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HE HAS
THE MOST PROFOUND BRAVERY
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THAT IT HAS EVER BEEN
MY PRIVILEGE TO SEE.
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HE HAS HAD ABOUT 8 TIMES
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THE NORMAL ALLOTMENT
OF RESPONSIBILITIES.
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IT TAKES COURAGE.
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HE REFERRED TO THE QUALITY
AS "GUTS."
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HE WEIGHS ABOUT 200 POUNDS,
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AND HE IS EVEN BETTER
THAN THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS.
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THE EFFECT UPON WOMEN
IS SUCH THAT THEY WANT TO
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GO RIGHT OUT AND GET HIM
AND BRING HIM HOME, STUFFED.
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DOROTHY PARKER.
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BY THE TIME
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
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TOPPED THE BEST-SELLER LISTS
IN 1929,
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COLORFUL STORIES HAD ALREADY
BEGUN TO CIRCULATE
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ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
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MANY OF THEM TOLD
BY THE WRITER HIMSELF.
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HE'D ONCE PLANNED TO BE
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A PROFESSIONAL BOXER,
HE CLAIMED.
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HE'D FOUGHT IN THE ITALIAN ARMY
DURING THE GREAT WAR,
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BEEN WOUNDED 7 SEPARATE TIMES,
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AND BEEN AWARDED
A CHEST-FULL OF MEDALS
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ABOUT WHICH HE SAID
HE WAS TOO MODEST TO SPEAK.
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AND HE'D NEARLY
STARVED TO DEATH IN PARIS
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WHILE LEARNING TO WRITE.
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NONE OF THESE STORIES WAS TRUE.
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HE MYTHOLOGIZED HIMSELF.
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WHY DO PEOPLE MYTHOLOGIZE?
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TO WOO OTHER PEOPLE
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AND ALSO TO
KEEP THEM AT A DISTANCE.
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TO FEEL INADEQUATE, BUT TO
BOAST ABOUT BEING OVER-ADEQUATE.
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HEMINGWAY CONSTRUCTED
HIS MYTH TO A LARGE DEGREE
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AND HE MADE THE MISTAKE
THAT ALL MYTH-MAKERS DO...
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HE THOUGHT THAT
HE COULD CONTROL IT.
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AND THERE COMES A TIME
THAT YOU CAN'T ANYMORE.
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IT'S TAKEN ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN.
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IT BECAME VERY EXHAUSTING
TO BE HEMINGWAY.
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THE HEMINGWAY THAT
THE PUBLIC THOUGHT.
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AND LET'S FACE IT,
WHEN HE WAS IN THE PUBLIC,
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HE WAS ALWAYS IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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AND THE PEOPLE EXPECTED
HEMINGWAY TO BE HEMINGWAY.
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HIS ART AND THE GAUDY
MYTHS THAT GREW UP AROUND HIM
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WERE ALREADY BECOMING CONFUSED
IN THE PUBLIC MIND.
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AT FIRST, HE HIMSELF
WAS EMBARRASSED
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BY SOME OF THE TALL TALES
WHEN HE SAW THEM IN PRINT.
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BUT AS HIS FAME GREW
OVER THE COMING YEARS,
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IT BECAME HARDER AND HARDER
TO TELL THE REAL HEMINGWAY
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FROM THE ONE HE HAD CREATED.
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THERE'S A CHINESE
PROVERB BY THE SAGE ZHUANGZI
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AND HE HAS IT THIS WAY.
HE SAYS,
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GOOD FORTUNE IS
AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER
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AND FEW ARE STRONG
ENOUGH TO CARRY IT.
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WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WEIGHT
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THAT HIS FAME MUST HAVE
LAID ON HIM,
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EVEN WHEN HE WAS YOUNG,
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AND THE ANXIETY
THAT WOULD PRODUCE OF
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HOW CAN I LIVE UP TO THIS?
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HOW CAN THE NEXT BOOK BE BETTER?
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WHAT IS IN ME
TO MAKE THIS REAL?
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IT'S VERY HARD, I THINK,
TO BE A PUBLIC PERSON LIKE THAT.
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AND SO, I THINK
EVERY PUBLIC PERSON
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CREATES SOME KIND OF AVATAR,
IF YOU WILL, OF THEMSELVES,
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SOME HOLOGRAPH OF THEMSELVES
TO PRESENT PUBLICLY
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TO SAVE WHATEVER
IS PRIVATE IN THEM.
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THE PROBLEM IS THAT
EVENTUALLY YOUR AVATAR
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WILL CONSUME YOU.
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WE HAVE A FINE HOUSE HERE
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AND THE KIDS ARE ALL WELL.
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ALSO 4 RACCOONS, A POSSUM,
18 GOLDFISH, 3 PEACOCKS,
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AND A YARD WITH FIG TREE
AND A LIME TREE.
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VERY FINE THE WAY
PAULINE HAS FIXED IT.
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WE HAVE BEEN, AND ARE,
DAMNED HAPPY.
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I COULD STAY HERE DAMNED NEAR
ALL THE TIME
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AND HAVE A FINE TIME
WATCHING THE THINGS GROW
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AND BE HAPPIER
THAN I UNDERSTAND.
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♪ NO ONE TO TALK WITH,
ALL BY MYSELF ♪
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♪ NO ONE TO WALK WITH
BUT I'M HAPPY ON THE SHELF ♪
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♪ AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'... ♪
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THE BIG
ANTEBELLUM HOUSE
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ON WHITEHEAD STREET
IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA
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WAS A GIFT FROM HIS SECOND WIFE
PAULINE PFEIFFER'S
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WEALTHY UNCLE GUS, WHO BELIEVED
DEEPLY IN HEMINGWAY'S WRITING
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AND WHO WOULD PROVIDE
FINANCIAL HELP TO MAINTAIN
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THEIR EXPENSIVE AND EXTRAVAGANT
WAY OF LIFE.
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DAY TO DAY COSTS WERE COVERED
BY PAULINE'S TRUST FUND.
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3 HEMINGWAY CHILDREN
WOULD SOON BE SEEN THERE:
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JACK, KNOWN AS "BUMBY,"
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THE OFFSPRING OF HEMINGWAY'S
FIRST MARRIAGE,
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SPENT MOST OF EACH YEAR
WITH HIS MOTHER HADLEY,
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WHO WOULD HAPPILY REMARRY
AND SETTLE NEAR CHICAGO.
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BUT HE SUMMERED IN FLORIDA
WITH HIS FATHER AND PAULINE.
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PATRICK, ERNEST AND PAULINE'S
FIRST-BORN,
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CALLED "MOUSE," WAS IN
PERMANENT RESIDENCE.
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SO WAS GREGORY, NICKNAMED
"GIGI," BORN IN 1931.
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♪ AIN'T MISBEHAVIN',
SAVIN' ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU ♪
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MOTHERHOOD WAS ALWAYS
LESS IMPORTANT TO PAULINE
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THAN WHAT SHE SAID
WAS HER FIRST DUTY...
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TO REMAIN ALWAYS
"A LOVELY, UNHARRIED WIFE."
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ERNEST LONGED FOR HER
WHEN EVEN BRIEFLY AWAY
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AND DELIGHTED IN HER WILLINGNESS
TO PLEASE HIM
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BY DYEING HER HAIR...
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LIKE HAVING "A NEW WIFE
EVERY DAY," HE TOLD A FRIEND.
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HER NUMBER-ONE GOAL
IN LIFE
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IS MAKING HEMINGWAY HAPPY.
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SHE, SHE WANTS HIM
TO KEEP WRITING.
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SHE WAS THE REAL PROTECTOR
OF HIS TALENT.
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AND SHE WANTED TO FACILITATE
THAT IN ANY WAY SHE COULD.
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AND SHE SUBMERGED HERSELF,
HER IDENTITY.
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SHE LEFT HER INFANT CHILDREN,
ONE IS 3 MONTHS OLD
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AT ONE POINT, TO GO HUNTING
WITH HEMINGWAY.
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AND SHE'D SAY, "YOU'RE MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THEY ARE."
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AND HE WAS HER PRIORITY.
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THE HOUSE ON
WHITEHEAD STREET WOULD BE
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HEMINGWAY'S COMFORTABLE HOME
FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS.
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WHEN HE WAS NOT WRITING,
HE FISHED THE NEARBY GULF STREAM
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FOR TUNA AND SAILFISH,
MAKO SHARK AND BLUE MARLIN,
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REFEREED BOXING MATCHES
ON FRIDAY NIGHTS,
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AND HUNG OUT IN A FAVORITE
KEY WEST SALOON
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CALLED SLOPPY JOE'S.
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IN KEY WEST, HE ALSO MAINTAINED
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THE STRICT WRITER'S DISCIPLINE
HE HAD FOLLOWED SINCE PARIS.
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I WRITE EVERY MORNING AS SOON
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AFTER FIRST LIGHT AS POSSIBLE.
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THERE IS NO ONE TO DISTURB YOU
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AND IT IS COOL OR COLD
AND YOU COME TO YOUR WORK
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AND WARM AS YOU WRITE.
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HE DIDN'T WORK ALL DAY.
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I THINK THAT'S THE MOST
ILLUMINATING THING
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ABOUT DESCRIBING
HIS WRITING HABITS.
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AFTER LUNCH, HE ENJOYED HIMSELF.
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AS A CHILD GROWING UP,
YOU JUST TAKE
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THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF
YOUR LIFE AS BEING NORMAL.
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AND SO... HE WAS A STRANGE PERSON
IN THE SENSE THAT
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HE WAS INACCESSIBLE
IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY
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AND OVER-ACCESSIBLE
IN THE SECOND.
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BUT I REALLY ENJOYED THE FACT
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THAT HE WAS ALWAYS GAME FOR
SOMETHING IN THE AFTERNOON
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AND THAT WE WERE INCLUDED.
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UNLIKE SOME ARTISTS
THAT I'VE HEARD ABOUT,
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MY DAD WAS A VERY GOOD FATHER.
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I PRACTICED WRITING
AND STUDIED JOYCE, DOSTOYEVSKY,
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STEIN, AND HEMINGWAY.
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ESPECIALLY HEMINGWAY.
I READ HIM
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TO LEARN HIS SENTENCE STRUCTURE
AND HOW TO ORGANIZE A STORY.
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I GUESS MANY YOUNG WRITERS
WERE DOING THIS,
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BUT I ALSO USED
HIS DESCRIPTION OF HUNTING
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WHEN I WENT INTO THE FIELDS
THE NEXT DAY.
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I HAD BEEN HUNTING
SINCE I WAS 11,
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BUT NO ONE HAD
BROKEN DOWN THE PROCESS
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OF WING-SHOOTING FOR ME,
AND IT WAS
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FROM READING HEMINGWAY THAT
I LEARNED TO LEAD A BIRD.
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WHEN HE DESCRIBES SOMETHING
IN PRINT, BELIEVE HIM.
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HE'S BEEN THERE.
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RALPH ELLISON.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HAD TRANSFORMED
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THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
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AND REMADE THE AMERICAN NOVEL,
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BUT HE WAS NOT SATISFIED.
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NOW HE WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HIS
MASTERY OF NONFICTION AS WELL.
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RUNNING ALWAYS THROUGH
HEMINGWAY'S WRITING...
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AND HIS LIFE... WAS
A SINGLE DARK THREAD:
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HIS FASCINATION WITH DEATH.
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"ALL STORIES IF CONTINUED
FAR ENOUGH," HE WROTE,
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"END IN DEATH."
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HOW CAN YOU NOT BE
OBSESSED ABOUT DEATH?
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AND I THINK IT DROVE EVERYTHING
THAT FOLLOWED IN HIS WRITING.
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YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALL FUELED
BY THE SENSE THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO DIE AND WHY NOT?
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ISN'T THAT THE REASON FOR US TO
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BRING OUR BEST TO THIS MOMENT?
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"A GOOD WRITER
SHOULD KNOW
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NEAR TO EVERYTHING AS POSSIBLE,"
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HEMINGWAY WROTE.
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"NATURALLY HE WILL NOT,"
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BUT HE SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF
LEARNING SO FAST
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AND REMEMBERING SO MUCH
THAT HE SEEMS TO HAVE
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BEEN BORN WITH KNOWLEDGE
NONETHELESS.
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HE LIKED TO CALL HIMSELF PAPA
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AND HIS APPARENT EXPERTISE
IN EVERYTHING
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WAS PART OF HIS MAGIC
ON THE PRINTED PAGE,
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THOUGH IN REAL LIFE,
SOME OF HIS FRIENDS
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WEARIED OF WHAT ONE CALLED HIS
"TENDENCY TO BE AN ORACLE."
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HEMINGWAY SAW IT AS HIS DUTY
TO PASS ON TO THE WORLD
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AS MUCH OF WHAT HE'D LEARNED
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ABOUT THE RIGHT WAY
TO DO THINGS AS HE COULD...
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HOW TO ORDER A GOOD FRENCH MEAL,
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FIRE A MACHINE GUN, BAIT A HOOK,
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MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN...
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OR APPRECIATE WHAT A MATADOR
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WAS DOING IN THE BULLRING.
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THE BULLFIGHT IS NOT A SPORT
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IN THE ANGLO-SAXON
SENSE OF THE WORD.
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THAT IS, IT IS NOT
AN EQUAL CONTEST
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OR AN ATTEMPT AT
AN EQUAL CONTEST
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BETWEEN A BULL AND A MAN.
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RATHER, IT IS A TRAGEDY;
THE DEATH OF THE BULL,
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WHICH IS PLAYED, MORE OR LESS
WELL, BY THE BULL
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AND THE MAN INVOLVED
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AND IN WHICH THERE IS
DANGER FOR THE MAN
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BUT CERTAIN DEATH
FOR THE ANIMAL.
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THE BOOK HEMINGWAY
WAS WORKING ON
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WHEN HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED
INTO THEIR NEW HOUSE IN KEY WEST
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WAS "DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON."
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IT WAS A NEW KIND OF JOURNALISM,
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IN WHICH HE WAS THE CENTRAL
CHARACTER, "THE AUTHOR,"
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WHO EXPLAINS TO
A FICTIONAL "OLD LADY"
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EVERYTHING HE HAS LEARNED
OVER THE YEARS
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ABOUT THE RITUAL
OF BULLFIGHTING...
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AND ABOUT SPAIN, THE COUNTRY
HE'D COME TO LOVE
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AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HIS OWN.
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BACK WHEN HE FIRST
BECAME ATTACHED
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TO SCRIBNER'S PUBLISHING HOUSE,
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HIS VERY FIRST LETTER
TO HIS EDITOR WAS,
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"I WANT TO WRITE A BIG BOOK
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ABOUT THE BULLFIGHT,
WITH PICTURES."
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HE READ AND READ
AND READ AND READ
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AND READ ABOUT BULLFIGHTING,
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IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH.
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AND HE LEARNED TO READ THE BULL.
219
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THE BULL IS A TEXT.
YOU HAVE TO READ IT
220
00:13:55,868 --> 00:13:57,212
AND SAY, "THESE ARE
HIS STRENGTHS."
221
00:13:57,236 --> 00:13:59,102
"THESE ARE HIS WEAKNESSES."
222
00:13:59,138 --> 00:14:00,572
"THIS IS WHERE I CAN USE IT."
223
00:14:00,606 --> 00:14:03,440
"THIS IS WHERE I CAN
DOMINATE IT."
224
00:14:03,476 --> 00:14:06,275
"THIS IS WHAT I BETTER
STAY AWAY FROM."
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HEMINGWAY UNDERSTOOD
THAT MANY AMERICANS
226
00:14:10,950 --> 00:14:13,283
WOULD FIND
BULLFIGHTING ABHORRENT,
227
00:14:13,319 --> 00:14:15,982
CONVINCED OF ITS CRUELTY.
228
00:14:16,022 --> 00:14:18,617
HE WANTED TO HELP THEM
GET BEYOND THAT, HE SAID,
229
00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:22,886
SO THAT THEY COULD EXPERIENCE
"TRULY WHAT YOU REALLY FELT
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00:14:22,929 --> 00:14:25,865
RATHER THAN WHAT YOU WERE
SUPPOSED TO FEEL."
231
00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:32,004
THE BULLFIGHTER GETS
TO USE ALL OF HIS INTELLIGENCE
232
00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:35,304
AND ALL OF HIS CRAFT
ON THE BULL.
233
00:14:35,341 --> 00:14:37,503
AND, IF IT ALL WORKS
VERY, VERY WELL,
234
00:14:37,543 --> 00:14:40,445
IT MAKES A VERY
BEAUTIFUL BULLFIGHT
235
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,918
WHERE THE MAN IS TRIUMPHANT
AND THE BULL GETS KILLED.
236
00:14:44,951 --> 00:14:47,648
THAT'S THE MAIN THING THAT
HAPPENS IN THE BULLFIGHT,
237
00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,913
IS THAT THE BULL
HAS TO GET KILLED.
238
00:14:51,524 --> 00:14:55,894
THAT'S PREDESTINED.
SO, YOU HAVE PREDESTINATION
239
00:14:55,928 --> 00:14:58,420
AND YOU HAVE A POWERFUL FORCE
THAT'S BROUGHT FROM
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A HIGH PLACE TO A LOW PLACE.
241
00:15:00,967 --> 00:15:02,458
YOU HAVE TRAGEDY.
242
00:15:02,502 --> 00:15:05,097
THAT'S THE CLASSICAL DEFINITION
OF TRAGEDY.
243
00:15:10,209 --> 00:15:12,508
I KNOW ONLY
THAT WHAT IS MORAL
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00:15:12,545 --> 00:15:15,572
IS WHAT YOU FEEL GOOD AFTER
245
00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:20,178
AND WHAT IS IMMORAL IS
WHAT YOU FEEL BAD AFTER
246
00:15:20,219 --> 00:15:23,087
AND JUDGED BY THESE
MORAL STANDARDS,
247
00:15:23,122 --> 00:15:26,115
WHICH I DO NOT DEFEND,
248
00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:28,651
THE BULLFIGHT IS
VERY MORAL TO ME
249
00:15:28,694 --> 00:15:31,994
BECAUSE I FEEL VERY FINE
WHILE IT IS GOING ON
250
00:15:32,031 --> 00:15:34,557
AND HAVE A FEELING
OF LIFE AND DEATH
251
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,469
AND MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY,
252
00:15:38,504 --> 00:15:45,502
AND AFTER IT IS OVER, I FEEL
VERY SAD BUT VERY FINE.
253
00:15:51,517 --> 00:15:54,214
WRITING "DEATH IN
THE AFTERNOON" TOOK HEMINGWAY
254
00:15:54,253 --> 00:15:56,347
THE BETTER PART OF 5 YEARS...
255
00:15:56,389 --> 00:15:59,587
AND HE SAID HE'D WISHED
HE'D HAD 10.
256
00:15:59,625 --> 00:16:02,561
HE BELIEVED IT WAS
"MAYBE THE BEST BOOK YET,"
257
00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:06,555
HE TOLD A FRIEND, AND IT WAS
GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED:
258
00:16:06,599 --> 00:16:07,965
H.L. MENCKEN CALLED IT
259
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,992
"AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE PIECE
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00:16:10,036 --> 00:16:12,267
"OF EXPOSITORY WRITING...
261
00:16:12,305 --> 00:16:14,706
"FULL OF THE VIVIDNESS
OF SOMETHING REALLY
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00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:18,040
SEEN, FELT, EXPERIENCED."
263
00:16:19,278 --> 00:16:23,045
BUT OTHER CRITICS
WERE DISAPPOINTED.
264
00:16:23,082 --> 00:16:25,608
IN A DISMISSIVE "NEW REPUBLIC"
REVIEW TITLED
265
00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:27,620
"BULL IN THE AFTERNOON,"
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00:16:27,653 --> 00:16:29,383
THE CRITIC MAX EASTMAN
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00:16:29,422 --> 00:16:31,755
DISMISSED BULLFIGHTING
AS NOTHING MORE THAN
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00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:34,392
RITUALIZED CRUELTY...
269
00:16:34,427 --> 00:16:36,396
AND SUGGESTED HEMINGWAY HIMSELF
270
00:16:36,429 --> 00:16:39,593
WAS INSECURE IN HIS MANHOOD,
GUILTY OF
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00:16:39,632 --> 00:16:42,602
"WEARING FALSE HAIR
ON HIS CHEST."
272
00:16:44,637 --> 00:16:47,436
HEMINGWAY WAS LIVID.
4 YEARS LATER,
273
00:16:47,473 --> 00:16:51,274
HE WOULD CORNER EASTMAN,
TEARING OPEN HIS OWN SHIRT
274
00:16:51,310 --> 00:16:53,745
TO SHOW HOW MUCH HAIR
GREW ON HIS CHEST,
275
00:16:53,779 --> 00:16:58,114
AND SHOUTING, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN
ACCUSING ME OF IMPOTENCE?"
276
00:16:58,150 --> 00:17:01,348
BEFORE SLAPPING THE CRITIC
WITH A BOOK.
277
00:17:10,796 --> 00:17:12,040
IT IS
PLEASANT TO HUNT SOMETHING
278
00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:13,327
THAT YOU WANT VERY MUCH
279
00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:16,029
OVER A LONG PERIOD
OF TIME,
280
00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:18,230
BEING OUTWITTED, OUTMANEUVERED,
281
00:17:18,271 --> 00:17:21,070
AND FAILING AT THE END
OF EACH DAY,
282
00:17:21,107 --> 00:17:23,042
BUT HAVING THE HUNT AND KNOWING
283
00:17:23,075 --> 00:17:27,103
EVERY TIME YOU ARE OUT
THAT, SOONER OR LATER,
284
00:17:27,146 --> 00:17:29,581
YOUR LUCK WILL CHANGE
AND THAT YOU WILL GET
285
00:17:29,615 --> 00:17:33,074
THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE SEEKING.
286
00:17:34,353 --> 00:17:35,531
EVER SINCE HE WAS A BOY,
287
00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:37,114
HEMINGWAY HAD HOPED TO GO
288
00:17:37,156 --> 00:17:39,648
ON A HUNTING SAFARI
IN EAST AFRICA,
289
00:17:39,692 --> 00:17:44,096
JUST AS HIS HERO
THEODORE ROOSEVELT HAD.
290
00:17:44,130 --> 00:17:48,329
IN LATE 1933,
PAULINE'S GENEROUS UNCLE GUS
291
00:17:48,367 --> 00:17:53,567
PROVIDED THE ENORMOUS SUM
WITH WHICH TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
292
00:17:53,606 --> 00:17:55,632
TO SERVE AS
THE HEMINGWAYS' GUIDE,
293
00:17:55,675 --> 00:17:58,645
THEY HIRED PHILIP PERCIVAL,
WHO AS A YOUNG MAN
294
00:17:58,678 --> 00:18:01,671
HAD BEEN PART OF
THE ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION.
295
00:18:01,714 --> 00:18:04,616
CHARLES THOMPSON, A FRIEND
AND FISHING COMPANION
296
00:18:04,650 --> 00:18:07,586
FROM KEY WEST,
CAME ALONG AS WELL.
297
00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:12,154
DURING THE TWO-MONTH SAFARI,
THE HEMINGWAY PARTY
298
00:18:12,191 --> 00:18:15,491
WOULD SHOOT 5 LIONS,
4 CAPE BUFFALO,
299
00:18:15,528 --> 00:18:18,088
TWO RHINO, TWO LEOPARDS,
300
00:18:18,130 --> 00:18:22,158
5 CHEETAHS, A HOST OF
GAZELLES AND ANTELOPE
301
00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:23,430
WITH WHICH TO FEED THE CAMP,
302
00:18:23,469 --> 00:18:25,495
AND 44 HYENAS FOR WHAT
303
00:18:25,538 --> 00:18:28,201
HEMINGWAY CALLED "AMUSEMENT."
304
00:18:29,375 --> 00:18:31,640
AFRICA, FOR HEMINGWAY,
PROVIDED THE PERFECT SPACE
305
00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:36,206
WITHIN WHICH HE COULD EXERCISE
HIS HYPER-MASCULINE MUSCLES;
306
00:18:36,248 --> 00:18:39,150
WHERE HE COULD BE THE "GREAT
WHITE CONQUERING HERO," UH,
307
00:18:39,185 --> 00:18:42,781
AT A TIME WHERE,
AT LEAST, IN SOME SENSE,
308
00:18:42,822 --> 00:18:45,417
THAT WHOLE PERSONA WAS
COMING UNDER FIRE HERE,
309
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,791
BACK HERE IN AMERICA.
310
00:18:47,827 --> 00:18:52,697
I THINK IN SOME WAYS
HE ESCAPED INTO HUNTING.
311
00:18:52,732 --> 00:18:56,499
I THINK HE REALLY LOVED IT
FROM HIS EARLIEST DAYS
312
00:18:56,535 --> 00:19:00,631
AND I BE... BELIEVE THAT,
THAT PASSION WAS SINCERE
313
00:19:00,673 --> 00:19:03,233
AND NOT JUST A, A POSE.
314
00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:07,645
BUT I WILL ADMIT
THAT IT PUZZLES ME A BIT
315
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:14,644
THAT HAVING SEEN SO MUCH
VIOLENCE, SO MUCH KILLING,
316
00:19:14,687 --> 00:19:17,555
NOT JUST DEATH BUT KILLING,
317
00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:21,618
THE PLEASURE IN KILLING
IS A MYSTERY TO ME.
318
00:19:21,661 --> 00:19:24,221
I DON'T... I, I DON'T
UNDERSTAND IT.
319
00:19:26,532 --> 00:19:29,559
I DID NOTHING
THAT HAD NOT BEEN DONE TO ME.
320
00:19:29,602 --> 00:19:33,801
I HAD BEEN SHOT AND I HAD BEEN
CRIPPLED AND GOTTEN AWAY.
321
00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:37,537
I EXPECTED, ALWAYS, TO BE KILLED
BY ONE THING OR ANOTHER
322
00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:40,944
AND I, TRULY, DID NOT
MIND THAT ANY MORE.
323
00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:44,673
SINCE I STILL LOVED TO HUNT, I
RESOLVED THAT I WOULD ONLY SHOOT
324
00:19:44,717 --> 00:19:47,380
AS LONG AS I COULD KILL CLEANLY,
325
00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:51,289
AND AS SOON AS I LOST THAT
ABILITY, I WOULD STOP.
326
00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:55,761
THINGS DID NOT
ALWAYS GO WELL,
327
00:19:55,795 --> 00:19:59,926
AND HE OFTEN SHOT BADLY.
328
00:19:59,965 --> 00:20:03,595
HE SUFFERED AN ATTACK OF
AMOEBIC DYSENTERY SO SEVERE
329
00:20:03,636 --> 00:20:06,800
HE HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED
PAST THE SNOW-CAPPED PEAK
330
00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:09,638
OF MOUNT KILIMANJARO TO NAIROBI
331
00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:13,407
AND KEPT THERE FOR A WEEK
UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE.
332
00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:17,509
BUT DESPITE IT ALL,
333
00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:18,950
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CONTINENT
334
00:20:18,984 --> 00:20:20,509
ENTHRALLED HIM
335
00:20:20,553 --> 00:20:22,522
AND HE TOOK DETAILED NOTES,
336
00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:23,818
PLANNING TO TURN THEM INTO
337
00:20:23,856 --> 00:20:26,257
ANOTHER WORK OF NONFICTION.
338
00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:28,826
"I NEVER KNEW OF
A MORNING IN AFRICA
339
00:20:28,861 --> 00:20:30,329
"WHEN I WOKE THAT I WAS
340
00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:32,957
NOT HAPPY," HE WOULD WRITE.
341
00:20:32,998 --> 00:20:37,299
HE LOVED THE LANDSCAPE,
THE BLUE OVER-ARCHING SKY,
342
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:40,704
THE TEEMING WILDLIFE... ABOVE ALL,
343
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:45,542
THE ISOLATION HE CRAVED
BUT HAD RARELY FOUND AT HOME.
344
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:48,924
ALL I WANTED TO DO NOW
345
00:20:48,948 --> 00:20:51,782
WAS GET BACK TO AFRICA.
346
00:20:51,817 --> 00:20:54,309
WE HAD NOT LEFT IT YET,
347
00:20:54,353 --> 00:20:55,821
BUT WHEN I WOULD
WAKE IN THE NIGHT,
348
00:20:55,855 --> 00:21:00,316
I WOULD LIE, LISTENING,
HOMESICK FOR IT ALREADY.
349
00:21:02,661 --> 00:21:04,289
I LOVED THE COUNTRY
350
00:21:04,330 --> 00:21:05,923
SO THAT I WAS AS HAPPY
AS YOU ARE
351
00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:08,935
AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN WITH
A WOMAN THAT YOU REALLY LOVE,
352
00:21:08,968 --> 00:21:13,372
WHEN, EMPTY, YOU FEEL IT
WELLING UP AGAIN...
353
00:21:15,407 --> 00:21:19,811
AND THERE IT IS AND YOU CAN
NEVER HAVE IT ALL
354
00:21:19,845 --> 00:21:23,680
AND YET WHAT THERE IS, NOW,
YOU CAN HAVE,
355
00:21:23,716 --> 00:21:26,914
AND YOU WANT MORE AND MORE,
TO HAVE,
356
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:29,854
AND BE, AND LIVE IN,
357
00:21:29,889 --> 00:21:32,984
TO POSSESS NOW AGAIN FOR ALWAYS,
358
00:21:33,025 --> 00:21:37,360
FOR THAT LONG,
SUDDEN-ENDED ALWAYS.
359
00:21:38,864 --> 00:21:41,959
I HAD LOVED COUNTRY ALL MY LIFE;
360
00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:44,971
THE COUNTRY WAS ALWAYS
BETTER THAN THE PEOPLE.
361
00:21:45,004 --> 00:21:49,339
I COULD ONLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE
A VERY FEW AT A TIME.
362
00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:02,920
WHEN THE HEMINGWAYS
RETURNED FROM AFRICA,
363
00:22:02,955 --> 00:22:04,856
THE UNITED STATES WAS ENTERING
THE FIFTH YEAR
364
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:07,052
OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
365
00:22:07,092 --> 00:22:11,427
FEW REGIONS HAD SUFFERED MORE
THAN THE FLORIDA KEYS.
366
00:22:11,463 --> 00:22:14,729
KEY WEST ITSELF WAS
OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT.
367
00:22:14,767 --> 00:22:19,432
8 OF 10
LOCAL RESIDENTS WERE ON RELIEF.
368
00:22:19,471 --> 00:22:22,964
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S
EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
369
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:25,739
RESOLVED TO TRANSFORM
THE DYING TOWN
370
00:22:25,778 --> 00:22:28,509
INTO A TOURIST ATTRACTION...
371
00:22:28,547 --> 00:22:30,709
"THE BERMUDA OF FLORIDA."
372
00:22:31,951 --> 00:22:36,082
THE ONCE-SLEEPY STREETS
SOON BUSTLED WITH VISITORS,
373
00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:38,022
THOUSANDS OF THEM.
374
00:22:38,057 --> 00:22:40,492
THEY WANDERED
ONTO HEMINGWAY'S LAWN,
375
00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:43,826
PEERED IN THE WINDOWS,
KNOCKED AT THE DOOR.
376
00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:45,593
TO KEEP THEM OUT,
HE HAD A BRICK WALL
377
00:22:45,631 --> 00:22:48,533
BUILT AROUND HIS PROPERTY.
378
00:22:49,969 --> 00:22:51,995
TO GET AWAY...
AND GET IN MORE FISHING...
379
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,700
HE SAILED OFTEN
TO HAVANA, CUBA...
380
00:22:54,740 --> 00:22:58,472
SOME 100 MILES ACROSS
THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA...
381
00:22:58,510 --> 00:23:00,479
WHERE HE HOLED UP
FOR WEEKS AT A TIME
382
00:23:00,512 --> 00:23:06,543
AT THE SEVILLA BILTMORE HOTEL
IN THE HEART OF THE OLD CITY,
383
00:23:06,585 --> 00:23:09,555
WRITING IN THE MORNING,
DRINKING IN THE AFTERNOONS
384
00:23:09,588 --> 00:23:12,820
AT HIS FAVORITE BAR,
LA FLORIDITA.
385
00:23:18,631 --> 00:23:21,109
THE GULF STREAM AND THE OTHER
GREAT OCEAN CURRENTS
386
00:23:21,133 --> 00:23:23,967
ARE THE LAST WILD COUNTRY
THERE IS LEFT.
387
00:23:25,537 --> 00:23:28,439
ONCE YOU ARE OUT OF SIGHT OF
LAND AND OF THE OTHER BOATS,
388
00:23:28,474 --> 00:23:31,444
YOU ARE MORE ALONE THAN
YOU CAN EVER BE HUNTING
389
00:23:31,477 --> 00:23:34,709
AND THE SEA IS THE SAME
AS IT HAS BEEN
390
00:23:34,747 --> 00:23:36,579
SINCE BEFORE MEN EVER
WENT ON IT IN BOATS.
391
00:23:38,851 --> 00:23:40,479
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT FISH
LIVE IN IT,
392
00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:44,422
OR HOW GREAT SIZE THEY REACH
OR WHAT AGE.
393
00:23:44,456 --> 00:23:47,858
WHEN YOU ARE DRIFTING,
OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND,
394
00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:55,027
FISHING 4 LINES, 60, 80,
100, AND 150 FATHOMS DOWN,
395
00:23:55,067 --> 00:23:58,469
IN WATER THAT IS
700 FATHOMS DEEP,
396
00:23:58,504 --> 00:24:00,666
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT
MAY TAKE THE SMALL TUNA
397
00:24:00,706 --> 00:24:03,107
THAT YOU USE FOR BAIT,
AND EVERY TIME
398
00:24:03,142 --> 00:24:05,907
THE LINE STARTS TO
RUN OFF THE REEL,
399
00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:09,507
SLOWLY FIRST, THEN WITH
A SCREAM OF THE CLICK
400
00:24:09,548 --> 00:24:12,484
AS THE ROD BENDS
AND YOU FEEL IT DOUBLE
401
00:24:12,518 --> 00:24:14,817
AND THE HUGE WEIGHT OF
THE FRICTION OF THE LINE
402
00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:16,754
RUSHING THROUGH THAT
DEPTH OF WATER
403
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:23,059
WHILE YOU PUMP AND REEL,
PUMP AND REEL, PUMP AND REEL,
404
00:24:23,095 --> 00:24:25,064
TRYING TO GET THE BELLY
OUT OF THE LINE
405
00:24:25,097 --> 00:24:28,534
BEFORE THE FISH JUMPS,
406
00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:33,528
THERE IS ALWAYS A THRILL THAT
NEEDS NO DANGER TO MAKE IT REAL.
407
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:38,875
HEMINGWAY HAD
A 38-FOOT FISHING BOAT
408
00:24:38,911 --> 00:24:40,539
CUSTOM BUILT FOR HIMSELF...
409
00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:42,138
"A STURDY BOAT," HE WROTE,
410
00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:44,776
"SWEET IN ANY KIND OF SEA."
411
00:24:44,817 --> 00:24:49,016
HE NAMED HER "PILAR," ONE OF
HIS NICKNAMES FOR PAULINE,
412
00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:52,218
AND HE SPENT WEEKS SAILING
THE WATERS OFF KEY WEST
413
00:24:52,257 --> 00:24:54,192
AND THE GULF STREAM OFF CUBA
414
00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:56,752
AND AROUND BIMINI
IN THE BAHAMAS,
415
00:24:56,795 --> 00:25:00,197
IN SEARCH OF GOOD TIMES
AND GIANT FISH.
416
00:25:15,147 --> 00:25:18,743
THAT WAS
SHEER HAPPINESS FOR HIM.
417
00:25:18,784 --> 00:25:22,983
I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT
SEEING THE FISH COME
418
00:25:23,022 --> 00:25:27,289
IS LIKE SEEING A HUGE ELEPHANT
OR A TIGER CERTAINLY
419
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,791
EMERGE FROM THE SEA.
420
00:25:29,828 --> 00:25:31,262
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WARNING.
421
00:25:31,296 --> 00:25:33,162
THEY'RE JUST SUDDENLY THERE,
YOU KNOW.
422
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,531
AND THAT... THAT I THINK
423
00:25:35,567 --> 00:25:37,968
WAS A THRILL THAT
HE NEVER GOT ENOUGH OF.
424
00:25:41,273 --> 00:25:43,742
MOST OF THE PASSENGERS
ABOARD THE "PILAR"
425
00:25:43,776 --> 00:25:47,543
WERE OLD FRIENDS LIKE
THE POET ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
426
00:25:47,579 --> 00:25:50,071
AND THE NOVELIST JOHN DOS PASSOS
427
00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:53,984
AND HEMINGWAY'S LONG-TIME
EDITOR MAXWELL PERKINS.
428
00:25:54,019 --> 00:25:57,012
BUT THERE WERE OFTEN
NEW PEOPLE ABOARD, TOO,
429
00:25:57,056 --> 00:25:59,582
YACHTSMEN
AND BIG-GAME FISHERMEN,
430
00:25:59,625 --> 00:26:02,823
RICH MEN AND THEIR WIVES
DRAWN TO AMERICA'S
431
00:26:02,861 --> 00:26:05,797
MOST CELEBRATED WRITER,
AS WELL AS
432
00:26:05,831 --> 00:26:11,031
ARNOLD GINGRICH, EDITOR OF A NEW
MEN'S MAGAZINE CALLED "ESQUIRE,"
433
00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:13,972
WHO PAID HEMINGWAY HANDSOMELY
FOR A NEW COLUMN
434
00:26:14,006 --> 00:26:16,908
ABOUT HUNTING AND FISHING
AND ANYTHING ELSE
435
00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:19,104
THAT HAPPENED TO CROSS HIS MIND.
436
00:26:22,881 --> 00:26:25,749
WHEREVER HE WAS,
WHATEVER HE WAS DOING,
437
00:26:25,784 --> 00:26:29,186
ALCOHOL FUELED EVERYTHING.
438
00:26:29,221 --> 00:26:31,190
I HAVE DRUNK SINCE I WAS 15
439
00:26:31,223 --> 00:26:34,887
AND FEW THINGS HAVE
GIVEN ME MORE PLEASURE.
440
00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:37,089
WHEN YOU WORK HARD ALL DAY
WITH YOUR HEAD
441
00:26:37,129 --> 00:26:39,758
AND KNOW YOU MUST WORK
AGAIN THE NEXT DAY,
442
00:26:39,798 --> 00:26:41,892
WHAT ELSE CAN CHANGE YOUR IDEAS
AND MAKE THEM
443
00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:44,836
RUN ON A DIFFERENT PLANE
LIKE WHISKY?
444
00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:50,007
I BELIEVE THAT THE
TERRIBLE THING ABOUT ALCOHOL,
445
00:26:50,042 --> 00:26:53,171
FOR WRITERS, IS THAT
IT WORKS, AT FIRST.
446
00:26:53,212 --> 00:26:56,148
THAT IT WORKS GREAT.
YOU'RE ANXIOUS.
447
00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:57,945
YOU'RE WOUND UP
AT THE END OF THE DAY.
448
00:26:57,983 --> 00:26:59,952
YOU HAVE NO WAY TO CALM DOWN.
449
00:26:59,985 --> 00:27:02,318
YOU HAVE A FEW POPS
AND YOU FEEL BETTER.
450
00:27:03,789 --> 00:27:06,156
ONCE ON BIMINI,
A WEALTHY YACHTSMAN,
451
00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:08,319
DRUNK AND BELLIGERENT,
CALLED HEMINGWAY
452
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,125
A "PHONY" AND A "BIG FAT SLOB."
453
00:27:11,163 --> 00:27:15,362
HEMINGWAY, JUST AS DRUNK,
KNOCKED HIM COLD.
454
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,234
WORD SPREAD FAST
ACROSS THE ISLAND.
455
00:27:18,270 --> 00:27:21,331
"WHEN ANYONE IS TIGHT HERE
OR FEELS DANGEROUS,"
456
00:27:21,373 --> 00:27:22,932
HEMINGWAY TOLD A FRIEND,
457
00:27:22,975 --> 00:27:26,207
"THEY ASK ME TO FIGHT."
458
00:27:26,245 --> 00:27:30,114
HEMINGWAY LET IT BE KNOWN
THAT HE WOULD PAY $250
459
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:33,745
TO ANYONE WHO COULD STAY WITH
HIM FOR 3 ROUNDS.
460
00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:37,153
NO ONE EVER CLAIMED THE MONEY.
461
00:27:37,189 --> 00:27:41,991
I THINK THE MASCULINITY
MUST HAVE BEEN SO CONSTRICTING.
462
00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:44,087
HE'S DRAWN TO ALL THESE
BIG, BUTCH THINGS,
463
00:27:44,129 --> 00:27:48,692
HE COULD HIT SOMEBODY AND THEY'D
FEEL THE PUNCH, OR WHATEVER.
464
00:27:48,734 --> 00:27:50,999
IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE WEARYING.
465
00:27:52,905 --> 00:27:56,842
I THINK ORDINARY
LIFE WAS ANATHEMA TO HIM.
466
00:27:58,744 --> 00:28:01,771
IT HAD TO BE A LIFE OF ADVENTURE
467
00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:06,217
AND THAT ADVENTURE WAS IN LIEU,
IF THAT'S THE RIGHT WORD,
468
00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:11,155
OF A DEEP-SEATED
LONELINESS AND DEPRESSION.
469
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:17,456
HE HAS BECOME
THE LEGENDARY HEMINGWAY.
470
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:20,222
HE APPEARS TO HAVE
TURNED INTO A COMPOSITE
471
00:28:20,265 --> 00:28:22,325
OF ALL THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS...
472
00:28:22,367 --> 00:28:25,303
SUNBURNED FROM SNOWS, ON SKIS;
473
00:28:25,337 --> 00:28:29,274
IN FISHING GET-UP, BURNED DARK
FROM THE HOT CARIBBEAN;
474
00:28:29,308 --> 00:28:32,244
THE HANDSOME, STALWART HUNTER
CROUCHED SMILING
475
00:28:32,277 --> 00:28:35,907
OVER THE CARCASS OF
SOME DEAD BEAST.
476
00:28:35,948 --> 00:28:39,385
SUCH A MAN COULD NOT HAVE
WRITTEN HEMINGWAY'S EARLY BOOKS.
477
00:28:39,418 --> 00:28:42,820
IT IS HARD NOT TO WONDER
WHETHER HE HAS NOT, HUNTING,
478
00:28:42,854 --> 00:28:45,323
BROUGHT DOWN AN EVEN
GREATER VICTIM.
479
00:28:46,758 --> 00:28:47,782
"THE NEW REPUBLIC."
480
00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:56,377
NARRATIVE THAT IS EXCITING
AND STILL IS LITERATURE
481
00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:58,836
IS VERY RARE.
482
00:28:58,870 --> 00:29:02,830
YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE COUNTRY,
NOT DESCRIBE IT.
483
00:29:02,874 --> 00:29:06,038
IT IS AS HARD TO DO
AS PAINT A CEZANNE...
484
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,877
AND I'M THE ONLY BASTARD
RIGHT NOW WHO CAN DO IT.
485
00:29:10,983 --> 00:29:13,316
IN 1935,
HEMINGWAY PUBLISHED
486
00:29:13,352 --> 00:29:15,753
"GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA,"
487
00:29:15,787 --> 00:29:18,086
A NONFICTION ACCOUNT
OF HIS SAFARI,
488
00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:22,117
IN WHICH HE WAS AGAIN
THE CENTRAL CHARACTER.
489
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,061
THE BOOK IS
THE SUSPENSEFUL STORY
490
00:29:24,096 --> 00:29:27,760
OF HIS MONTH-LONG COMPETITION
WITH HIS HUNTING COMPANION
491
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:31,861
TO KILL THE GREATER KUDU
WITH THE LONGEST HORNS.
492
00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:35,406
I LOOKED AT HIM,
493
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,432
BIG, LONG-LEGGED,
494
00:29:37,476 --> 00:29:39,502
A SMOOTH GRAY WITH
THE WHITE STRIPES
495
00:29:39,544 --> 00:29:42,309
AND THE GREAT, CURLING,
SWEEPING HORNS,
496
00:29:42,347 --> 00:29:46,341
BROWN AS WALNUT MEATS,
AND IVORY POINTED,
497
00:29:46,385 --> 00:29:50,447
AT THE BIG EARS AND THE GREAT,
LOVELY, HEAVY-MANED NECK,
498
00:29:50,489 --> 00:29:52,958
THE WHITE CHEVRON
BETWEEN HIS EYES
499
00:29:52,991 --> 00:29:55,426
AND THE WHITE OF HIS MUZZLE,
500
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:57,326
AND I STOOPED OVER
AND TOUCHED HIM
501
00:29:57,362 --> 00:29:59,092
TO TRY TO BELIEVE IT.
502
00:30:00,966 --> 00:30:02,992
IN THE BOOK,
HE PORTRAYED HIMSELF AS BOTH
503
00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:07,473
AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING
AND A BAD LOSER.
504
00:30:07,506 --> 00:30:10,442
HE COMPLAINED ABOUT WHAT
HEEDLESS AMERICANS HAD DONE
505
00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:13,274
TO SPOIL THEIR OWN LANDSCAPE
506
00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:15,577
AND WAS ALSO GIVEN
TO PONTIFICATING
507
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:19,080
ON WHICH AMERICAN WRITERS
WERE WORTH READING.
508
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:23,448
"ALL MODERN AMERICAN
LITERATURE," HE DECLARED,
509
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:26,322
"COMES FROM ONE BOOK
BY MARK TWAIN
510
00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:28,953
CALLED "HUCKLEBERRY FINN.""
511
00:30:30,862 --> 00:30:33,559
HEMINGWAY WAS ESPECIALLY
PROUD OF HIS NEW BOOK.
512
00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:36,124
BUT IN IT, HE HAD CALLED CRITICS
513
00:30:36,168 --> 00:30:39,570
"THE LICE WHO CRAWL
ON LITERATURE."
514
00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:42,096
THE LICE BIT BACK.
515
00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:45,304
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN DISMISSED
THE BOOK IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
516
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:49,338
AS "ALL ATTITUDE,
ALL BYRONIC POSTURING."
517
00:30:49,381 --> 00:30:51,179
BERNARD DE VOTO CALLED IT
518
00:30:51,216 --> 00:30:54,618
"A PRETTY SMALL BOOK
FOR A BIG MAN TO WRITE."
519
00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,084
THE MOST DISAPPOINTING REVIEW
520
00:30:58,123 --> 00:30:59,250
CAME FROM AMERICA'S
521
00:30:59,291 --> 00:31:01,021
MOST ADMIRED CRITIC,
522
00:31:01,059 --> 00:31:02,391
EDMUND WILSON,
523
00:31:02,427 --> 00:31:04,953
AN EARLY CHAMPION
OF HEMINGWAY'S WORK,
524
00:31:04,996 --> 00:31:08,592
WHO WROTE, "SOMETHING FRIGHTFUL
SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO HEMINGWAY
525
00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:12,195
"AS SOON AS HE BEGINS TO WRITE
IN THE FIRST PERSON.
526
00:31:12,237 --> 00:31:16,038
"HE SEEMS TO LOSE ALL HIS
CAPACITY FOR SELF-CRITICISM
527
00:31:16,074 --> 00:31:18,441
AND HAS A WAY
OF SOUNDING SILLY."
528
00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:23,013
HEMINGWAY TOOK IT HARD.
529
00:31:23,048 --> 00:31:24,325
TOOK TO GETTING UP ABOUT
530
00:31:24,349 --> 00:31:26,648
TWO OR SO IN THE MORNING
531
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:29,218
AND GOING OUT TO
THE LITTLE HOUSE TO WORK.
532
00:31:30,922 --> 00:31:34,086
HAD NEVER HAD THE REAL OLD
MELANCHOLIA BEFORE
533
00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:39,087
AND AM GLAD TO HAVE HAD IT SO
I KNOW WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH.
534
00:31:39,131 --> 00:31:43,193
IT MAKES ME MORE TOLERANT OF
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FATHER.
535
00:31:44,669 --> 00:31:48,538
ERNEST AND PAULINE
HAD BEEN MOST HAPPY IN AFRICA,
536
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:53,637
BUT BACK HOME HE WAS GROWING
INCREASINGLY DISSATISFIED.
537
00:31:53,678 --> 00:31:57,240
HE WAS GRATEFUL FOR
THE PFEIFFER FAMILY'S GENEROSITY
538
00:31:57,282 --> 00:32:01,344
BUT HE ALSO FOUND HIS FREQUENT
RELIANCE ON IT DEMEANING.
539
00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:06,957
AND HE HAD SECRETLY BEGUN
TO WEARY OF PAULINE, TOO.
540
00:32:09,194 --> 00:32:10,538
"GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA"
MAY NOT HAVE BEEN
541
00:32:10,562 --> 00:32:13,532
A CRITICAL OR
COMMERCIAL SUCCESS,
542
00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:16,558
BUT HIS TIME IN AFRICA
WOULD ALSO INSPIRE
543
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:19,571
TWO OF HIS
BEST-REMEMBERED SHORT STORIES,
544
00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:23,939
EACH OF WHICH CHARTS THE
DISINTEGRATION OF A MARRIAGE.
545
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,972
THE FIRST STORY,
PUBLISHED IN "COSMOPOLITAN,"
546
00:32:30,015 --> 00:32:34,043
WAS "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE
OF FRANCIS MACOMBER."
547
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:39,023
FRANCIS AND MARGOT MACOMBER
ARE WEALTHY AMERICANS ON SAFARI.
548
00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:43,495
"THEY HAD A SOUND BASIS OF
UNION," HEMINGWAY WROTE.
549
00:32:43,528 --> 00:32:47,056
"MARGOT WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL
FOR MACOMBER TO DIVORCE
550
00:32:47,098 --> 00:32:51,729
AND MACOMBER HAD TOO MUCH MONEY
FOR MARGOT EVER TO LEAVE HIM."
551
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:56,066
BUT HER HUSBAND'S MONEY HAD NOT
KEPT HER FAITHFUL TO HIM
552
00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:59,600
AND WHEN HE PANICS WHEN FACED
WITH A CHARGING LION,
553
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:02,011
SHE DENOUNCES HIM AS A COWARD...
554
00:33:02,047 --> 00:33:03,606
AND SLEEPS WITH THEIR GUIDE,
555
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,379
THE WHITE HUNTER ROBERT WILSON.
556
00:33:09,454 --> 00:33:10,965
HE REALIZED THAT HIS WIFE
557
00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:13,424
WAS NOT IN THE OTHER COT
IN THE TENT.
558
00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:16,292
HE LAY AWAKE WITH THAT
KNOWLEDGE FOR TWO HOURS.
559
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:20,625
AT THE END OF THAT TIME,
HIS WIFE CAME INTO THE TENT,
560
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:24,602
LIFTED HER MOSQUITO BAR,
AND CRAWLED COZILY INTO BED.
561
00:33:26,037 --> 00:33:29,530
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
MACOMBER ASKED IN THE DARKNESS.
562
00:33:29,574 --> 00:33:33,568
"HELLO," SHE SAID.
"ARE YOU AWAKE?"
563
00:33:33,612 --> 00:33:35,205
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
564
00:33:36,715 --> 00:33:39,275
"I JUST WENT OUT
TO GET A BREATH OF AIR."
565
00:33:39,317 --> 00:33:40,785
"YOU DID, LIKE HELL."
566
00:33:42,554 --> 00:33:45,251
"WHAT DO YOU WANT ME
TO SAY, DARLING?"
567
00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:47,054
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
568
00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:50,257
"OUT TO GET A BREATH OF AIR."
569
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:56,190
"THAT'S A NEW NAME FOR IT.
YOU ARE A BITCH."
570
00:33:57,636 --> 00:33:59,298
"WELL, YOU'RE A COWARD."
571
00:34:03,775 --> 00:34:05,520
THE MAN STARTS OFF
AS BEING PORTRAYED
572
00:34:05,544 --> 00:34:09,242
AS A SHAMELESS COWARD
BUT FRANKLY,
573
00:34:09,281 --> 00:34:11,250
WHICH OF US WOULDN'T
TAKE OFF RUNNING
574
00:34:11,283 --> 00:34:13,718
WHEN YOU SEE A LION
COMING CHARGING AT YOU?
575
00:34:13,752 --> 00:34:15,414
I MEAN, EVEN IF I HAD
A GUN IN MY HAND,
576
00:34:15,453 --> 00:34:17,445
I THINK I WOULD, IT WOULD TAKE
577
00:34:17,489 --> 00:34:19,424
AN EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF WILL
578
00:34:19,457 --> 00:34:21,722
TO STAND THERE
AND SHOOT THIS LION.
579
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,162
AND YET HE'S PORTRAYED
AS THIS SHAMELESS COWARD
580
00:34:25,196 --> 00:34:26,641
AND YOU WONDER HOW
THE STORY'S GOING TO END
581
00:34:26,665 --> 00:34:30,102
AND YOU ACTUALLY FEEL FOR HIM,
582
00:34:30,135 --> 00:34:32,832
AND THEN HE'S ALSO
BEING BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.
583
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:37,268
AND, CERTAINLY,
THE WOMAN IN THAT STORY
584
00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:39,210
COMES OUT AS A MONSTER.
585
00:34:40,445 --> 00:34:42,243
HEMINGWAY KNEW A LOT
OF WOMEN LIKE THAT;
586
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,181
THERE ARE A LOT OF
WOMEN LIKE THAT.
587
00:34:44,215 --> 00:34:46,548
THERE ARE A LOT
OF MEN LIKE THAT.
588
00:34:46,585 --> 00:34:49,077
THERE'S NOTHING I WOULD CHANGE
IN THAT STORY
589
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,282
BECAUSE HE KNEW
WHEN TO PULL BACK.
590
00:34:51,323 --> 00:34:53,690
HE KNEW HOW MUCH
OF HER FALSENESS,
591
00:34:53,725 --> 00:34:57,662
HOW MUCH OF HER ACIDITY
TO PUT ON THE PAGE.
592
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:00,598
IT'S A VERY BITTER STORY.
593
00:35:02,267 --> 00:35:03,844
BUT AT THE END
OF THE STORY, HE FINDS
594
00:35:03,868 --> 00:35:06,770
A DIFFERENT KIND OF COURAGE.
595
00:35:06,805 --> 00:35:09,570
IT HAS TO DO WITH
STANDING UP TO HIS WIFE.
596
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:12,510
AND IT TERRIFIES HER.
597
00:35:12,544 --> 00:35:16,606
THE NEXT DAY, WHEN
A WOUNDED BUFFALO CHARGES HIM,
598
00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:19,345
MACOMBER STANDS HIS GROUND.
599
00:35:20,752 --> 00:35:22,345
WILSON, WHO WAS AHEAD,
600
00:35:22,387 --> 00:35:24,356
WAS KNEELING SHOOTING,
601
00:35:24,389 --> 00:35:26,324
AND MACOMBER, AS HE FIRED,
602
00:35:26,358 --> 00:35:29,692
UNHEARING HIS SHOT IN
THE ROARING OF WILSON'S GUN,
603
00:35:29,728 --> 00:35:34,894
SAW FRAGMENTS LIKE SLATE BURST
FROM THE HUGE BOSS OF THE HORNS,
604
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,900
AND THE HEAD JERKED, HE SHOT
AGAIN AT THE WIDE NOSTRILS
605
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:43,268
AND SAW THE HORNS JOLT AGAIN
AND FRAGMENTS FLY,
606
00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:46,745
AND HE DID NOT SEE WILSON NOW
AND, AIMING CAREFULLY,
607
00:35:46,778 --> 00:35:50,146
SHOT AGAIN WITH THE BUFFALO'S
HUGE BULK ALMOST ON HIM
608
00:35:50,181 --> 00:35:55,620
AND HIS RIFLE ALMOST LEVEL WITH
THE ON-COMING HEAD, NOSE OUT,
609
00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:57,646
AND HE COULD SEE
THE LITTLE WICKED EYES
610
00:35:57,689 --> 00:36:02,559
AND THE HEAD STARTED TO LOWER
AND HE FELT A SUDDEN WHITE-HOT,
611
00:36:02,594 --> 00:36:06,463
BLINDING FLASH EXPLODE
INSIDE HIS HEAD...
612
00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:10,699
AND THAT WAS ALL HE EVER FELT.
613
00:36:13,471 --> 00:36:15,440
HIS WIFE HAS SHOT HIM.
614
00:36:15,473 --> 00:36:17,499
SHE SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
615
00:36:18,810 --> 00:36:21,473
I'M A BIG BELIEVER
THAT, YOU KNOW,
616
00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:23,641
THE PROCESS OF READING FICTION
AS THE WRITER
617
00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:25,947
PROVIDES YOU SOME OF THE WORDS,
618
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:27,777
BUT YOU PROVIDE
YOUR IMAGINATION.
619
00:36:27,819 --> 00:36:30,653
AND THE GREAT PLEASURE IS THAT
YOU'RE MAKING THIS MOVIE
620
00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:33,625
AND... AH... IT'S ALWAYS STRIKING
HOW DIFFERENT
621
00:36:33,658 --> 00:36:36,321
OUR MOVIES ARE
AS READERS... AH... SO,
622
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:38,330
IN MY MIND, THERE'S NO QUESTION
623
00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:39,888
THAT SHE BLEW HIS HEAD OFF.
624
00:36:39,931 --> 00:36:42,332
I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
625
00:36:45,437 --> 00:36:47,565
THE SECOND OF
HIS AFRICAN SHORT STORIES,
626
00:36:47,605 --> 00:36:51,542
PUBLISHED IN "ESQUIRE,"
WAS A MASTERPIECE.
627
00:36:51,576 --> 00:36:54,444
IN "THE SNOWS OF
KILIMANJARO," THE ROLES OF
628
00:36:54,479 --> 00:36:57,347
HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE REVERSED.
629
00:36:58,717 --> 00:37:02,848
THE PROTAGONIST IS HARRY WALDEN,
A WRITER ON SAFARI,
630
00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:06,551
DYING OF GANGRENE IN HIS TENT.
631
00:37:06,591 --> 00:37:08,890
AS HE DRIFTS IN AND OUT
OF CONSCIOUSNESS,
632
00:37:08,927 --> 00:37:11,362
HE TALKS WITH HIS WEALTHY WIFE,
633
00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:14,525
WHOSE FORTUNE SUPPORTS THEM
AND WHO LOVES HIM,
634
00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:17,900
BUT WHOM HE SECRETLY
NO LONGER LOVES.
635
00:37:17,936 --> 00:37:20,770
HE MUSES ABOUT THE EVENTS
HE HAS LIVED THROUGH
636
00:37:20,805 --> 00:37:23,570
BUT FAILED TO WRITE ABOUT,
637
00:37:23,608 --> 00:37:27,704
AND NOW, WILL NOT LIVE
TO TURN INTO FICTION.
638
00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,580
AT FIRST, HE BLAMES HIS WIFE.
639
00:37:32,317 --> 00:37:33,683
NONSENSE.
640
00:37:33,718 --> 00:37:36,449
HE HAD DESTROYED
HIS TALENT HIMSELF.
641
00:37:36,488 --> 00:37:40,016
WHY SHOULD HE BLAME THIS WOMAN
BECAUSE SHE KEPT HIM WELL?
642
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:43,387
HE HAD DESTROYED HIS TALENT
BY NOT USING IT,
643
00:37:43,428 --> 00:37:47,866
BY BETRAYALS OF HIMSELF
AND WHAT HE BELIEVED IN,
644
00:37:47,899 --> 00:37:49,765
BY DRINKING SO MUCH
THAT HE BLUNTED
645
00:37:49,801 --> 00:37:54,398
THE EDGE OF HIS PERCEPTIONS,
BY LAZINESS,
646
00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:57,375
BY SLOTH, AND BY SNOBBERY.
647
00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:01,578
HE HAD SEEN THE WORLD CHANGE.
648
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:03,844
HE HAD BEEN IN IT
AND HE HAD WATCHED IT
649
00:38:03,882 --> 00:38:06,784
AND IT WAS HIS DUTY
TO WRITE OF IT;
650
00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:08,616
BUT NOW HE NEVER WOULD.
651
00:38:11,723 --> 00:38:13,954
"THE SNOWS
OF KILIMANJARO" IS AMONG
652
00:38:13,992 --> 00:38:17,360
MY FAVORITE STORIES OF
HEMINGWAY, MAYBE MY FAVORITE.
653
00:38:17,395 --> 00:38:20,331
IT DEALS WITH WHAT WE'RE ALL
GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH,
654
00:38:20,365 --> 00:38:23,563
WHICH IS OUR OWN DEATHS.
AND, THROUGHOUT IT,
655
00:38:23,601 --> 00:38:27,333
HE'S REVIEWING HIS LIFE.
656
00:38:27,372 --> 00:38:30,342
MUCH AS I NOW, IN MY OLD AGE,
657
00:38:30,375 --> 00:38:32,037
MORE AND MORE
AT TWO IN THE MORNING,
658
00:38:32,076 --> 00:38:34,341
REVIEW MY OWN LIFE.
659
00:38:34,379 --> 00:38:36,439
SOMETIMES, FULL OF SELF-HATRED
660
00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:38,609
AND SOMETIMES, FULL OF JOY.
661
00:38:40,418 --> 00:38:44,947
MOST OFTEN, FILLED WITH
DOUBT OF, UH,
662
00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:48,050
WHAT, WHAT COULD I
HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY?
663
00:38:50,061 --> 00:38:52,053
JUST THEN, DEATH HAD COME
664
00:38:52,096 --> 00:38:54,827
AND RESTED ITS HEAD
ON THE FOOT OF THE COT
665
00:38:54,866 --> 00:38:56,664
AND HE COULD SMELL ITS BREATH.
666
00:38:58,403 --> 00:39:00,099
IT MOVED UP CLOSER TO HIM STILL
667
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:02,864
AND NOW HE COULD NOT
SPEAK TO IT,
668
00:39:02,907 --> 00:39:07,345
AND WHEN IT SAW HE COULD NOT
SPEAK IT CAME A LITTLE CLOSER,
669
00:39:07,378 --> 00:39:10,473
AND NOW HE TRIED TO SEND IT
AWAY WITHOUT SPEAKING,
670
00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:15,818
BUT IT MOVED IN ON HIM SO ITS
WEIGHT WAS ALL UPON HIS CHEST,
671
00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:20,417
AND WHILE IT CROUCHED THERE
AND HE COULD NOT MOVE, OR SPEAK,
672
00:39:20,458 --> 00:39:24,691
HE HEARD THE WOMAN SAY,
"BWANA IS ASLEEP NOW.
673
00:39:24,729 --> 00:39:28,496
TAKE THE COT UP VERY GENTLY
AND CARRY IT INTO THE TENT."
674
00:39:30,068 --> 00:39:33,129
HE COULD NOT SPEAK TO TELL HER
TO MAKE IT GO AWAY
675
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:37,832
AND IT CROUCHED NOW, HEAVIER,
SO HE COULD NOT BREATHE.
676
00:39:39,944 --> 00:39:42,937
AND THEN, WHILE
THEY LIFTED THE COT,
677
00:39:42,981 --> 00:39:44,847
SUDDENLY IT WAS ALL RIGHT
678
00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:47,409
AND THE WEIGHT WENT
FROM HIS CHEST.
679
00:39:54,959 --> 00:39:56,621
♪ MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS ♪
680
00:39:56,661 --> 00:39:58,687
♪ ARE STRANDED ON THIS ROAD ♪
681
00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:03,896
♪ A HOT AND DUSTY ROAD THAT
A MILLION FEET HAVE TROD ♪
682
00:40:03,935 --> 00:40:07,667
♪ RICH MAN TOOK MY HOME
AND DROVE ME FROM MY DOOR ♪
683
00:40:07,705 --> 00:40:14,407
♪ AND I AIN'T GOT NO HOME
IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ♪
684
00:40:14,445 --> 00:40:16,846
THE DEPRESSION
HAD CONTINUED TO DEEPEN
685
00:40:16,881 --> 00:40:19,544
AND A NEW GENERATION
OF SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS
686
00:40:19,584 --> 00:40:23,988
LEFTIST WRITERS AND CRITICS
NOW DENOUNCED HEMINGWAY.
687
00:40:25,456 --> 00:40:27,687
RATHER THAN FRITTER AWAY
HIS TIME WRITING ABOUT
688
00:40:27,725 --> 00:40:29,489
DRUNKEN EXPATRIATES
689
00:40:29,527 --> 00:40:32,429
AND DISILLUSIONED SURVIVORS
OF THE GREAT WAR,
690
00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:34,830
ABOUT BULLFIGHTS
AND BIG-GAME HUNTING
691
00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:36,801
AND DEEP-SEA FISHING,
692
00:40:36,834 --> 00:40:39,599
THEY INSISTED IT WAS
HIS DUTY AS AN ARTIST
693
00:40:39,637 --> 00:40:43,506
TO DECLARE HIS SOLIDARITY
WITH THE WORKING CLASS.
694
00:40:44,609 --> 00:40:46,703
GRANVILLE HICKS,
EDITOR OF THE COMMUNIST
695
00:40:46,744 --> 00:40:49,213
"NEW MASSES" MAGAZINE,"
DECLARED,
696
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,542
"IN 6 YEARS, HEMINGWAY HAS NOT
PRODUCED A BOOK
697
00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:55,610
EVEN REMOTELY WORTHY
OF HIS TALENTS."
698
00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:58,618
HEMINGWAY WAS UNMOVED.
699
00:40:58,656 --> 00:41:01,990
"THERE IS NO LEFT OR RIGHT
IN WRITING," HE SAID.
700
00:41:02,026 --> 00:41:05,224
"THERE IS ONLY
GOOD AND BAD WRITING."
701
00:41:06,864 --> 00:41:08,842
EVERYONE
TRIES TO FRIGHTEN YOU NOW
702
00:41:08,866 --> 00:41:12,234
BY SAYING OR WRITING THAT IF
ONE DOES NOT BECOME A COMMUNIST
703
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,564
OR HAVE A MARXIAN VIEWPOINT,
704
00:41:14,605 --> 00:41:17,871
ONE WILL HAVE NO FRIENDS
AND WILL BE ALONE.
705
00:41:17,909 --> 00:41:21,505
THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT TO BE
ALONE IS SOMETHING DREADFUL;
706
00:41:21,546 --> 00:41:24,778
OR THAT TO NOT HAVE FRIENDS
IS TO BE FEARED.
707
00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:27,047
I WOULD RATHER HAVE
ONE HONEST ENEMY
708
00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:30,078
THAN MOST OF THE FRIENDS
THAT I HAVE KNOWN.
709
00:41:30,121 --> 00:41:31,817
I CANNOT BE A COMMUNIST NOW
710
00:41:31,856 --> 00:41:35,793
BECAUSE I BELIEVE
IN ONLY ONE THING: LIBERTY.
711
00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:39,127
FIRST I WOULD LOOK AFTER MYSELF
AND DO MY WORK.
712
00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:41,655
THEN I WOULD CARE
FOR MY FAMILY.
713
00:41:41,699 --> 00:41:44,032
THEN I WOULD HELP MY NEIGHBOR.
714
00:41:44,068 --> 00:41:46,799
BUT THE STATE I CARE
NOTHING FOR.
715
00:41:46,838 --> 00:41:51,173
ALL THE STATE HAS EVER MEANT
TO ME IS UNJUST TAXATION.
716
00:41:51,209 --> 00:41:54,805
I BELIEVE IN THE ABSOLUTE
MINIMUM OF GOVERNMENT.
717
00:41:57,949 --> 00:42:01,716
ON LABOR DAY 1935,
ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE
718
00:42:01,753 --> 00:42:05,713
HURRICANES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIT FLORIDA
719
00:42:05,757 --> 00:42:10,991
WITH WINDS SAID TO HAVE GUSTED
AT MORE THAN 185 MILES PER HOUR.
720
00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:16,127
AN 18-FOOT STORM SURGE DROWNED
ISLAND AFTER ISLAND.
721
00:42:19,604 --> 00:42:21,800
MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE DIED...
722
00:42:21,839 --> 00:42:26,675
AMONG THEM 259 HOMELESS
VETERANS OF THE GREAT WAR
723
00:42:26,711 --> 00:42:29,806
WHO HAD BEEN SENT SOUTH BY
THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION
724
00:42:29,847 --> 00:42:33,716
TO BUILD HIGHWAY BRIDGES
TO BRING STILL MORE VISITORS
725
00:42:33,751 --> 00:42:35,652
TO THE FLORIDA KEYS.
726
00:42:37,021 --> 00:42:38,832
SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN
DRINKING BUDDIES WITH WHOM
727
00:42:38,856 --> 00:42:43,624
HEMINGWAY HAD SWAPPED
WAR STORIES AT SLOPPY JOE'S.
728
00:42:43,661 --> 00:42:47,928
TWO DAYS LATER, HE SAILED NORTH
TO WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR CAMP
729
00:42:47,965 --> 00:42:52,960
AND JOINED SOME 200 VOLUNTEERS
GATHERING UP THE DEAD.
730
00:42:53,004 --> 00:42:54,939
HE BROUGHT A CAMERA.
731
00:42:56,874 --> 00:42:58,619
YOU COULD FIND THEM FACE DOWN
732
00:42:58,643 --> 00:43:01,909
AND FACE UP IN THE MANGROVES.
733
00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:04,245
THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF THE DEAD
WERE IN THE TANGLED,
734
00:43:04,282 --> 00:43:06,842
ALWAYS GREEN BUT
NOW BROWN, MANGROVES
735
00:43:06,884 --> 00:43:09,581
BEHIND THE TANK CARS
AND THE WATER TOWERS.
736
00:43:10,755 --> 00:43:14,317
THEY HUNG ON THERE, IN SHELTER,
737
00:43:14,358 --> 00:43:18,591
UNTIL THE WIND AND THE RISING
WATER CARRIED THEM AWAY.
738
00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:20,928
THEY DIDN'T ALL LET GO AT ONCE
739
00:43:20,965 --> 00:43:24,094
BUT ONLY WHEN THEY COULD
HOLD ON NO LONGER.
740
00:43:24,135 --> 00:43:26,346
THEN FURTHER ON, YOU FOUND THEM
741
00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:29,898
HIGH IN THE TREES WHERE
THE WATER HAD SWEPT THEM.
742
00:43:29,941 --> 00:43:34,037
YOU FOUND THEM EVERYWHERE
AND IN THE SUN,
743
00:43:34,078 --> 00:43:35,637
ALL OF THEM WERE BEGINNING TO BE
744
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,206
TOO BIG FOR THEIR
BLUE JEANS AND JACKETS
745
00:43:38,249 --> 00:43:41,048
THAT THEY COULD NEVER FILL
WHEN THEY WERE
746
00:43:41,085 --> 00:43:42,917
ON THE BUM AND HUNGRY.
747
00:43:45,690 --> 00:43:48,182
HEMINGWAY WAS
SO ANGERED AT WHAT HE'D SEEN
748
00:43:48,226 --> 00:43:49,990
THAT DESPITE THE SCORN
749
00:43:50,027 --> 00:43:52,292
"NEW MASSES" HAD SHOWN
TOWARD HIM,
750
00:43:52,330 --> 00:43:54,799
WHEN ITS EDITOR ASKED HIM
TO WRITE ABOUT IT,
751
00:43:54,832 --> 00:43:57,063
HE AGREED TO DO IT.
752
00:43:57,101 --> 00:44:01,004
HE HELD THE ROOSEVELT
ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBLE.
753
00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:05,266
I WOULD LIKE
TO MAKE WHOEVER SENT THEM THERE
754
00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:08,074
CARRY JUST ONE OUT
THROUGH THE MANGROVES,
755
00:44:08,112 --> 00:44:11,981
OR TURN ONE OVER THAT LAY
IN THE SUN ALONG THE FILL,
756
00:44:12,016 --> 00:44:15,145
OR TIE 5 TOGETHER
SO THEY WON'T FLOAT OUT,
757
00:44:15,186 --> 00:44:16,779
OR SMELL THAT SMELL YOU THOUGHT
758
00:44:16,821 --> 00:44:19,950
YOU'D NEVER SMELL AGAIN,
WITH LUCK.
759
00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:24,057
LEFTIST WRITERS
NOW PRAISED HEMINGWAY'S
760
00:44:24,095 --> 00:44:27,190
NEW-FOUND EMPATHY
FOR THE PROLETARIAT:
761
00:44:27,231 --> 00:44:30,998
LINCOLN STEFFENS CONGRATULATED
HIM FOR AT LAST CHOOSING
762
00:44:31,035 --> 00:44:35,302
TO WRITE FOR "THE REAL PEOPLE
OF THE REAL PUBLICATIONS."
763
00:45:03,467 --> 00:45:05,095
SOME MADE THE LONG DROP
764
00:45:05,136 --> 00:45:07,196
FROM THE APARTMENT
OR THE OFFICE WINDOW;
765
00:45:08,806 --> 00:45:11,173
SOME TOOK IT QUIETLY
IN TWO-CAR GARAGES
766
00:45:11,209 --> 00:45:12,734
WITH THE MOTOR RUNNING;
767
00:45:15,046 --> 00:45:16,223
SOME USED THE NATIVE TRADITION
768
00:45:16,247 --> 00:45:19,411
OF THE COLT OR SMITH AND WESSON;
769
00:45:19,450 --> 00:45:23,251
THOSE WELL-CONSTRUCTED
IMPLEMENTS THAT END INSOMNIA,
770
00:45:23,287 --> 00:45:28,885
TERMINATE REMORSE, CURE CANCER,
AVOID BANKRUPTCY,
771
00:45:28,926 --> 00:45:31,828
AND BLAST AN EXIT FROM
INTOLERABLE POSITIONS
772
00:45:31,862 --> 00:45:33,490
BY THE PRESSURE OF A FINGER;
773
00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:38,296
THOSE ADMIRABLE
AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS
774
00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:43,206
SO EASILY CARRIED,
SO SURE OF EFFECT,
775
00:45:43,241 --> 00:45:45,836
SO WELL DESIGNED TO END
THE AMERICAN DREAM
776
00:45:45,876 --> 00:45:49,074
WHEN IT BECOMES A NIGHTMARE,
777
00:45:49,113 --> 00:45:52,777
THEIR ONLY DRAWBACK
THE MESS THEY LEAVE
778
00:45:52,817 --> 00:45:54,843
FOR RELATIVES TO CLEAN UP.
779
00:45:57,888 --> 00:46:00,000
FEELING THE PRESSURE
TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING
780
00:46:00,024 --> 00:46:04,223
AFTER THE COMMERCIAL FAILURE
OF HIS NONFICTION,
781
00:46:04,262 --> 00:46:06,390
HEMINGWAY TRIED TO
COBBLE TOGETHER A NOVEL
782
00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:10,265
OUT OF TWO SHORT STORIES
AND SOME NEW MATERIAL.
783
00:46:10,301 --> 00:46:13,066
THE RESULT WAS
A TANGLED MELODRAMA ABOUT
784
00:46:13,104 --> 00:46:15,164
DOWN-ON-THEIR-LUCK AMERICANS...
785
00:46:15,206 --> 00:46:17,766
HIS VERSION OF
A PROLETARIAN NOVEL,
786
00:46:17,808 --> 00:46:20,972
CALLED "TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT."
787
00:46:22,813 --> 00:46:24,372
THE CRITICS DIDN'T LIKE IT.
788
00:46:24,415 --> 00:46:26,281
AND IN THE END, HEMINGWAY
789
00:46:26,317 --> 00:46:28,286
DIDN'T MUCH LIKE IT EITHER.
790
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:20,335
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
UNDERSTOOD THE DANGERS
OF FASCISM
791
00:47:20,371 --> 00:47:23,239
AND BELIEVED ADOLF HITLER
WOULD ONE DAY LAUNCH
792
00:47:23,274 --> 00:47:26,210
A EUROPEAN WAR OF CONQUEST.
793
00:47:26,243 --> 00:47:28,906
BUT, AS A DISENCHANTED SURVIVOR
OF THE WAR
794
00:47:28,946 --> 00:47:31,279
THAT HAD BEEN SUPPOSED
TO END ALL WARS,
795
00:47:31,315 --> 00:47:33,307
HE TOLD "ESQUIRE" READERS,
796
00:47:33,351 --> 00:47:35,081
AMERICANS SHOULD TAKE
NO PART IN IT.
797
00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:40,450
"OF THE HELL-BROTH THAT IS
BREWING IN EUROPE
798
00:47:40,491 --> 00:47:42,983
WE HAVE NO NEED
TO DRINK," HE WROTE.
799
00:47:43,027 --> 00:47:46,259
"WE WERE FOOLS TO BE SUCKED IN
ONCE ON A EUROPEAN WAR
800
00:47:46,297 --> 00:47:50,132
AND WE SHOULD NEVER
BE SUCKED IN AGAIN."
801
00:47:56,173 --> 00:47:58,472
BUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING
IN HIS BELOVED SPAIN
802
00:47:58,509 --> 00:48:01,035
WAS BEGINNING TO
CHANGE HIS MIND.
803
00:48:02,413 --> 00:48:06,214
IT WAS NOW BEING TORN APART
BY A CIVIL WAR.
804
00:48:08,986 --> 00:48:13,321
EARLY IN 1936, REACTIONARY
ELEMENTS OF THE ARMY,
805
00:48:13,357 --> 00:48:17,658
EVENTUALLY LED BY A FASCIST
GENERAL NAMED FRANCISCO FRANCO
806
00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:20,364
AND SUPPORTED BY
WEALTHY INDUSTRIALISTS,
807
00:48:20,398 --> 00:48:23,425
GREAT LANDOWNERS,
AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
808
00:48:23,467 --> 00:48:26,096
JOINED FORCES TO TRY
TO OVERTHROW
809
00:48:26,137 --> 00:48:29,505
THE DULY ELECTED
SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT.
810
00:48:31,409 --> 00:48:33,640
HITLER PROVIDED
FRANCO AND HIS REBELS
811
00:48:33,677 --> 00:48:35,578
WITH BOMBERS AND FIGHTER PLANES
812
00:48:35,613 --> 00:48:39,175
AND GERMAN PILOTS TO FLY THEM.
813
00:48:39,216 --> 00:48:42,448
THEIR GOAL WAS TO TERRORIZE
THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.
814
00:48:44,021 --> 00:48:46,422
THE ITALIAN DICTATOR,
BENITO MUSSOLINI,
815
00:48:46,457 --> 00:48:51,589
DISPATCHED TANKS
AND NEARLY 80,000 TROOPS.
816
00:48:51,629 --> 00:48:56,329
WITHIN WEEKS, FRANCO'S FORCES
HAD SEIZED 1/3 OF THE COUNTRY
817
00:48:56,367 --> 00:49:01,067
FROM THOSE FAITHFUL TO
THE GOVERNMENT... THE LOYALISTS.
818
00:49:02,473 --> 00:49:07,275
THE LOYALISTS' ONLY ALLY WAS
SOVIET PREMIER JOSEF STALIN,
819
00:49:07,311 --> 00:49:12,079
WHO WAS EAGER TO BE SEEN AS
THE LEADER OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT.
820
00:49:12,116 --> 00:49:15,052
HE CALLED UPON COMMUNISTS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
821
00:49:15,085 --> 00:49:18,112
TO RALLY VOLUNTEER BRIGADES.
822
00:49:18,155 --> 00:49:22,115
BETWEEN 30,000 AND 40,000 MEN
FROM MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES
823
00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:27,188
WOULD ANSWER THE CALL... INCLUDING
SOME 2,800 AMERICANS
824
00:49:27,231 --> 00:49:31,327
WHO CALLED THEIR OUTFIT
THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE.
825
00:49:34,205 --> 00:49:37,232
HEMINGWAY WAS CERTAIN
THAT SPAIN WAS THE PLACE
826
00:49:37,274 --> 00:49:40,210
WHERE FASCISM HAD TO BE STOPPED.
827
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,115
HE SAID TO A FRIEND
IN KEY WEST,
828
00:49:45,149 --> 00:49:47,311
"I'VE GOT THIS GREAT HOUSE,
I'VE GOT THIS BOAT,
829
00:49:47,351 --> 00:49:49,650
"BUT THEY ALL REALLY COME
FROM PAULINE.
830
00:49:49,687 --> 00:49:53,283
"EXCEPT FOR THAT,
I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING."
831
00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:56,123
SO, IN ORDER TO HAVE
SOMETHING NEW TO WRITE,
832
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,600
HE HAD TO HAVE
SOMETHING NEW TO LIVE.
833
00:49:59,463 --> 00:50:00,988
AT THIS JUNCTION IN HIS LIFE,
834
00:50:01,031 --> 00:50:02,108
HEMINGWAY IS LOOKING DESPERATELY
835
00:50:02,132 --> 00:50:03,725
FOR THIS FRESH START.
836
00:50:03,767 --> 00:50:07,602
AND HE THINKS HE WILL
FIND IT IN SPAIN.
837
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,134
"FOR A LONG TIME,"
HEMINGWAY WROTE,
838
00:50:12,176 --> 00:50:17,114
"ME AND MY CONSCIENCE BOTH HAVE
KNOWN I HAVE TO GO TO SPAIN."
839
00:50:21,652 --> 00:50:24,679
JANUARY 8, 1937.
840
00:50:24,722 --> 00:50:26,281
DEAR MRS. ROOSEVELT,
841
00:50:26,323 --> 00:50:28,053
I'M IN KEY WEST.
842
00:50:29,460 --> 00:50:32,294
TO DATE IT'S THE BEST THING
I'VE FOUND IN AMERICA.
843
00:50:32,329 --> 00:50:37,233
IT'S HOT AND FALLING TO PIECES
AND PEOPLE SEEM HAPPY.
844
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:42,165
I SEE HEMINGWAY HERE,
WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT
845
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:45,108
WRITING DIALOGUE, I THINK,
THAN ANYONE WRITING IN ENGLISH.
846
00:50:46,477 --> 00:50:50,812
HE'S AN ODD BIRD,
VERY LOVABLE AND FULL OF FIRE
847
00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:53,517
AND A MARVELOUS STORY TELLER.
848
00:50:53,551 --> 00:50:55,782
IN A WRITER THIS IS IMAGINATION,
849
00:50:55,819 --> 00:50:58,220
IN ANYONE ELSE IT'S LYING.
850
00:50:58,255 --> 00:51:00,554
THAT'S WHERE GENIUS COMES IN.
851
00:51:05,229 --> 00:51:07,391
WHEN THE WRITER
MARTHA GELLHORN,
852
00:51:07,431 --> 00:51:10,196
A FAMILY FRIEND OF
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
853
00:51:10,234 --> 00:51:11,759
INTRODUCED HERSELF
TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY
854
00:51:11,802 --> 00:51:16,831
AT THE BAR IN SLOPPY JOE'S
IN DECEMBER OF 1936,
855
00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:21,170
SHE WAS 28 YEARS OLD,
9 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HE.
856
00:51:22,546 --> 00:51:24,691
SHE HAS LONG LEGS.
SHE LOOKS VERY BEAUTIFUL.
857
00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:29,449
AND SHE, TOO, HAS
A CHARISMATIC PERSONALITY.
858
00:51:29,486 --> 00:51:31,598
HE WAS INTERESTED IN PEOPLE
WHO WERE INTERESTED IN HIM
859
00:51:31,622 --> 00:51:35,252
AND THEY JUST HIT IT OFF.
860
00:51:35,292 --> 00:51:38,785
MARTHA WAS
A REALLY TOUGH COOKIE.
861
00:51:38,829 --> 00:51:41,492
AND MARTHA, UM, WAS
A VERY GOOD WRITER
862
00:51:41,532 --> 00:51:43,262
AND SHE KNEW, UM, SHE HAD
863
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:45,496
VERY GOOD CONNECTIONS
AND SO FORTH.
864
00:51:45,536 --> 00:51:48,165
AND SHE WENT TO SLOPPY JOE'S,
865
00:51:48,205 --> 00:51:50,834
WHICH SHE KNOWS THAT
HEMINGWAY HANGS OUT AT.
866
00:51:50,874 --> 00:51:52,740
IT'S A DISGUSTING BAR.
867
00:51:52,776 --> 00:51:55,155
YOU WOULDN'T TAKE YOUR MOTHER
AND YOUR BROTHER THERE,
868
00:51:55,179 --> 00:51:57,148
BUT SHE DOES.
869
00:51:57,181 --> 00:51:59,548
AND, MEANWHILE,
SHE'S WEARING A BLACK DRESS.
870
00:51:59,583 --> 00:52:01,711
SHE'S A BLOND.
871
00:52:01,752 --> 00:52:05,245
AND THE MARRIAGE
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE.
872
00:52:06,657 --> 00:52:08,250
GELLHORN
HAD ADMIRED HEMINGWAY
873
00:52:08,292 --> 00:52:11,353
SINCE HER COLLEGE DAYS
AT BRYN MAWR,
874
00:52:11,395 --> 00:52:12,727
WHEN SHE'D HUNG HIS PHOTOGRAPH
875
00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:16,325
ON THE WALL OF
HER DORMITORY ROOM.
876
00:52:16,367 --> 00:52:19,531
SHE'D PUBLISHED A BOOK OF
SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE POOR
877
00:52:19,570 --> 00:52:23,530
BASED ON INTERVIEWS SHE'D DONE
FOR A NEW DEAL AGENCY,
878
00:52:23,574 --> 00:52:25,702
AND A NOVEL.
879
00:52:25,743 --> 00:52:29,407
SHE HAD HAD AT LEAST
TWO MARRIED LOVERS.
880
00:52:29,446 --> 00:52:30,824
MARTHA GELLHORN
HAD WRITTEN A NOVEL
881
00:52:30,848 --> 00:52:32,714
WHICH HAD BEEN
QUITE WELL RECEIVED...
882
00:52:32,750 --> 00:52:35,276
AH... ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN
COMING OF AGE
883
00:52:35,319 --> 00:52:38,187
SEXUALLY AS WELL
AS PROFESSIONALLY.
884
00:52:38,222 --> 00:52:40,748
ALL OF
THE REVIEWERS ACKNOWLEDGED
885
00:52:40,791 --> 00:52:44,887
THAT SHE HAD A DEBT, SORT OF
A STYLISTIC DEBT TO HEMINGWAY.
886
00:52:44,928 --> 00:52:50,299
SO, SHE HAD ALREADY A KIND OF
LITERARY CRUSH ON HIM.
887
00:52:51,702 --> 00:52:54,570
GELLHORN SPENT
TWO WEEKS IN KEY WEST,
888
00:52:54,605 --> 00:52:58,303
MUCH OF THAT TIME IN
THE HEMINGWAYS' COMPANY.
889
00:53:00,377 --> 00:53:02,937
SHE BECAME,
AS SHE LATER PUT IT,
890
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:05,411
A FIXTURE LIKE A KUDU HEAD
891
00:53:05,449 --> 00:53:09,409
ON THE WALLS OF
THE HEMINGWAY HOUSE.
892
00:53:09,453 --> 00:53:10,921
SHE HUNG AROUND A WHOLE LOT.
893
00:53:10,954 --> 00:53:14,914
AND THE TWO OF THEM HAD
DEEP TALKS ABOUT FICTION
894
00:53:14,958 --> 00:53:18,451
AND HOW YOU WROTE
AND ABOUT SPAIN,
895
00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:20,555
WHICH SHE SEEMED TO KNOW
A GOOD DEAL ABOUT
896
00:53:20,597 --> 00:53:22,930
AND WHICH SHE WAS
VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
897
00:53:22,966 --> 00:53:26,698
AND THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY
ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER
898
00:53:26,737 --> 00:53:32,199
AND HATCHED A PLOT TO GO OFF
AND COVER THE WAR TOGETHER.
899
00:53:32,242 --> 00:53:34,473
HEMINGWAY HAD ALREADY
SIGNED UP AS A REPORTER
900
00:53:34,511 --> 00:53:37,242
FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE,
901
00:53:37,281 --> 00:53:40,479
SERVING 60 U.S. PAPERS.
902
00:53:40,517 --> 00:53:45,217
HE WAS TO BE PAID $1,000 FOR
EVERY FEATURE STORY WRITTEN
903
00:53:45,255 --> 00:53:48,748
AND $500 FOR EACH
CABLED DISPATCH...
904
00:53:48,792 --> 00:53:50,988
MORE THAN ANY
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
905
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,788
HAD EVER BEEN PAID BEFORE.
906
00:53:53,831 --> 00:53:56,300
PAULINE OPPOSED HIS GOING.
907
00:53:56,333 --> 00:54:00,600
IT WAS SURE TO BE DANGEROUS;
SHE WAS AFRAID SHE'D LOSE HIM.
908
00:54:00,637 --> 00:54:04,301
HE WAS SORRY, HE SAID, "BUT YOU
CAN'T PRESERVE YOUR HAPPINESS
909
00:54:04,341 --> 00:54:08,244
BY PUTTING IT AWAY
IN MOTHBALLS."
910
00:54:08,278 --> 00:54:12,340
HE WAS MORE CANDID
WITH A FRIEND IN KEY WEST
911
00:54:12,382 --> 00:54:14,647
"NOTHING'S REALLY
HAPPENING TO ME HERE.
912
00:54:14,685 --> 00:54:17,883
"I'VE GOT TO GET OUT.
IN SPAIN MAYBE IT'S
913
00:54:17,921 --> 00:54:20,823
THE BIG PARADE STARTING AGAIN."
914
00:54:22,459 --> 00:54:24,860
THEY DID NOT GO
ON THE SAME BOAT.
915
00:54:24,895 --> 00:54:27,922
THEY PRETENDED NOT
TO KNOW EACH OTHER.
916
00:54:27,965 --> 00:54:31,527
THEY TRAVELED UNDER
SEPARATE ITINERARIES,
917
00:54:31,568 --> 00:54:34,970
BUT THEY BOTH GOT TO MADRID
AND COMMENCED AN AFFAIR
918
00:54:35,005 --> 00:54:37,474
THAT WENT ON FOR
THE ENTIRE 3 YEARS
919
00:54:37,508 --> 00:54:39,340
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
920
00:54:41,879 --> 00:54:43,973
WHEN THEY MET UP
IN MADRID,
921
00:54:44,014 --> 00:54:45,642
THE CITY HAD BEEN UNDER SIEGE
922
00:54:45,682 --> 00:54:49,744
BY FRANCO'S FASCIST FORCES
FOR 6 MONTHS.
923
00:54:51,889 --> 00:54:54,950
IN THE MORNING, BEFORE
YOUR CALL COMES FROM THE DESK,
924
00:54:54,992 --> 00:54:59,953
THE ROARING BURST OF A HIGH
EXPLOSIVE SHELL WAKES YOU
925
00:54:59,997 --> 00:55:02,796
AND YOU GO TO THE WINDOW
AND LOOK OUT TO SEE A MAN,
926
00:55:02,833 --> 00:55:06,326
HIS HEAD DOWN,
HIS COAT COLLAR UP,
927
00:55:06,370 --> 00:55:09,704
SPRINTING DESPERATELY ACROSS
THE PAVED SQUARE.
928
00:55:09,740 --> 00:55:11,936
THERE IS THE ACRID SMELL
OF HIGH EXPLOSIVE
929
00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:14,911
YOU HOPED YOU'D NEVER
SMELL AGAIN,
930
00:55:14,945 --> 00:55:17,642
AND, IN A BATHROBE
AND BEDROOM SLIPPERS,
931
00:55:17,681 --> 00:55:19,843
YOU HURRY DOWN THE MARBLE STAIRS
AND ALMOST INTO
932
00:55:19,883 --> 00:55:23,445
A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN,
WOUNDED IN THE ABDOMEN,
933
00:55:23,487 --> 00:55:25,353
WHO IS BEING HELPED
INTO THE HOTEL ENTRANCE
934
00:55:25,389 --> 00:55:27,858
BY TWO MEN IN
BLUE WORKMEN'S SMOCKS.
935
00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:31,393
SHE HAS HER TWO HANDS
CROSSED BELOW
936
00:55:31,428 --> 00:55:34,660
HER BIG, OLD-STYLE SPANISH BOSOM
937
00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:36,394
AND FROM BETWEEN HER FINGERS
938
00:55:36,433 --> 00:55:38,925
THE BLOOD IS SPURTING
IN A THIN STREAM.
939
00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:45,708
ON THE CORNER, 20 YARDS AWAY,
IS A HEAP OF RUBBLE,
940
00:55:45,742 --> 00:55:48,837
SMASHED CEMENT
AND THROWN-UP DIRT,
941
00:55:48,879 --> 00:55:53,112
A SINGLE DEAD MAN,
HIS TORN CLOTHES DUSTY,
942
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:55,342
AND A GREAT HOLE
IN THE SIDEWALK FROM WHICH
943
00:55:55,385 --> 00:55:58,822
THE GAS FROM A BROKEN MAIN
IS RISING,
944
00:55:58,856 --> 00:56:03,419
LOOKING LIKE A HEAT MIRAGE
IN THE COLD MORNING AIR.
945
00:56:07,064 --> 00:56:08,999
THE NEW LOVERS
OCCUPIED A SUITE
946
00:56:09,032 --> 00:56:12,127
ON THE THIRD FLOOR
OF THE HOTEL FLORIDA.
947
00:56:14,004 --> 00:56:17,372
THE HOTEL WAS SOMETIMES
HIT BY ENEMY SHELLS
948
00:56:17,407 --> 00:56:22,368
INTENDED FOR A NEARBY
LOYALIST COMMUNICATIONS CENTER,
949
00:56:22,412 --> 00:56:24,779
BUT IT REMAINED HEADQUARTERS
FOR A HOST OF
950
00:56:24,815 --> 00:56:28,843
CORRESPONDENTS AND CELEBRITIES
EAGER FOR A FIRST-HAND LOOK
951
00:56:28,886 --> 00:56:30,821
AT THE FIGHTING...
952
00:56:30,854 --> 00:56:34,814
ANDRE MALRAUX
AND ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY,
953
00:56:34,858 --> 00:56:38,022
HERBERT L. MATHEWS OF
"THE NEW YORK TIMES,"
954
00:56:38,061 --> 00:56:40,963
THE PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT CAPA,
955
00:56:40,998 --> 00:56:45,493
THE WRITERS LANGSTON HUGHES
AND JOHN DOS PASSOS,
956
00:56:45,535 --> 00:56:48,164
AND THE MOVIE STAR ERROL FLYNN.
957
00:56:49,940 --> 00:56:52,136
HEMINGWAY... "CRACKLING
WITH GENEROSITY,"
958
00:56:52,175 --> 00:56:55,577
ONE REPORTER REMEMBERED,
AND "BURSTING WITH VIGOR"...
959
00:56:55,612 --> 00:56:58,013
WAS AT THE CENTER OF THINGS.
960
00:56:58,048 --> 00:57:01,951
A HIGH-SPIRITED CROWD GATHERED
AROUND HIM EACH EVENING...
961
00:57:01,985 --> 00:57:06,514
OFTEN WEARING WINTER COATS
SINCE THE HOTEL HAD NO HEAT...
962
00:57:06,556 --> 00:57:09,754
TO DINE ON BEER AND WHISKEY,
CANNED HAM,
963
00:57:09,793 --> 00:57:12,490
AND PATÉ HE IMPORTED
FROM FRANCE...
964
00:57:12,529 --> 00:57:15,624
SOMETIMES SUPPLEMENTED WITH
PARTRIDGES HE HAD SHOT
965
00:57:15,666 --> 00:57:18,465
IN THE FIELDS BEYOND THE CITY
THAT MORNING
966
00:57:18,502 --> 00:57:22,872
AND HAD COOKED UP ON A HOT PLATE
FOR HIMSELF AND HIS GUESTS.
967
00:57:24,741 --> 00:57:28,439
HE DID IDENTIFY,
MOST UTTERLY,
968
00:57:28,478 --> 00:57:31,004
WITH EXTREME SITUATIONS.
969
00:57:33,784 --> 00:57:37,846
IT'S LIKE IN "KING LEAR,"
IT'S WANTING TO KNOW THE WORST
970
00:57:37,888 --> 00:57:39,880
AND TO KNOW IF ONE CAN BEAR IT.
971
00:57:41,124 --> 00:57:44,754
IT'S A TEST.
AND IT'S ALSO A TERROR.
972
00:57:46,530 --> 00:57:49,659
AND THEY, THEY COME TOGETHER
IN ONE.
973
00:57:51,201 --> 00:57:53,136
MARTHA GELLHORN,
REPORTING ON THE WAR
974
00:57:53,170 --> 00:57:54,536
FOR "COLLIER'S,"
975
00:57:54,571 --> 00:57:55,971
WAS INTRODUCED BY ERNEST
976
00:57:56,006 --> 00:57:58,805
TO EVERYONE AS HIS GIRLFRIEND.
977
00:57:58,842 --> 00:58:01,004
SHE WORE SHORT SKIRTS, AND OFTEN
978
00:58:01,044 --> 00:58:03,878
"SAT ON THE TABLE,"
ONE WOMAN RECALLED,
979
00:58:03,914 --> 00:58:08,750
"SWINGING HER LONG, SLIM LEGS
IN A PROVOCATIVE MANNER."
980
00:58:08,785 --> 00:58:10,845
BUT SHE COVERED THE
FIGHTING EVERY BIT AS
981
00:58:10,887 --> 00:58:13,550
FEARLESSLY AS HEMINGWAY DID.
982
00:58:15,258 --> 00:58:17,056
WE'D EITHER
HEAR WITH OUR EARS
983
00:58:17,094 --> 00:58:19,586
THAT SOMETHING WAS GOING ON,
OR WE'D HEAR BY RUMOR
984
00:58:19,629 --> 00:58:21,928
THAT THERE WAS A PUSH
OR A BATTLE OR SOMETHING,
985
00:58:21,965 --> 00:58:24,127
THEN WE'D JUST GO OFF TO IT.
986
00:58:24,167 --> 00:58:29,003
IT WAS A VERY SMALL,
VERY MUCH DO-IT-YOURSELF WAR.
987
00:58:29,039 --> 00:58:31,975
IT WAS, IT WAS
THE SIDE OF THE POOR
988
00:58:32,009 --> 00:58:37,038
AND, UM, AND THAT
WAS HOW IT WORKED,
989
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,845
AND THOSE OF US WHO CARED
ABOUT IT, CARED ABOUT IT,
990
00:58:39,883 --> 00:58:43,718
I SUPPOSE, MORE THAN
ANYTHING BEFORE OR SINCE.
991
00:58:49,126 --> 00:58:51,618
BUT BEHIND
THE SCENES, JOSEF STALIN
992
00:58:51,661 --> 00:58:54,187
WAS EXACTING A FEARFUL PRICE
FOR THE AID
993
00:58:54,231 --> 00:58:57,224
HE PROVIDED TO LOYALIST SPAIN.
994
00:58:57,267 --> 00:58:59,168
HIS AGENTS WERE ORDERED
TO TAKE OVER
995
00:58:59,202 --> 00:59:02,070
AS MUCH OF THE GOVERNMENT
AS THEY COULD
996
00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:06,099
AND SUPPRESS WHAT STALIN CALLED
"UNTRUSTWORTHY ELEMENTS"
997
00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:10,808
WITHIN ITS COALITION,
ANYONE HE COULD NOT CONTROL...
998
00:59:10,847 --> 00:59:14,841
ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS,
TROTSKYITES.
999
00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:18,287
SUSPECTS WERE
SPIRITED AWAY, TORTURED,
1000
00:59:18,321 --> 00:59:22,088
EXECUTED IN SECRET
AND WITHOUT TRIAL.
1001
00:59:23,660 --> 00:59:27,597
HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN DINED
OFTEN WITH SOVIET COMMISSARS
1002
00:59:27,631 --> 00:59:29,862
AND HEMINGWAY INTERVIEWED
THE MAN RESPONSIBLE
1003
00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:33,166
FOR MOST OF THE EXECUTIONS.
1004
00:59:33,203 --> 00:59:35,900
BUT THEY REPORTED NONE OF IT.
1005
00:59:35,939 --> 00:59:37,965
TO EXPOSE THEM, THEY BELIEVED,
1006
00:59:38,008 --> 00:59:42,036
WOULD HAVE HURT
THE ANTI-FASCIST CAUSE.
1007
00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:44,878
BESIDES, HEMINGWAY WANTED
TO USE THE MATERIAL
1008
00:59:44,915 --> 00:59:46,747
IN HIS NEXT NOVEL.
1009
00:59:48,118 --> 00:59:49,916
WHEN THE SOVIETS
ORDERED THE EXECUTION
1010
00:59:49,953 --> 00:59:53,287
OF A CLOSE LOYALIST FRIEND
OF JOHN DOS PASSOS,
1011
00:59:53,323 --> 00:59:57,886
HEMINGWAY TOLD DOS PASSOS
TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT IT.
1012
00:59:57,928 --> 00:59:59,624
WHEN HIS OLD FRIEND INSISTED
1013
00:59:59,663 --> 01:00:02,326
HE HAD TO GO PUBLIC
WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
1014
01:00:02,365 --> 01:00:05,631
HEMINGWAY SAID IT WOULD
END HIS CAREER...
1015
01:00:05,669 --> 01:00:07,934
THE LEFT-WING
LITERARY WORLD IN NEW YORK
1016
01:00:07,971 --> 01:00:09,837
WOULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM.
1017
01:00:11,708 --> 01:00:14,303
"WHY, ERNEST,"
DOS PASSOS' WIFE SAID,
1018
01:00:14,344 --> 01:00:19,783
"I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING
SO DESPICABLY OPPORTUNISTIC
IN MY LIFE."
1019
01:00:19,816 --> 01:00:22,911
THEIR FRIENDSHIP
NEVER FULLY RECOVERED.
1020
01:00:25,989 --> 01:00:27,366
THROUGH IT ALL,
HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN
1021
01:00:27,390 --> 01:00:29,325
GREW STEADILY CLOSER.
1022
01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:32,261
AT ONE POINT, HE ASKED HER
TO MARRY HIM.
1023
01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:36,198
SHE WAS AMBIVALENT,
RESPONDING ONLY IN HER DIARY,
1024
01:00:36,233 --> 01:00:40,295
I LOVE YOU
VERY MUCH INDEED."
1025
01:00:41,905 --> 01:00:44,374
I CAN DO
VERY WELL WITHOUT MARRIAGE.
1026
01:00:44,407 --> 01:00:47,969
I'D RATHER SIN RESPECTABLY,
ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
1027
01:00:48,011 --> 01:00:50,173
ERNEST THINKS, OF COURSE,
THAT MARRIAGE
1028
01:00:50,213 --> 01:00:54,048
SAVES YOU A LOT OF TROUBLE
AND HE IS ALL FOR IT.
1029
01:00:54,084 --> 01:00:58,749
I THINK SIN IS VERY CLEAN.
1030
01:00:58,788 --> 01:01:01,257
THERE ARE NO STRINGS
ATTACHED TO IT.
1031
01:01:05,896 --> 01:01:09,060
BEFORE, DEATH CAME
WHEN YOU WERE OLD OR SICK.
1032
01:01:09,099 --> 01:01:11,728
BUT NOW IT COMES
TO ALL THIS VILLAGE.
1033
01:01:11,768 --> 01:01:14,897
HIGH IN THE SKY,
AND SHINING SILVER...
1034
01:01:14,938 --> 01:01:16,668
AFTER TWO MONTHS
IN SPAIN,
1035
01:01:16,706 --> 01:01:18,834
THEY RETURNED TO
THE UNITED STATES,
1036
01:01:18,875 --> 01:01:20,309
WHERE GELLHORN PREVAILED UPON
1037
01:01:20,343 --> 01:01:22,437
HER FRIENDSHIP WITH
THE FIRST LADY
1038
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:26,241
TO SCREEN "THE SPANISH EARTH,"
A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY
1039
01:01:26,283 --> 01:01:29,913
A COMMUNIST FILMMAKER
NAMED JORIS IVENS
1040
01:01:29,953 --> 01:01:33,720
THAT HEMINGWAY HAD
WRITTEN AND NARRATED.
1041
01:01:33,757 --> 01:01:35,953
THE SMELL OF DEATH
IS ACRID
1042
01:01:35,992 --> 01:01:37,858
HIGH EXPLOSIVE SMOKE
1043
01:01:37,894 --> 01:01:39,988
AND BLASTED GRANITE.
1044
01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:42,465
WHY DO THEY STAY?
THEY STAY BECAUSE
1045
01:01:42,699 --> 01:01:46,227
THIS IS THEIR CITY,
THESE ARE THEIR HOMES.
1046
01:01:46,269 --> 01:01:49,762
HERE IS THEIR WORK,
THIS IS THEIR FIGHT.
1047
01:01:49,806 --> 01:01:52,332
THE FIGHT TO BE ALLOWED
TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS.
1048
01:01:54,244 --> 01:01:55,988
"IT WAS DAMNED NICE
OF THE ROOSEVELTS
1049
01:01:56,012 --> 01:01:58,413
TO HAVE US,"
HEMINGWAY LATER WROTE,
1050
01:01:58,448 --> 01:02:01,008
BUT THE PRESIDENT,
WHILE SYMPATHETIC,
1051
01:02:01,051 --> 01:02:05,045
FELT HE COULD DO NOTHING
TO HELP THE LOYALIST CAUSE.
1052
01:02:05,088 --> 01:02:08,718
THE UNITED STATES WAS
STILL A NEUTRAL COUNTRY.
1053
01:02:10,060 --> 01:02:11,824
HEMINGWAY WOULD RETURN TO SPAIN
1054
01:02:11,861 --> 01:02:15,821
3 MORE TIMES OVER
THE NEXT 17 MONTHS
1055
01:02:15,865 --> 01:02:20,929
AS THE FASCISTS SLOWLY,
STEADILY ADVANCED.
1056
01:02:20,971 --> 01:02:24,305
THOUGH HE HAD PRIVATELY COME
TO BELIEVE THE WAR HAD DEVOLVED
1057
01:02:24,341 --> 01:02:26,469
INTO WHAT HE CALLED
"A CARNIVAL OF
1058
01:02:26,509 --> 01:02:30,344
TREACHERY AND ROTTENNESS
ON BOTH SIDES,"
1059
01:02:30,380 --> 01:02:33,350
HIS DISPATCHES REMAINED
OPTIMISTIC EVEN AS
1060
01:02:33,383 --> 01:02:36,911
HOPES FOR A LOYALIST VICTORY
BEGAN TO FADE.
1061
01:02:57,774 --> 01:02:59,800
AND WHEN ALL WAS FINALLY LOST
1062
01:02:59,843 --> 01:03:01,539
AND LOYALIST FRIENDS
OF HEMINGWAY'S
1063
01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:05,112
WERE FORCED INTO
EXILE IN FRANCE,
1064
01:03:05,148 --> 01:03:08,448
WITHOUT A CAUSE OR
A COUNTRY ANYMORE,
1065
01:03:08,485 --> 01:03:11,045
MARTHA FOUND HIM WEEPING.
1066
01:03:12,489 --> 01:03:16,119
"I REALLY DID LOVE ERNEST THEN,"
SHE WOULD REMEMBER.
1067
01:03:23,500 --> 01:03:25,969
OH, PAPA DARLING,
1068
01:03:26,002 --> 01:03:27,868
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
1069
01:03:27,904 --> 01:03:29,964
IF YOU ARE NO LONGER THE MAN
I USED TO KNOW,
1070
01:03:30,006 --> 01:03:32,942
GET THE HELL OUT,
1071
01:03:32,976 --> 01:03:36,344
BUT IF YOU ARE,
STOP BEING SO STUPID.
1072
01:03:39,582 --> 01:03:42,074
FROM THE FIRST,
PAULINE HAD RESENTED
1073
01:03:42,118 --> 01:03:46,112
HER HUSBAND'S
LONG ABSENCES OVERSEAS.
1074
01:03:46,156 --> 01:03:48,284
THEN, SOMEHOW, SHE LEARNED OF
1075
01:03:48,325 --> 01:03:51,227
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH
MARTHA GELLHORN.
1076
01:03:51,261 --> 01:03:53,059
SHE DID EVERYTHING
SHE COULD THINK OF
1077
01:03:53,096 --> 01:03:55,998
TO KEEP HER MARRIAGE INTACT...
1078
01:03:56,032 --> 01:03:59,434
REUNIONS WITH HER
HUSBAND IN PARIS,
1079
01:03:59,469 --> 01:04:02,962
WYOMING VACATIONS WITH
HIM AND THE BOYS,
1080
01:04:03,006 --> 01:04:06,204
FAMILY FISHING TRIPS
OFF FLORIDA.
1081
01:04:06,242 --> 01:04:08,404
NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK.
1082
01:04:08,445 --> 01:04:10,004
WHENEVER THEY WERE TOGETHER,
1083
01:04:10,046 --> 01:04:13,141
BOTH SHE AND HER HUSBAND
WERE MISERABLE.
1084
01:04:15,251 --> 01:04:16,529
LIFE HERE IS GOING ON
1085
01:04:16,553 --> 01:04:18,545
JUST THE SAME AS
WHEN YOU WERE HERE
1086
01:04:18,588 --> 01:04:21,922
AND IT WAS SO UNATTRACTIVE
TO YOU,
1087
01:04:21,958 --> 01:04:24,587
AND IT WON'T BE ANY
DIFFERENT WHEN YOU GET BACK,
1088
01:04:24,627 --> 01:04:26,391
SO, IF YOU ARE HAPPY OVER THERE,
1089
01:04:26,429 --> 01:04:29,126
DON'T COME BACK HERE
TO BE UNHAPPY...
1090
01:04:30,300 --> 01:04:35,000
BUT I HOPE YOU CAN COME BACK
AND WE CAN BOTH BE HAPPY.
1091
01:04:49,619 --> 01:04:52,248
IN THE EARLY SPRING
OF 1939,
1092
01:04:52,288 --> 01:04:54,450
HEMINGWAY WAS IN CUBA AGAIN,
1093
01:04:54,491 --> 01:04:59,020
WORKING ON A NEW NOVEL SET
DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,
1094
01:04:59,062 --> 01:05:02,965
TO BE CALLED
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."
1095
01:05:02,999 --> 01:05:05,969
HE HAD INVITED GELLHORN
TO JOIN HIM.
1096
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:10,062
IT IS
EXACTLY AS IF HE WERE DEAD
1097
01:05:10,106 --> 01:05:12,439
OR VISITING ON THE MOON.
1098
01:05:12,475 --> 01:05:14,137
HE WRITES AND WHEN HE IS THROUGH
1099
01:05:14,177 --> 01:05:16,146
HE GOES INTO A SILENCE.
1100
01:05:18,114 --> 01:05:20,583
HE PROTECTS HIMSELF FROM
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING,
1101
01:05:20,617 --> 01:05:23,052
TAKES NO PART IN THIS WORLD,
1102
01:05:23,086 --> 01:05:26,318
CARES ABOUT NOTHING
EXCEPT WHAT HE IS WRITING.
1103
01:05:26,356 --> 01:05:29,224
HE'S ABOUT AS MUCH USE
AS A STUFFED SQUIRREL,
1104
01:05:29,259 --> 01:05:32,696
BUT HE IS TURNING OUT
A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
1105
01:05:32,929 --> 01:05:36,161
AND NOTHING ON EARTH BESIDES
MATTERS TO HIM.
1106
01:05:36,199 --> 01:05:38,430
YOU SEE, THAT'S THE WAY TO BE.
1107
01:05:38,468 --> 01:05:41,302
THAT WAY YOU GET WRITING DONE.
1108
01:05:41,337 --> 01:05:44,239
HE LIKEWISE BELIEVES IN
HIMSELF AND HIS WRITING
1109
01:05:44,274 --> 01:05:48,075
AS IF IT WERE THE TABLETS OF
STONE OR THE TRUE GOD,
1110
01:05:48,111 --> 01:05:50,376
AND THAT'S ANOTHER ESSENTIAL.
1111
01:05:53,216 --> 01:05:54,593
NO MATTER
HOW MUCH GELLHORN
1112
01:05:54,617 --> 01:05:56,950
BELIEVED IN HEMINGWAY
AND HIS WORK,
1113
01:05:56,986 --> 01:06:01,321
LIVING COOPED UP IN A HAVANA
HOTEL WITH HIM DAY AFTER DAY,
1114
01:06:01,357 --> 01:06:03,121
TRYING TO DO HER OWN WRITING
1115
01:06:03,159 --> 01:06:05,526
WHILE HE LABORED OVER
HIS TYPEWRITER,
1116
01:06:05,562 --> 01:06:08,430
DID NOT APPEAL FOR LONG,
1117
01:06:08,465 --> 01:06:12,368
SO, SHE RENTED A RUN-DOWN,
10-ACRE, HILL-TOP PROPERTY,
1118
01:06:12,402 --> 01:06:17,136
12 MILES OUTSIDE THE CITY,
CALLED FINCA VIGíA...
1119
01:06:17,173 --> 01:06:20,007
SPANISH FOR "LOOKOUT FARM."
1120
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:25,124
I WOKE TO LOOK OUT MY WINDOW
1121
01:06:25,148 --> 01:06:27,208
AT A CEIBA TREE, SO BEAUTIFUL
1122
01:06:27,250 --> 01:06:29,481
THAT YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT,
1123
01:06:29,519 --> 01:06:33,615
AND HEAR THE PALMS RATTLING
IN THE MORNING WIND,
1124
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:38,117
AND THE SUN STREAKING
OVER THE TILED FLOORS,
1125
01:06:38,161 --> 01:06:43,759
AND THE HOUSE ITSELF, WIDE
AND BARE AND CLEAN AND EMPTY,
1126
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,526
LYING QUIET ALL AROUND ME.
1127
01:06:46,569 --> 01:06:49,698
AND I AM DELIGHTED.
1128
01:06:49,739 --> 01:06:51,503
HEMINGWAY WAS
DELIGHTED, TOO,
1129
01:06:51,541 --> 01:06:54,705
AND WOULD EVENTUALLY
BUY THE PLACE OUTRIGHT.
1130
01:06:54,744 --> 01:06:58,772
THE FINCA WOULD BE HIS HOME
FOR THE NEXT TWO DECADES.
1131
01:07:43,459 --> 01:07:45,724
PEOPLE
ASK YOU WHY YOU LIVE IN CUBA
1132
01:07:45,762 --> 01:07:49,199
AND YOU SAY IT IS
BECAUSE YOU LIKE IT.
1133
01:07:49,232 --> 01:07:51,133
IT IS TOO COMPLICATED
TO EXPLAIN ABOUT
1134
01:07:51,167 --> 01:07:54,535
THE EARLY MORNING
IN THE HILLS ABOVE HAVANA
1135
01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:56,733
WHERE EVERY MORNING
IS COOL AND FRESH
1136
01:07:56,773 --> 01:07:59,368
ON THE HOTTEST DAY IN SUMMER.
1137
01:07:59,409 --> 01:08:01,207
YOU COULD TELL THEM
THAT YOU LIVE IN CUBA
1138
01:08:01,244 --> 01:08:03,270
BECAUSE YOU ONLY HAVE
TO PUT SHOES ON
1139
01:08:03,313 --> 01:08:05,407
WHEN YOU COME INTO TOWN,
1140
01:08:05,448 --> 01:08:09,112
AND THAT YOU WORK AS WELL THERE
IN THOSE COOL EARLY MORNINGS
1141
01:08:09,152 --> 01:08:11,849
AS YOU EVER HAVE WORKED
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
1142
01:08:13,756 --> 01:08:15,850
BUT THOSE ARE
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS.
1143
01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:22,565
I THINK WHAT
HE LIKED ABOUT CUBA AND...
1144
01:08:22,599 --> 01:08:25,569
AND WHY IT WAS SO BAD
WHEN IT WENT SOUR
1145
01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:30,666
WAS HE COULD REALLY INSULATE
HIMSELF FROM BEING AN AMERICAN;
1146
01:08:30,707 --> 01:08:33,836
HE COULD JUST COMPLETELY
LEAVE THAT BEHIND,
1147
01:08:33,876 --> 01:08:37,438
ENTER A WORLD WHERE
HE HAD NO LOYALTIES,
1148
01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:39,676
HE HAD NO REGRETS, NOTHING.
1149
01:08:39,716 --> 01:08:43,175
IT WAS A SORT OF
NEUTRAL CORNER FOR HIM.
1150
01:08:43,219 --> 01:08:45,154
MUCH HAS BEEN MADE BY THE CUBANS
1151
01:08:45,188 --> 01:08:47,316
OF HIS LOVE OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE.
1152
01:08:47,357 --> 01:08:49,588
I DON'T THINK HE HAD
MUCH FEELING
1153
01:08:49,626 --> 01:08:51,390
FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE AT ALL.
1154
01:08:51,427 --> 01:08:57,628
BUT... AH... HE... HE... AH... HE
COULDN'T BE IN SPAIN
1155
01:08:57,667 --> 01:09:00,637
AND THIS WAS THE SECOND BEST,
YOU KNOW.
1156
01:09:02,705 --> 01:09:05,368
I AM NOW
SUDDENLY A MOTHER OF 3
1157
01:09:05,408 --> 01:09:07,604
AND I MUST SAY I LOVE IT.
1158
01:09:07,644 --> 01:09:10,808
IT'S CERTAINLY A LOT MORE FUN
TO BE A MOTHER OF 3
1159
01:09:10,847 --> 01:09:13,749
WITHOUT EVER HAVING
TO LOSE YOUR SHAPE
1160
01:09:13,783 --> 01:09:16,719
THAN BEING A MOTHER OF ONE,
YOUR OWN,
1161
01:09:16,753 --> 01:09:19,723
AND NOT KNOWING HOW
THE BRAT WILL TURN OUT.
1162
01:09:21,424 --> 01:09:23,416
HEMINGWAY'S SONS
WOULD COME TO VISIT...
1163
01:09:23,459 --> 01:09:25,655
AND BEGIN TO GET TO KNOW
THE WOMAN WITH WHOM
1164
01:09:25,695 --> 01:09:29,188
THEIR FATHER WAS
NOW OPENLY LIVING.
1165
01:09:29,232 --> 01:09:31,394
SHE WAS
WONDERFUL WITH US.
1166
01:09:31,434 --> 01:09:32,732
I... I REALLY LOVED HER
1167
01:09:32,769 --> 01:09:35,603
AND SHE WAS A WONDERFUL PERSON.
1168
01:09:35,638 --> 01:09:38,870
GREGORY REMEMBERED
HOW BEAUTIFUL MARTHA SEEMED
1169
01:09:38,908 --> 01:09:42,936
AND HER WILLINGNESS TO LISTEN
TO THE OPINIONS OF A 9-YEAR-OLD,
1170
01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:45,739
"AND AT LEAST PRETEND
TO GIVE THEM WEIGHT."
1171
01:09:47,183 --> 01:09:48,913
BUMBY LIKED HER, TOO,
HE REMEMBERED.
1172
01:09:48,951 --> 01:09:51,785
"I WAS OVERWHELMED BY
THIS MARVELOUS CREATURE
1173
01:09:51,821 --> 01:09:54,416
"WHO COULD SAY THE "F" WORD
SO NATURALLY
1174
01:09:54,457 --> 01:09:56,824
"THAT IT DIDN'T SOUND DIRTY.
1175
01:09:56,859 --> 01:09:59,260
I WAS HER IMMEDIATE CAPTIVE."
1176
01:10:00,630 --> 01:10:02,341
THEY ALL THINK I AM A SORT OF
1177
01:10:02,365 --> 01:10:05,301
COLOSSAL JOKE AND ONE OF
THE BOYS
1178
01:10:05,334 --> 01:10:07,428
AND REFER TO ME AS "THE MARTY,"
1179
01:10:07,470 --> 01:10:09,632
AND I THINK IT ALL
GOES VERY FINE.
1180
01:10:09,672 --> 01:10:13,609
ANYHOW I AM NUTS FOR THEM,
WHICH IS A GRAND THING.
1181
01:10:17,814 --> 01:10:21,478
ERNEST RETURNED
FROM TIME TO TIME TO KEY WEST
1182
01:10:21,517 --> 01:10:23,952
TO SEE HIS CHILDREN
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR...
1183
01:10:23,986 --> 01:10:27,718
AND TO SEE IF HE AND PAULINE
COULD SOMEHOW MAKE IT WORK.
1184
01:10:29,926 --> 01:10:34,489
OVER THEIR 15 YEARS TOGETHER...
13 AS A MARRIED COUPLE...
1185
01:10:34,530 --> 01:10:36,863
HEMINGWAY HAD RISEN
TO A KIND OF FAME
1186
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:41,337
NO AMERICAN WRITER SINCE
MARK TWAIN HAD ENJOYED.
1187
01:10:41,370 --> 01:10:43,236
ALL THAT TIME, PAULINE HAD
1188
01:10:43,272 --> 01:10:45,901
DEVOTED HERSELF
TO HIS WELL-BEING,
1189
01:10:45,942 --> 01:10:50,243
OFTEN ACTED AS HIS EDITOR,
AND SHE AND HER FAMILY
1190
01:10:50,279 --> 01:10:54,842
HAD PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT
BETWEEN BOOKS.
1191
01:10:54,884 --> 01:10:59,515
BUT IN THE END, NONE OF IT
WOULD SEEM TO MATTER TO HIM.
1192
01:11:01,791 --> 01:11:04,022
WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO GO AWAY,
1193
01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:05,853
THERE ARE TWO THINGS
ATTACHED TO IT.
1194
01:11:05,895 --> 01:11:09,662
ONE IS ADVENTURE AND NEW THINGS,
1195
01:11:09,699 --> 01:11:11,292
NEW SIGHTS, NEW SCENES,
1196
01:11:11,334 --> 01:11:13,303
DANGER, WHATEVER.
1197
01:11:13,336 --> 01:11:15,896
BUT THE OTHER, WHICH I BELIEVE,
1198
01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:20,034
AGAIN, IT IS ONLY MY HUNCH,
1199
01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:22,336
IS TO ESCAPE HIS OWN FAMILY.
1200
01:11:23,813 --> 01:11:26,339
WRITERS DO.
THEY HAVE TO.
1201
01:11:27,784 --> 01:11:30,015
MEN WANT SOMEONE NEW,
1202
01:11:30,052 --> 01:11:31,782
OR SOMEONE YOUNGER,
1203
01:11:31,821 --> 01:11:34,381
OR SOMEONE THAT
THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE,
1204
01:11:34,423 --> 01:11:37,951
OR SOMEONE THAT LOOKS
LIKE SOMEONE ELSE.
1205
01:11:37,994 --> 01:11:39,895
THE BETTER YOU TREAT A MAN
1206
01:11:39,929 --> 01:11:42,763
AND THE MORE YOU SHOW HIM
YOU LOVE HIM,
1207
01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:46,600
THE QUICKER HE GETS
TIRED OF YOU.
1208
01:11:46,636 --> 01:11:49,470
HE SAYS TO PAULINE,
"YOU TOOK ME FROM HADLEY
1209
01:11:49,505 --> 01:11:51,997
"AND NOW MARTHA IS
TAKING ME FROM YOU.
1210
01:11:52,041 --> 01:11:54,476
"WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND.
1211
01:11:54,510 --> 01:11:56,775
LIVE BY THE SWORD,
DIE BY THE SWORD."
1212
01:11:56,813 --> 01:12:00,841
AND I THINK THAT WAS A REALLY
ROTTEN THING TO TELL PAULINE.
1213
01:12:00,883 --> 01:12:04,615
I MEAN, PAULINE MADE POSSIBLE
SOME OF HIS BEST WORK.
1214
01:12:04,654 --> 01:12:06,919
AND SHE'S HIS BEST READER.
1215
01:12:06,956 --> 01:12:09,357
AS A CATHOLIC,
PAULINE WAS RELUCTANT
1216
01:12:09,392 --> 01:12:12,055
TO GRANT HEMINGWAY A DIVORCE.
1217
01:12:12,094 --> 01:12:15,963
THERE WERE ANGRY ACCUSATIONS
FROM BOTH SIDES.
1218
01:12:15,998 --> 01:12:19,491
GREGORY REMEMBERED
"SHOUTING IN OTHER ROOMS,
1219
01:12:19,535 --> 01:12:22,095
"DOORS SLAMMING,
MOTHER SCURRYING
1220
01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:24,830
OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM CRYING."
1221
01:12:26,108 --> 01:12:28,043
YOU KNOW,
BY 1939 IT WAS,
1222
01:12:28,077 --> 01:12:30,478
OH, IT WAS JUST
COMING TO AN END.
1223
01:12:31,714 --> 01:12:35,742
THE PATTERN IN OUR FAMILY
WAS TO DRIVE OUT FROM FLORIDA
1224
01:12:35,785 --> 01:12:37,651
TO, TO THE WEST.
1225
01:12:37,687 --> 01:12:39,815
AND IT TOOK QUITE A WHILE.
1226
01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:43,384
AND THEY HAD TREMENDOUS
ARGUMENTS, I REMEMBER.
1227
01:12:43,426 --> 01:12:45,918
AND DRIVING, YOU KNOW,
WHICH ROAD TO TAKE
1228
01:12:45,962 --> 01:12:49,626
AND, JUST ON EACH OTHER
ALL SUMMER LONG.
1229
01:12:50,967 --> 01:12:54,597
THEY WERE STILL NOMINALLY
TOGETHER, YOU KNOW,
1230
01:12:54,637 --> 01:12:58,597
BUT HE WAS REALLY PULLING OUT.
1231
01:12:58,641 --> 01:13:01,634
ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1939...
1232
01:13:01,677 --> 01:13:05,045
TWO DAYS AFTER
HITLER'S FORCES INVADED POLAND,
1233
01:13:05,081 --> 01:13:07,573
STARTING THE SECOND WORLD WAR...
1234
01:13:07,617 --> 01:13:11,713
HEMINGWAY FINALLY TOLD PAULINE
HE WAS LEAVING FOR GOOD.
1235
01:13:18,861 --> 01:13:20,727
JOHN McCAlN: I WAS 12 YEARS OLD.
1236
01:13:20,763 --> 01:13:25,064
I FOUND A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER
AND I BROUGHT IT IN,
1237
01:13:25,101 --> 01:13:29,630
TO PRESS IT IN A BOOK
SO I COULD PRESERVE IT.
1238
01:13:29,672 --> 01:13:33,040
THAT HAPPENED TO BE
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS,"
1239
01:13:33,075 --> 01:13:35,476
STILL THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
1240
01:13:35,511 --> 01:13:39,414
AND I STARTED READING AND I
COULDN'T STOP UNTIL I FINISHED.
1241
01:13:41,651 --> 01:13:42,928
WHEN
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
1242
01:13:42,952 --> 01:13:46,047
WAS PUBLISHED IN
OCTOBER OF 1940,
1243
01:13:46,088 --> 01:13:49,081
EUROPE AND ASIA WERE
ENGULFED IN A WORLD WAR
1244
01:13:49,125 --> 01:13:51,617
FAR MORE CATACLYSMIC
THAN THE ONE
1245
01:13:51,661 --> 01:13:53,789
IN WHICH HEMINGWAY
HAD BEEN WOUNDED.
1246
01:14:17,186 --> 01:14:18,797
BY THE TIME
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
1247
01:14:18,821 --> 01:14:21,586
CAME OUT IN 1940,
1248
01:14:21,624 --> 01:14:25,152
WAR IN EUROPE WAS A REALITY.
1249
01:14:25,194 --> 01:14:30,155
FRANCE HAD FALLEN.
IT WAS DO OR DIE TIME.
1250
01:14:30,199 --> 01:14:34,159
THE QUESTIONS THAT HEMINGWAY
RAISES IN THAT NOVEL
1251
01:14:34,203 --> 01:14:36,695
WERE INCREDIBLY URGENT.
1252
01:14:36,739 --> 01:14:40,699
AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT
THE BELL WAS TOLLING
1253
01:14:40,743 --> 01:14:43,577
FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY,
NOT JUST FOR THE PEOPLE
1254
01:14:43,612 --> 01:14:46,013
IN FRANCE AND IN
ENGLAND OR SPAIN.
1255
01:14:48,985 --> 01:14:51,784
THE STORY
IS SET IN 1937,
1256
01:14:51,821 --> 01:14:53,983
WHEN THE DEFEAT OF
FRANCO'S FORCES
1257
01:14:54,023 --> 01:14:56,117
HAD STILL SEEMED POSSIBLE.
1258
01:14:57,727 --> 01:15:01,186
ITS HERO IS AN IDEALISTIC YOUNG
AMERICAN COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR
1259
01:15:01,230 --> 01:15:05,531
NAMED ROBERT JORDAN, WITH SOME
KNOWLEDGE OF EXPLOSIVES
1260
01:15:05,568 --> 01:15:10,097
AND NO POLITICAL AFFILIATION
OTHER THAN HATRED OF FASCISM,
1261
01:15:10,139 --> 01:15:13,871
WHO FINDS HIMSELF PART OF
A GUERILLA BAND THAT UNDERTAKES
1262
01:15:13,909 --> 01:15:17,505
A DOOMED MISSION
TO DYNAMITE A BRIDGE.
1263
01:15:19,048 --> 01:15:21,244
McCAlN: MY HERO
IS ROBERT JORDAN.
1264
01:15:21,283 --> 01:15:24,685
ROBERT JORDAN IS
AS REAL TO ME AS YOU ARE.
1265
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:28,213
HE WAS WORKING AS A PROFESSOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA.
1266
01:15:28,257 --> 01:15:29,782
BUT HE HEARD ABOUT
THIS STRUGGLE.
1267
01:15:29,825 --> 01:15:31,760
HE KNEW ABOUT FASCISM.
HE KNEW WHAT
1268
01:15:31,794 --> 01:15:34,764
HITLER AND MUSSOLINI WERE DOING.
1269
01:15:34,797 --> 01:15:37,198
AND HE DECIDED TO GO AND FIGHT
1270
01:15:37,233 --> 01:15:39,896
ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE
HE HAD NEVER MET
1271
01:15:39,935 --> 01:15:42,564
AND HE DID NOT KNOW.
1272
01:15:42,605 --> 01:15:47,134
EVEN KNOWING THAT THAT CAUSE
WAS A FLAWED CAUSE.
1273
01:15:49,111 --> 01:15:51,945
BUT HE WAS WILLING
TO FIGHT AND DO
1274
01:15:51,981 --> 01:15:54,541
WHATEVER HE THOUGHT HE COULD
1275
01:15:54,583 --> 01:15:57,815
FOR THE CAUSE OF
JUSTICE AND FREEDOM.
1276
01:15:57,853 --> 01:16:00,687
I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
ROBERT JORDAN.
1277
01:16:03,092 --> 01:16:06,688
ROBERT JORDAN IS
WILLING TO KILL... AND TO DIE...
1278
01:16:06,729 --> 01:16:10,188
TO CARRY OUT THE ORDERS
OF A SOVIET GENERAL,
1279
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:13,031
BUT HE CANNOT ESCAPE
HIS GROWING BELIEF
1280
01:16:13,069 --> 01:16:16,972
THAT THE WAR HAS BECOME
"AN IDIOCY WITHOUT BOUNDS."
1281
01:16:18,307 --> 01:16:19,866
IT'S A MUCH MORE
3-DIMENSIONAL
1282
01:16:19,909 --> 01:16:21,844
PORTRAYAL OF THE STRUGGLE
1283
01:16:21,877 --> 01:16:24,608
THAN HE HAD ALLOWED
HIMSELF TO GIVE
1284
01:16:24,647 --> 01:16:27,947
WHEN HE WAS OSTENSIBLY WRITING
JOURNALISM ABOUT IT.
1285
01:16:27,983 --> 01:16:29,781
IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING
THAT THE NOVEL IS
1286
01:16:29,819 --> 01:16:31,651
MORE TRUTHFUL THAN
THE JOURNALISM.
1287
01:16:34,123 --> 01:16:37,685
THERE ARE ATROCITIES
COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES,
1288
01:16:37,726 --> 01:16:39,888
INCLUDING THE LOYALISTS'
SLAUGHTER OF
1289
01:16:39,929 --> 01:16:42,592
CIVILIAN FASCIST SYMPATHIZERS,
1290
01:16:42,631 --> 01:16:44,827
WHO ARE FORCED TO RUN
A BRUTAL GAUNTLET,
1291
01:16:44,867 --> 01:16:48,804
THEN HURLED FROM THE CLIFFS
IN AN ANDALUSIAN TOWN.
1292
01:16:50,773 --> 01:16:52,818
THEY CLUBBED
HIM TO DEATH VERY QUICKLY,
1293
01:16:52,842 --> 01:16:56,802
BEATING HIM AS SOON AS HE
REACHED THE FIRST OF THE MEN,
1294
01:16:56,846 --> 01:16:59,907
BEATING HIM AS HE TRIED
TO WALK WITH HIS HEAD UP,
1295
01:16:59,949 --> 01:17:03,044
BEATING HIM UNTIL HE FELL
AND CHOPPING AT HIM
1296
01:17:03,085 --> 01:17:06,112
WITH REAPING HOOKS
AND THE SICKLES,
1297
01:17:06,155 --> 01:17:08,249
AND MANY MEN BORE HIM
TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF
1298
01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:10,691
TO THROW HIM OVER
AND THERE WAS BLOOD NOW
1299
01:17:10,726 --> 01:17:13,787
ON THEIR HANDS AND ON
THEIR CLOTHING,
1300
01:17:13,829 --> 01:17:15,320
AND NOW BEGAN TO BE
THE FEELING THAT
1301
01:17:15,364 --> 01:17:19,096
THESE WHO CAME OUT
WERE TRULY ENEMIES
1302
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:20,660
AND SHOULD BE KILLED.
1303
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:27,108
ROBERT JORDAN
MANAGES TO BLOW UP THE BRIDGE
1304
01:17:27,143 --> 01:17:29,408
BUT IS BADLY WOUNDED.
1305
01:17:29,645 --> 01:17:34,106
AT THE NOVEL'S CLIMAX,
HE LIES ALONE, IMMOBILIZED,
1306
01:17:34,150 --> 01:17:37,382
ON A WOODED SLOPE,
WAITING WITH HIS RIFLE
1307
01:17:37,419 --> 01:17:40,287
AS A FASCIST PATROL
COMES CLOSER.
1308
01:17:41,824 --> 01:17:44,191
THE END OF THAT NOVEL
IS AS GOOD AS
1309
01:17:44,226 --> 01:17:47,663
ANYTHING HEMINGWAY
EVER WROTE, I THINK.
1310
01:17:47,696 --> 01:17:51,030
HEMINGWAY ALL HIS LIFE
IS WRESTLING WITH
1311
01:17:51,066 --> 01:17:54,901
QUESTIONS OF DEATH AND SUICIDE
AND WHETHER IT
1312
01:17:54,937 --> 01:17:56,735
HURTS VERY MUCH TO DIE, DADDY,
1313
01:17:56,772 --> 01:17:59,401
OR IT DOESN'T, WHETHER THAT IS
1314
01:17:59,441 --> 01:18:02,070
THE BRAVE THING TO DO,
THE RIGHT THING TO DO,
1315
01:18:02,111 --> 01:18:04,239
OR WHETHER IT'S
THE COWARD'S WAY OUT.
1316
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,943
HE'S WRESTLING WITH THAT
ALL HIS LIFE.
1317
01:18:09,685 --> 01:18:11,847
JORDAN'S FATHER,
THE READER LEARNS,
1318
01:18:11,887 --> 01:18:14,914
LIKE HEMINGWAY'S,
HAD KILLED HIMSELF.
1319
01:18:16,792 --> 01:18:19,352
OH, LET THEM COME, HE SAID.
1320
01:18:19,395 --> 01:18:22,058
I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT BUSINESS
THAT MY FATHER DID.
1321
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,393
I WILL DO IT ALL RIGHT BUT
I'D MUCH PREFER NOT TO HAVE TO.
1322
01:18:27,436 --> 01:18:31,464
I'M AGAINST THAT.
DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT.
1323
01:18:31,707 --> 01:18:33,141
DON'T THINK AT ALL.
1324
01:18:34,910 --> 01:18:37,277
I WISH THE BASTARDS
WOULD COME, HE SAID.
1325
01:18:37,313 --> 01:18:39,748
I WISH SO VERY MUCH THEY'D COME.
1326
01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:44,049
I GUESS I'M NOT AWFULLY
GOOD AT PAIN.
1327
01:18:44,086 --> 01:18:45,486
LISTEN, IF I DO THAT NOW
1328
01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:48,850
YOU WOULDN'T MISUNDERSTAND,
WOULD YOU?
1329
01:18:48,891 --> 01:18:53,226
WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
NOBODY, HE SAID.
1330
01:18:53,262 --> 01:18:57,962
GRANDFATHER, I GUESS.
NO. NOBODY.
1331
01:19:00,769 --> 01:19:03,762
THINK ABOUT MONTANA.
I CAN'T.
1332
01:19:03,806 --> 01:19:07,243
THINK ABOUT MADRID.
I CAN'T.
1333
01:19:07,276 --> 01:19:10,110
THINK ABOUT
A COOL DRINK OF WATER.
1334
01:19:10,145 --> 01:19:14,105
ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE.
1335
01:19:14,149 --> 01:19:16,209
LIKE A COOL DRINK OF WATER.
1336
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:22,255
YOU'RE A LIAR.
IT WILL JUST BE NOTHING.
1337
01:19:22,291 --> 01:19:25,784
THAT'S ALL IT WILL BE.
JUST NOTHING.
1338
01:19:25,828 --> 01:19:32,291
THEN DO IT.
DO IT.
DO IT NOW.
1339
01:19:32,334 --> 01:19:35,236
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO DO IT NOW.
1340
01:19:35,271 --> 01:19:41,370
GO ON AND DO IT NOW.
NO, YOU HAVE TO WAIT.
1341
01:19:41,410 --> 01:19:46,849
WHAT FOR?
YOU KNOW ALL RIGHT.
THEN WAIT.
1342
01:19:52,087 --> 01:19:54,488
WHEN "FOR WHOM
THE BELL TOLLS" WAS PUBLISHED,
1343
01:19:54,523 --> 01:19:56,924
MARXIST CRITICS
ATTACKED THE NOVEL
1344
01:19:56,959 --> 01:19:58,825
AS A BETRAYAL OF THEIR CAUSE
1345
01:19:58,861 --> 01:20:04,198
BECAUSE IT SHOWED SYMPATHY FOR
THE WAR'S VICTIMS ON BOTH SIDES.
1346
01:20:04,233 --> 01:20:08,193
OTHERS FOUND THE LOVE AFFAIR
BETWEEN ROBERT JORDAN AND MARIA,
1347
01:20:08,237 --> 01:20:12,004
A LOYALIST
GUERILLA FIGHTER, CLOYING.
1348
01:20:44,106 --> 01:20:46,473
DESPITE SOME
NEGATIVE REVIEWS,
1349
01:20:46,508 --> 01:20:50,138
THE NOVEL SOLD
"LIKE FROZEN DAIQUIRIS IN HELL,"
1350
01:20:50,179 --> 01:20:53,946
HEMINGWAY BOASTED TO
HIS FIRST WIFE HADLEY;
1351
01:20:53,982 --> 01:20:57,578
NEARLY HALF A MILLION COPIES
IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS.
1352
01:20:57,619 --> 01:21:01,920
ONLY "GONE WITH THE WIND"
HAD SOLD FASTER.
1353
01:21:01,957 --> 01:21:06,053
"HEMINGWAY THE ARTIST IS WITH
US AGAIN," EDMUND WILSON WROTE,
1354
01:21:06,095 --> 01:21:09,532
"AND IT IS LIKE HAVING
AN OLD FRIEND BACK."
1355
01:21:09,565 --> 01:21:12,194
PARAMOUNT BOUGHT
THE MOVIE RIGHTS.
1356
01:21:12,234 --> 01:21:13,862
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" DECLARED IT
1357
01:21:13,902 --> 01:21:16,303
THE FINEST BOOK
HEMINGWAY HAD WRITTEN...
1358
01:21:16,338 --> 01:21:20,901
"THE FULLEST,
THE DEEPEST, THE TRUEST."
1359
01:21:20,943 --> 01:21:22,502
I LOVE THAT BOOK.
I MEAN,
1360
01:21:22,544 --> 01:21:26,003
IT'S THE "RAIDERS OF
THE LOST ARK" OF ITS TIME...
1361
01:21:26,048 --> 01:21:29,177
AH... ONLY WITH
MORE DEPTH AND MEANING.
1362
01:21:29,218 --> 01:21:32,052
SOMEONE WHO IS
SACRIFICING HIMSELF
1363
01:21:32,087 --> 01:21:35,546
FOR SOMETHING HE BELIEVES IN.
1364
01:21:35,591 --> 01:21:39,585
McCAlN: FRIENDSHIP,
SACRIFICE, ROMANCE,
1365
01:21:39,628 --> 01:21:43,087
THAT NOTHING IS ROMANTIC
AS THAT, UH,
1366
01:21:43,132 --> 01:21:45,658
BETWEEN ROBERT JORDAN AND MARIA
IN THAT, UH,
1367
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:48,268
IN THAT, UH, BOOK,
1368
01:21:48,303 --> 01:21:52,570
AND, I THINK, SERVING A CAUSE
GREATER THAN YOURSELF.
1369
01:21:52,608 --> 01:21:54,304
I THINK THE IMPORTANT LESSON
1370
01:21:54,343 --> 01:21:58,178
THAT HEMINGWAY WAS
TRYING TO IMPART TO US
1371
01:21:58,213 --> 01:22:01,206
THAT NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
WITHIN HIMSELF.
1372
01:22:01,250 --> 01:22:03,151
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
1373
01:22:04,686 --> 01:22:10,148
WE DO IN LIFE WHAT WE
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
1374
01:22:10,192 --> 01:22:13,162
WE, IN OUR LIVES,
MAKE CERTAIN CHOICES.
1375
01:22:14,663 --> 01:22:16,207
"I HAVE FOUGHT HARD
FOR WHAT I BELIEVED IN
1376
01:22:16,231 --> 01:22:17,927
"FOR A YEAR NOW.
1377
01:22:17,966 --> 01:22:21,300
"IF WE WIN HERE
WE WILL WIN EVERYWHERE.
1378
01:22:21,336 --> 01:22:25,296
"THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE
AND WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR
1379
01:22:25,340 --> 01:22:28,242
AND I HATE VERY MUCH
TO LEAVE IT."
1380
01:22:37,486 --> 01:22:38,530
IF YOU HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU
1381
01:22:38,554 --> 01:22:40,079
DON'T WANT TO MARRY ME,
1382
01:22:40,122 --> 01:22:42,114
WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME NOW.
1383
01:22:46,628 --> 01:22:49,325
IF YOU DO, I WILL BORE YOU LESS
1384
01:22:49,364 --> 01:22:50,662
AND AMUSE YOU MORE
1385
01:22:50,699 --> 01:22:53,498
THAN ANYONE ELSE
YOU'LL EVER MARRY
1386
01:22:53,535 --> 01:22:55,663
AND YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ME
WITH A BIG SUCCESS
1387
01:22:55,704 --> 01:22:58,037
BUT I HAVE BEEN AROUND
WHEN THAT HAPPENED BEFORE
1388
01:22:58,073 --> 01:23:00,338
AND I CAN PROMISE YOU TRULY
THAT YOU WILL SEE
1389
01:23:00,375 --> 01:23:05,279
THE MODESTEST SON OF A BITCH
YOU EVER SAW TRULY.
1390
01:23:05,314 --> 01:23:08,216
I ONLY BRAG WHEN I AM ON MY ASS.
1391
01:23:09,618 --> 01:23:12,611
THERE IS
MUCH DIVORCE TALK GOING ON,
1392
01:23:12,654 --> 01:23:16,147
AND PROBABLY IT WILL ACTUALLY
MATERIALIZE IN DUE COURSE
1393
01:23:16,191 --> 01:23:18,353
AND I WILL BE MADE
AN HONEST WOMAN.
1394
01:23:18,393 --> 01:23:20,521
THEY OUGHT TO PUT IT
IN THE YEARBOOK:
1395
01:23:20,562 --> 01:23:24,226
GELLHORN, THE FIRST
OF HER CLASS TO SIN,
1396
01:23:24,266 --> 01:23:26,758
THE LAST TO LEGALIZE.
1397
01:23:28,437 --> 01:23:30,133
HEMINGWAY'S DIVORCE
FROM PAULINE
1398
01:23:30,172 --> 01:23:34,405
BECAME FINAL ON
NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
1399
01:23:34,443 --> 01:23:37,641
17 DAYS LATER, ON NOVEMBER 21,
1400
01:23:37,679 --> 01:23:39,614
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
AND MARTHA GELLHORN
1401
01:23:39,648 --> 01:23:43,210
WERE MARRIED
IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING.
1402
01:23:43,252 --> 01:23:47,383
SHE WAS 32.
HE WAS 41.
1403
01:23:47,422 --> 01:23:50,051
"ERNEST AND I BELONG
TIGHTLY TO EACH OTHER,"
1404
01:23:50,092 --> 01:23:53,119
MARTHA ASSURED
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
1405
01:23:53,161 --> 01:23:55,096
"WE ARE A GOOD PAIR AND WE ARE
1406
01:23:55,130 --> 01:23:58,362
BOTH CRAZY ABOUT BEING MARRIED."
1407
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:02,132
NOW BOTH OF THEM
WERE IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
1408
01:24:04,239 --> 01:24:06,731
NO FANCY
HOLLYWOOD BOOTS THESE.
1409
01:24:06,775 --> 01:24:09,176
THEY'VE TRAMPED THROUGH
THE DUST AND DEATH
1410
01:24:09,211 --> 01:24:11,305
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
1411
01:24:11,346 --> 01:24:12,490
THEY BELONG TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
1412
01:24:12,514 --> 01:24:14,107
FAMOUS AUTHOR AND ADVENTURER,
1413
01:24:14,149 --> 01:24:15,777
NOW ON A HUNTING TRIP IN IDAHO
1414
01:24:15,817 --> 01:24:17,581
WITH HIS PAL GARY COOPER,
1415
01:24:17,619 --> 01:24:20,646
TO WHOM THE GREAT OPEN SPACES
AREN'T JUST A MOVIE LOCATION.
1416
01:24:20,689 --> 01:24:23,249
NO SIR.
GARY'S IDEA OF A VACATION
1417
01:24:23,292 --> 01:24:26,729
IS TO GET AS FAR AWAY FROM
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD AS POSSIBLE,
1418
01:24:26,762 --> 01:24:30,096
WHERE GAME DOESN'T MEAN
GIN RUMMY.
1419
01:24:34,536 --> 01:24:36,402
HER PEN NAME IS MARTHA GELLHORN,
1420
01:24:36,438 --> 01:24:39,431
BUT IN PRIVATE LIFE
SHE'S MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
1421
01:24:40,842 --> 01:24:44,176
MRS. HEMINGWAY
IS AN EXPERT MARKSWOMAN.
1422
01:24:45,347 --> 01:24:46,781
THE HEMINGWAYS FIRST MET
IN SPAIN,
1423
01:24:46,815 --> 01:24:49,182
WHERE MRS. HEMINGWAY WAS
A WAR CORRESPONDENT
1424
01:24:49,217 --> 01:24:50,742
AND ERNEST WAS
GATHERING MATERIAL
1425
01:24:50,786 --> 01:24:53,221
FOR HIS NOVEL
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."
1426
01:24:56,158 --> 01:24:58,753
IN 1941,
THE NEWLYWED HEMINGWAYS
1427
01:24:58,794 --> 01:25:03,095
EMBARKED ON A PECULIAR
SORT OF EXTENDED HONEYMOON,
1428
01:25:03,131 --> 01:25:05,760
A 4-MONTH
REPORTING TRIP TO CHINA,
1429
01:25:05,801 --> 01:25:10,364
WHERE WAR WITH JAPAN
HAD BEEN RAGING FOR 5 YEARS.
1430
01:25:10,405 --> 01:25:13,341
ON THE WAY, THE COUPLE
HAD STOPPED IN HONOLULU,
1431
01:25:13,375 --> 01:25:17,437
WHERE THEY TOURED THE VAST
NAVAL BASE AT PEARL HARBOR.
1432
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:20,847
HEMINGWAY WORRIED ALOUD THAT
SO MANY WARSHIPS AND PLANES
1433
01:25:20,882 --> 01:25:26,185
LINED UP IN TIDY ROWS WOULD
INVITE A JAPANESE ATTACK.
1434
01:25:27,889 --> 01:25:31,189
HEMINGWAY HAD AGREED TO
REPORT SECRETLY TO WASHINGTON
1435
01:25:31,226 --> 01:25:35,288
ON HOW HE THOUGHT THE WAR
IN CHINA WAS GOING.
1436
01:25:35,330 --> 01:25:38,528
HE ALSO AGREED TO ACT
AS A SECRET OPERATIVE
1437
01:25:38,567 --> 01:25:41,503
FOR THE SOVIET UNION,
THOUGH IN THE END
1438
01:25:41,536 --> 01:25:46,304
HE WOULD SUPPLY
NO INFORMATION TO MOSCOW.
1439
01:25:56,752 --> 01:25:59,517
THE WORLD WAR
HEMINGWAY HAD WARNED AGAINST,
1440
01:25:59,554 --> 01:26:03,321
AND HAD HOPED HIS COUNTRY
COULD AVOID, HAD COME HOME.
1441
01:26:03,358 --> 01:26:07,489
4 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR,
NAZI GERMANY AND FASCIST ITALY
1442
01:26:07,529 --> 01:26:10,363
DECLARED WAR ON
THE UNITED STATES.
1443
01:26:11,533 --> 01:26:14,594
DURING THE NEXT 8 MONTHS,
GERMAN U-BOATS SANK
1444
01:26:14,636 --> 01:26:20,633
360 MERCHANT VESSELS IN THE
GULF OF MEXICO, THE CARIBBEAN,
1445
01:26:20,676 --> 01:26:23,703
AND OFF THE EASTERN COAST
OF THE UNITED STATES.
1446
01:26:25,947 --> 01:26:30,681
WASHINGTON CALLED UPON CIVILIANS
TO HELP PATROL THOSE WATERS.
1447
01:26:30,719 --> 01:26:35,282
THE SHIPPING LANES AROUND CUBA
WERE OF SPECIAL CONCERN.
1448
01:26:37,559 --> 01:26:39,824
HEMINGWAY VOLUNTEERED TO HELP
1449
01:26:39,861 --> 01:26:41,796
AND GATHERED ABOARD THE "PILAR"
1450
01:26:41,830 --> 01:26:44,459
WHAT HE CALLED HIS
"HOOLIGAN NAVY"...
1451
01:26:44,499 --> 01:26:48,266
A MARINE SERGEANT,
TWO MILLIONAIRE YACHTSMEN,
1452
01:26:48,303 --> 01:26:50,829
A VETERAN
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,
1453
01:26:50,872 --> 01:26:54,400
AND SEVERAL ACTIVE
JAI-ALAI PLAYERS...
1454
01:26:54,443 --> 01:26:59,313
AND THEN PROPOSED
A SPECTACULARLY
FAR-FETCHED SCHEME.
1455
01:26:59,347 --> 01:27:03,284
HE HOPED TO LURE
ENEMY U-BOATS TO THE SURFACE,
1456
01:27:03,318 --> 01:27:05,549
CLOSE TO WITHIN 20 YARDS,
1457
01:27:05,587 --> 01:27:07,351
MACHINE-GUN EVERYONE ON DECK
1458
01:27:07,389 --> 01:27:08,982
SO THAT THE JAI-ALAI PLAYERS
1459
01:27:09,224 --> 01:27:12,786
COULD LOB EXPLOSIVES
DOWN THE HATCH.
1460
01:27:12,828 --> 01:27:16,356
HOW THE "PILAR" WAS TO AVOID
BEING BLOWN TO SPLINTERS
1461
01:27:16,398 --> 01:27:19,493
BY THE GERMANS' DECK GUN
WAS NEVER CLEAR,
1462
01:27:19,534 --> 01:27:21,662
BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
SUPPLIED HEMINGWAY
1463
01:27:21,703 --> 01:27:24,537
WITH ALL THE WEAPONRY
AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
1464
01:27:24,573 --> 01:27:27,475
HE ASKED FOR... AND LIMITLESS,
1465
01:27:27,509 --> 01:27:31,947
OTHERWISE STRICTLY-RATIONED
GASOLINE.
1466
01:27:31,980 --> 01:27:35,007
HE HAD US ON
HIS BOAT, THE "PILAR,"
1467
01:27:35,250 --> 01:27:39,244
OFF THE CUBAN COAST IN A PLACE
CALLED CAYO CONFITES.
1468
01:27:39,287 --> 01:27:42,280
THERE WERE TWO BUNKS THERE,
ONE ON EACH SIDE
1469
01:27:42,324 --> 01:27:45,419
AND A LITTLE HATCH THAT
YOU COULD GET OUT OF.
1470
01:27:45,460 --> 01:27:48,692
AND THEY LEFT US ON THE ISLAND.
1471
01:27:48,730 --> 01:27:50,255
WHAT DO THEY CALL
THE PEOPLE THAT
1472
01:27:50,298 --> 01:27:51,823
LOOK AFTER THE WELFARE
OF CHILDREN?
1473
01:27:51,867 --> 01:27:53,358
THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN US AWAY
1474
01:27:53,401 --> 01:27:57,429
FROM OUR FATHER IMMEDIATELY.
1475
01:27:57,472 --> 01:27:59,771
HEMINGWAY AND HIS
CREW DID KEEP WATCH
1476
01:27:59,808 --> 01:28:04,940
ON THE COUNTLESS BAYS AND INLETS
AND ISLANDS ALONG CUBA'S COAST.
1477
01:28:04,980 --> 01:28:07,745
ONLY ONCE IN ALL THAT TIME
DID THE "PILAR"
1478
01:28:07,783 --> 01:28:10,776
ACTUALLY SPOT
AN ENEMY SUBMARINE,
1479
01:28:10,819 --> 01:28:15,757
BUT IT PROVED FAR TOO FAST
AND FAR AWAY TO CATCH.
1480
01:28:15,791 --> 01:28:19,057
HEMINGWAY HIMSELF WOULD
REMEMBER HIS SUBMARINE-CHASING
1481
01:28:19,294 --> 01:28:23,891
AS THAT "SEA-BORNE COMIC STRIP
WE OPERATED IN THE CARIBBEAN."
1482
01:28:38,613 --> 01:28:39,581
I BET WHEN HEMINGWAY WAS
1483
01:28:39,614 --> 01:28:40,614
FIRST IN LOVE WITH
1484
01:28:40,649 --> 01:28:42,049
EACH PARTICULAR WOMAN,
1485
01:28:42,083 --> 01:28:44,382
I BET HE BECAME THE BOY AGAIN.
1486
01:28:45,620 --> 01:28:49,716
BUT HE WAS A BIT OF
A CONTROLLER IN LIFE
1487
01:28:49,758 --> 01:28:52,318
AND A BIT OF A BULLY AS WELL.
1488
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:57,628
SO THAT EVERYDAY LIFE WITH
HEMINGWAY WOULD BE INTOLERABLE.
1489
01:28:57,666 --> 01:29:02,604
IT WAS, I THINK, HE LOVED
AS A TRUTHFUL PERSON AT FIRST
1490
01:29:02,637 --> 01:29:09,066
AND THEN BECAME THE MYTHOLOGIZED
MAN IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
1491
01:29:09,110 --> 01:29:12,808
THE ONLY SERIOUS COMPLAINT
I HAVE ABOUT MATRIMONY
1492
01:29:12,848 --> 01:29:16,478
IS THAT IT BRINGS OUT
THE FAINT GOODNESS IN ME,
1493
01:29:16,518 --> 01:29:20,011
AND HAS A TENDENCY
TO SOFTEN AND QUIET
1494
01:29:20,055 --> 01:29:22,456
THE HELL ON WHEELS ASPECT,
1495
01:29:22,490 --> 01:29:25,483
AND FINALLY I BECOME
BORED WITH MYSELF.
1496
01:29:25,527 --> 01:29:29,623
MY MAN IS ANOTHER
HELL ON WHEELS CHARACTER,
1497
01:29:29,664 --> 01:29:32,361
AND WHAT IS SO CHRISTED ODD
IS THAT
1498
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:34,460
TWO PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE TOGETHER,
1499
01:29:34,502 --> 01:29:36,130
WITH ANY ORDER OR HEALTH,
1500
01:29:36,371 --> 01:29:39,739
IF THEY ARE BOTH HELL ON WHEELS,
1501
01:29:39,774 --> 01:29:44,542
SO, FOR THE MUTUAL GOOD,
THEY MUST BOTH CALM THEMSELVES.
1502
01:29:44,579 --> 01:29:48,107
AND THAT IS A LOSS,
BUT I HAVE NOT YET FOUND OUT
1503
01:29:48,149 --> 01:29:50,641
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
1504
01:29:50,685 --> 01:29:55,680
ERNEST AND I REALLY ARE
AFRAID OF EACH OTHER,
1505
01:29:55,724 --> 01:29:57,158
EACH ONE KNOWING THAT THE OTHER
1506
01:29:57,392 --> 01:30:00,590
IS THE MOST VIOLENT PERSON
EITHER ONE KNOWS,
1507
01:30:00,629 --> 01:30:03,656
AND KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT
VIOLENCE WE ARE ALWAYS
1508
01:30:03,698 --> 01:30:08,102
MUTUALLY ALARMED AT THE
POTENTIALITIES OF THE OTHER.
1509
01:30:08,136 --> 01:30:12,631
SO, WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER,
WE TAKE IT FAIRLY EASY,
1510
01:30:12,674 --> 01:30:17,510
SO AS NOT TO SEE THE OTHER
BURST INTO LOUD, FURIOUS FLAME.
1511
01:30:20,181 --> 01:30:23,447
MARTHA GELLHORN HAD
NO INTENTION OF STAYING HOME
1512
01:30:23,485 --> 01:30:25,954
WITH HER HUSBAND AS PAULINE HAD.
1513
01:30:25,987 --> 01:30:28,980
AND AT FIRST,
HE ENCOURAGED HER WORK.
1514
01:30:30,625 --> 01:30:33,117
I CAN'T
REALLY WRITE AT ALL
THE WAY YOU CAN
1515
01:30:33,161 --> 01:30:36,461
WELL AND EASILY AND GOOD.
1516
01:30:36,498 --> 01:30:38,990
I JUST NAIL WORDS TOGETHER
LIKE A BLOODY CARPENTER
1517
01:30:39,034 --> 01:30:41,526
AND IT IS SO TOUGH TO DO.
1518
01:30:42,771 --> 01:30:45,764
YOU ARE MY HERO
AND ALWAYS WILL BE
1519
01:30:45,807 --> 01:30:48,641
AND I WILL BE GOOD AND TRY
TO LIVE UP TO MY HERO.
1520
01:30:50,011 --> 01:30:53,641
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
HAVING COME TO KEY WEST
1521
01:30:53,682 --> 01:30:55,583
AND FOR HAVING MARRIED ME.
1522
01:30:57,018 --> 01:30:59,647
GELLHORN'S VIEW
OF HERSELF AND HER TALENT
1523
01:30:59,688 --> 01:31:02,157
WAS EVERY BIT AS EXALTED
AS HER HUSBAND'S VIEW
1524
01:31:02,190 --> 01:31:04,625
OF HIMSELF AND HIS.
1525
01:31:04,659 --> 01:31:07,493
"WE TWO ARE GREAT PEOPLE,"
SHE ONCE TOLD HIM.
1526
01:31:07,529 --> 01:31:10,499
"WE CAN SHAKE THE WORLD."
1527
01:31:10,532 --> 01:31:12,558
BUT THE COUPLE FOUND IT
HARD TO KEEP
1528
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:15,536
THEIR VOLATILITY
SMOTHERED FOR LONG.
1529
01:31:15,570 --> 01:31:18,768
SHE BEGAN TO TRAVEL
MORE AND MORE ON ASSIGNMENT
1530
01:31:18,807 --> 01:31:22,107
AND HE BEGAN TO RESENT IT.
1531
01:31:22,143 --> 01:31:26,604
MARTHA WAS A WOMAN
WHO WOULD NOT BACK DOWN.
1532
01:31:26,648 --> 01:31:27,946
MARTHA WAS A WOMAN WHO COULD
1533
01:31:27,983 --> 01:31:30,885
GIVE AS GOOD
AS SHE GOT VERBALLY.
1534
01:31:30,919 --> 01:31:34,185
MARTHA WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD HER
OWN LIFE THAT SHE WANTED TO LIVE
1535
01:31:34,222 --> 01:31:36,487
AND CAREER SHE WANTED TO PURSUE
1536
01:31:36,524 --> 01:31:40,962
AND NOBODY WAS
TAKING THAT AWAY FROM HER.
1537
01:31:40,996 --> 01:31:42,965
THEY WERE GREAT
IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
1538
01:31:42,998 --> 01:31:47,561
WHERE THERE'S BULLETS AND, AND
SHELLS FLYING EVERY WHICH WAY.
1539
01:31:47,602 --> 01:31:51,869
BUT PUT 'EM TOGETHER IN A HOUSE
AND IT WAS JUST A DISASTER.
1540
01:31:55,543 --> 01:31:56,954
AFTER GELLHORN
RETURNED TO CUBA
1541
01:31:56,978 --> 01:31:59,072
FROM A LENGTHY REPORTING TRIP,
1542
01:31:59,114 --> 01:32:01,674
SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT
HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURING
1543
01:32:01,716 --> 01:32:04,652
ABOARD THE "PILAR"
WAS POINTLESS,
1544
01:32:04,686 --> 01:32:07,884
JUST AN EXCUSE TO FISH AND DRINK
WITH HIS FRIENDS
1545
01:32:07,922 --> 01:32:10,551
WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD
WAS AT WAR,
1546
01:32:10,592 --> 01:32:13,892
AND SHE DID NOT HESITATE
TO SAY SO.
1547
01:32:13,928 --> 01:32:16,557
HE WAS, IN FACT,
NOT WRITING AT ALL
1548
01:32:16,598 --> 01:32:19,090
AND WAS DRINKING
MORE AND MORE HEAVILY,
1549
01:32:19,134 --> 01:32:22,662
BEGINNING WITH A SCOTCH-AND-SODA
AT 10 IN THE MORNING
1550
01:32:22,704 --> 01:32:24,832
AND KEEPING AT IT ALL DAY.
1551
01:32:26,875 --> 01:32:28,707
HE WAS ANGERED BY HER CRITICISM
1552
01:32:28,743 --> 01:32:32,805
AND NOW SOMETIMES
DISMISSIVE OF HER WRITING.
1553
01:32:32,847 --> 01:32:35,248
"I'LL SHOW YOU,
YOU CONCEITED BITCH,"
1554
01:32:35,283 --> 01:32:38,617
ONE OF HIS SONS
REMEMBERED HEARING HIM SHOUT.
1555
01:32:38,653 --> 01:32:40,713
"THEY'LL BE READING MY STUFF
LONG AFTER
1556
01:32:40,755 --> 01:32:43,156
THE WORMS HAVE
FINISHED WITH YOU."
1557
01:32:45,727 --> 01:32:47,705
OF ALL OF HIS WIVES,
HE HAD THE LEAST POWER
1558
01:32:47,729 --> 01:32:49,698
AND THE LEAST CONTROL
OVER MARTHA,
1559
01:32:49,731 --> 01:32:50,755
SO, THAT WOULD, I THINK,
1560
01:32:50,799 --> 01:32:52,290
TEND TO SEND THINGS
1561
01:32:52,333 --> 01:32:55,064
OVER THE TOP.
1562
01:32:55,103 --> 01:33:03,103
VERBAL ABUSE STARTS WITH MARTHA
AND HORRIBLE SLANGING MATCHES.
1563
01:33:03,945 --> 01:33:05,811
THEY HAD BEEN
TOGETHER OFF AND ON
1564
01:33:05,847 --> 01:33:07,611
FOR 7 YEARS,
1565
01:33:07,649 --> 01:33:10,949
NEARLY 3 OF THEM
AS HUSBAND AND WIFE.
1566
01:33:10,985 --> 01:33:13,580
WHEN APART, THEIR LETTERS
WERE STILL FULL OF
1567
01:33:13,621 --> 01:33:17,023
FOND NICKNAMES AND DECLARATIONS
OF LOVE.
1568
01:33:17,058 --> 01:33:18,321
BUT WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER,
1569
01:33:18,359 --> 01:33:21,124
THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.
1570
01:33:23,164 --> 01:33:26,134
WHEN GELLHORN INSISTED ON
DRIVING HOME FROM HAVANA
1571
01:33:26,167 --> 01:33:29,262
AT THE END OF ONE
ESPECIALLY DRUNKEN EVENING,
1572
01:33:29,304 --> 01:33:31,296
HEMINGWAY SLAPPED HER.
1573
01:33:31,339 --> 01:33:34,605
SHE DELIBERATELY DROVE HIS CAR
INTO A DITCH
1574
01:33:34,642 --> 01:33:39,012
AND LEFT HIM THERE WHILE SHE
WALKED BACK TO THE FINCA ALONE.
1575
01:34:08,243 --> 01:34:10,405
BY THE SUMMER OF 1943,
1576
01:34:10,645 --> 01:34:14,275
THE TIDE OF WAR IN EUROPE
HAD BEGUN TO TURN.
1577
01:34:14,315 --> 01:34:15,908
THE GERMANS AND ITALIANS
1578
01:34:15,950 --> 01:34:19,148
HAD BEEN DRIVEN
FROM NORTH AFRICA.
1579
01:34:19,187 --> 01:34:23,147
ALLIED TROOPS
HAD LANDED IN ITALY.
1580
01:34:23,191 --> 01:34:25,183
THE SOVIET ARMY WAS MOVING WEST,
1581
01:34:25,226 --> 01:34:28,094
DRIVING THE NAZI INVADERS
BEFORE THEM.
1582
01:34:30,331 --> 01:34:32,425
GELLHORN LONGED TO BE
PART OF IT...
1583
01:34:32,667 --> 01:34:34,898
AND COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
HOW HEMINGWAY
1584
01:34:34,936 --> 01:34:37,371
DID NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY.
1585
01:34:37,405 --> 01:34:39,806
SHE TOLD HIM SHE WANTED
TO FEEL AGAIN
1586
01:34:39,841 --> 01:34:42,834
ALL "THE BLINDNESS
AND FERVOR AND RECKLESSNESS"
1587
01:34:42,877 --> 01:34:44,812
SHE HAD ONCE FELT WITH HIM.
1588
01:34:46,848 --> 01:34:49,818
IN SEPTEMBER, SHE LEFT
FOR ENGLAND WITHOUT HIM,
1589
01:34:49,851 --> 01:34:52,013
TO REPORT FOR "COLLIER'S."
1590
01:34:52,053 --> 01:34:56,457
HEMINGWAY WAS ANGRY,
MOROSE, BEREFT.
1591
01:34:59,060 --> 01:35:00,838
THE LETTER
WHERE YOU SAY THAT THESE ARE
1592
01:35:00,862 --> 01:35:03,388
THE WORST TWO WEEKS OF YOUR LIFE
1593
01:35:03,431 --> 01:35:09,029
AND THAT YOU FEEL YOU ARE GOING
TO DIE OF SADNESS IS TOO AWFUL.
1594
01:35:09,070 --> 01:35:12,905
YOU MATTER MORE THAN
ANYTHING IN THE WORLD TO ME.
1595
01:35:12,941 --> 01:35:15,035
I CAN'T HAVE YOU
DYING OF SADNESS.
1596
01:35:15,076 --> 01:35:17,773
I JUST CAN'T BE PARTY TO THAT.
1597
01:35:17,812 --> 01:35:20,976
IF YOU SEE THAT YOU TRULY
CANNOT BEAR IT,
1598
01:35:21,015 --> 01:35:22,950
I'LL COME HOME.
1599
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:27,882
BUT SHE DIDN'T
COME HOME.
1600
01:35:27,922 --> 01:35:30,187
WHEN "COLLIER'S" PUBLISHED
MARTHA'S DISPATCHES
1601
01:35:30,225 --> 01:35:32,057
FROM THE ITALIAN FRONT,
1602
01:35:32,093 --> 01:35:34,392
HEMINGWAY PUBLICLY PRAISED THEM.
1603
01:35:34,429 --> 01:35:37,194
"YOU FEEL IT AS THOUGH
IT WERE YOU," HE SAID,
1604
01:35:37,232 --> 01:35:38,894
"AND YOU WERE THERE."
1605
01:35:40,368 --> 01:35:42,496
BUT SHE REMEMBERED
RECEIVING AN ANGRY CABLE
1606
01:35:42,737 --> 01:35:44,763
FROM HER HUSBAND IN CUBA:
1607
01:35:44,806 --> 01:35:48,868
"ARE YOU A WAR CORRESPONDENT
OR WIFE IN MY BED?"
1608
01:35:50,111 --> 01:35:53,513
MARTHA HOPED SHE COULD
SOMEHOW STILL BE BOTH.
1609
01:35:53,748 --> 01:35:55,876
"IT IS QUITE A JOB
BEING A WOMAN, ISN'T IT?"
1610
01:35:55,917 --> 01:35:58,079
SHE WROTE TO MRS. ROOSEVELT.
1611
01:35:58,119 --> 01:36:00,418
"YOU CANNOT DO YOUR WORK
AND SIMPLY GET ON WITH IT
1612
01:36:00,455 --> 01:36:02,083
"BECAUSE THAT IS SELFISH.
1613
01:36:02,123 --> 01:36:04,820
YOU HAVE TO BE
TWO THINGS AT ONCE."
1614
01:36:06,894 --> 01:36:10,524
AGAIN AND AGAIN, HEMINGWAY
BEGGED HER TO RETURN TO CUBA.
1615
01:36:10,765 --> 01:36:16,397
AGAIN AND AGAIN, SHE URGED HIM
TO JOIN HER IN LONDON INSTEAD.
1616
01:36:16,437 --> 01:36:20,841
HE REFUSED TO DO IT.
FINALLY, SHE GAVE UP TRYING.
1617
01:36:23,077 --> 01:36:25,069
I LOVE YOU DEARLY.
1618
01:36:25,113 --> 01:36:28,049
I WON'T URGE YOU
ANY MORE TO COME,
1619
01:36:28,082 --> 01:36:30,176
THOUGH I DO THINK
YOU WILL REGRET IT
1620
01:36:30,218 --> 01:36:32,813
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE
A GREAT GENERAL LOSS
1621
01:36:32,854 --> 01:36:34,322
FOR FUTURE TIME, FOR ALL PEOPLE
1622
01:36:34,355 --> 01:36:37,450
WHO NEED AND LOVE TO READ.
1623
01:36:37,492 --> 01:36:40,929
I KNOW IT IS HELL
FOR YOU THERE ALONE
1624
01:36:40,962 --> 01:36:43,363
BUT I HAVE TO ASK YOU
TO BE PATIENT.
1625
01:36:43,398 --> 01:36:47,301
YOU HAVE A LIFE THERE BECAUSE
YOU HAVE USEFUL WORK;
1626
01:36:47,335 --> 01:36:51,102
IT IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN
AND FEEL RIGHT ABOUT DOING.
1627
01:36:52,907 --> 01:36:55,502
BUT I BELIEVE IN
WHAT I AM DOING, TOO.
1628
01:36:55,543 --> 01:36:58,103
I HAVE TO LIVE MY WAY
AS WELL AS YOURS,
1629
01:36:58,146 --> 01:37:01,913
OR THERE WOULDN'T BE
ANY ME TO LOVE YOU WITH.
1630
01:37:01,949 --> 01:37:05,317
YOU WOULDN'T REALLY WANT ME IF
I BUILT A FINE BIG STONE WALL
1631
01:37:05,353 --> 01:37:07,913
AROUND THE FINCA
AND SAT INSIDE IT.
1632
01:37:10,458 --> 01:37:13,917
THAT WAS EXACTLY
WHAT HE DID WANT HER TO DO.
1633
01:37:13,961 --> 01:37:17,864
DEPRESSION GRIPPED HIM...
HE CALLED IT "BLACK ASS."
1634
01:37:17,899 --> 01:37:20,266
FEELING ABANDONED,
WITH NO WRITING PROJECT
1635
01:37:20,301 --> 01:37:22,395
IN WHICH TO LOSE HIMSELF,
1636
01:37:22,437 --> 01:37:24,929
THE DREAD OF SLEEPING ALONE
THAT HAD PLAGUED HIM
1637
01:37:24,972 --> 01:37:29,342
SINCE HIS RETURN FROM
THE GREAT WAR DEEPENED.
1638
01:37:29,377 --> 01:37:32,006
HE NOW HAD TO
DRINK HIMSELF TO SLEEP...
1639
01:37:32,046 --> 01:37:34,914
AND WAS CONSUMED WITH SELF-PITY.
1640
01:37:36,517 --> 01:37:39,077
I AM
SICK-LONELY WITH MARTY AWAY.
1641
01:37:40,488 --> 01:37:43,219
LIKE SOMEBODY WITH
THEIR HEART CUT OUT.
1642
01:37:43,257 --> 01:37:45,920
LOVED MARTY SO MUCH
AND TO THE EXCLUSION OF
1643
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,987
EVERYTHING AND ALL ELSE SO THAT
1644
01:37:49,030 --> 01:37:52,489
EVERYBODY WHO USED
TO LOVE ME QUIT.
1645
01:37:52,533 --> 01:37:57,130
SO, NOW I HAVE NO MARTY
AND NOBODY ELSE.
1646
01:37:58,973 --> 01:38:02,341
IN EARLY 1944,
MARTHA RETURNED TO CUBA,
1647
01:38:02,377 --> 01:38:05,142
HOPING SOMEHOW
TO REASSURE HER HUSBAND
1648
01:38:05,179 --> 01:38:07,512
AND REBUILD THEIR MARRIAGE.
1649
01:38:07,548 --> 01:38:09,073
IT DIDN'T WORK.
1650
01:38:10,985 --> 01:38:14,387
HE WOKE ME
WHEN I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP
1651
01:38:14,422 --> 01:38:17,620
TO BULLY, SNARL, MOCK.
1652
01:38:17,658 --> 01:38:22,028
MY CRIME REALLY WAS TO HAVE
BEEN AT WAR WHEN HE HAD NOT,
1653
01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:24,498
BUT THAT WAS NOT HOW HE PUT IT.
1654
01:38:24,532 --> 01:38:29,470
I WAS SUPPOSEDLY INSANE, I HAD
NO RESPONSIBILITY TO ANYONE,
1655
01:38:29,504 --> 01:38:32,941
I WAS SELFISH BEYOND BELIEF.
1656
01:38:34,909 --> 01:38:37,140
SHE ASSAILED HIM
AGAIN FOR HIS DRINKING,
1657
01:38:37,178 --> 01:38:39,477
RIDICULED HIS SUBMARINE HUNTING,
1658
01:38:39,514 --> 01:38:44,043
ACCUSED HIM OF COWARDICE IN
STAYING AWAY FROM THE REAL WAR.
1659
01:38:45,386 --> 01:38:47,150
THE LONG-PLANNED ALLIED INVASION
1660
01:38:47,188 --> 01:38:50,158
OF NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE
WAS COMING.
1661
01:38:50,191 --> 01:38:52,524
HE OWED IT TO HIMSELF,
SHE INSISTED...
1662
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:57,021
HE OWED IT TO HISTORY... TO BE
IN AT THE DEATH OF FASCISM.
1663
01:38:58,466 --> 01:39:00,332
HISTORY DIDN'T CONCERN HIM,
HE SAID.
1664
01:39:00,368 --> 01:39:04,100
HE'D BEEN WOUNDED IN ONE WAR
AND UNDER FIRE IN TWO.
1665
01:39:04,138 --> 01:39:07,336
HIS LUCK WAS LIKELY
TO RUN OUT IN A THIRD.
1666
01:39:07,375 --> 01:39:11,039
IF HE WERE TO BE KILLED,
SHE WOULD BEAR THE BLAME.
1667
01:39:12,046 --> 01:39:13,639
FINALLY, GELLHORN TOLD HIM
1668
01:39:13,681 --> 01:39:15,547
SHE "WAS GOING BACK TO LONDON
1669
01:39:15,583 --> 01:39:18,178
WHETHER HE CAME OR NOT."
1670
01:39:19,687 --> 01:39:24,216
THEN, SUDDENLY, HE CHANGED
HIS MIND AND AGREED TO GO.
1671
01:39:24,258 --> 01:39:28,286
HE TOLD HER, "JUST FEEL
LIKE OLD HORSE."
1672
01:39:29,697 --> 01:39:33,429
GOOD, SOUND, BUT OLD,
1673
01:39:33,468 --> 01:39:35,733
BEING SADDLED AGAIN
TO RACE OVER THE JUMPS
1674
01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:38,667
BECAUSE OF UNSCRUPULOUS OWNER.
1675
01:39:38,706 --> 01:39:41,232
WILL MAKE SAME RACE AS ALWAYS,
1676
01:39:41,275 --> 01:39:43,676
BEST THAT CAN MAKE,
BUT AM NEITHER
1677
01:39:43,711 --> 01:39:47,739
HAPPY, EXCITED, NOR INTERESTED.
1678
01:39:50,184 --> 01:39:52,380
HE SIGNED ON
WITH "COLLIER'S"...
1679
01:39:52,420 --> 01:39:54,514
THUS ENSURING THAT
GELLHORN WOULD BE
1680
01:39:54,555 --> 01:39:59,550
OVERSHADOWED AT THE MAGAZINE
FOR WHICH SHE WROTE REGULARLY.
1681
01:39:59,594 --> 01:40:03,156
"HE DID IT TO FIX ME,"
SHE REMEMBERED MANY YEARS LATER.
1682
01:40:03,197 --> 01:40:07,259
"NOTHING COULD BEAT IT
FOR SHEER BITCHERY."
1683
01:40:07,301 --> 01:40:08,735
STILL, MARTHA PERSUADED A FRIEND
1684
01:40:08,769 --> 01:40:11,295
AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY
IN WASHINGTON
1685
01:40:11,339 --> 01:40:13,706
TO PROVIDE HIM WITH
A HARD-TO-OBTAIN SEAT
1686
01:40:13,741 --> 01:40:17,178
ON AN RAF PLANE
HEADED FOR LONDON.
1687
01:40:17,211 --> 01:40:20,113
SHE ASSUMED SHE'D BE
BOARDING THE PLANE, TOO.
1688
01:40:20,147 --> 01:40:24,107
BUT HEMINGWAY, STILL BITTER OVER
THE PRESSURE SHE'D PUT ON HIM,
1689
01:40:24,151 --> 01:40:27,087
TOLD HER THE MILITARY
HAD BARRED WOMEN...
1690
01:40:27,121 --> 01:40:29,283
EVEN THOUGH TWO
BRITISH ACTRESSES
1691
01:40:29,323 --> 01:40:32,725
WOULD BE AMONG
HIS FELLOW PASSENGERS.
1692
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:36,492
GELLHORN WAS FORCED TO CROSS
THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALONE,
1693
01:40:36,531 --> 01:40:39,524
THE SOLE CIVILIAN ABOARD
A NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER
1694
01:40:39,567 --> 01:40:42,662
CARRYING EXPLOSIVES
AND LANDING CRAFT,
1695
01:40:42,703 --> 01:40:48,165
PART OF THE PREPARATIONS
FOR D-DAY, NOW JUST WEEKS AWAY.
1696
01:40:48,209 --> 01:40:51,304
HER MARRIAGE WAS
ESSENTIALLY OVER.
1697
01:40:51,345 --> 01:40:52,813
"ERNEST IS A GOOD MAN,"
1698
01:40:53,047 --> 01:40:56,609
SHE WROTE AN OLD FRIEND
WHILE ABOARD SHIP.
1699
01:40:56,651 --> 01:40:59,177
HE IS,
HOWEVER, BAD FOR ME...
1700
01:40:59,220 --> 01:41:02,247
OR MAYBE WRONG FOR ME
IS THE WORD;
1701
01:41:02,290 --> 01:41:04,521
AND I AM WRONG FOR HIM.
1702
01:41:07,395 --> 01:41:10,331
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED,
IT IS ALL OVER.
1703
01:41:10,364 --> 01:41:13,459
IT'LL NEVER WORK
BETWEEN US AGAIN.
1704
01:41:13,501 --> 01:41:19,065
I AM WONDERING NOW IF
IT EVER REALLY WORKED;
1705
01:41:19,106 --> 01:41:23,567
I AM WONDERING WHAT ALL THESE
7 YEARS WERE ABOUT EXACTLY.
1706
01:41:25,112 --> 01:41:33,112
I FEEL TERRIBLY STRANGE, LIKE
A SHADOW, AND FULL OF DREAD.
1707
01:41:34,322 --> 01:41:39,124
I DREAD THE TIME AHEAD,
THE AMPUTATING TIME.
1708
01:41:40,194 --> 01:41:43,687
IT IS, NOTE, MY FAULT:
1709
01:41:43,731 --> 01:41:45,723
I AM THE ONE WHO HAS CHANGED
1710
01:41:45,766 --> 01:41:50,500
AND I AM ASHAMED
AND GUILTY, TOO,
1711
01:41:50,538 --> 01:41:54,600
BECAUSE I AM BREAKING HIS HEART.
1712
01:41:54,642 --> 01:41:56,474
WE QUARRELED TOO MUCH,
I SUPPOSE.
1713
01:41:56,510 --> 01:42:03,508
IT'S ALL SICKENING AND I'M
SAD TO DEATH AND AFRAID.
1714
01:42:03,551 --> 01:42:09,787
I ONLY WANT TO BE ALONE.
I WANT TO BE MYSELF
1715
01:42:09,824 --> 01:42:13,625
AND ALONE AND FREE
TO BREATHE, LIVE,
1716
01:42:13,661 --> 01:42:18,622
LOOK UPON THE WORLD
AND FIND IT HOWEVER IT IS.
1717
01:42:18,666 --> 01:42:22,569
I WANT MY OWN NAME BACK,
MOST VIOLENTLY,
1718
01:42:22,603 --> 01:42:28,167
AS IF GETTING IT BACK
WOULD GIVE ME SOME OF MYSELF.
1719
01:42:31,379 --> 01:42:32,522
HEMINGWAY GOT TO ENGLAND
1720
01:42:32,546 --> 01:42:36,347
11 DAYS BEFORE GELLHORN DID...
1721
01:42:36,384 --> 01:42:38,853
LONG ENOUGH FOR HIM TO MEET
THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BECOME
1722
01:42:38,886 --> 01:42:43,187
THE FOURTH
MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
1723
01:45:27,888 --> 01:45:29,032
DO STORIES HELP US
1724
01:45:29,056 --> 01:45:30,615
SEE THE WORLD IN A NEW LIGHT?
1725
01:45:30,658 --> 01:45:32,217
CAN THE PAST BE A WINDOW
TO THE FUTURE?
1726
01:45:32,259 --> 01:45:34,137
SINCE 2007, BANK OF AMERICA
HAS PROUDLY SUPPORTED
1727
01:45:34,161 --> 01:45:36,221
THE FILMS OF KEN BURNS
AS THEY TELL THE STORIES
1728
01:45:36,263 --> 01:45:38,596
OF OUR PAST
AND INSPIRE US TO MOVE FORWARD.
1729
01:45:38,632 --> 01:45:41,329
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE
THE POWER TO DO?
1730
01:45:44,271 --> 01:45:45,899
MAJOR FUNDING
FOR "HEMINGWAY"
1731
01:45:45,940 --> 01:45:48,705
WAS PROVIDED BY
THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY
1732
01:45:48,742 --> 01:45:50,643
AND BY ITS MEMBERS:
1733
01:45:50,678 --> 01:45:52,909
THE ELIZABETH RUTH WALLACE
LIVING TRUST,
1734
01:45:52,947 --> 01:45:54,882
JOHN AND LESLIE McQUOWN,
1735
01:45:54,915 --> 01:45:56,781
JOHN AND CATHERINE DEBS,
1736
01:45:56,817 --> 01:45:59,309
THE FULLERTON FAMILY
CHARITABLE TRUST,
1737
01:45:59,353 --> 01:46:02,289
KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION,
GAIL ELDEN,
1738
01:46:02,323 --> 01:46:03,882
GILCHRIST AND AMY BERG,
1739
01:46:03,924 --> 01:46:05,688
ROBERT AND BEVERLY GRAPPONE,
1740
01:46:05,726 --> 01:46:08,161
AND MAUREE JANE AND MARK PERRY.
1741
01:46:08,195 --> 01:46:12,326
ADDITIONAL FUNDING WAS PROVIDED
BY THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION,
1742
01:46:12,366 --> 01:46:14,926
THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS
FOUNDATIONS,
1743
01:46:14,969 --> 01:46:17,666
THE CORPORATION
FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING,
1744
01:46:17,705 --> 01:46:20,732
AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR
PBS STATION
1745
01:46:20,774 --> 01:46:22,834
FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU.
1746
01:46:22,877 --> 01:46:25,176
THANK YOU.
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