:42,910 --> 01:44:45,880
SO THAT ONLY THE SHOUTED WORDS
CAME THROUGH,
1845
01:44:45,913 --> 01:44:48,348
AND HAD READ THEM
ON PROCLAMATIONS
1846
01:44:48,382 --> 01:44:50,044
THAT WERE SLAPPED UP
BY BILLPOSTERS
1847
01:44:50,284 --> 01:44:54,312
OVER OTHER PROCLAMATIONS,
NOW FOR A LONG TIME...
1848
01:44:56,457 --> 01:44:58,619
AND I HAD SEEN NOTHING SACRED,
1849
01:44:58,659 --> 01:45:01,959
AND THE THINGS THAT WERE
GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY,
1850
01:45:01,996 --> 01:45:04,625
AND THE SACRIFICES
WERE LIKE THE STOCKYARDS
1851
01:45:04,665 --> 01:45:06,964
AT CHICAGO
IF NOTHING WAS DONE
1852
01:45:07,001 --> 01:45:09,937
WITH THE MEAT
EXCEPT TO BURY IT.
1853
01:45:09,970 --> 01:45:13,668
THERE WERE MANY WORDS THAT
YOU COULD NOT STAND TO HEAR,
1854
01:45:13,707 --> 01:45:17,610
AND FINALLY ONLY THE NAMES
OF PLACES HAD DIGNITY.
1855
01:45:19,480 --> 01:45:23,349
CERTAIN NUMBERS WERE
THE SAME WAY AND CERTAIN DATES,
1856
01:45:23,384 --> 01:45:26,081
AND THESE WITH THE NAMES
OF THE PLACES WERE
1857
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:30,451
ALL YOU COULD SAY
AND HAVE THEM MEAN ANYTHING.
1858
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:35,860
I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE
UP TO THAT POINT
1859
01:45:35,896 --> 01:45:39,856
WHO HAD SAID THAT THAT WELL
1860
01:45:39,900 --> 01:45:44,964
BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEEM TO STOP
USING THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE
1861
01:45:45,005 --> 01:45:46,940
ABOUT WAR,
1862
01:45:46,974 --> 01:45:51,969
AND IT IS OUR DUTY
ALWAYS TO PUNCTURE IT,
1863
01:45:52,012 --> 01:45:56,814
BUT NO ONE HAS EVER DONE IT
THIS ELOQUENTLY.
1864
01:45:56,851 --> 01:46:01,016
THE ACCUMULATING WEIGHT
OF THOSE SENTENCES
1865
01:46:01,055 --> 01:46:04,719
AND THE EMOTION, THE DISGUST,
1866
01:46:04,758 --> 01:46:09,492
AND ALSO THE REVERENCE FOR
WHAT HAS BEEN, IN FACT, DONE,
1867
01:46:09,530 --> 01:46:11,465
THE DIGNITY OF THOSE PLACES
1868
01:46:11,498 --> 01:46:14,366
THAT GATHER IN THOSE SENTENCES
AS THEY GO ON,
1869
01:46:14,401 --> 01:46:18,031
IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL.
1870
01:46:18,072 --> 01:46:20,940
IN THE NOVEL,
LIEUTENANT HENRY DESERTS
1871
01:46:20,975 --> 01:46:25,071
AND FLEES TO NEUTRAL SWITZERLAND
WITH CATHERINE BARKLEY.
1872
01:46:25,112 --> 01:46:27,479
THEY HOPE TO MARRY AND BUILD
A LIFE TOGETHER
1873
01:46:27,514 --> 01:46:29,915
ONCE THE WAR IS OVER.
1874
01:46:29,950 --> 01:46:33,478
SHE IS PREGNANT,
BUT SOMETHING GOES
1875
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,581
TERRIBLY WRONG
IN THE DELIVERY ROOM.
1876
01:46:36,624 --> 01:46:39,116
DOCTORS PERFORM A CAESARIAN.
1877
01:46:39,159 --> 01:46:41,890
THE BABY IS STILLBORN.
1878
01:46:41,929 --> 01:46:45,525
CATHERINE'S LIFE EBBS AWAY.
1879
01:46:47,635 --> 01:46:50,161
HEMINGWAY AGONIZED
OVER THE ENDING,
1880
01:46:50,404 --> 01:46:53,704
WRITING 47 VERSIONS
OF THE FINAL PAGES
1881
01:46:53,741 --> 01:46:56,506
BEFORE HE WAS SATISFIED.
1882
01:46:56,543 --> 01:47:04,543
♪
1883
01:47:17,031 --> 01:47:19,967
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM.
1884
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:23,459
"YOU CAN'T COME IN NOW," ONE
OF THE NURSES SAID.
1885
01:47:23,504 --> 01:47:26,440
"YES I CAN," I SAID.
1886
01:47:26,473 --> 01:47:28,999
"YOU CAN'T COME IN YET."
1887
01:47:29,043 --> 01:47:30,636
"YOU GET OUT," I SAID.
1888
01:47:30,678 --> 01:47:34,672
"THE OTHER ONE TOO."
1889
01:47:34,715 --> 01:47:37,514
BUT AFTER I HAD GOT THEM OUT
AND SHUT THE DOOR
1890
01:47:37,551 --> 01:47:42,080
AND TURNED OFF THE LIGHT,
IT WASN'T ANY GOOD.
1891
01:47:42,122 --> 01:47:45,115
IT WAS LIKE SAYING GOODBYE
TO A STATUE.
1892
01:47:47,962 --> 01:47:52,161
AFTER A WHILE, I WENT OUT
AND LEFT THE HOSPITAL
1893
01:47:52,199 --> 01:47:55,863
AND WALKED BACK
TO THE HOTEL IN THE RAIN.
1894
01:47:59,807 --> 01:48:01,969
PARTS
OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
1895
01:48:02,009 --> 01:48:04,808
COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
BY A WOMAN.
1896
01:48:04,845 --> 01:48:07,713
NOW, I REGARD THAT
AS A COMPLIMENT.
1897
01:48:07,748 --> 01:48:10,217
HEMINGWAY MIGHT REGARD IT
AS AN INSULT,
1898
01:48:10,250 --> 01:48:15,882
BUT I DON'T BECAUSE IT IS
THE ANDROGYNY
1899
01:48:15,923 --> 01:48:20,827
IN A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT ALLOWS
THEM, EVEN IF BRIEFLY,
1900
01:48:20,861 --> 01:48:23,626
NOT UTTERLY, TO BE ABLE
TO PUT THEMSELVES
1901
01:48:23,664 --> 01:48:27,533
INSIDE THE SKIN
OF THE OPPOSITE THING.
1902
01:48:27,568 --> 01:48:30,732
IN MANY WAYS, I THINK IT'S
HIS GREATEST NOVEL.
1903
01:48:30,771 --> 01:48:34,037
I DO.
IT'S THE TRUEST.
1904
01:48:34,074 --> 01:48:36,908
IT'S ALSO HEARTBREAKING.
1905
01:48:36,944 --> 01:48:41,279
I REMEMBER CRYING
AND CRYING AND CRYING.
1906
01:48:41,515 --> 01:48:45,577
HE GETS THE... ALL
THE... THE "BOY" STUFF,
1907
01:48:45,619 --> 01:48:46,882
THE "MAN" STUFF.
1908
01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:48,946
HE GETS THE HORROR OF THE WAR,
1909
01:48:48,989 --> 01:48:52,016
BUT WHEN PEOPLE
PUT THAT BOOK DOWN,
1910
01:48:52,059 --> 01:48:54,153
WHAT DO THEY REMEMBER?
1911
01:48:54,194 --> 01:48:57,631
THEY REMEMBER A WOMAN DYING
IN CHILDBIRTH.
1912
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:01,544
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
IF PEOPLE BRING SO MUCH COURAGE
1913
01:49:01,568 --> 01:49:04,299
TO THIS WORLD,
THE WORLD HAS TO KILL THEM
1914
01:49:04,538 --> 01:49:06,097
TO BREAK THEM,
1915
01:49:06,140 --> 01:49:10,305
SO OF COURSE IT KILLS THEM.
1916
01:49:10,544 --> 01:49:13,207
THE WORLD BREAKS EVERYONE,
AND AFTERWARD,
1917
01:49:13,247 --> 01:49:17,685
MANY ARE STRONG
AT THE BROKEN PLACES,
1918
01:49:17,718 --> 01:49:21,849
BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK
IT KILLS.
1919
01:49:21,889 --> 01:49:24,688
IT KILLS THE VERY GOOD
AND THE VERY GENTLE
1920
01:49:24,725 --> 01:49:28,719
AND THE VERY BRAVE IMPARTIALLY.
1921
01:49:28,762 --> 01:49:31,061
IF YOU ARE NONE OF THESE,
YOU CAN BE SURE
1922
01:49:31,098 --> 01:49:33,226
IT WILL KILL YOU, TOO,
1923
01:49:33,267 --> 01:49:35,862
BUT THERE WILL BE
NO SPECIAL HURRY.
1924
01:49:42,309 --> 01:49:44,869
IN THE LATE FALL
OF 1928,
1925
01:49:44,912 --> 01:49:49,350
HEMINGWAY'S FATHER'S LIFE WAS
SPIRALING SLOWLY DOWNWARD.
1926
01:49:49,583 --> 01:49:53,918
THE ANXIETY THAT HAD ALWAYS
HAUNTED HIM INTENSIFIED.
1927
01:49:53,954 --> 01:49:56,856
HIS PERIODS
OF DEPRESSION LENGTHENED.
1928
01:49:56,890 --> 01:49:59,826
HE SEEMED SUSPICIOUS
OF EVERYONE AROUND HIM
1929
01:49:59,860 --> 01:50:02,955
AND UNABLE TO SHAKE
A SENSE OF DREAD.
1930
01:50:05,365 --> 01:50:09,166
ON DECEMBER 6, ED HEMINGWAY
CAME HOME AT NOON,
1931
01:50:09,203 --> 01:50:12,037
BURNED SOME PERSONAL PAPERS
IN THE BASEMENT,
1932
01:50:12,072 --> 01:50:15,372
TOLD HIS WIFE HE THOUGHT HE'D
LIE DOWN BEFORE LUNCH,
1933
01:50:15,609 --> 01:50:19,637
AND CLIMBED THE STAIRS
TO HIS BEDROOM.
1934
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:25,642
THEN HE SHOT HIMSELF WITH HIS
FATHER'S CIVIL WAR REVOLVER.
1935
01:50:27,621 --> 01:50:29,749
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
MY FATHER WAS A COWARD.
1936
01:50:29,790 --> 01:50:32,783
HE SHOT HIMSELF
WITHOUT NECESSITY.
1937
01:50:32,826 --> 01:50:35,022
AT LEAST I THOUGHT SO.
1938
01:50:35,062 --> 01:50:39,329
I HAD GONE THROUGH IT MYSELF
UNTIL I FIGURED IT IN MY HEAD.
1939
01:50:39,366 --> 01:50:41,835
I KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE
A COWARD
1940
01:50:41,869 --> 01:50:45,203
AND WHAT IT WAS TO CEASE
BEING A COWARD.
1941
01:50:47,307 --> 01:50:50,835
ERNEST PROMISED TO PAY
HIS MOTHER A MONTHLY STIPEND,
1942
01:50:50,878 --> 01:50:52,779
BUT HE WOULD PRIVATELY BLAME HER
1943
01:50:52,813 --> 01:50:56,944
FOR DRIVING HIS FATHER
TO SUICIDE.
1944
01:50:56,984 --> 01:50:58,261
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
I HATED MY MOTHER
1945
01:50:58,285 --> 01:51:00,151
AS SOON AS I KNEW THE SCORE
1946
01:51:00,187 --> 01:51:02,213
AND LOVED MY FATHER
UNTIL HE EMBARRASSED ME
1947
01:51:02,256 --> 01:51:04,350
WITH HIS COWARDICE.
1948
01:51:04,391 --> 01:51:08,192
MY MOTHER IS AN ALL-TIME,
ALL-AMERICAN BITCH,
1949
01:51:08,228 --> 01:51:10,823
AND SHE WOULD MAKE
A PACK MULE SHOOT HIMSELF,
1950
01:51:10,864 --> 01:51:14,301
LET ALONE POOR BLOODY FATHER.
1951
01:51:14,334 --> 01:51:17,668
I THINK HEMINGWAY,
AMONG HIS MANY, MANY FEARS,
1952
01:51:17,704 --> 01:51:21,106
WAS TERRIFIED
"WILL THAT HAPPEN TO ME?
1953
01:51:21,141 --> 01:51:24,111
WILL I BECOME MY FATHER?"
1954
01:51:24,144 --> 01:51:30,778
IN THIS CHRISTIAN, MIDWESTERN,
SUBURBAN ILLINOIS FAMILY
1955
01:51:30,817 --> 01:51:35,187
OF A UNIT OF 8,
OF 2 PARENTS
1956
01:51:35,222 --> 01:51:37,782
AND 6 CHILDREN...
1957
01:51:37,824 --> 01:51:43,263
4, AT LEAST 4 DESTROYED
THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN HAND,
1958
01:51:43,297 --> 01:51:45,789
4 OUT OF THE 8.
1959
01:51:50,304 --> 01:51:54,173
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1929,
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
1960
01:51:54,208 --> 01:51:56,439
WAS PUBLISHED.
1961
01:51:56,476 --> 01:52:01,278
THE REACTION WAS EVERYTHING
HEMINGWAY HAD HOPED FOR.
1962
01:52:01,315 --> 01:52:06,117
"SCRIBNER'S" MAGAZINE HAD PAID
$16,000 TO SERIALIZE IT...
1963
01:52:06,153 --> 01:52:10,181
MORE THAN IT HAD EVER PAID
ANYONE BEFORE...
1964
01:52:10,224 --> 01:52:13,092
AND WHEN THE JUNE ISSUE WAS
BANNED IN BOSTON
1965
01:52:13,126 --> 01:52:16,961
BECAUSE SOME PASSAGES WERE
THOUGHT TOO "SALACIOUS,"
1966
01:52:16,997 --> 01:52:20,058
IT ONLY BOOSTED SALES.
1967
01:52:20,100 --> 01:52:24,037
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS" CLIMBED
ONTO THE BEST-SELLER LISTS
1968
01:52:24,071 --> 01:52:27,872
AND STAYED THERE
WEEK AFTER WEEK.
1969
01:52:27,908 --> 01:52:34,178
PARAMOUNT PICTURES PAID ANOTHER
$24,000 FOR THE MOVIE RIGHTS.
1970
01:52:34,214 --> 01:52:36,945
BY THE AGE OF 30,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1971
01:52:36,984 --> 01:52:40,512
HAD SURVIVED HIS WAR WOUNDS,
HAD MARRIED TWO WOMEN,
1972
01:52:40,754 --> 01:52:43,019
AND FATHERED TWO SONS,
1973
01:52:43,056 --> 01:52:46,515
HAD BURIED HIS FATHER,
PUBLISHED 5 BOOKS
1974
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:52,290
AND WAS NOW THE MOST FAMOUS
WRITER IN THE UNITED STATES.
1975
01:52:52,332 --> 01:52:55,268
HIS FRIEND, THE NOVELIST
JOHN DOS PASSOS,
1976
01:52:55,302 --> 01:52:57,362
WROTE TO CONGRATULATE HIM.
1977
01:52:57,404 --> 01:53:00,169
"DEAR HEM," HE SAID,
"DO YOU REALIZE THAT
1978
01:53:00,207 --> 01:53:04,110
YOU'RE NOW THE KING
OF THE FICTION RACKET?"
1979
01:53:08,081 --> 01:53:10,846
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I AM VERY
PREJUDICED AGAINST SUICIDE
1980
01:53:10,884 --> 01:53:14,048
BECAUSE SOMEHOW I WOULD NOT LIKE
TO EVEN RUN A CHANCE
1981
01:53:14,087 --> 01:53:16,079
OF HAVING TO SPEND THE REST
OF THE TIME
1982
01:53:16,123 --> 01:53:19,491
WITH A LOT OF THE SORT
OF PEOPLE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE.
1983
01:53:19,526 --> 01:53:21,552
ALTHOUGH OF COURSE
THAT DOESN'T HOLD TRUE
1984
01:53:21,795 --> 01:53:24,094
BECAUSE THERE ARE
SOME SWELL ONES.
1985
01:53:25,999 --> 01:53:28,298
THE REAL REASON FOR NOT
COMMITTING SUICIDE
1986
01:53:28,335 --> 01:53:31,169
IS BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KNOW
HOW SWELL LIFE GETS AGAIN
1987
01:53:31,204 --> 01:53:33,230
AFTER THE HELL IS OVER.
1988
01:53:33,273 --> 01:53:37,404
SO YOU HAVE TO RESOLVE
IN ADVANCE TO LAST OUT THE TIME
1989
01:53:37,444 --> 01:53:40,004
WHEN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
1990
01:53:40,047 --> 01:53:43,347
♪
1991
01:53:46,586 --> 01:53:52,082
♪
1992
01:54:14,915 --> 01:54:22,915
♪
1993
01:54:43,610 --> 01:54:48,639
♪
1994
01:55:08,168 --> 01:55:13,971
♪
1995
01:55:38,131 --> 01:55:43,502
♪
1996
01:56:05,091 --> 01:56:11,031
♪
1997
01:56:30,684 --> 01:56:31,828
DO STORIES HELP US
1998
01:56:31,852 --> 01:56:33,411
SEE THE WORLD IN A NEW LIGHT?
1999
01:56:33,453 --> 01:56:35,012
CAN THE PAST BE A WINDOW
TO THE FUTURE?
2000
01:56:35,055 --> 01:56:36,933
SINCE 2007, BANK OF AMERICA
HAS PROUDLY SUPPORTED
2001
01:56:36,957 --> 01:56:39,017
THE FILMS OF KEN BURNS
AS THEY TELL THE STORIES
2002
01:56:39,059 --> 01:56:41,392
OF OUR PAST
AND INSPIRE US TO MOVE FORWARD.
2003
01:56:41,428 --> 01:56:44,125
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE
THE POWER TO DO?
2004
01:56:47,067 --> 01:56:48,695
MAJOR FUNDING
FOR "HEMINGWAY"
2005
01:56:48,735 --> 01:56:51,500
WAS PROVIDED BY
THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY
2006
01:56:51,538 --> 01:56:53,439
AND BY ITS MEMBERS:
2007
01:56:53,473 --> 01:56:55,704
THE ELIZABETH RUTH WALLACE
LIVING TRUST,
2008
01:56:55,742 --> 01:56:57,677
JOHN AND LESLIE McQUOWN,
2009
01:56:57,711 --> 01:56:59,577
JOHN AND CATHERINE DEBS,
2010
01:56:59,613 --> 01:57:02,105
THE FULLERTON FAMILY
CHARITABLE TRUST,
2011
01:57:02,148 --> 01:57:05,084
KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION,
GAIL ELDEN,
2012
01:57:05,118 --> 01:57:06,677
GILCHRIST AND AMY BERG,
2013
01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:08,484
ROBERT AND BEVERLY GRAPPONE,
2014
01:57:08,522 --> 01:57:10,957
AND MAUREE JANE AND MARK PERRY.
2015
01:57:10,991 --> 01:57:15,122
ADDITIONAL FUNDING WAS PROVIDED
BY THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION,
2016
01:57:15,161 --> 01:57:17,721
THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS
FOUNDATIONS,
2017
01:57:17,764 --> 01:57:20,461
THE CORPORATION
FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING,
2018
01:57:20,500 --> 01:57:23,527
AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR
PBS STATION
2019
01:57:23,570 --> 01:57:25,630
FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU.
2020
01:57:25,672 --> 01:57:27,971
THANK YOU.
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