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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: WHEN HE
AWOKE, HE KNEW HE HAD BEEN
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OUT OF HIS HEAD IN THE NIGHT,
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AND AFTER EATING HIS BREAKFAST,
HE UNLOADED HIS PISTOL
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AND PLACED THE LOADED
MAGAZINE IN ONE DRAWER
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AND THE PISTOL IN ANOTHER.
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AFTER THIS,
HE COMMENCED WRITING.
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AT NIGHTS NOW HE WAS
ON THE BOAT, MOSTLY,
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ALTHOUGH ON SOME NIGHTS
HE WAS IN UPPER MICHIGAN,
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WHERE HE HAD LIVED AS A BOY.
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THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME
WHEN HE HAD BEEN REALLY
AWAKE IN THE NIGHT
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AND STILL UNABLE
TO LEAVE THE DREAM.
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HE KNEW
HE HAD BEEN OUT OF HIS MIND,
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BUT HE DID NOT CARE AS LONG AS
HE COULD WRITE IN THE DAYTIME.
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HIM NOW
HE CONSIDERED OF NO IMPORTANCE
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AS LONG AS
HE COULD WRITE.
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HE WROTE WELL THAT DAY.
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ON MAY 17, 1944,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
ARRIVED IN LONDON,
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ASSIGNED BY "COLLIER'S"
MAGAZINE TO COVER
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THE ALLIED INVASION OF FRANCE,
NOW LESS THAN 3 WEEKS AWAY.
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HE WAS 44 YEARS OLD BUT SEEMED
MUCH OLDER AND FELT THAT
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THE LUCK THAT HAD KEPT HIM ALIVE
THROUGH TWO WARS WOULD LIKELY
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NOT CONTINUE THROUGH ANOTHER
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AND BLAMED HIS THIRD WIFE,
MARTHA GELLHORN,
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FOR FORCING HIM TO COME.
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GELLHORN WAS STILL AT SEA,
ON HER WAY TO ENGLAND
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TO COVER THE CONFLICT.
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ONCE HEMINGWAY SETTLED
INTO HIS SECOND-FLOOR ROOM
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AT THE DORCHESTER HOTEL IN THE
FASHIONABLE MAYFAIR DISTRICT,
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HE FOUND HIMSELF THE CENTER OF
ATTENTION AND HIGH-SPIRITED
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GOOD TIMES.
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FELLOW CORRESPONDENTS, R.A.F.
PILOTS, AND OPERATIVES ENLISTED
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IN THE CLANDESTINE U.S. OFFICE
OF SPECIAL SERVICES... THE OSS...
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ALL GRAVITATED TOWARDS HIM.
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ONE DAY AT LUNCH, HE STOPPED
BY THE TABLE OF THE PLAYWRIGHT
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IRWIN SHAW AND ASKED TO BE
INTRODUCED TO HIS COMPANION,
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A 36-YEAR-OLD CORRESPONDENT
FOR "TIME" AND "LIFE" NAMED
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MARY WELSH.
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HER SECOND HUSBAND,
AN AUSTRALIAN REPORTER,
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WAS OUT OF THE COUNTRY,
AND IN WARTIME LONDON SHE WAS
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BEING PURSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY
SHAW AND A NUMBER OF OTHER MEN.
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HEMINGWAY JOINED THE PACK.
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ONE NIGHT, RETURNING BY CAR
FROM A PARTY THROUGH THE
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BLACKED-OUT LONDON STREETS,
HEMINGWAY'S DRIVER FAILED TO
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SEE A WATER TANK
AND CRASHED INTO IT.
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HEMINGWAY'S KNEES
WERE INJURED.
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HIS HEAD SMASHED THROUGH
THE WINDSHIELD, CAUSING
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ANOTHER CONCUSSION.
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"HIS SKULL WAS SPLIT
WIDE OPEN," HIS FRIEND
ROBERT CAPA REMEMBERED,
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"AND HIS BEARD WAS
FULL OF BLOOD."
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WHEN MARTHA GELLHORN FINALLY
ARRIVED IN LONDON AND CAME TO
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SEE HIM IN THE HOSPITAL,
SHE BURST INTO LAUGHTER
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AT THE SIGHT OF HIM HOLDING
COURT AND DRINKING WHISKY
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IN HIS ROOM, HIS HEAD
SWATHED IN BANDAGES.
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SHE WAS SURE NOTHING
SERIOUS COULD BE WRONG.
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"HE DID NOT LOOK THE LEAST
ILL," SHE REMEMBERED.
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THIS WAS NO WAY TO BEHAVE
WHEN THE WORLD WAS AT WAR.
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"WE'RE THROUGH," SHE SAID,
AND STORMED OUT OF THE ROOM.
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HE WROTE TO HIS SON PATRICK.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"WHEN HEAD WAS ALL SMASHED
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"AND TERRIBLE HEADACHES,
ET CETERA,
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"SHE WOULD NOT DO
ANYTHING FOR A MAN
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"THAT WE WOULD DO FOR A DOG.
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"I MADE A VERY GREAT
MISTAKE ON HER, OR ELSE
SHE CHANGED VERY MUCH.
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"I THINK PROBABLY BOTH,
BUT MOSTLY THE LATTER.
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"I HATE TO LOSE ANYONE WHO
CAN LOOK SO LOVELY AND WHO
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"WE TAUGHT TO SHOOT
AND WRITE SO WELL,
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"BUT HAVE TORN UP MY TICKETS ON
HER AND WOULD BE GLAD TO
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NEVER SEE HER AGAIN."
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HE JUST... HE COULDN'T DEAL
WITH THE FACT THAT SHE LEFT HIM.
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HEMINGWAY REALLY,
UH, NEVER GOT OVER HER.
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HE RETAINED HIS ANGER AT
HER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
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MARY WELSH,
WHO ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL
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WITH A BOUQUET OF TULIPS
AND DAFFODILS, PROVED FAR
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MORE SYMPATHETIC.
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IN FACT, HEMINGWAY'S INJURY
WAS MUCH MORE SERIOUS THAN IT
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SEEMED AT FIRST...
A SUBDURAL HEMATOMA,
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BLEEDING BETWEEN
THE BRAIN AND THE SKULL.
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AS A RESULT OF IT, FOR
11 MONTHS, DURING ALL
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THE FIGHTING HE WOULD COVER
IN EUROPE, HE WOULD SUFFER FROM
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BLURRED VISION, RINGING IN HIS
EARS, AND CONSTANTLY RECURRING
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HEADACHES, AND WOULD HAVE
TROUBLE RECALLING WORDS
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AND WRITING LEGIBLY.
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NONETHELESS, HEMINGWAY WAS
RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL
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AFTER JUST 4 DAYS AND CONTINUED
HIS PURSUIT OF MARY WELSH.
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"I DON'T KNOW YOU, MARY.
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BUT I WANT TO MARRY YOU,"
HE TOLD HER, BEFORE BOARDING
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THE TROOP CARRIER THAT
WOULD FERRY HIM ACROSS
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THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
ON D-DAY.
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"I WANT TO MARRY YOU NOW, AND
I HOPE TO MARRY YOU SOMETIME.
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SOMETIME, YOU MAY
WANT TO MARRY ME."
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: AS WE
MOVED IN TOWARD LAND IN
THE GRAY EARLY LIGHT,
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THE 36-FOOT COFFIN-SHAPED
STEEL BOATS TOOK
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SOLID-GREEN SHEETS OF WATER
THAT FELL ON THE HELMETED HEADS
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OF THE TROOPS
PACKED SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
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IN THE STIFF, AWKWARD,
UNCOMFORTABLE, LONELY
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COMPANIONSHIP OF MEN
GOING TO BATTLE.
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FIRE!
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DESPITE HIS THROBBING
HEAD AND BATTERED KNEES,
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HEMINGWAY CLIMBED DOWN A ROPE
LADDER INTO A LANDING CRAFT
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WALLOWING OFF THE LEFT
FLANK OF OMAHA BEACH,
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WHERE 34,000 SOLDIERS
WERE ABOUT TO LAND...
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BUT NO WAR CORRESPONDENTS
WERE PERMITTED TO GO ASHORE.
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HE HAD TO STAY ABOARD
THE LANDING CRAFT
AND WATCH FROM THE BOAT
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AS MEN WADED THROUGH THE SURF
UNDER DEADLY GERMAN FIRE.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: ON THE
BEACH ON THE LEFT WHERE THERE
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WAS NO SHELTERING OVERHANG
OF SHINGLED BANK, THE FIRST,
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SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, AND
FIFTH WAVES LAY WHERE THEY
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HAD FALLEN, LOOKING LIKE SO
MANY HEAVILY LADEN BUNDLES
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ON THE FLAT PEBBLY STRETCH
BETWEEN THE SEA
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AND THE FIRST COVER.
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1,000 ALLIED TROOPS
WOULD DIE THAT DAY.
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BY EVENING, HEMINGWAY WAS
BACK IN HIS LONDON HOTEL ROOM.
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HE WAS NOT PLEASED TO LEARN
THAT MARTHA GELLHORN WOULD
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MANAGE TO DO WHAT HE HAD NOT...
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GET ONTO OMAHA BEACH.
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SHE SLIPPED ABOARD A HOSPITAL
SHIP, THEN LOCKED HERSELF
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IN A BATHROOM AND WENT ASHORE
WITH THE AMBULANCE TEAMS,
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HELPING BRING
BACK THE WOUNDED.
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SHE HANDED IN HER PIECE
BEFORE HE DID AND HAD SEEN
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AND EXPERIENCED FAR MORE OF
THE CARNAGE THAN HE HAD.
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BUT WHEN THE NEXT ISSUE
OF "COLLIER'S" APPEARED,
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ONLY HIS NAME
WAS ON THE COVER.
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IN THE WEEKS AFTER D-DAY,
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HEMINGWAY ACCOMPANIED R.A.F.
PILOTS ON BOMBING MISSIONS,
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BUT DESPITE THE ENEMY FLAK
THROUGH WHICH HE FLEW,
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HE FELT TOO FAR FROM
WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON
THE GROUND IN FRANCE.
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HEMINGWAY GOT HIMSELF
ASSIGNED BRIEFLY
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TO GENERAL GEORGE
PATTON'S THIRD ARMY,
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BUT HE DISLIKED ITS
SHOWY COMMANDER
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AND HAD LITTLE INTEREST
IN TANK WARFARE.
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THEN HE MANAGED TO
LIBERATE A GERMAN
MOTORCYCLE WITH A SIDECAR,
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AND TRAVELING
ALONG AN UNSECURED ROAD...
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WAS FIRED UPON BY A
GERMAN ANTITANK GUN.
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THE EXPLOSION HURLED
HIM INTO A DITCH,
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WHERE HIS HEAD HIT A ROCK
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AND HE SUFFERED
YET ANOTHER CONCUSSION.
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ENEMY TROOPS WERE SO CLOSE,
HE COULD HEAR THEM TALKING.
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HE HAD TO STAY HIDDEN TILL
DARK FOR FEAR OF CAPTURE.
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HE EVENTUALLY FOUND A HOME
WITH THE 22nd REGIMENT
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OF THE 4th INFANTRY DIVISION...
THE "DOUBLE DEUCES"...
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COMMANDED BY COLONEL CHARLES
"BUCK" LANHAM, WHO WOULD
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BECOME HIS LIFELONG FRIEND.
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LANHAM REMEMBERED HIS
FIRST SIGHT OF HEMINGWAY
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WATCHING THE STREET FIGHTING
IN A NORMAN VILLAGE.
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"ERNEST WAS STANDING POISED AS
ALWAYS ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET,
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"LIKE A FIGHTER,
LIKE A GREAT CAT...
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"EASY, RELAXED,
ABSORBED, INTENT, WATCHFUL.
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MISSING NOTHING."
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WHEN TOWNSPEOPLE MISTOOK
HEMINGWAY FOR AN OFFICER
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AND TOLD HIM THREE SS MEN
WERE HIDING IN A CELLAR,
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HE SHOUTED
DOWN A WARNING,
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THEN TUMBLED 3 GRENADES
DOWN THE STAIRS.
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GRATEFUL VILLAGERS REWARDED
HIM WITH TWO MAGNUMS
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OF CHAMPAGNE.
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FOR A TIME, HE AND A
CONSTANTLY CHANGING CAST
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OF CORRESPONDENTS OCCUPIED
A HOTEL AT MONT ST. MICHEL,
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DRIVING OUT TO WATCH
THE WAR DURING THE DAY
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AND DRINKING AND DINING
TOGETHER IN THE EVENING...
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CHARLES COLLINGWOOD
OF CBS RADIO,
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THE "NEW YORKER's"
A.J. LIEBLING,
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AND THE MOVIE DIRECTOR
JOHN FORD AMONG THEM.
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THE GENEVA CONVENTION
BARRED CORRESPONDENTS FROM
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BECOMING COMBATANTS.
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HEMINGWAY PAID LITTLE
ATTENTION TO THE RULES.
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WITH PRIVATE "RED" PELKEY
AT THE WHEEL, HE TRAVELED
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EVERYWHERE IN A JEEP
FILLED WITH MAPS, RIFLES,
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AND GRENADES.
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SOME REPORTERS
ADMIRED HIM FOR IT.
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OTHERS COULDN'T STAND HIM.
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"HE WAS ONLY A REPORTER
SAME AS US," ONE SAID,
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"BUT HE THOUGHT
HE WAS THE SECOND COMING."
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IN LATE AUGUST 1944,
AS AMERICAN FORCES MOVED
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TOWARD PARIS, HEMINGWAY RAN
INTO COLONEL DAVID BRUCE,
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AN OLD FRIEND NOW
SERVING IN THE OSS,
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AND SOMEHOW PERSUADED BRUCE TO
LET HIM TAKE COMMAND OF A BAND
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OF FREE FRENCH RESISTANCE
FIGHTERS IN THE VILLAGE
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OF RAMBOUILLET, WHICH CONTROLLED
ONE OF THE TWO MAIN ROADS
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LEADING TO PARIS.
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ON AUGUST 24th, HEMINGWAY JOINED
THE FRENCH ARMY AS IT BEGAN
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ITS TRIUMPHAL MARCH
INTO THE CAPITAL,
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ARMED WITH THE INTELLIGENCE
HE, BRUCE,
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AND THEIR IRREGULARS HAD GLEANED
ABOUT GERMAN DEFENSES.
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AT HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF PARIS,
HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED, "I HAD
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"A FUNNY CHOKE IN MY THROAT
AND HAD TO CLEAN MY GLASSES
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"BECAUSE THERE, NOW BELOW US,
GRAY AND ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL,
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WAS SPREAD THE CITY I LOVE
BEST IN ALL THE WORLD."
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WE WERE LIBERATED
BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS THE FIRST
AMERICAN THAT WE SAW, THAT WE
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KNEW WHO ARRIVED IN PARIS.
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HE ARRIVED WITH THE FIRST
ONES WITH GENERAL LECLERC.
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I HEARD A NOISE OUT IN THE
STREET IN THE RUE DE L'ODEON
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AND LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW
AND I SAW A STRING OF JEEPS
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WITH THESE MEN IN THEM AND
THEN I HEARD PEOPLE CALLING
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AND CALLING, "SYLVIA, SYLVIA,"
AND I HEARD THIS BIG VOICE
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SAYING, "SYLVIA, SYLVIA,"
AND IT WAS ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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AND HIS MEN, AND I RUSHED DOWN
THE STAIRS AND HE PICKED ME UP,
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YOU KNOW, AND SWUNG ME AROUND
AND SWUNG ME AROUND.
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BUT THERE
WERE STILL POCKETS
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OF GERMAN RESISTANCE.
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THEN HE SAID,
"WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?"
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AND WE SAID, "OH, LIBERATE US!
LIBERATE US!"
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BECAUSE THESE... THE ENEMY WERE
STILL FIRING FROM THE ROOFS
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AND THE RESISTANCE WAS FIRING
ALSO FROM THE ROOFS, AND THIS
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SHOOTING WAS GOING ON ALL
THE TIME, DAY AND NIGHT.
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SO, ERNEST HEMINGWAY
SAID, "OH, YES."
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AND SO HE BROUGHT HIS MEN UP,
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AND THEY ALL WENT
UP ON THE ROOF AND WE HEARD
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GREAT DEAL OF SHOOTING GOING
ON FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN
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THE SHOOTING STOPPED FOREVER.
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WE HAD NO MORE
SHOOTING AFTER THAT.
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THEN WE ASKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY
IF HE WOULDN'T STAY AND HAVE
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SOMETHING WITH US, SOME
DRINK AND HE SAID, "OH, NO.
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I HAVE TO LIBERATE THE
CELLAR OF THE RITZ."
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HEMINGWAY, COLONEL
BRUCE, AND THEIR OUTFIT HEADED
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FOR THE RITZ, WHICH HAD BEEN
HEMINGWAY'S FAVORITE HOTEL
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BEFORE THE WAR.
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THERE, THEY WERE GREETED BY THE
BARTENDER WITH 50 MARTINIS,
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FOLLOWED BY WHAT
BRUCE REMEMBERED AS
"A SPLENDID DINNER."
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AS SOON AS SHE COULD,
MARY WELSH ARRIVED FROM LONDON
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AND MOVED INTO HIS
ROOM IN THE RITZ.
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HEMINGWAY WROTE HIS SON
PATRICK THAT HE HAD A NEW
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COMPANION NOW, A "FINE GIRL,"
WHO HAD LOOKED AFTER HIM,
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"IN WORST TIME EVER HAD.
THINK YOU WOULD LIKE HER."
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HE TOOK HER AROUND PARIS TO
SEE THE PLACES HE AND HIS
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FIRST WIFE, HADLEY, HAD LOVED,
TOLD HER THAT NO MATTER HOW
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MANY MEN HAD LOVED HER
HE LOVED HER MORE, AND TALKED
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ABOUT THE NEW FAMILY HE
HOPED TO START WITH HER.
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HE HAD 3 SONS, HE SAID,
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AND BADLY WANTED
A DAUGHTER, TOO.
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MARY WAS LESS CERTAIN OF
THEIR FUTURE TOGETHER.
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ERNEST WAS SO ARDENT
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AND INSISTED ON SUCH COMPLETE
DEVOTION, SHE REMEMBERED,
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THAT SHE SOMETIMES
FELT OVERWHELMED.
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HE COULD BE GENTLE AND KIND,
BUT HE WAS ALSO UNPREDICTABLE
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AND EASILY ANGERED.
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AND HE DRANK TOO MUCH.
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WHEN SHE COMPLAINED THAT
HE AND HIS DRUNKEN FRIENDS
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FROM THE 22nd REGIMENT
WERE MAKING TOO MUCH NOISE,
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HE SLAPPED HER,
THEN APOLOGIZED AND SWORE IT
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WOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
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BUT ANOTHER EVENING,
HE PLACED A PHOTOGRAPH
OF HER ABSENT HUSBAND
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IN THE TOILET BOWL
AND SHOT IT TO PIECES
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WITH A MACHINE PISTOL,
SHATTERING THE PORCELAIN
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AND FLOODING THE FLOORS BELOW.
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MARY AGREED ONLY TO TRY
LIVING WITH HIM
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WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER.
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HE ALWAYS HAD
TO HAVE A WIFE.
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HE HATED TO BE ALONE.
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AND THAT MARY WASN'T SURE,
THAT SHE REALLY WANTED HIM TO
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STOP DRINKING BEFORE
SHE WOULD COMMIT.
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SHE CALLED IT "OVER-DRINKING."
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ONE DAY THAT AUTUMN,
A STAFF SERGEANT WHO HAD
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WRITTEN SOME SHORT STORIES
KNOCKED ON THE DOOR
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OF HEMINGWAY'S HOTEL ROOM.
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HE'D NEVER MET HEMINGWAY
AND DIDN'T KNOW
HOW HE'D BE RECEIVED,
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BUT HE WAS USHERED IN
AND GIVEN A DRINK.
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HEMINGWAY HAD SEEN ONE OF HIS
PUBLISHED STORIES, ASKED TO
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SEE ANOTHER, LIKED IT, AND
WROTE HIM A LETTER SAYING SO.
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AFTERWARDS, THE YOUNG MAN TOLD
A FRIEND HOW THRILLED HE'D BEEN.
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HEMINGWAY WAS A "GOOD GUY"
HE SAID, MODEST ABOUT
HIS OWN EMINENCE,
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AND SURPRISINGLY
"SOFT" DESPITE THE HARDNESS
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OF HIS CELEBRATED STYLE.
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JEROME DAVID SALINGER WOULD
NEVER FORGET HEMINGWAY'S
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KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY.
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IN LATE FALL, HEMINGWAY
REJOINED BUCK LANHAM'S
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22nd REGIMENT AS IT MOVED
TOWARD THE FIERCELY DEFENDED
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GERMAN BORDER.
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ONE EVENING, HE, LANHAM, AND
10 OTHERS WERE HAVING DINNER
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TOGETHER IN A FARMHOUSE WHEN
AN .88 SHELL SMASHED THROUGH
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ONE WALL AND OUT THE
OTHER WITHOUT EXPLODING.
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THE MEN RUSHED TO THE CELLAR,
FEARFUL ANOTHER ROUND WAS
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HEADED THEIR WAY.
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HEMINGWAY CONTINUED EATING.
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IN MID-NOVEMBER, THE 22nd
ENTERED THE HURTGEN FOREST.
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THE BATTLE FOR THIS DENSE,
70-SQUARE-MILE EVERGREEN WOODS,
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SOUTH OF THE GERMAN CITY
OF AACHEN, HAD BEEN GOING ON
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FOR 2 MONTHS.
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IT WAS A FRIGHTFUL PLACE TO
FIGHT... TREES 100 FEET TALL
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AND ONLY A HANDFUL OF ROADS,
HEAVILY MINED AND METICULOUSLY
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TARGETED BY ENEMY GUNNERS...
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AND GERMAN SHELLS
THAT EXPLODED
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AMONG THE TREETOPS, SENDING
SHRAPNEL AND SHARDS OF WOOD
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INTO THE MEN HUDDLED BELOW.
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TAKE COVER!
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE WOODS
WERE CLOSE-PLANTED FIR TREES,
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AND THE SHELL-BURSTS
TORE AND SMASHED THEM,
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AND THE SPLINTERS FROM THE
TREE BURSTS WERE LIKE JAVELINS
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IN THE HALF-LIGHT OF THE FOREST,
AND THE MEN WERE SHOUTING
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AND CALLING NOW TO TAKE
THE CURSE OFF THE DARKNESS
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OF THE FOREST AND
SHOOTING AND KILLING KRAUTS
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AND MOVING AHEAD NOW.
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AMERICAN
LOSSES WERE STAGGERING.
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LANHAM'S REGIMENT WAS ASSIGNED
TO CAPTURE A SINGLE VILLAGE
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AND 6,000 YARDS OF FOREST.
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IN DOING SO, THEY
WOULD LOSE 2,733 MEN.
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DURING ONE ESPECIALLY SAVAGE
FIREFIGHT, LANHAM REMEMBERED,
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"MEN WERE FIRING AND ADVANCING
AND DROPPING AND FIRING.
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"THEN I SAW ERNEST. HE WAS
MOVING WITH THE MOVING WAVE,
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00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:34,507
"BUT I NEVER SAW
HIM HIT THE GROUND.
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AND THIS TIME THERE WAS NO
QUESTION AT ALL," LANHAM SAID,
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00:18:38,384 --> 00:18:42,480
"THAT HE WAS ARMED
AND USING THOSE ARMS."
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HEMINGWAY HAD WITNESSED
SEVERAL WARS FIRSTHAND,
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BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST
IN WHICH HE ACTED
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AS A FULL-FLEDGED
COMBAT SOLDIER.
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FIRING A MACHINE GUN ALONGSIDE
THE TROOPS EXHILARATED HIM.
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THAT NIGHT, HE WROTE MARY
THAT THE DREAD HE'D FELT
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AT RETURNING TO THE BATTLEFIELD
HAD SUDDENLY LIFTED.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "YOU KNOW
HOW I WAS SPOOKED OF THE BATTLE
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"BEFORE IT STARTED.
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"BUT THEN ABOUT YESTERDAY
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"AND THE DAY BEFORE,
JUST LIKE A GIFT,
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"I GOT THE OLD FEELING
OF IMMORTALITY BACK I USED
TO HAVE WHEN I WAS 19,
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00:19:23,729 --> 00:19:26,893
"RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE
OF A REALLY BAD SHELLING,
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"NOT THE CAGEY
ASSESSMENT OF CHANCES,
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"NOR THE ANGRY,
THE HELL-WITH-IT FEELING,
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"NOR THE THROW-EVERYTHING-
AWAY FEELING.
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JUST THE PURE OLD THING
WE USED TO OPERATE ON."
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BUT HE
HAD HAD ENOUGH.
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HE LEFT THE WAR AND
WENT HOME TO CUBA.
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00:19:49,455 --> 00:19:54,189
THE SIGHTS HE'D SEEN IN THE
HURTGEN FOREST... A DOG TEARING
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AT A CHARRED GERMAN CORPSE,
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A GI's BODY FLATTENED BY
TANKS AND OTHER VEHICLES...
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00:20:00,466 --> 00:20:04,335
WOULD HAUNT HIS DREAMS
FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
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MAN, AS HEMINGWAY:
"APRIL 2, 1945. DEAR BUCK.
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"IT IS A HELL OF A THING
GOING AWAY FROM THE 22nd.
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"IT PROBABLY SOUNDS WET,
BUT I WAS AND AM
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"ABSOLUTELY HOMESICK
FOR THE REGIMENT,
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"AND I MISS YOU
VERY BADLY, BUCK.
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"I DON'T GIVE A
DAMN ABOUT WRITING.
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00:20:39,438 --> 00:20:42,897
"WILL HAVE TO GET OVER THAT.
I GUESS I WILL.
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00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:46,379
"HAVE GOTTEN OVER
EVERYTHING ELSE.
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00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:49,814
"CERTAINLY HAVE THE
BLACK ASS TODAY.
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00:20:49,849 --> 00:20:53,342
"I MISS MARY SO MUCH,
IT MAKES ME SICK.
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00:20:53,385 --> 00:20:56,446
"ALWAYS BEFORE, WE HAD OUR
DOUBLE DEUCE PROBLEMS AND SOME
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00:20:56,489 --> 00:20:59,584
"SORT OF FIGHT GOING ON WHEN
I WAS AWAY FROM HER AND I HAD
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00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:01,651
YOUR COMPANIONSHIP."
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IN THE SPRING OF
1945, WAITING FOR MARY WELSH
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TO JOIN HIM AT THE FINCA,
HIS HOME IN THE HILLS
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OVERLOOKING HAVANA, ERNEST
HEMINGWAY FEARED HE WOULD
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00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:17,900
NEVER BE ABLE TO WRITE AGAIN.
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00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:19,673
WHEN HE CAME
HOME FROM THE WAR,
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00:21:19,712 --> 00:21:25,549
I THINK HE HAD JUST LOTS AND
LOTS OF TRAUMA AND HE HAD SEEN
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00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:29,885
SO MANY THINGS THAT
HE COULD NOT UN-SEE.
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00:21:29,922 --> 00:21:37,295
AND THEN, HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC.
SO WHAT DO ALCOHOLICS DO WHEN
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00:21:37,329 --> 00:21:39,992
THEY HAVE THINGS IN THEIR
LIVES THAT THEY CAN'T UN-SEE
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00:21:40,032 --> 00:21:42,058
IS THEY DRINK, AND HE WRITES
TO BUCK LANHAM LIKE,
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00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,930
"I'M DRINKING TO GO TO
SLEEP AT NIGHT.
351
00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,666
"I'M DRINKING WHEN I WAKE UP.
352
00:21:46,705 --> 00:21:50,073
"I GOT TO STOP DRINKING OR
MARY WON'T COME AND MARRY ME."
353
00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:54,337
BUT I MEAN, IT'S...
IT'S A DISASTER.
354
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:56,024
THE PROBLEM WITH
ALCOHOLISM, AND I DON'T KNOW
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00:21:56,048 --> 00:21:57,914
WHY IT WORKS LIKE THIS.
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00:21:57,950 --> 00:22:01,887
IT MAKES YOU A LIAR,
PRIMARILY TO YOURSELF.
357
00:22:01,921 --> 00:22:04,481
YOU'RE ALWAYS
LYING TO YOURSELF.
358
00:22:04,523 --> 00:22:07,493
AND YOU'RE TRYING ALL
THESE DIFFERENT METHODS
359
00:22:07,526 --> 00:22:09,358
TO TRY TO QUIT.
360
00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:10,505
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING BEER.
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING WINE.
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00:22:10,529 --> 00:22:12,054
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING
AFTER 5:00.
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00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:14,396
YOU'RE ONLY
DRINKING BEFORE 5:00.
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00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:18,370
BUT WITH THAT MASCULINITY,
WITH THAT STOICISM,
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00:22:18,404 --> 00:22:22,000
HEMINGWAY WAS DOOMED,
IN A WAY.
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00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:28,610
MARY EVENTUALLY
ARRIVED IN HAVANA, HAVING
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00:22:28,647 --> 00:22:31,845
REQUESTED A YEAR'S SABBATICAL
FROM HER JOB AT "TIME."
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00:22:31,884 --> 00:22:35,377
SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HEMINGWAY
BUT STILL UNSURE WHETHER SHE
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00:22:35,421 --> 00:22:37,515
SHOULD MARRY HIM.
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00:22:37,556 --> 00:22:40,993
♪ I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING ♪
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00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:47,626
♪ BUT LOVE, BABY ♪
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00:22:47,666 --> 00:22:55,472
♪ THAT'S THE ONLY THING
I'VE PLENTY OF, OH, BABY ♪
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00:22:55,507 --> 00:22:57,567
YEAH,
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
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00:22:57,610 --> 00:23:01,479
♪ DREAM AWHILE,
SCHEME AWHILE ♪
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00:23:01,513 --> 00:23:02,879
YOU'RE WRONG.
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00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:05,407
♪ YOU'RE SURE TO FIND ♪
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00:23:05,451 --> 00:23:07,579
THAT'S WHAT YOU
THINK. I'M SURE TO FIND.
377
00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:12,649
♪ HAPPINESS AND I GUESS ♪
378
00:23:12,691 --> 00:23:17,493
♪ ALL THOSE THINGS
YOU'RE SURE TO PINE FOR... ♪
379
00:23:17,529 --> 00:23:20,499
HE SAW TO IT THAT
SHE HAD SPANISH LESSONS SO THAT
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00:23:20,532 --> 00:23:23,934
SHE COULD RUN THE FINCA, TAUGHT
HER DEEP-SEA FISHING SO THAT
381
00:23:23,969 --> 00:23:28,430
SHE COULD BE HIS COMPANION,
ENCOURAGED HER TO QUIT HER JOB
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00:23:28,474 --> 00:23:32,002
ALTOGETHER SO THAT SHE COULD
DEVOTE HERSELF FULLY TO HIM
383
00:23:32,044 --> 00:23:35,105
AS HIS FIRST AND SECOND
WIVES HAD DONE
384
00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:39,585
AND MARTHA GELLHORN
HAD NOT DONE.
385
00:23:39,618 --> 00:23:43,646
HEMINGWAY WANTED HIS WIFE TO
BE BOTH "COMPLETELY OBEDIENT
386
00:23:43,689 --> 00:23:47,490
AND SEXUALLY LOOSE,"
SHE CONFIDED TO HER DIARY.
387
00:23:47,526 --> 00:23:50,792
SHE ENJOYED THE SEXUAL PART,
CUT HER HAIR SHORT
388
00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:54,197
AND BLEACHED IT PLATINUM
BECAUSE IT EXCITED HIM,
389
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:56,925
AND SOMETIMES PRETENDED
THAT SHE WAS A BOY
390
00:23:56,969 --> 00:23:59,063
AND HE WAS A GIRL.
391
00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:02,597
HE DYED HIS HAIR, TOO.
392
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:08,911
♪ I CAN'T DISH OUT
ANYTHING BUT LOVE ♪
393
00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:10,678
♪ BABY... ♪
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00:24:10,716 --> 00:24:13,185
I THINK IT'S
VERY BRAVE TO SAY
395
00:24:13,218 --> 00:24:15,687
WHAT YOUR
SEXUAL PREFERENCES ARE.
396
00:24:15,721 --> 00:24:18,623
HE REALLY HAD A THING ABOUT
ANDROGYNY,
397
00:24:18,657 --> 00:24:22,150
AND HE LIKED TO SWITCH
SEX ROLES IN BED.
398
00:24:22,194 --> 00:24:24,220
AND HE TELLS MARY, YOU KNOW,
"LET'S PLAY AROUND."
399
00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:25,988
"I'M GONNA CALL YOU 'PETE.'
400
00:24:26,031 --> 00:24:27,727
YOU CALL ME 'CATHERINE, '"
401
00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:30,668
YOU KNOW, AND THEY
GO BACK AND FORTH ON THIS.
402
00:24:30,703 --> 00:24:33,730
AND THEY PLAY AROUND WITH IT,
AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY
403
00:24:33,772 --> 00:24:39,473
DO IN BED, BUT SOMEHOW SHE'S
SATISFYING THAT INTENSE DESIRE
404
00:24:39,511 --> 00:24:42,140
OF HIS TO PLAY WITH
SEX ROLES THAT WAY.
405
00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:45,515
♪ OH, TILL THAT
LUCKY DAY... ♪
406
00:24:45,551 --> 00:24:48,111
IT TOOK A LOT
OF GUTS FOR HIM.
407
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:51,920
AND IN A WAY, HE WANTED TO
BE A WOMAN WHO LOVED
408
00:24:51,957 --> 00:24:53,858
ANOTHER WOMAN.
409
00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:57,158
NOW THIS KIND OF THING,
IT'S ALL ON A SPECTRUM, RIGHT?
410
00:24:57,196 --> 00:25:00,132
BUT THEN, IT WAS UNHEARD OF.
411
00:25:04,103 --> 00:25:07,801
"IN BED," SHE WROTE,
"HE HAS CERTAINLY BEEN BETTER
412
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,867
FOR ME THAN ANY OTHER MAN,"
413
00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:15,005
BUT SHE CHAFED UNDER WHAT SHE
CALLED HIS "DICTATORSHIP."
414
00:25:15,047 --> 00:25:18,950
SHE DISLIKED HIS LECTURES
ON HOW THINGS MUST BE DONE,
415
00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:22,580
DETECTED THE GHOSTLY PRESENCE
OF MARTHA GELLHORN IN EVERY
416
00:25:22,621 --> 00:25:25,614
ROOM OF THE HOUSE, FELT
CUT OFF FROM HER FRIENDS
417
00:25:25,657 --> 00:25:27,285
AND FORMER LIFE.
418
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,688
"NOTHING IS MINE," SHE WROTE.
419
00:25:29,728 --> 00:25:33,165
"THE MAN IS HIS OWN
WITH VARIOUS ADJUNCTS...
420
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:36,600
"HIS WRITING, HIS
CHILDREN, HIS CATS.
421
00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:41,039
THE STRIP OF BED WHERE
I LIE IS NOT MINE."
422
00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:44,009
"CAN ONLY
CONCLUDE THAT I'D BE AN IDIOT
423
00:25:44,043 --> 00:25:46,706
"TO STAY HERE AND MARRY PAPA.
424
00:25:46,745 --> 00:25:49,681
"I'D BETTER GO WHILE
THE GOING IS POSSIBLE
425
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:52,810
AND CAN BE WITHOUT
TOO MUCH BITTERNESS."
426
00:25:52,851 --> 00:25:57,846
BUT SHE STAYED,
AND IN THE SPRING OF 1946,
427
00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:01,884
AFTER BOTH HAD LEGALLY SHED
THEIR SPOUSES, MARY WELSH
428
00:26:01,927 --> 00:26:04,658
MARRIED ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
429
00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:08,656
BEFORE THE WEDDING, SHE HAD BEEN
"AN ENTITY," SHE REMEMBERED.
430
00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:13,263
AFTERWARDS,
SHE BECAME "AN APPENDAGE."
431
00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:16,901
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEIR
UNION FOLLOWED THE SAME
432
00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:18,672
TURBULENT PATTERN.
433
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:20,975
HE WOULD INSULT
OR HUMILIATE HER.
434
00:26:21,013 --> 00:26:22,845
SHE WOULD THREATEN TO LEAVE.
435
00:26:22,881 --> 00:26:26,648
HE WOULD BEG HER TO STAY
AND SOMETIMES THREATEN
436
00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:28,984
TO KILL HIMSELF
IF SHE DIDN'T.
437
00:26:29,021 --> 00:26:32,924
THEY WOULD RECONCILE IN BED
AND THEN START THE CYCLE
438
00:26:32,958 --> 00:26:35,052
ALL OVER AGAIN.
439
00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:39,725
MARY SOMETIMES LIKED TO CALL
HERSELF "THE SHORT, HAPPY WIFE
440
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,791
OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY."
441
00:26:45,671 --> 00:26:48,664
MAYBE WRITERS
DISIMPROVE AS THEY AGE
442
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:50,972
BECAUSE THEY LIVE WITH A
PERMANENT FEAR THAT
443
00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:53,911
THE GIFT HAS GONE.
444
00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:56,677
IT GETS WORSE WITH AGE.
445
00:26:56,715 --> 00:27:01,153
WHAT HAPPENS IN MID-LIFE,
IN YOUTH AND THEN MID-LIFE,
446
00:27:01,186 --> 00:27:05,624
THE SPASMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE
FAMOUS CLICHE, "THE BLANK PAGE,"
447
00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:09,651
HAPPENS WITHIN ONE
MORNING, A WRITER GETS UP
448
00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:13,689
AND THINKS, "AH, ONE LINE,
JUST ONE LINE
449
00:27:13,732 --> 00:27:15,667
AND OFF YOU ARE."
450
00:27:15,701 --> 00:27:18,000
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AS
MUCH IN OLD AGE.
451
00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:20,301
IT DOES NOT.
452
00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:25,039
ONLY BY SHEER PERSEVERANCE.
453
00:27:26,879 --> 00:27:30,145
HEMINGWAY'S
WRITING WAS NOT GOING WELL.
454
00:27:30,182 --> 00:27:34,643
IT HAD BEEN 6 YEARS
SINCE HE'D PUBLISHED
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."
455
00:27:34,686 --> 00:27:37,815
IT WOULD BE 4 MORE YEARS
BEFORE HE MANAGED TO PUBLISH
456
00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:39,825
ANOTHER NOVEL.
457
00:27:41,727 --> 00:27:45,892
HE WAS ONLY 46 BUT HAD BEGUN
TO BE SEEN BY CRITICS AS
458
00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:48,298
A RELIC OF THE 1920s.
459
00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:50,825
WHEN WOULD-BE BIOGRAPHERS
CONTACTED HIM,
460
00:27:50,869 --> 00:27:52,770
HE FENDED THEM OFF.
461
00:27:52,804 --> 00:27:55,273
HE RESENTED THE IMPLICATION
THAT HIS CAREER WAS
462
00:27:55,307 --> 00:27:57,902
NEARING ITS CLOSE.
463
00:27:57,943 --> 00:28:02,005
HE HAD AMBITIOUS PLANS...
A 3-VOLUME WORK
464
00:28:02,047 --> 00:28:05,211
ENCOMPASSING THE WAR YEARS
THAT WAS TO BEGIN ON BIMINI
465
00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:12,020
IN 1936 AND END WITH THE
BATTLE FOR THE HURTGEN FOREST.
466
00:28:12,057 --> 00:28:16,893
BUT NOVELS ABOUT THE WAR BY
YOUNGER WRITERS... IRWIN SHAW,
467
00:28:16,929 --> 00:28:21,162
JOHN HORNE BURNS, NORMAN
MAILER, ALL OF WHOM HAD BEEN
468
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,262
INFLUENCED BY HIM... SOON MADE
HIM WONDER IF READERS WOULD
469
00:28:25,304 --> 00:28:27,967
WANT TO READ ABOUT HIS WAR.
470
00:28:28,006 --> 00:28:31,841
HIS PLANS FOR A NEW FAMILY
DIDN'T WORK OUT EITHER.
471
00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:34,870
MARY SUFFERED AN ECTOPIC
PREGNANCY, AND NEARLY
472
00:28:34,913 --> 00:28:36,347
BLED TO DEATH.
473
00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:39,078
HEMINGWAY WAS TOLD
TO SAY GOOD-BYE.
474
00:28:39,117 --> 00:28:43,179
INSTEAD, HE FORCED AN ATTENDANT
TO OPEN A NEW VEIN
475
00:28:43,222 --> 00:28:46,215
AND ADMINISTER PLASMA.
476
00:28:46,258 --> 00:28:51,128
MARY SURVIVED BUT WAS TOLD
SHE COULD NOT BEAR CHILDREN.
477
00:28:51,163 --> 00:28:55,965
HEMINGWAY WOULD NEVER HAVE
THE DAUGHTER HE'D HOPED FOR.
478
00:28:56,001 --> 00:29:00,462
THERE WERE NOW PROBLEMS
WITH HIS BOYS, TOO.
479
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:03,475
THEY HAD A
VERY GOOD TIME WITH PAPA
480
00:29:03,508 --> 00:29:07,502
AND THEY LOVED
HIM DEARLY.
481
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:11,774
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WERE
DEPRIVED OF THEIR FATHER
482
00:29:11,817 --> 00:29:15,811
FOR WHOLE STRETCHES
OF THEIR LIVES.
483
00:29:15,854 --> 00:29:22,988
HE WAS INCREDIBLY EXACTING AND
DEMANDING AND COULD TURN SOME
484
00:29:23,028 --> 00:29:26,829
OF THAT VERBAL ABUSE ON THEM.
485
00:29:26,865 --> 00:29:30,495
HE WAS PROUD OF HIS
OLDEST SON JACK'S WAR RECORD:
486
00:29:30,535 --> 00:29:35,872
BUMBY HAD JOINED THE OSS,
PARACHUTED INTO OCCUPIED FRANCE,
487
00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:39,344
HAD BEEN WOUNDED AND SPENT TIME
IN A GERMAN PRISON CAMP,
488
00:29:39,378 --> 00:29:43,406
BUT HIS FATHER GREW IMPATIENT
WITH HIS APPARENT INABILITY TO
489
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:47,783
DECIDE WHAT HE'D LIKE TO
DO IN PEACETIME.
490
00:29:47,819 --> 00:29:51,813
GREGORY, THE YOUNGEST,
HAD A SECRET.
491
00:29:51,857 --> 00:29:55,316
IT HAD BEGUN WHEN
GREGORY WAS A SMALL BOY.
492
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,229
HE'D FOUND BOTH SOLACE AND
EXCITEMENT DURING HIS PARENTS'
493
00:29:59,264 --> 00:30:03,224
FREQUENT ABSENCES, FIRST BY
TAKING HIS MOTHER'S STOCKINGS
494
00:30:03,268 --> 00:30:07,171
FROM HER DRESSER AND RUBBING
THEM AGAINST HIS CHEEK,
495
00:30:07,205 --> 00:30:09,936
THEN BY PULLING THEM ON.
496
00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:13,309
HIS FATHER KNEW ABOUT IT.
"HE HAS THE BIGGEST DARK SIDE
497
00:30:13,345 --> 00:30:16,247
IN THE FAMILY EXCEPT ME AND
YOU," HE TOLD GREGORY'S
498
00:30:16,281 --> 00:30:22,221
MOTHER, PAULINE, BUT HOPED
HE'D GROW OUT OF IT SOMEHOW.
499
00:30:22,254 --> 00:30:26,954
MY BROTHER EXPLAINED TO
ME ONCE WHAT A WONDERFUL THING
500
00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:29,484
IT WAS TO BE
IN DRAG, YOU KNOW.
501
00:30:29,528 --> 00:30:31,394
IT WAS JUST MARVELOUS,
502
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:33,399
THE GREATEST THING
YOU COULD EXPERIENCE.
503
00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:36,561
AND I THOUGHT, WELL,
NOT FOR ME, YOU KNOW.
504
00:30:36,601 --> 00:30:39,230
NOT THAT I DIDN'T SYMPATHIZE,
505
00:30:39,271 --> 00:30:44,175
BUT IT WAS AN INTOLERABLE
SITUATION FOR HIM BEING THE
506
00:30:44,209 --> 00:30:46,110
SON OF WHO HE WAS THE SON OF.
507
00:30:46,144 --> 00:30:48,010
I THINK THAT WAS WHAT
MADE IT SO AWFUL.
508
00:30:48,046 --> 00:30:50,572
I MEAN THESE DAYS,
WHO WOULD GIVE A DAMN?
509
00:30:52,084 --> 00:30:55,282
BUT HIS MIDDLE
SON PATRICK WAS OF EVEN MORE
510
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,380
IMMEDIATE CONCERN.
511
00:30:57,422 --> 00:31:01,484
WHILE VISITING HIS FATHER IN
CUBA IN THE SUMMER OF 1947,
512
00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:04,587
HE HAD A SEVERE
PSYCHOTIC EPISODE.
513
00:31:04,629 --> 00:31:07,463
HE HAD RECENTLY SUFFERED
A CONCUSSION WHICH DOCTORS
514
00:31:07,499 --> 00:31:09,968
THOUGHT MUST HAVE
TRIGGERED IT.
515
00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:14,063
PATRICK TORE OFF HIS CLOTHES,
REFUSED TO EAT, CURSED
516
00:31:14,106 --> 00:31:18,009
AND STRUCK OUT AT ANYONE
WHO CAME NEAR HIM.
517
00:31:18,043 --> 00:31:22,003
IT IS PRETTY HARD
TO TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.
518
00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:25,108
IF YOU WOULD GO BY
THE SYMPTOMS...
519
00:31:25,150 --> 00:31:28,086
EXTREME SCHIZOPHRENIA.
520
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,588
HA.
521
00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:32,216
BUT YOU KNOW PEOPLE DON'T
GET OVER SCHIZOPHRENIA,
522
00:31:32,257 --> 00:31:34,590
DO THEY,
AS FAR AS I KNOW?
523
00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:37,095
HEMINGWAY
REFUSED TO HAVE HIS BOY
524
00:31:37,129 --> 00:31:40,930
INSTITUTIONALIZED, AND FOR
3 MONTHS SERVED AS HIS
525
00:31:40,966 --> 00:31:45,495
TENDER AND SUPPORTIVE NURSE,
GETTING BY ON 4 HOURS OF SLEEP
526
00:31:45,537 --> 00:31:50,271
ON THE FLOOR
OUTSIDE PATRICK'S DOOR.
527
00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:55,144
PATRICK'S MOTHER, PAULINE,
CAME TO CUBA TO NURSE HIM, TOO,
528
00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:58,480
AND SHE AND MARY BECAME
FRIENDS AS "ALUMNAE" OF WHAT
529
00:31:58,517 --> 00:32:02,318
THEY CALLED
"HEMINGWAY UNIVERSITY."
530
00:32:02,354 --> 00:32:06,257
WITH THE HELP OF A GERMAN
PSYCHIATRIST, WHO PRESCRIBED
531
00:32:06,291 --> 00:32:11,423
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY,
PATRICK EVENTUALLY RECOVERED.
532
00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:24,667
♪
533
00:32:24,709 --> 00:32:29,044
IN DECEMBER, 1948,
THE HEMINGWAYS WERE STAYING
534
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,517
HALF AN HOUR'S BOAT RIDE FROM
VENICE, FOR WHAT MARY HOPED
535
00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:35,214
WOULD BE A
MUCH-DELAYED HONEYMOON.
536
00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:39,315
BUT HEMINGWAY... GREY-BEARDED
AND BATTERED, STILL DRINKING
537
00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:42,953
FAR TOO MUCH, WITH CONSTANT
RINGING IN HIS EARS
538
00:32:42,994 --> 00:32:45,156
AND DANGEROUSLY HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE...
539
00:32:45,197 --> 00:32:50,465
MET AN 18-YEAR OLD
ITALIAN GIRL FROM AN OLD,
ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY...
540
00:32:50,502 --> 00:32:56,100
ADRIANA IVANCICH... AND FELL
OBSESSIVELY IN LOVE WITH HER.
541
00:32:56,141 --> 00:33:00,203
SHE WAS FRESH FROM CONVENT
SCHOOL AND WELL-READ, THOUGH
542
00:33:00,245 --> 00:33:03,340
SHE'D NEVER READ ANYTHING BY
HEMINGWAY, AND SHE ENJOYED
543
00:33:03,381 --> 00:33:06,510
LISTENING TO HIM TALK AT
HARRY'S BAR AND WHILE THEY
544
00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:08,543
AMBLED TOGETHER
THROUGH VENICE.
545
00:33:08,587 --> 00:33:13,025
HE CALLED HER "DAUGHTER" AND
ASKED HER TO CALL HIM "PAPA,"
546
00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:16,495
BUT HE ALSO TOLD HER THAT HE
WOULD BEG HER TO MARRY HIM
547
00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:20,124
IF HE DIDN'T KNOW
SHE'D SAY NO.
548
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:23,567
AND IT WAS A GREAT
BLOW TO HIM THAT SHE DIDN'T
549
00:33:23,602 --> 00:33:25,298
FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.
550
00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:30,609
EVERY TIME BEFORE THIS,
WHEN HE'S WANTED A WOMAN,
551
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:33,305
THAT'S IT. SHE'S HIS.
552
00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:36,144
HE CAN DISCARD THIS
WIFE, TAKE THE NEW ONE.
553
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:39,242
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD SAID HE
"WANTED A NEW... A NEW WIFE
554
00:33:39,284 --> 00:33:41,014
FOR EVERY BOOK."
555
00:33:41,052 --> 00:33:45,251
BUT, ADRIANA, THAT'S
DIFFERENT TO HIM, OK?
556
00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:48,283
MARY WORRIED THAT
HER HUSBAND WAS "WEAVING
557
00:33:48,326 --> 00:33:52,627
A MESH WHICH MIGHT ENTANGLE
AND PAIN HIM," BUT ADRIANA
558
00:33:52,664 --> 00:33:56,226
BECAME THE MODEL FOR THE LOVE
INTEREST IN THE NOVEL HE HAD
559
00:33:56,268 --> 00:34:02,174
FINALLY BEGUN WORKING ON,
"ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES."
560
00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:05,803
ITS PROTAGONIST, INSPIRED
IN PART BY BUCK LANHAM,
561
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:09,776
IS A DYING 50-YEAR-OLD
AMERICAN INFANTRY COLONEL
562
00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:12,784
FILLED WITH MEMORIES OF THE
HORRORS HE HAS WITNESSED
563
00:34:12,817 --> 00:34:14,513
IN TWO WARS.
564
00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:19,082
HE SPENDS HIS LAST 3 DAYS
IN VENICE WHERE HE MAKES LOVE
565
00:34:19,124 --> 00:34:22,652
TO AN 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHOM
HEMINGWAY NAMES "RENATA"...
566
00:34:22,694 --> 00:34:26,256
ITALIAN FOR "REBORN."
567
00:34:26,298 --> 00:34:30,565
WHEN HE GOT BACK TO CUBA,
HE WROTE LIKE A MAN POSSESSED.
568
00:34:30,602 --> 00:34:34,801
HE WAS ALMOST 50, BUT HE TOLD
HIS PUBLISHER THAT SUMMER HE
569
00:34:34,839 --> 00:34:38,503
WAS WRITING AS IF
HE WERE 25 AGAIN.
570
00:34:38,543 --> 00:34:42,776
I DON'T THINK HE
WAS EVER UNHAPPY TO HAVE US
571
00:34:42,814 --> 00:34:45,545
CONFUSE HIM WITH
HIS CHARACTERS.
572
00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:51,114
BUT BY THEN, I THINK HE
ASSUMED THE IDENTIFICATION WAS
573
00:34:51,156 --> 00:34:57,585
SO COMPLETE THAT HE HAD
TO MAKE A ROMANTIC,
574
00:34:57,629 --> 00:35:01,259
MANLY FIGURE OF
COLONEL CANTWELL
575
00:35:01,299 --> 00:35:04,133
WITH THE ITALIAN MISTRESS.
576
00:35:05,737 --> 00:35:09,265
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SHE CAME
INTO THE ROOM, SHINING IN HER
577
00:35:09,307 --> 00:35:13,108
YOUTH AND TALL STRIDING
BEAUTY, AND THE CARELESSNESS
578
00:35:13,144 --> 00:35:15,613
THE WIND HAD MADE OF HER HAIR.
579
00:35:15,647 --> 00:35:20,210
SHE HAD PALE, ALMOST OLIVE-
COLORED SKIN, A PROFILE THAT
580
00:35:20,251 --> 00:35:24,416
COULD BREAK YOUR, OR ANYONE
ELSE'S HEART, AND HER DARK HAIR,
581
00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:29,451
OF AN ALIVE TEXTURE,
HUNG DOWN OVER HER SHOULDERS.
582
00:35:29,494 --> 00:35:32,328
HEMINGWAY HAD
CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS
583
00:35:32,364 --> 00:35:34,458
WRITING BETTER THAN EVER.
584
00:35:34,499 --> 00:35:36,331
HE WAS NOT.
585
00:35:36,368 --> 00:35:38,530
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE WIND
WAS VERY COLD AND LASHED
586
00:35:38,570 --> 00:35:42,473
THEIR FACES, BUT UNDER THE
BLANKET THERE WAS NO WIND NOR
587
00:35:42,507 --> 00:35:46,501
NOTHING; ONLY HIS RUINED HAND
THAT SEARCHED FOR THE ISLAND
588
00:35:46,544 --> 00:35:49,810
IN THE GREAT RIVER WITH
THE HIGH STEEP BANKS.
589
00:35:49,848 --> 00:35:52,613
"PLEASE DON'T MOVE,"
THE GIRL SAID.
590
00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:54,620
"THEN MOVE A GREAT AMOUNT."
591
00:35:54,653 --> 00:35:58,488
THE COLONEL, LYING UNDER THE
BLANKET IN THE WIND, KNOWING
592
00:35:58,523 --> 00:36:02,483
IT IS ONLY WHAT MAN DOES FOR
WOMAN THAT HE RETAINS, EXCEPT
593
00:36:02,527 --> 00:36:05,463
WHAT HE DOES FOR HIS
FATHERLAND OR HIS MOTHERLAND,
594
00:36:05,497 --> 00:36:09,457
HOWEVER YOU GET THE
READING, PROCEEDED.
595
00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:12,869
HE THOUGHT HE WAS
REACHING A KIND OF PERFECTION
596
00:36:12,904 --> 00:36:15,169
AND ABUNDANCE IN HIS PROSE.
597
00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:19,735
AND WHAT HE WAS WRITING
WAS "ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES."
598
00:36:19,778 --> 00:36:23,772
HE WAS ALSO ACTING
STRANGELY, FIRING OFF LETTERS
599
00:36:23,815 --> 00:36:28,685
FILLED WITH INCREASINGLY TALL
TALES AND IRRATIONAL BOASTING.
600
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,179
"ALL WRITERS ARE LIARS,"
HE LIKED TO SAY, ESPECIALLY
601
00:36:32,223 --> 00:36:34,920
WHEN THEY'D HAD A FEW DRINKS.
602
00:36:34,959 --> 00:36:38,521
BUT HE NOW CLAIMED 4 OF
HIS ANCESTORS HAD FOUGHT
603
00:36:38,563 --> 00:36:42,261
IN THE CRUSADES, THAT HIS
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS
604
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:45,668
A NORTHERN CHEYENNE, THAT
HE HIMSELF WAS CONDUCTING
605
00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:50,938
SIMULTANEOUS AFFAIRS WITH 4
VENETIAN COUNTESSES, HAD BEEN
606
00:36:50,975 --> 00:36:57,472
WOUNDED 22 TIMES AND HAD
KILLED 122 ARMED MEN IN NOW
607
00:36:57,515 --> 00:37:00,280
5 DIFFERENT WARS.
608
00:37:00,318 --> 00:37:04,881
FRIENDS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT
SEEMED TO BE HAPPENING TO HIM.
609
00:37:04,923 --> 00:37:07,392
HIS MOODS HAD ALWAYS SHIFTED.
610
00:37:07,425 --> 00:37:11,556
NOW THEY WILDLY
SWUNG UP AND DOWN.
611
00:37:11,596 --> 00:37:16,364
HE WAS, SO FLORIDLY
MANIC, THINKING THIS TERRIBLE
612
00:37:16,401 --> 00:37:18,768
BOOK IS HIS BEST BOOK
AND FALLING IN LOVE
613
00:37:18,803 --> 00:37:24,470
INAPPROPRIATELY, BUT YOU WERE
ALSO SEEING THESE DEPRESSIONS.
614
00:37:24,509 --> 00:37:27,502
AND WHEN HE WAS DEPRESSED,
HE WAS MEAN.
615
00:37:27,545 --> 00:37:30,344
HE DISAPPEARED
INTO HAVANA ONE DAY
616
00:37:30,381 --> 00:37:32,976
AND THEN TURNED
UP FOR LUNCH ON THE "PILAR"
617
00:37:33,017 --> 00:37:38,456
WITH A 17-YEAR-OLD
PROSTITUTE ON HIS ARM.
618
00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:41,426
WOMAN, AS WELSH HEMINGWAY:
"DEAR ERNEST, AS SOON AS IT
619
00:37:41,459 --> 00:37:43,894
"IS POSSIBLE FOR ME TO
MOVE OUT, I SHALL MOVE.
620
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:48,832
"MAYBE IT IS AMBIGUOUS
FOR ME TO EXPLAIN MY
REASONS FOR LEAVING,
621
00:37:48,867 --> 00:37:51,666
"BUT I WRITE THEM DOWN BECAUSE
I THINK THIS TIME YOU SHOULD
622
00:37:51,703 --> 00:37:54,832
"HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF
KNOWING PRECISELY HOW I FEEL
623
00:37:54,873 --> 00:37:56,899
"ABOUT THIS MARRIAGE.
624
00:37:56,941 --> 00:38:02,505
"IT BEGAN IN 1944 IN BED IN THE
RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS AND MY OWN
625
00:38:02,547 --> 00:38:06,484
I THOUGHT YOU WERE A STRAIGHT
626
00:38:06,518 --> 00:38:09,716
"AND HONORABLE AND BRAVE
MAN AND MAGNETICALLY
627
00:38:09,754 --> 00:38:12,019
"ENDEARING TO ME.
628
00:38:12,056 --> 00:38:16,517
"AND BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH
I WAS SUSPICIOUS OF
YOUR OVER-DRINKING,
629
00:38:16,561 --> 00:38:19,725
"YOU SAID SO OFTEN THAT YOUR
CHIEF DESIRE WAS TO BE GOOD
630
00:38:19,764 --> 00:38:25,863
"AND ADULT AND TO LIVE YOUR ONE
AND ONLY LIFE INTELLIGENTLY.
631
00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:29,705
"I BELIEVED YOU
AND IN YOU.
632
00:38:29,741 --> 00:38:31,972
"YOUR PRINCIPAL
FAILURE IS THAT,
633
00:38:32,010 --> 00:38:34,809
"PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF
YOUR ACCUMULATING EGO
634
00:38:34,846 --> 00:38:38,339
"AND YOUR INCREASING LAPSES
INTO OVER-DRINKING, YOU HAVE
635
00:38:38,383 --> 00:38:41,615
"NOT BEEN THE GOOD MAN YOU
SAID YOU INTENDED TO BE.
636
00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:44,817
"BOTH PRIVATELY AND IN PUBLIC,
YOU HAVE INSULTED ME AND MY
637
00:38:44,856 --> 00:38:50,488
"DIGNITY AS A HUMAN BEING AND
A WOMAN DEVOTED TO YOU AND HAVE
638
00:38:50,528 --> 00:38:54,488
"DEBASED MY PRIDE IN YOU
IN FRONT OF FRIENDS.
639
00:38:54,532 --> 00:38:59,561
"I THINK WE MUST NOW BOTH ADMIT
THAT THIS MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE.
640
00:38:59,604 --> 00:39:01,596
THEREFORE LET US END IT."
641
00:39:05,476 --> 00:39:08,503
"STICK WITH ME
KITTEN," HEMINGWAY RESPONDED.
642
00:39:08,546 --> 00:39:12,677
"I HOPE YOU WILL DECIDE
TO STICK WITH ME."
643
00:39:12,717 --> 00:39:16,347
MARY DID STICK WITH HIM,
BUT NOTHING WAS SETTLED
644
00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:19,448
BETWEEN THEM.
645
00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:22,824
A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HIS LONG-
AWAITED NOVEL ABOUT VENICE WAS
646
00:39:22,861 --> 00:39:26,957
TO BE PUBLISHED, HE LOST HIS
FOOTING ABOARD THE "PILAR"
647
00:39:26,998 --> 00:39:30,435
AND HIT HIS HEAD AGAIN.
648
00:39:30,468 --> 00:39:33,870
AFTERWARDS, HE WROTE A FRIEND
THAT HE HAD REACHED WHAT HE
649
00:39:33,905 --> 00:39:36,602
CALLED A "BAD LOW."
650
00:39:36,641 --> 00:39:41,443
HE'D TAKEN "A LONG DEEP DIVE
IN THE GULF STREAM," HE SAID.
651
00:39:41,479 --> 00:39:44,108
"IT WAS AWFULLY NICE DOWN
THERE AND I WAS TEMPTED TO
652
00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:46,014
"STAY THERE,
653
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:47,916
"BUT YOU HAVE TO SET
A GOOD EXAMPLE TO YOUR
654
00:39:47,952 --> 00:39:50,615
CHILDREN AND ET CETERA."
655
00:39:50,655 --> 00:39:54,023
WHEN "ACROSS THE RIVER AND
INTO THE TREES" WAS PUBLISHED
656
00:39:54,058 --> 00:39:57,551
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1950,
IT BECAME AN INSTANT
657
00:39:57,595 --> 00:39:59,461
BEST-SELLER,
658
00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:02,934
BUT IT WAS NOT THE GREAT
NOVEL OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
659
00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:06,802
CRITICS WERE EXPECTING AND
HE RECEIVED THE WORST REVIEWS
660
00:40:06,838 --> 00:40:08,773
OF HIS CAREER.
661
00:40:08,806 --> 00:40:11,799
THEY CALLED THE BOOK
SENTIMENTAL, EMBARRASSING,
662
00:40:11,843 --> 00:40:14,472
EVEN PITIABLE.
663
00:40:14,512 --> 00:40:17,141
"IT IS NOT ONLY HEMINGWAY'S
WORST NOVEL,"
664
00:40:17,181 --> 00:40:20,015
SAID THE "SATURDAY REVIEW OF
LITERATURE," "IT IS
665
00:40:20,051 --> 00:40:23,920
"A SYNTHESIS OF EVERYTHING THAT
IS BAD IN HIS PREVIOUS WORK
666
00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:27,756
AND IT THROWS A DOUBTFUL
LIGHT ON THE FUTURE."
667
00:40:27,792 --> 00:40:31,854
THE BOOK MADE MARTHA GELLHORN
"SICK," SHE TOLD A FRIEND,
668
00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:33,797
"SHIVERING SICK."
669
00:40:33,831 --> 00:40:37,825
IT HAD THE "SOUND OF MADNESS
AND A TERRIBLE SMELL,
670
00:40:37,869 --> 00:40:40,634
AS OF DECAY."
671
00:40:40,672 --> 00:40:43,665
"ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES" COMES OUT,
672
00:40:43,708 --> 00:40:48,169
AND IT RECEIVES THE WORST
IMAGINABLE REVIEWS.
673
00:40:48,212 --> 00:40:51,546
PEOPLE CALL IT "MAUDLIN,"
THEY SAY HEMINGWAY IS
674
00:40:51,582 --> 00:40:55,610
FINISHED, THIS BOOK IS SO BAD
THAT IT CALLS INTO QUESTION
675
00:40:55,653 --> 00:40:57,986
HIS ENTIRE CAREER SO FAR.
676
00:40:58,022 --> 00:41:00,116
HEMINGWAY'S DONE,
IT'S OVER, YOU KNOW.
677
00:41:00,158 --> 00:41:04,061
IT'S A DISASTER.
IT'S A DISASTER.
678
00:41:04,095 --> 00:41:06,223
NOT TO MENTION THE
LOVEMAKING IN THE GONDOLA
679
00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,831
WITH THE BIRDS FLYING.
HA HA!
680
00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:14,864
SOMETHING IS STARTING
TO HAPPEN IN THE 1950s...
681
00:41:14,906 --> 00:41:22,143
CALL IT FAME, CALL IT TOO MUCH
DRINKING, TOO MUCH OF TOO MUCH.
682
00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:25,173
THERE IS A CONSTANT CHECK
OF BLOOD PRESSURE.
683
00:41:25,216 --> 00:41:29,711
THERE IS A CONCERN FOR
MORTALITY IN HEMINGWAY
684
00:41:29,754 --> 00:41:33,657
THAT HE ALWAYS KNEW
WAS THERE, AS WE ALL DO,
685
00:41:33,691 --> 00:41:37,890
BUT AT THE SAME TIME DON'T
KNOW UNTIL ILLNESS OR
686
00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:40,057
SOMETHING BEGINS
TO SHOW ITSELF.
687
00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:43,762
TO SOME EXTENT, SOMEONE AS
VIBRANT AS THIS, I THINK THAT
688
00:41:43,801 --> 00:41:46,828
CAME AS A BIT OF A SHOCK.
689
00:41:46,871 --> 00:41:52,572
AND THE DRINKING AND THE
HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS
690
00:41:52,610 --> 00:41:56,172
IN THE FAMILY HAD
TO BE ON HIS MIND.
691
00:41:56,214 --> 00:42:00,015
HIS FATHER HAD TO
BE ON HIS MIND.
692
00:42:04,822 --> 00:42:09,624
IN EARLY 1951,
HEMINGWAY'S PUBLISHER
CHARLES SCRIBNER
693
00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:12,721
SENT HIM GALLEYS OF
A WORLD WAR II NOVEL CALLED,
694
00:42:12,764 --> 00:42:16,030
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY,"
BY A YOUNG WRITER NAMED
695
00:42:16,067 --> 00:42:21,699
JAMES JONES IN THE HOPE
HEMINGWAY MIGHT WRITE A BLURB.
696
00:42:21,739 --> 00:42:25,176
AFTER SEEING COMBAT IN THE
PACIFIC, JONES HAD GONE AWOL
697
00:42:25,209 --> 00:42:29,806
DURING THE SECOND
WORLD WAR AND BEEN GIVEN
AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE
698
00:42:29,847 --> 00:42:36,845
FOR PSYCHIATRIC REASONS; HIS
PROTAGONIST WENT AWOL, TOO.
699
00:42:36,888 --> 00:42:40,017
HEMINGWAY TOLD SCRIBNER
HE HATED THE BOOK.
700
00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:43,961
THOUGH HIS OWN HERO OF "A
FAREWELL TO ARMS" HAD DESERTED,
701
00:42:43,995 --> 00:42:48,558
JONES WAS A COWARD, A WHINER,
A "BATTLE-FATIGUE TYPE,"
702
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:52,092
HE WROTE, LIKELY TO
COMMIT SUICIDE ONCE "THINGS
703
00:42:52,136 --> 00:42:53,900
CATCH UP WITH HIM."
704
00:42:53,938 --> 00:42:58,899
HIS BOOK WAS SURE TO "DO
GREAT DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY."
705
00:42:58,943 --> 00:43:01,276
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "PROBABLY
I SHOULD RE-READ IT AGAIN TO
706
00:43:01,312 --> 00:43:03,713
"GIVE YOU A TRUER ANSWER.
707
00:43:03,748 --> 00:43:07,583
"BUT I DO NOT HAVE TO EAT AN
ENTIRE BOWL OF SCABS TO KNOW
708
00:43:07,618 --> 00:43:12,955
"THEY ARE SCABS; NOR SUCK
A BOIL TO KNOW IT IS A BOIL;
709
00:43:12,990 --> 00:43:17,928
"NOR SWIM THROUGH A RIVER OF
SNOT TO KNOW IT IS SNOT.
710
00:43:17,962 --> 00:43:22,627
"I HOPE HE KILLS HIMSELF AS
SOON AS IT DOES NOT DAMAGE HIS
711
00:43:22,667 --> 00:43:24,602
"OR YOUR SALES.
712
00:43:24,635 --> 00:43:28,197
"IF YOU GIVE HIM A LITERARY TEA,
YOU MIGHT ASK HIM TO DRAIN
713
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:35,669
"A BUCKET OF SNOT AND THEN
SUCK THE PUSS OUT OF
A DEAD N... 'S EAR.
714
00:43:35,713 --> 00:43:39,115
"WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT HIM UP
IF YOU HADN'T ASKED ME.
715
00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:43,815
NOW I FEEL AS UNCLEAN AS WHEN
I READ HIS FUCK-OFF BOOK."
716
00:43:46,057 --> 00:43:48,185
YEAH.
717
00:43:52,230 --> 00:43:56,031
IT'S... IT'S ANOTHER
MYSTERY WHY THIS MOST
718
00:43:56,067 --> 00:43:59,037
FAMOUS WRITER OF
WRITERS, UH...
719
00:43:59,070 --> 00:44:04,236
WOULD HAVE FELT SO, UH...
720
00:44:04,275 --> 00:44:09,942
UNSAFE IN HIS POSITION
AND EMBATTLED IN IT
721
00:44:09,981 --> 00:44:15,010
AND NEEDING TO FEND OFF ALL
OTHER WRITERS AS IF THEY WERE
722
00:44:15,052 --> 00:44:17,385
CHALLENGING HIM.
723
00:44:17,421 --> 00:44:21,791
WHY DIDN'T HE JUST SAY,
"I, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T
WARM UP TO THIS BOOK,
724
00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:23,971
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD
SAY ABOUT IT," AND LET IT GO?
725
00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:26,157
BUT NO.
726
00:44:26,197 --> 00:44:28,408
THE FACT THAT HE WOULD
REVILE A FELLOW WRITER DOESN'T
727
00:44:28,432 --> 00:44:32,062
SHOCK ME AT ALL, BUT THE
HARSHNESS OF IT, YEAH.
728
00:44:32,103 --> 00:44:36,040
THE RACIAL EPITHETS HERE,
SOMETHING THAT HE KNEW WOULD
729
00:44:36,073 --> 00:44:40,306
PROBABLY SEE THE LIGHT
OF DAY AT SOME POINT.
730
00:44:40,344 --> 00:44:43,280
YEAH. IT COMPLICATES
THINGS IMMENSELY.
731
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:48,214
I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT
TO SAY ABOUT THIS,
732
00:44:48,252 --> 00:44:49,948
TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY.
733
00:44:49,987 --> 00:44:52,786
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU
CAN EXPLAIN IT AWAY.
734
00:44:52,823 --> 00:44:55,088
WE'RE
ALL DEEPLY FLAWED.
735
00:44:55,126 --> 00:44:59,063
AND HEMINGWAY'S YOU KNOW
COMPLEX NATURE IS SOMETHING
736
00:44:59,096 --> 00:45:02,794
THAT WE'LL NEVER SOLVE
WITH ONE PITHY PHRASE.
737
00:45:02,833 --> 00:45:06,065
WE WON'T EXPLAIN THESE
AWFUL LETTERS HE WROTE.
738
00:45:06,103 --> 00:45:09,232
WE WON'T EVER BE ABLE TO
FORGIVE HIM FOR THE AWFUL
739
00:45:09,273 --> 00:45:12,766
THINGS HE SAID ABOUT PEOPLE,
THE WORDS HE USED THAT HAD NO,
740
00:45:12,810 --> 00:45:18,010
NO REASON BUT HURT,
BUT THERE IT IS.
741
00:45:20,918 --> 00:45:25,856
♪
742
00:45:28,159 --> 00:45:30,355
IN CUBA,
HE WOULD ACTUALLY REHEARSE
743
00:45:30,394 --> 00:45:32,886
A SUICIDE FOR FRIENDS.
744
00:45:32,930 --> 00:45:36,162
HE WOULD HAVE FRIENDS OVER
FOR DINNER AND THEN HE WOULD,
745
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,193
UH, PUT HIS SHOTGUN ON THE
FLOOR AND PUT HIS BIG TOE
746
00:45:39,237 --> 00:45:41,215
IN THE TRIGGER AND PUT THE
BARREL IN THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH,
747
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,209
AND EVERYONE WOULD
LISTEN TO IT GO "CLICK."
748
00:45:44,242 --> 00:45:47,872
AND HE WOULD LIFT HIS MOUTH
OFF THE BARREL, GRINNING.
749
00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:50,177
"I HAVE NOTHING
IN MY HEAD," HEMINGWAY TOLD
750
00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:51,876
AN OLD FRIEND.
751
00:45:51,916 --> 00:45:55,045
"I'M FED UP WITH LIVING.
I CAN'T WRITE.
752
00:45:55,086 --> 00:46:01,151
I LOVE ONLY ADRIANA.
I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE."
753
00:46:01,192 --> 00:46:05,323
HE TOOK OUT HIS DESPAIR AND
FRUSTRATION ON MARY, CALLING
754
00:46:05,363 --> 00:46:09,198
HER A "WHORE, BITCH,
LIAR, MORON."
755
00:46:09,233 --> 00:46:12,328
SHE TOLD HIS PUBLISHER SHE
FEARED SHE WAS WITNESSING
756
00:46:12,370 --> 00:46:15,204
"THE DISINTEGRATION OF
A PERSONALITY."
757
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:20,510
IT'S A VERY TRAGIC
THING, AND I BELIEVE THAT
758
00:46:20,544 --> 00:46:23,070
RELATIONSHIP DID GET PHYSICAL.
759
00:46:23,114 --> 00:46:26,516
SHE'S JUST LITTLE AND HE'S
THIS HULKING, YOU KNOW,
760
00:46:26,550 --> 00:46:30,146
6-FOOT-SOMETHING MAN.
IT'S... IT'S DANGEROUS.
761
00:46:30,187 --> 00:46:32,850
MARY HAD THREATENED
TO LEAVE HIM MANY TIMES.
762
00:46:32,890 --> 00:46:35,291
THEY WERE VIOLENT
TOWARDS EACH OTHER.
763
00:46:35,326 --> 00:46:37,420
HE WAS VIOLENT TOWARDS HER.
764
00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:39,896
AND AT ONE POINT,
THEIR CUBAN DOCTOR TOOK THE
765
00:46:39,930 --> 00:46:41,341
SHOTGUNS OUT OF THE HOME; THEY
WERE THREATENING EACH OTHER
766
00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:43,459
WITH SHOTGUNS.
767
00:46:43,501 --> 00:46:46,938
THEY WOULD GO AT EACH OTHER,
TOOTH AND NAIL.
768
00:46:46,971 --> 00:46:49,202
HE KNOWS HE'S
STRUGGLING TO WRITE.
769
00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:53,041
HE'S GOT TO DO SOMETHING.
EVERYTHING HE'S LIVED FOR,
770
00:46:53,077 --> 00:46:55,876
EVERYTHING HE'S WORKED FOR,
THE WHOLE IDEA OF BEING
771
00:46:55,913 --> 00:47:00,248
AN IMMORTAL AMERICAN
WRITER IS AT STAKE.
772
00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:07,891
THEN IN OCTOBER OF
1950, ADRIANA AND HER MOTHER
773
00:47:07,925 --> 00:47:11,327
CAME TO CUBA FOR
AN EXTENDED VISIT.
774
00:47:11,362 --> 00:47:14,821
HEMINGWAY WAS ELATED.
775
00:47:14,865 --> 00:47:16,891
HE GOES INTO TRAINING.
776
00:47:16,934 --> 00:47:19,267
HE TALKS ABOUT GOING INTO
TRAINING LIKE A BOXER.
777
00:47:19,303 --> 00:47:24,332
AND FOR A PERIOD OF WEEKS,
HE LOSES WEIGHT, HE STOPS
778
00:47:24,375 --> 00:47:28,278
DRINKING EVERYTHING EXCEPT A
LITTLE BIT OF WINE, HE EATS
779
00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:32,044
CELERY STICKS, LOTS OF
PROTEIN LIKE RAW WILD DUCK.
780
00:47:32,083 --> 00:47:36,350
HE SWIMS LAPS IN THE POOL,
HE GETS INTO SHAPE.
781
00:47:36,387 --> 00:47:40,916
HE IDEALIZED LOVE
SO MUCH AND IT GAVE HIM
782
00:47:40,958 --> 00:47:42,620
SO MUCH ENERGY.
783
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,591
IF YOU REMEMBER BEING IN
LOVE AS A TEENAGER,
784
00:47:45,629 --> 00:47:47,860
YOU'RE SO HAPPY.
785
00:47:47,898 --> 00:47:51,460
ADRIANA ALLOWED HIM
TO RE-CREATE THAT.
786
00:47:51,502 --> 00:47:56,202
SHE MOVES MUCH MORE FROM BEING
A POTENTIAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP
787
00:47:56,240 --> 00:47:58,209
TO BEING A KIND OF MUSE.
788
00:48:01,212 --> 00:48:09,212
INSPIRED BY ADRIANA,
HEMINGWAY BEGAN A NEW STORY.
789
00:48:09,286 --> 00:48:12,484
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE OLD MAN
WAS THIN AND GAUNT WITH DEEP
790
00:48:12,523 --> 00:48:15,960
WRINKLES IN THE
BACK OF HIS NECK.
791
00:48:15,993 --> 00:48:19,327
THE BROWN BLOTCHES OF THE
BENEVOLENT SKIN CANCER THE SUN
792
00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:22,424
BRINGS FROM ITS REFLECTION
ON THE TROPIC SEA WERE
793
00:48:22,466 --> 00:48:24,901
ON HIS CHEEKS.
794
00:48:24,935 --> 00:48:27,996
THE BLOTCHES RAN WELL DOWN
THE SIDES OF HIS FACE AND HIS
795
00:48:28,038 --> 00:48:31,304
HANDS HAD THE DEEP-CREASED
SCARS FROM HANDLING HEAVY FISH
796
00:48:31,342 --> 00:48:33,470
ON THE CORDS.
797
00:48:33,511 --> 00:48:36,345
BUT NONE OF THESE
SCARS WERE FRESH.
798
00:48:36,380 --> 00:48:41,944
THEY WERE AS OLD AS EROSIONS
IN A FISHLESS DESERT.
799
00:48:41,986 --> 00:48:47,186
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS OLD
EXCEPT HIS EYES AND THEY WERE
800
00:48:47,224 --> 00:48:53,494
THE SAME COLOR AS THE SEA AND
WERE CHEERFUL AND UNDEFEATED.
801
00:48:53,531 --> 00:48:56,023
IT WAS A
FICTIONALIZED VERSION
802
00:48:56,066 --> 00:48:59,298
OF AN ARTICLE HE'D FIRST
PUBLISHED IN "ESQUIRE" MAGAZINE
803
00:48:59,336 --> 00:49:02,101
15 YEARS EARLIER.
804
00:49:02,139 --> 00:49:07,339
HE WROTE THE NEW NOVEL
IN JUST 8 WEEKS.
805
00:49:07,378 --> 00:49:12,646
"THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"
TOLD THE STORY OF AN
OLD CUBAN FISHERMAN
806
00:49:12,683 --> 00:49:16,142
ALONE IN A SKIFF,
WHO HOOKED A GREAT MARLIN THAT
807
00:49:16,187 --> 00:49:19,487
TOWED HIM FAR OUT TO SEA
BEFORE HE COULD HARPOON
808
00:49:19,523 --> 00:49:23,016
AND LASH IT ALONGSIDE.
809
00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:26,053
BUT AS HE STRUGGLED
TO RETURN TO LAND,
810
00:49:26,096 --> 00:49:29,464
SHARKS DEVOURED
MOST OF HIS PRIZE.
811
00:49:32,369 --> 00:49:35,237
IN THE EVENINGS, HEMINGWAY
WOULD LET MARY READ WHAT HE
812
00:49:35,272 --> 00:49:37,332
HAD WRITTEN THAT DAY.
813
00:49:37,374 --> 00:49:41,368
"LAMB," SHE TOLD HIM AFTER
FINISHING THE MANUSCRIPT,
814
00:49:41,412 --> 00:49:44,382
"I AM PREPARED TO PARDON YOU
FOR ALL THE DISAGREEABLE
815
00:49:44,415 --> 00:49:47,044
THINGS YOU HAVE DONE TO ME."
816
00:49:47,084 --> 00:49:49,417
WOMAN, AS WELSH HEMINGWAY:
THOSE WERE SWEET HOURS.
817
00:49:49,453 --> 00:49:54,016
ONLY THE SIGHS OF A BREEZE IN
THE PALMS OR THE FARAWAY CHUFF
818
00:49:54,058 --> 00:49:58,052
OF A LORRY ON THE MAIN ROAD
CAME THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOWS.
819
00:49:58,095 --> 00:50:00,690
IF I MADE SOME
INVOLUNTARY WHISPER
820
00:50:00,731 --> 00:50:03,496
OF APPROVAL, HE CAME OVER
TO READ, PEERING OVER
821
00:50:03,534 --> 00:50:05,765
MY SHOULDER.
822
00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:10,304
THIS WAS SIMPLE LINE-DRAWING
BEAUTY, I THOUGHT.
823
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:14,574
IT REMINDED ME OF BACH FUGUES
AND PICASSO DRAWINGS WITHOUT
824
00:50:14,612 --> 00:50:17,138
CLUTTER OR FRILLS.
825
00:50:18,549 --> 00:50:21,280
HEMINGWAY HAD
ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO INCLUDE
826
00:50:21,318 --> 00:50:25,346
THE STORY AS THE CODA TO
A LONGER NOVEL, BUT HE NOW
827
00:50:25,389 --> 00:50:28,086
WANTED IT TO STAND ON ITS OWN.
828
00:50:28,125 --> 00:50:31,220
"PUBLISHING IT NOW," HE TOLD
SCRIBNER'S, "WILL GET RID
829
00:50:31,262 --> 00:50:35,131
"OF THE SCHOOL OF CRITICISM
THAT I AM THROUGH AS A WRITER,
830
00:50:35,165 --> 00:50:38,226
"THAT CLAIMS I CAN WRITE
ABOUT NOTHING EXCEPT MYSELF
831
00:50:38,269 --> 00:50:40,329
"AND MY OWN EXPERIENCES.
832
00:50:40,371 --> 00:50:44,502
"IT COULD EVEN SERVE AS AN
EPILOGUE TO ALL MY WRITING
833
00:50:44,542 --> 00:50:48,206
"AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED OR
TRIED TO LEARN, WHILE WRITING
834
00:50:48,245 --> 00:50:50,043
AND TRYING TO LIVE."
835
00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:54,416
MOST READERS SEEMED TO AGREE.
836
00:50:54,451 --> 00:50:58,445
"THE OLD MAN AND
THE SEA" APPEARED
FIRST IN "LIFE" MAGAZINE
837
00:50:58,489 --> 00:51:05,157
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1952 AND SOLD
WELL OVER 5 MILLION COPIES.
838
00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:08,131
THE HARD-COVER BOOK, WHEN IT
WAS PUBLISHED, WOULD REMAIN
839
00:51:08,165 --> 00:51:12,227
ON THE BEST-SELLER
LIST FOR 26 WEEKS.
840
00:52:05,422 --> 00:52:08,392
MOST REVIEWERS
LOVED THE BOOK, TOO.
841
00:52:08,425 --> 00:52:10,826
"THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"
PROVED, THE CRITIC
842
00:52:10,861 --> 00:52:13,592
MARK SCHORER WROTE,
THAT "HEMINGWAY'S ART,
843
00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:15,566
"WHEN IT IS ART,
844
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:17,727
"IS ABSOLUTELY
INCOMPARABLE.
845
00:52:17,768 --> 00:52:22,604
"HE IS UNQUESTIONABLY
THE GREATEST CRAFTSMAN
IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL
846
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,609
IN THIS CENTURY."
847
00:52:26,710 --> 00:52:30,613
THE TEST OF A BOOK
FOR ME IS HOW MANY TIMES YOU
848
00:52:30,648 --> 00:52:34,346
WANT TO RE-READ IT.
849
00:52:34,385 --> 00:52:40,416
IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME
BECAUSE IT'S SO ORDINARY.
850
00:52:40,457 --> 00:52:44,485
IT'S ADOLESCENCE.
IT'S SCHOOLBOY WRITING.
851
00:52:44,528 --> 00:52:46,827
I'M SORRY.
852
00:52:46,864 --> 00:52:49,766
IT'S THE WRITER.
HE'S THE BLOODY FISH.
853
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,634
HE'S STRUGGLING TO DO IT.
854
00:52:52,670 --> 00:52:56,163
AND I FEEL, IN SOME WAYS,
SYMPATHETIC BECAUSE I KNOW HOW
855
00:52:56,206 --> 00:53:00,302
HARD IT IS TO WRITE
EVEN ONE GOOD SENTENCE.
856
00:53:00,344 --> 00:53:03,712
THIS IS NOT THE BOOK THAT
WOULD BE THE FINEST FLOWER
857
00:53:03,747 --> 00:53:06,546
ON HIS GRAVE.
IT'S NOT.
858
00:53:06,583 --> 00:53:09,451
WITH "THE OLD MAN
AND THE SEA," YOU SEE THE
859
00:53:09,486 --> 00:53:13,685
AGONY OF THIS OLD MAN, YOU
SEE HIS BRAVERY, YOU SEE HIS
860
00:53:13,724 --> 00:53:18,856
DESIRE TO REDEEM HIMSELF AND
YOU SEE HIM SORT OF ARRIVE
861
00:53:18,896 --> 00:53:22,526
WITH THE PRIZE, BUT THE
PRIZE IS IN TATTERS.
862
00:53:22,566 --> 00:53:24,364
AND ISN'T LIFE LIKE THAT?
863
00:53:24,401 --> 00:53:27,200
I MEAN, ULTIMATELY LIFE
IS SO IRONIC YOU KNOW.
864
00:53:27,237 --> 00:53:30,332
YOU GET THE BIGGEST DAMN FISH
OUT THERE, YOU REDEEM YOUR
865
00:53:30,374 --> 00:53:35,677
REPUTATION, BUT BY THE TIME
YOU GET IT TO SHORE, IT'S GONE
866
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:37,773
AND SO ARE YOU.
867
00:54:36,373 --> 00:54:39,537
THE REFRAIN,
AS HE'S TRYING TO COME IN
868
00:54:39,576 --> 00:54:43,479
AND THE SHARKS KEEP HITTING THE
FISH AND KEEP TAKING IT AWAY,
869
00:54:43,514 --> 00:54:47,576
AS HE SAID, "THE THING
I DID WRONG IS, I WENT
870
00:54:47,618 --> 00:54:49,917
OUT TOO FAR."
871
00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:52,513
I WENT BEYOND WHAT
I CAN CONTROL.
872
00:54:52,556 --> 00:54:55,458
I WENT BEYOND WHAT I
CAN COMPENSATE FOR.
873
00:54:55,492 --> 00:55:00,396
AND I HEAR THAT AS JUST
BEAUTIFUL AND AWFUL, AND FULL
874
00:55:00,430 --> 00:55:03,923
OF PATHOS, AND
THAT IS HEMINGWAY.
875
00:55:07,404 --> 00:55:10,499
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HE WAS PAST
EVERYTHING NOW AND HE SAILED
876
00:55:10,541 --> 00:55:13,067
THE SKIFF TO MAKE HIS
HOME PORT AS WELL AND AS
877
00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:15,472
INTELLIGENTLY AS HE COULD.
878
00:55:15,512 --> 00:55:18,971
IN THE NIGHT, SHARKS HIT THE
CARCASS AS SOMEONE MIGHT PICK UP
879
00:55:19,016 --> 00:55:21,451
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE.
880
00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:25,513
THE OLD MAN PAID NO ATTENTION
TO THEM AND DID NOT PAY ANY
881
00:55:25,556 --> 00:55:28,720
ATTENTION TO ANYTHING
EXCEPT STEERING.
882
00:55:28,759 --> 00:55:32,059
HE ONLY NOTICED HOW LIGHTLY
AND HOW WELL THE SKIFF SAILED.
883
00:55:32,095 --> 00:55:34,655
NOW THERE WAS NO
GREAT WEIGHT BESIDE HER.
884
00:55:37,067 --> 00:55:39,730
HE COULD FEEL HE WAS
INSIDE THE CURRENT NOW
885
00:55:39,770 --> 00:55:41,432
AND HE COULD SEE THE LIGHTS
886
00:55:41,471 --> 00:55:44,532
OF THE BEACH COLONIES
ALONG THE SHORE.
887
00:55:44,575 --> 00:55:49,980
HE KNEW WHERE HE WAS NOW AND
IT WAS NOTHING TO GET HOME.
888
00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:54,007
IT IS EASY WHEN YOU
ARE BEATEN, HE THOUGHT.
889
00:55:54,051 --> 00:55:57,021
I NEVER KNEW HOW EASY IT WAS.
890
00:55:57,054 --> 00:55:59,956
AND WHAT BEAT YOU, HE THOUGHT.
891
00:55:59,990 --> 00:56:03,950
"NOTHING," HE SAID ALOUD.
892
00:56:03,994 --> 00:56:06,987
"I WENT OUT TOO FAR."
893
00:56:07,030 --> 00:56:10,125
♪
894
00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:18,705
IN JUNE OF 1951,
ERNEST'S MOTHER,
GRACE HALL HEMINGWAY
895
00:56:18,742 --> 00:56:22,611
HAD DIED AT THE AGE OF 79.
896
00:56:22,646 --> 00:56:24,877
SHE'D BEEN LIVING IN MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE WITH ONE
897
00:56:24,915 --> 00:56:26,679
OF HIS SISTERS.
898
00:56:26,717 --> 00:56:29,551
HEMINGWAY HAD BEEN SUPPORTING
HIS MOTHER BUT HAD NOT
899
00:56:29,586 --> 00:56:31,452
SEEN HER IN YEARS.
900
00:56:31,488 --> 00:56:33,980
"I HATE HER GUTS,"
HE EXPLAINED TO A FRIEND,
901
00:56:34,024 --> 00:56:36,459
"AND SHE HATES MINE."
902
00:56:36,493 --> 00:56:40,089
HE DID NOT ATTEND HER FUNERAL
EITHER, BUT HE DID SOFTEN
903
00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:42,793
A LITTLE AT HER DEATH.
904
00:56:42,833 --> 00:56:45,894
"I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT
HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE WAS WHEN SHE
905
00:56:45,936 --> 00:56:49,873
WAS YOUNG, " HE WROTE, " BEFORE
EVERYTHING WENT TO HELL IN OUR
906
00:56:49,907 --> 00:56:54,003
"FAMILY AND ABOUT HOW HAPPY
WE ALL WERE AS CHILDREN
907
00:56:54,044 --> 00:56:56,013
BEFORE IT ALL BROKE UP."
908
00:56:57,881 --> 00:57:00,976
MORE FAMILY HELL HAD FOLLOWED.
909
00:57:01,018 --> 00:57:05,479
IN SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR,
19-YEAR-OLD GREGORY HEMINGWAY
910
00:57:05,522 --> 00:57:07,684
WAS ARRESTED IN THE LADIES
ROOM OF A LOS ANGELES
911
00:57:07,724 --> 00:57:12,025
MOVIE THEATER WEARING
WOMEN'S CLOTHES.
912
00:57:12,062 --> 00:57:16,864
AFTER HIS ARREST,
HIS MOTHER, PAULINE,
HEMINGWAY'S SECOND WIFE,
913
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:21,770
RUSHED TO LOS ANGELES TO BAIL
HIM OUT, THEN SPOKE BY PHONE
914
00:57:21,805 --> 00:57:23,831
WITH HEMINGWAY IN CUBA.
915
00:57:23,874 --> 00:57:28,141
EACH BLAMED THE OTHER FOR WHAT
HAD HAPPENED TO THEIR SON.
916
00:57:28,178 --> 00:57:32,047
THERE WAS SHOUTING AND TEARS.
917
00:57:32,082 --> 00:57:35,484
THE TWO OF THEM WENT
AT EACH OTHER TOOTH AND NAIL
918
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:38,717
ABOUT WHO WAS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.
919
00:57:38,755 --> 00:57:43,955
MY DAD AND MY MOTHER REALLY
HAD A TERRIBLE TELEPHONE
920
00:57:43,994 --> 00:57:46,520
CONVERSATION ABOUT IT.
921
00:57:46,563 --> 00:57:51,467
THAT NIGHT,
PAULINE WAS RUSHED TO
THE HOSPITAL IN AGONY.
922
00:57:51,501 --> 00:57:56,496
A RARE AND UNDIAGNOSED
ADRENAL TUMOR HAD BURST.
923
00:57:56,540 --> 00:57:59,669
SHE DIED ON THE
OPERATING TABLE.
924
00:58:01,178 --> 00:58:04,478
IT WAS A
DISASTER ALL AROUND.
925
00:58:04,514 --> 00:58:07,951
AND FROM THAT TIME ON,
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GREG
926
00:58:07,985 --> 00:58:09,920
AND MY DAD WAS TERRIBLE.
927
00:58:09,953 --> 00:58:13,117
HEMINGWAY TOLD GREGORY
THAT THE SHOCK OF HIS ARREST
928
00:58:13,156 --> 00:58:16,149
HAD CAUSED
HIS MOTHER'S DEATH.
929
00:58:16,193 --> 00:58:20,631
GREGORY RESPONDED WITH FURY.
930
00:58:20,664 --> 00:58:23,042
MAN, AS GREGORY: "WHEN IT'S ALL
ADDED UP, PAPA, IT WILL BE...
931
00:58:23,066 --> 00:58:27,026
"HE WROTE A FEW GOOD STORIES,
HAD A FRESH APPROACH TO REALITY,
932
00:58:27,070 --> 00:58:31,166
"AND HE DESTROYED 5
PERSONS... HADLEY, PAULINE,
933
00:58:31,208 --> 00:58:37,170
"MARTY, PATRICK,
AND POSSIBLY MYSELF.
934
00:58:37,214 --> 00:58:41,743
"WHICH DO YOU THINK IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT,
YOU SELF-CENTERED SHIT,
935
00:58:41,785 --> 00:58:43,777
"THE STORIES OR THE PEOPLE?
936
00:58:43,820 --> 00:58:45,652
"I SUPPOSE YOU WONDER
937
00:58:45,689 --> 00:58:48,682
"WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
ALL MY FILIAL RESPECT FOR YOU.
938
00:58:48,725 --> 00:58:52,924
"WELL, IT'S GONE, ERNESTINE,
DEAR, IT'S GONE!
939
00:58:52,963 --> 00:58:56,058
"IT'S GONE WITH THE HUNDRED
THOUSAND CRUELTIES YOU HAVE
940
00:58:56,099 --> 00:58:58,762
"INFLICTED ON PEOPLE FOR THE
LAST 10 YEARS AND WITH THE
941
00:58:58,802 --> 00:59:02,739
"THOUSAND RIGHTEOUS
DRUNKS OF THAT PERIOD.
942
00:59:02,773 --> 00:59:06,835
"YOU'LL NEVER WRITE THAT
GREAT NOVEL BECAUSE
YOU'RE A SICK MAN...
943
00:59:06,877 --> 00:59:11,975
"SICK IN THE HEAD AND
TOO FUCKING PROUD AND
SCARED TO ADMIT IT.
944
00:59:12,015 --> 00:59:15,577
"IN SPITE OF THE CRITICS,
THAT LAST ONE WAS AS SICKLY
945
00:59:15,619 --> 00:59:18,111
"A BUCKET OF SENTIMENTAL
SLOP AS WAS EVER SCRUBBED
946
00:59:18,155 --> 00:59:20,681
"OFF A BARROOM FLOOR.
947
00:59:20,724 --> 00:59:24,217
"THERE'S NOTHING I'D RATHER
SEE THAN YOU WRITE A BEAUTY
948
00:59:24,261 --> 00:59:28,790
"AND THERE'S NOTHING I'D RATHER
SEE THAN YOU ACT INTELLIGENTLY,
949
00:59:28,832 --> 00:59:31,961
"BUT UNTIL YOU DO,
I'M GONNA GIVE YOU JUST
950
00:59:32,002 --> 00:59:35,734
"WHAT YOU DESERVE, AND IN
EXTRA-LARGE HANDFULS TO MAKE UP
951
00:59:35,772 --> 00:59:38,833
FOR THE TROUBLE
YOU'VE CAUSED ME."
952
00:59:41,011 --> 00:59:43,022
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "I HAVE
LEARNED FROM YOUR LETTERS,
953
00:59:43,046 --> 00:59:46,039
"IF I DID NOT KNOW IT BEFORE,
THAT I AM NOT ALWAYS
954
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:48,575
"A CHARMING CHARACTER.
955
00:59:48,618 --> 00:59:54,819
"BUT I AM NOT A GIN-SOAKED
MONSTER GOING AROUND
RUINING PEOPLE'S LIVES.
956
00:59:54,858 --> 00:59:57,726
"YOUR MOTHER WROTE ME
BEFORE SHE DIED THAT
957
00:59:57,761 --> 01:00:01,129
"YOU STILL HAD FLASHES
OF YOUR OLD CHARM AND DECENCY
958
01:00:01,164 --> 01:00:03,895
"AND THAT WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE
UP HOPE THAT YOU WOULD COME
959
01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:07,371
"THROUGH WHATEVER WAS
HAPPENING TO YOU.
960
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:12,042
"RIGHT NOW, I COULD USE
A GOOD FLASH OF YOUR
OLD CHARM AND DECENCY.
961
01:00:12,075 --> 01:00:18,311
I CANNOT USE ANY MORE OBSCENE
OR THREATENING LETTERS."
962
01:00:18,348 --> 01:00:21,079
GREGORY
WOULD LATER APOLOGIZE.
963
01:00:21,118 --> 01:00:24,919
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THOSE
THINGS," HE WROTE TO HIS FATHER.
964
01:00:24,955 --> 01:00:29,017
HEMINGWAY WROTE BACK,
"NOW EVERYTHING IS STRAIGHT...
965
01:00:29,059 --> 01:00:31,654
"NOT CHICKENSHIT
LIKE FORGIVENESS.
966
01:00:31,695 --> 01:00:32,890
"RUBBED OUT.
967
01:00:32,929 --> 01:00:37,060
ANY TIME YOU WANT TO
SHOW UP, SHOW UP."
968
01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:42,903
THAT IT IS DANGEROUS
TO BE THE CHILD OF A WRITER IS
969
01:00:42,939 --> 01:00:46,034
CERTAINLY SUSTAINABLE.
970
01:00:46,076 --> 01:00:50,980
I THINK MY YOUNGER BROTHER
IS AS GOOD AN EXAMPLE AS ANY.
971
01:00:51,014 --> 01:00:54,883
I MEAN, THE MOST
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THIS
972
01:00:54,918 --> 01:01:01,415
IS A GOYA PAINTING
"CRONUS EATING HIS CHILDREN."
973
01:01:01,658 --> 01:01:05,095
IT'S PRETTY GOOD, YOU KNOW.
974
01:01:12,202 --> 01:01:14,797
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THAT NIGHT
WHEN WE HAD GONE TO OUR OWN BEDS
975
01:01:14,838 --> 01:01:19,242
BUT WERE NOT YET ASLEEP,
WE HEARD THE LION ROAR.
976
01:01:19,276 --> 01:01:22,906
HE WAS NORTH OF THE CAMP AND
THE ROAR CAME LOW AND MOUNTING
977
01:01:22,946 --> 01:01:26,849
IN HEAVINESS AND THEN
ENDED IN A SIGH.
978
01:01:26,883 --> 01:01:30,183
"I'M COMING IN WITH YOU,"
MARY SAID.
979
01:01:30,220 --> 01:01:33,748
WE LAY CLOSE TOGETHER IN THE
DARK UNDER THE MOSQUITO BAR,
980
01:01:33,790 --> 01:01:36,055
MY ARM AROUND HER,
AND LISTENED TO HIM
981
01:01:36,092 --> 01:01:37,685
ROAR AGAIN.
982
01:01:39,829 --> 01:01:43,129
"THERE'S NO MISTAKING
WHEN IT'S HIM," MARY SAID.
983
01:01:43,166 --> 01:01:46,796
"I'M GLAD WE'RE IN BED
TOGETHER WHEN WE HEAR HIM."
984
01:01:48,238 --> 01:01:53,939
IN THE SUMMER OF 1953,
20 YEARS AFTER HIS FIRST VISIT,
985
01:01:53,977 --> 01:01:58,005
HEMINGWAY RETURNED
TO EAST AFRICA WITH MARY.
986
01:01:58,048 --> 01:02:01,109
FOR A MONTH, THEY WERE THE
SOLE FOREIGNERS PERMITTED
987
01:02:01,151 --> 01:02:06,021
IN THE SOUTHERN GAME RESERVE,
40 MILES SOUTH OF NAIROBI.
988
01:02:06,056 --> 01:02:09,823
THE KENYA GOVERNMENT
HAD SET HIM UP ON THIS.
989
01:02:09,859 --> 01:02:13,193
THEY JUST HAD A
MAJOR INSURRECTION.
990
01:02:13,230 --> 01:02:15,358
IT WAS AFFECTING TOURISM.
991
01:02:15,398 --> 01:02:18,732
THEY WANTED HIM TO HAVE
A GOOD TIME.
992
01:02:18,768 --> 01:02:21,260
AND BOY WAS HE
HAVING A GOOD TIME!
993
01:02:21,304 --> 01:02:24,763
PATRICK NOW OWNED A
FARM IN EAST AFRICA AND WORKED
994
01:02:24,808 --> 01:02:28,301
AS A GUIDE AND HUNTER, DESPITE
A GUERRILLA UPRISING AGAINST
995
01:02:28,345 --> 01:02:29,904
WHITE COLONIAL RULE.
996
01:02:31,881 --> 01:02:34,942
THEY HUNTED FOR A TIME, BUT
HEMINGWAY WAS DRINKING EVEN
997
01:02:34,985 --> 01:02:39,286
MORE HEAVILY THAN USUAL,
SHOT POORLY, ONCE FELL
998
01:02:39,322 --> 01:02:41,120
FROM HIS JEEP.
999
01:02:41,157 --> 01:02:45,322
HE FINALLY STOPPED SHOOTING
ALTOGETHER, DRIVING OUT FROM
1000
01:02:45,362 --> 01:02:49,493
CAMP INSTEAD EACH MORNING
WITH MARY, JUST TO SEE
1001
01:02:49,532 --> 01:02:52,127
AND PHOTOGRAPH THE ANIMALS.
1002
01:02:59,009 --> 01:03:02,946
"HE LOVED AFRICA," A MEMBER
OF HIS PARTY REMEMBERED.
1003
01:03:02,979 --> 01:03:05,881
"HE LOVED TO SIT IN
IT AND WATCH IT.
1004
01:03:05,915 --> 01:03:09,875
HE HAD NATURAL KNOWLEDGE OF
WHAT ANIMALS DO AND WHERE
1005
01:03:09,919 --> 01:03:12,150
THEY SHOULD BE."
1006
01:03:12,188 --> 01:03:16,057
HEMINGWAY, I THINK,
WAS ALSO REALLY INTERESTED
1007
01:03:16,092 --> 01:03:19,426
IN THE PEOPLE AND WHO THEY
ACTUALLY WERE, A LOT MORE
1008
01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:22,091
INTERESTED THAN HE WAS IN THE
THIRTIES WHEN HE WAS JUST THERE
1009
01:03:22,132 --> 01:03:25,830
REALLY TO HUNT AND NOT
PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS
1010
01:03:25,869 --> 01:03:27,201
ACTUALLY GOING ON.
1011
01:03:27,237 --> 01:03:30,833
WHEN HEMINGWAY
COMES BACK, EAST AFRICA
1012
01:03:30,874 --> 01:03:35,073
IN COLONIALISM,
IS LITERALLY UNDER ATTACK.
1013
01:03:35,111 --> 01:03:38,309
AND HE SEES AN AFRICA THAT IS
LESS TOLERANT OF SOME OF THE...
1014
01:03:38,348 --> 01:03:41,250
BEHAVIOR THAT HE
EXHIBITED EARLY ON.
1015
01:03:41,284 --> 01:03:44,277
IT WAS WRONG TO CALL,
SAY, THOSE GROWN MEN WHO WERE
1016
01:03:44,321 --> 01:03:47,257
SERVING HIM, "BOYS" AND NOT
WANTING TO ACTIVELY GET TO
1017
01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:49,225
KNOW THEM.
1018
01:03:49,259 --> 01:03:52,991
HE NOW CONSIDERED
THE KENYAN GUIDES AND SERVANTS
1019
01:03:53,029 --> 01:03:54,588
"FRIENDS AND BROTHERS."
1020
01:03:54,831 --> 01:03:57,960
HE WROTE, "EVERYONE HAD
HIS DUTIES AND EVERYONE
1021
01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:00,402
HAD A NAME."
1022
01:04:00,437 --> 01:04:04,169
BUT WHEN MARY WENT OFF
TO NAIROBI TO DO SOME
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING,
1023
01:04:04,207 --> 01:04:08,076
HE SOMEHOW PERSUADED
HIMSELF THAT IN HER ABSENCE
1024
01:04:08,111 --> 01:04:13,015
HE SHOULD JOIN THE WAKAMBA
PEOPLE AND MARRY A YOUNG WOMAN.
1025
01:04:13,049 --> 01:04:17,111
HE SHAVED HIS HEAD, DYED HIS
CLOTHES TO IMITATE THEIRS,
1026
01:04:17,153 --> 01:04:20,920
AND TRIED HUNTING A
WARTHOG WITH A SPEAR.
1027
01:04:23,493 --> 01:04:28,329
DESPITE HIS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR,
IN AFRICA, HE AND MARY WERE AS
1028
01:04:28,365 --> 01:04:31,563
CLOSE AS THEY HAD EVER BEEN.
1029
01:04:31,601 --> 01:04:34,969
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: MARY IS
A PRINCE OF DEVILS,
1030
01:04:35,004 --> 01:04:38,270
AND ALMOST ANY PLACE YOU
TOUCH HER IT CAN KILL BOTH
1031
01:04:38,308 --> 01:04:40,174
YOU AND HER.
1032
01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:44,409
SHE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
A BOY AND THINKS AS A BOY
1033
01:04:44,447 --> 01:04:47,383
WITHOUT EVER LOSING
ANY FEMININITY.
1034
01:04:47,417 --> 01:04:51,946
IF YOU SHOULD BECOME CONFUSED
ON THIS, YOU SHOULD RETIRE.
1035
01:04:51,988 --> 01:04:56,449
SHE LOVES ME TO BE HER GIRLS,
WHICH I LOVE TO BE, NOT BEING
1036
01:04:56,493 --> 01:04:59,156
ABSOLUTELY STUPID.
1037
01:04:59,195 --> 01:05:02,324
IN RETURN, SHE MAKES ME AWARDS
1038
01:05:02,365 --> 01:05:05,460
AND AT NIGHT WE DO EVERY SORT
OF THING WHICH PLEASES HER
1039
01:05:05,502 --> 01:05:07,630
AND WHICH PLEASES ME.
1040
01:05:07,670 --> 01:05:10,105
I LOVED FEELING THE EMBRACE
1041
01:05:10,140 --> 01:05:13,406
OF MARY WHICH CAME TO ME
AS SOMETHING QUITE NEW
1042
01:05:13,443 --> 01:05:17,073
AND OUTSIDE ALL TRIBAL LAW.
1043
01:05:17,113 --> 01:05:21,676
ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 19th,
WE WORKED OUT THESE THINGS
1044
01:05:21,918 --> 01:05:24,911
AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER.
1045
01:05:26,489 --> 01:05:30,290
AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT
FOR HIS WIFE, HEMINGWAY HIRED
1046
01:05:30,326 --> 01:05:35,321
A SMALL PLANE THAT FLEW THEM
OVER THE NGORONGORO CRATER,
1047
01:05:35,365 --> 01:05:38,699
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON,
AND THE MIGHTY MURCHISON FALLS
1048
01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:41,530
IN UGANDA.
1049
01:05:41,571 --> 01:05:46,509
AS THE PLANE DIPPED LOW
ABOVE THE GORGE SO MARY
COULD TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS,
1050
01:05:46,543 --> 01:05:49,707
THE PILOT ENCOUNTERED
A FLOCK OF BIRDS,
1051
01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:55,544
DOVE TO AVOID THEM,
AND HIT A TELEGRAPH LINE.
1052
01:05:55,585 --> 01:05:58,555
THE PLANE PLUNGED
INTO THE BUSH.
1053
01:05:58,588 --> 01:06:02,992
MARY WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS,
TWO RIBS BROKEN.
1054
01:06:03,026 --> 01:06:06,121
HEMINGWAY SUFFERED
A TORN SHOULDER.
1055
01:06:06,162 --> 01:06:09,291
THEY SPENT THE NIGHT HIGH
ABOVE THE BANK OF THE NILE
1056
01:06:09,332 --> 01:06:12,632
FOR FEAR OF ELEPHANTS,
FORTIFIED BY A BOTTLE
1057
01:06:12,669 --> 01:06:16,071
OF SCOTCH THAT HAD
SOMEHOW SURVIVED THE CRASH
1058
01:06:16,105 --> 01:06:19,439
AND LISTENING TO
THE CRIES OF HYENAS.
1059
01:06:21,978 --> 01:06:26,245
A SEARCH PLANE SPOTTED THE
WRECKAGE BUT FAILED TO SEE
1060
01:06:26,282 --> 01:06:28,217
THE SURVIVORS.
1061
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,688
WORD QUICKLY SPREAD AROUND THE
WORLD THAT THE GREAT WRITER
1062
01:06:33,723 --> 01:06:38,218
ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS DEAD.
1063
01:06:38,261 --> 01:06:42,494
MEANWHILE, HEMINGWAY HAD
FLAGGED DOWN A PASSING LAUNCH
1064
01:06:42,532 --> 01:06:45,434
AND WHEN THEY REACHED A
LANDING ON THE EASTERN SHORE
1065
01:06:45,468 --> 01:06:49,462
OF LAKE ALBERT, A POLICEMAN
AND A BUSH PILOT OFFERED TO
1066
01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:53,500
FLY THEM ON TO THE
UGANDAN CAPITAL, ENTEBBE.
1067
01:06:53,543 --> 01:06:57,071
THEY CLIMBED ABOARD.
1068
01:06:57,113 --> 01:07:00,550
BUT AS THE ANCIENT PLANE
RATTLED DOWN THE RUTTED RUNWAY,
1069
01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:03,519
THE FUEL TANK
EXPLODED IN FIRE.
1070
01:07:05,522 --> 01:07:09,152
THE PILOT HELPED MARY AND
THE POLICEMAN GET OUT THROUGH
1071
01:07:09,192 --> 01:07:10,592
THE WINDOWS.
1072
01:07:10,627 --> 01:07:13,722
HEMINGWAY WAS TOO
BIG TO FOLLOW THEM.
1073
01:07:13,763 --> 01:07:16,232
TWISTED METAL BARRED THE DOOR.
1074
01:07:16,266 --> 01:07:18,167
FLAMES WERE RISING.
1075
01:07:18,201 --> 01:07:20,170
HEMINGWAY WAS TRAPPED.
1076
01:07:20,203 --> 01:07:24,299
HE HURLED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE
DOOR AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL
1077
01:07:24,340 --> 01:07:26,104
HE BATTERED IT OPEN.
1078
01:07:28,545 --> 01:07:32,641
HE INSISTED TO NEWSMEN
GATHERED IN ENTEBBE THAT HE
1079
01:07:32,682 --> 01:07:34,207
HAD NEVER FELT BETTER.
1080
01:07:34,250 --> 01:07:38,153
"MY LUCK, SHE IS
STILL GOOD," HE SAID.
1081
01:07:38,187 --> 01:07:40,679
AND HE LOOKED FORWARD TO
READING ALL THE PREMATURE
1082
01:07:40,723 --> 01:07:43,522
OBITUARIES THAT HAD
ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED
1083
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:46,826
AROUND THE WORLD.
1084
01:07:47,063 --> 01:07:50,397
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: IN ALL
OBITUARIES, OR ALMOST ALL,
1085
01:07:50,433 --> 01:07:55,667
IT WAS EMPHASIZED THAT I HAD
SOUGHT DEATH ALL MY LIFE.
1086
01:07:55,705 --> 01:08:00,302
CAN ONE IMAGINE THAT IF A MAN
SOUGHT DEATH ALL OF HIS LIFE
1087
01:08:00,343 --> 01:08:04,246
HE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND
HER BEFORE THE AGE OF 54?
1088
01:08:06,115 --> 01:08:11,452
WHO ELSE GETS
IN TWO PLANE CRASHES IN
TWO DAYS IN AFRICA,
1089
01:08:11,487 --> 01:08:14,651
HAS THE WORD GO OUT ALL OVER
THE WORLD THAT HE'S DEAD,
1090
01:08:14,691 --> 01:08:16,421
AND READS HIS
OWN OBITUARIES?
1091
01:08:16,459 --> 01:08:18,223
NO ONE DOES THAT.
1092
01:08:18,261 --> 01:08:20,172
SURVIVING
TWO AIRPLANE CRASHES
1093
01:08:20,196 --> 01:08:23,223
IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND HIS PILOT
1094
01:08:23,266 --> 01:08:25,497
ROY MARCH RETURNED TO
NAIROBI IN HIGH FETTLE.
1095
01:08:25,535 --> 01:08:27,834
ON THE SECOND CRASH,
HEMINGWAY SUFFERED A BAD BUMP
1096
01:08:27,870 --> 01:08:29,304
ON THE HEAD.
1097
01:08:29,339 --> 01:08:31,570
MRS. HEMINGWAY, HOWEVER,
CAME THROUGH UNSCATHED.
1098
01:08:36,145 --> 01:08:39,741
DESPITE HEMINGWAY'S
BRAVADO, DOCTORS CONFIRMED
1099
01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:42,149
THAT HE HAD NEARLY DIED.
1100
01:08:42,185 --> 01:08:45,781
HIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED AND
HE HAD SUFFERED STILL ANOTHER
1101
01:08:45,822 --> 01:08:47,586
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY,
1102
01:08:47,624 --> 01:08:49,684
SLURRED SPEECH,
DOUBLE-VISION,
1103
01:08:49,726 --> 01:08:51,854
RECURRING DEAFNESS.
1104
01:08:51,894 --> 01:08:54,887
HE HAD FIRST-DEGREE BURNS
ON HIS HEAD, FACE,
1105
01:08:55,131 --> 01:08:56,360
AND HAND, TOO,
1106
01:08:56,399 --> 01:08:58,231
TWO FRACTURED VERTEBRAE,
1107
01:08:58,267 --> 01:08:59,895
INTERNAL INJURIES,
1108
01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:04,540
RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM AND
LEFT LEG BADLY SPRAINED.
1109
01:09:04,574 --> 01:09:08,602
HE'S NEVER REALLY
QUITE THE SAME AGAIN.
1110
01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:14,346
DEPRESSION, HALLUCINATIONS,
AND THEN A KIND OF REPRIEVE.
1111
01:09:14,384 --> 01:09:17,479
HE'S ABLE TO DO MORE WORK.
1112
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:24,188
HE'S TRAVELING ABOUT,
BUT WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING
1113
01:09:24,227 --> 01:09:27,391
OF WHAT IS GOING
TO BE THE END.
1114
01:09:27,430 --> 01:09:31,492
HE MANAGED TO
DICTATE A 15,000-WORD ACCOUNT
1115
01:09:31,534 --> 01:09:34,527
OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED FOR
"LOOK" MAGAZINE, THEN TRAVELED
1116
01:09:34,570 --> 01:09:38,837
WITH MARY TO SHIMONI, A CAMP
ON THE KENYA COAST WHERE HE
1117
01:09:38,875 --> 01:09:41,936
HAD PLANNED TO FISH
WITH HIS SON, PATRICK.
1118
01:09:42,178 --> 01:09:44,409
BUT HIS PAIN PROVED TOO GREAT.
1119
01:09:44,447 --> 01:09:47,440
DOCTORS WARNED HIM THAT HE
WAS RISKING HIS LIFE BY
1120
01:09:47,483 --> 01:09:49,315
CONTINUING TO DRINK.
1121
01:09:49,352 --> 01:09:52,447
AND SOMETHING ELSE
WAS WRONG, AS WELL.
1122
01:09:52,488 --> 01:09:55,788
"DUE TO THE CEREBRAL THING,"
HE WROTE TO A FRIEND.
1123
01:09:55,825 --> 01:09:59,694
"I SAY TERRIBLE THINGS
AND HEAR MYSELF SAY THEM.
1124
01:09:59,729 --> 01:10:02,255
IT IS NO GOOD."
1125
01:10:02,298 --> 01:10:06,497
HEMINGWAY WAS FEARFUL,
SHORT-TEMPERED, IMPATIENT,
1126
01:10:06,536 --> 01:10:10,496
SO ABUSIVE TO MARY THAT SHE
AGAIN THREATENED TO LEAVE HIM,
1127
01:10:10,540 --> 01:10:15,205
SO VICIOUS TO HIS SON
THAT PATRICK DID LEAVE.
1128
01:10:15,244 --> 01:10:20,774
THE ATMOSPHERE
AT SHIMONI WAS BAD.
1129
01:10:20,817 --> 01:10:24,777
I MEAN MY DAD REALLY...
1130
01:10:24,821 --> 01:10:25,982
I DON'T KNOW.
1131
01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:28,851
I MEAN,
IT WAS LIKE KING LEAR.
1132
01:10:28,891 --> 01:10:31,554
AND HE'S JUST,
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
1133
01:10:31,594 --> 01:10:33,825
AREN'T I KING?" YOU KNOW.
1134
01:10:33,863 --> 01:10:37,265
I SYMPATHIZED
WITH HIS PROBLEMS,
1135
01:10:37,300 --> 01:10:41,362
BUT YOU HAVE TO
SHOW SOME RESTRAINT.
1136
01:10:41,404 --> 01:10:48,777
THE LAST FEW WEEKS IN AFRICA,
HE JUST LOST ALL RESTRAINT.
1137
01:10:48,811 --> 01:10:53,806
AND FOR SOMEONE AS
POWERFUL AND AS...
1138
01:10:53,850 --> 01:10:57,548
HE... I REALLY HAD ENOUGH.
1139
01:10:57,587 --> 01:10:59,522
AND WE NEVER SAW
EACH OTHER AGAIN.
1140
01:11:14,337 --> 01:11:16,602
THE HEMINGWAYS
EVENTUALLY MADE THEIR WAY
1141
01:11:16,639 --> 01:11:19,632
HOME TO CUBA.
1142
01:11:19,675 --> 01:11:24,909
IT WAS THERE, ON THE
EVENING OF OCTOBER 28, 1954,
1143
01:11:24,947 --> 01:11:27,815
THAT ERNEST RECEIVED
A CALL FROM A REPORTER
1144
01:11:27,850 --> 01:11:30,786
FOR UNITED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL.
1145
01:11:30,820 --> 01:11:35,019
HEMINGWAY HAD WON WHAT HE
CALLED "THE SWEDISH THING"...
1146
01:11:35,057 --> 01:11:37,822
THE NOBEL PRIZE
FOR LITERATURE.
1147
01:11:37,860 --> 01:11:41,353
HIS HEALTH WOULD NOT PERMIT
HIM TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY
1148
01:11:41,397 --> 01:11:44,595
IN STOCKHOLM OR EVEN TRAVEL
TO THE SWEDISH EMBASSY
1149
01:11:44,634 --> 01:11:48,071
IN WASHINGTON TO ACCEPT
THE PRIZE, SO THE SWEDISH
1150
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:51,797
AMBASSADOR CAME
TO HIM, IN CUBA.
1151
01:11:51,841 --> 01:11:56,370
PRIVATELY, HEMINGWAY BELIEVED,
"NO SON OF A BITCH WHO EVER
1152
01:11:56,412 --> 01:11:59,576
WON THE NOBEL PRIZE EVER
WROTE ANYTHING WORTH
1153
01:11:59,615 --> 01:12:02,676
READING AFTERWARDS."
1154
01:12:02,718 --> 01:12:04,550
TELL ME, DO YOU PLAN
TO GO TO SWEDEN TO
1155
01:12:04,587 --> 01:12:06,488
RECEIVE THE AWARD?
1156
01:12:06,522 --> 01:12:11,825
I'M SORRY THAT
I WILL NOT BE ABLE
TO GO TO SWEDEN
1157
01:12:11,861 --> 01:12:16,390
ON THE ORDERS OF MY
DOCTOR WHO SAYS
1158
01:12:16,432 --> 01:12:19,425
I'M DOING VERY WELL
AFTER...
1159
01:12:19,468 --> 01:12:21,630
HE HAD
ALWAYS BEEN TERRIFIED
1160
01:12:21,671 --> 01:12:24,641
OF SPEAKING IN PUBLIC,
BUT HE RELUCTANTLY AGREED
1161
01:12:24,674 --> 01:12:28,770
TO BE INTERVIEWED BY NBC,
PROVIDED QUESTIONS WERE
1162
01:12:28,811 --> 01:12:32,805
SUBMITTED IN ADVANCE AND HE
COULD READ OUT HIS ANSWERS
1163
01:12:32,849 --> 01:12:34,909
FROM CUE CARDS.
BAD FOR ME.
1164
01:12:34,951 --> 01:12:37,546
DO YOU HAVE A NAME
FOR YOUR NEW NOVEL?
1165
01:12:37,587 --> 01:12:41,456
I NEVER HAVE ANY
NAMES FOR ANYTHING THAT
1166
01:12:41,490 --> 01:12:45,621
I PUBLISH UNTIL IT IS
TIME TO PUBLISH IT.
1167
01:12:45,661 --> 01:12:52,363
AS I SELECT A GREAT MANY
NAMES AND THEN REJECT THOSE,
1168
01:12:52,401 --> 01:12:55,565
WHICH ARE WORTHLESS.
PERIOD.
1169
01:12:55,605 --> 01:12:59,565
MOST OF THEM
ARE WORTHLESS.
PERIOD.
1170
01:12:59,609 --> 01:13:02,545
COULD YOU TELL ME A SHORT
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT
1171
01:13:02,578 --> 01:13:04,638
YOUR NEW NOVEL IS ABOUT?
1172
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:10,916
UH... THE BOOK THAT I AM
WRITING ON AT PRESENT IS
1173
01:13:10,953 --> 01:13:12,854
ABOUT AFRICA...
1174
01:13:14,624 --> 01:13:21,724
ITS PEOPLE, IN THE PARK
THAT I KNOW THEM,
1175
01:13:21,764 --> 01:13:24,495
THE ANIMALS,
1176
01:13:24,533 --> 01:13:31,463
COMMA, AND THE
CHANGES IN AFRICA
1177
01:13:31,507 --> 01:13:35,638
SINCE I WAS
THERE LAST. PERIOD.
1178
01:13:38,414 --> 01:13:41,646
MUCH LATER, HE
WAS PERSUADED TO RECORD HIS
1179
01:13:41,684 --> 01:13:44,654
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
OFF-CAMERA.
1180
01:13:44,687 --> 01:13:47,885
WHEN HE WAS GIVEN
THE NOBEL PRIZE, AND HE COULDN'T
1181
01:13:47,924 --> 01:13:51,417
GO UP 'CAUSE OF ILLNESS,
IT WAS SO STRANGE.
1182
01:13:51,460 --> 01:13:54,020
WHAT HE WROTE,
IT'S SO PERFECT.
1183
01:13:54,063 --> 01:13:56,532
IT'S LIKE A PRAYER.
1184
01:13:58,968 --> 01:14:01,767
NO WRITER
WHO KNOWS THE GREAT WRITERS
1185
01:14:01,804 --> 01:14:04,968
WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THE PRIZE
CAN ACCEPT IT OTHER THAN
1186
01:14:05,007 --> 01:14:07,203
WITH HUMILITY.
1187
01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:11,141
WRITING, AT ITS BEST,
IS A LONELY LIFE.
1188
01:14:11,180 --> 01:14:14,742
ORGANIZATIONS FOR WRITERS
PALLIATE THE WRITER'S
1189
01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:19,518
LONELINESS BUT I DOUBT IF
THEY IMPROVE HIS WRITING.
1190
01:14:19,555 --> 01:14:24,152
HE GROWS IN PUBLIC STATURE
AS HE SHEDS HIS LONELINESS,
1191
01:14:24,193 --> 01:14:26,719
AND OFTEN HIS WORK
DETERIORATES.
1192
01:14:28,931 --> 01:14:32,732
FOR HE DOES HIS WORK ALONE AND
IF HE IS A GOOD ENOUGH WRITER,
1193
01:14:32,768 --> 01:14:40,768
HE MUST FACE ETERNITY, OR
THE LACK OF IT, EACH DAY.
1194
01:14:40,943 --> 01:14:44,937
IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD SUCH
GREAT WRITERS IN THE PAST THAT
1195
01:14:44,981 --> 01:14:49,077
A WRITER IS DRIVEN FAR OUT
PAST WHERE HE CAN GO, OUT TO
1196
01:14:49,118 --> 01:14:52,213
WHERE NO ONE CAN HELP HIM.
1197
01:14:52,254 --> 01:14:55,019
I HAVE SPOKEN TOO
LONG FOR A WRITER.
1198
01:14:55,057 --> 01:14:59,017
A WRITER SHOULD WRITE WHAT HE
HAS TO SAY AND NOT SPEAK IT.
1199
01:14:59,061 --> 01:15:01,792
AGAIN, I THANK YOU.
1200
01:15:05,601 --> 01:15:08,662
REQUESTS FOR
INTERVIEWS NOW POURED IN.
1201
01:15:08,704 --> 01:15:11,799
MAGAZINES FEATURED HIM
ON THEIR COVERS.
1202
01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:15,801
HOLLYWOOD RUSHED TO MAKE A
REMAKE OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS,"
1203
01:15:15,845 --> 01:15:19,077
A MOVIE OF "THE SUN
ALSO RISES" AND ANOTHER
1204
01:15:19,115 --> 01:15:22,279
OF "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA."
1205
01:15:22,518 --> 01:15:25,716
BIOGRAPHERS AND MOVIE STARS
AND AUTOGRAPH-SEEKERS
1206
01:15:25,755 --> 01:15:27,724
FLOCKED TO SEE HIM.
1207
01:15:27,757 --> 01:15:31,285
HE COMPLAINED THAT SIGHTSEERS
WERE TURNING UP AT THE FINCA,
1208
01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:33,860
CLAMORING FOR A GLIMPSE
OF WHAT HE CALLED
1209
01:15:33,896 --> 01:15:37,799
"THE OLD ELEPHANT
IN THE ZOO."
1210
01:15:37,833 --> 01:15:43,033
HE WAS TOLD AGAIN AND
AGAIN TO STOP DRINKING.
1211
01:15:43,072 --> 01:15:46,304
THE THING I KNOW
ABOUT ALCOHOLISM,
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE,
1212
01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:49,239
IS THAT IT'S PROGRESSIVE
AND IT'S FATAL.
1213
01:15:49,278 --> 01:15:51,008
AND THAT MEANS THAT IT
GETS WORSE AND WORSE,
1214
01:15:51,047 --> 01:15:53,710
AND THEN YOU DIE.
1215
01:15:53,749 --> 01:15:56,548
YOU EITHER KILL YOURSELF, YOU
GET PUT IN JAIL, OR YOU GO TO
1216
01:15:56,585 --> 01:15:58,645
THE LOONY BIN,
BUT THAT'S IT.
1217
01:15:58,687 --> 01:16:04,217
THOSE ARE YOUR 3 CHOICES,
OR YOU GET SOBER.
1218
01:16:04,260 --> 01:16:07,560
WHEN YOU HAVE
HEAD INJURY, YOUR MIND IS...
1219
01:16:07,596 --> 01:16:09,895
AND YOUR BODY... ARE LESS
WELL-EQUIPPED TO TOLERATE
1220
01:16:09,932 --> 01:16:11,901
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.
1221
01:16:11,934 --> 01:16:16,167
IT MAGNIFIES THE DISINHIBITION
AND THE PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIORS,
1222
01:16:16,205 --> 01:16:19,198
BUT YOU JUST
TOLERATE IT LESS WELL.
1223
01:16:19,241 --> 01:16:23,679
DOCTORS PRESCRIBED A
BEWILDERING ARRAY OF DRUGS TO
1224
01:16:23,712 --> 01:16:26,910
COMBAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE,
LOWER CHOLESTEROL,
1225
01:16:26,949 --> 01:16:32,581
CALM ANXIETY, ENCOURAGE SLEEP,
LIFT HIS SPIRITS.
1226
01:16:32,621 --> 01:16:36,991
FRIENDS OFFERED HIM UNAUTHORIZED
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, AS WELL.
1227
01:16:37,026 --> 01:16:40,724
THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH ONE
ANOTHER AND WITH ALCOHOL
1228
01:16:40,763 --> 01:16:44,598
LIKELY EXACERBATED HIS
DEPRESSION AND DELUSIONS
1229
01:16:44,633 --> 01:16:46,864
AND PARANOIA.
1230
01:16:46,902 --> 01:16:50,100
HE'S SELF-MEDICATING
WITH PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING HE
1231
01:16:50,139 --> 01:16:52,904
CAN LAY HANDS ON.
1232
01:16:52,942 --> 01:16:56,743
HE'S USING SYNTHETIC
TESTOSTERONE, WHICH IS
1233
01:16:56,779 --> 01:16:59,112
A STREET DRUG IN SPANISH
CULTURES 'CAUSE HE'S
1234
01:16:59,148 --> 01:17:02,084
STRUGGLING WITH IMPOTENCE
BECAUSE OF ALL THE WAYS HE'S
1235
01:17:02,118 --> 01:17:03,677
ABUSED HIS BODY.
1236
01:17:03,719 --> 01:17:06,188
HE'S BOUNCING FROM
DOCTOR TO DOCTOR.
1237
01:17:06,222 --> 01:17:07,622
THERE'S NOT A DOCTOR
HE DIDN'T SEE
1238
01:17:07,656 --> 01:17:09,352
WHO WOULDN'T
GIVE HIM SOMETHING.
1239
01:17:09,391 --> 01:17:11,257
IT'S BAD.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY
1240
01:17:11,293 --> 01:17:13,023
THAT THE PEOPLE
IN THIS WORLD THAT GET
1241
01:17:13,062 --> 01:17:15,964
THE WORST MEDICAL CARE ARE
EITHER THE VERY POOR
1242
01:17:15,998 --> 01:17:18,968
OR CELEBRITIES BECAUSE
CELEBRITIES CAN HAVE WHATEVER
1243
01:17:19,001 --> 01:17:21,664
THEY ASK THE DOCTOR FOR AND
THE DOCTOR WON'T SAY "NO"
1244
01:17:21,704 --> 01:17:26,870
OR DISCIPLINE THEM,
SO HE'S IN BIG TROUBLE.
1245
01:17:26,909 --> 01:17:29,242
IT DOESN'T SOUND
LIKE THE DOCTOR SAID, "LOOK,
1246
01:17:29,278 --> 01:17:31,304
YOU SEEM TO BE MANIC,"
1247
01:17:31,347 --> 01:17:32,838
OR "LOOK, YOU SEEM TO BE
1248
01:17:32,882 --> 01:17:34,942
"REALLY A LITTLE CRAZY NOW.
1249
01:17:34,984 --> 01:17:37,215
I'M GONNA GIVE YOU
THIS TO HELP WITH IT."
1250
01:17:37,253 --> 01:17:39,154
NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING.
1251
01:17:39,188 --> 01:17:42,681
THERE'S A HUGE TABOO SO THAT
A HUSBAND AND WIFE DON'T EVEN
1252
01:17:42,725 --> 01:17:44,250
TALK ABOUT IT.
1253
01:17:44,293 --> 01:17:46,762
THERE'S SO MUCH STIGMA
ATTACHED TO IT THAT
1254
01:17:46,795 --> 01:17:49,355
NOBODY GETS HELP FOR HIM.
1255
01:17:51,233 --> 01:17:53,168
MEANWHILE,
REVOLUTIONARIES,
1256
01:17:53,202 --> 01:17:54,795
LED BY FIDEL CASTRO,
1257
01:17:54,837 --> 01:17:57,898
WERE WAGING WAR
AGAINST THE CUBAN DICTATOR
1258
01:17:57,940 --> 01:18:00,273
FULGENCIO BATISTA.
1259
01:18:00,309 --> 01:18:03,871
A GOVERNMENT PATROL CAME ONTO
HEMINGWAY'S PROPERTY SEARCHING
1260
01:18:03,913 --> 01:18:08,874
FOR REBELS AND BLUDGEONED TO
DEATH ONE OF THE FAMILY DOGS.
1261
01:18:08,918 --> 01:18:12,685
THROUGH IT ALL, HEMINGWAY
CONTINUED TO WRITE, BUT NOW
1262
01:18:12,721 --> 01:18:15,122
SEEMED UNABLE TO
COMPLETE ANYTHING.
1263
01:18:15,157 --> 01:18:19,288
A NOVEL ABOUT SAILING
OFF BIMINI, THAT AFTER
HIS DEATH WOULD
1264
01:18:19,328 --> 01:18:22,059
BECOME "ISLANDS
IN THE STREAM;"
1265
01:18:22,097 --> 01:18:24,032
800 PAGES OF A BOOK
1266
01:18:24,066 --> 01:18:27,935
INSPIRED BY HIS SECOND AFRICAN
SAFARI, PARTS OF WHICH WOULD
1267
01:18:27,970 --> 01:18:31,930
ONE DAY BE PUBLISHED AS
"TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT;"
1268
01:18:31,974 --> 01:18:36,435
AND 42 CHAPTERS OF "THE GARDEN
OF EDEN", A NOVEL HE HIMSELF
1269
01:18:36,478 --> 01:18:39,778
THOUGHT TOO SEXUALLY
ADVENTUROUS TO BE PUBLISHED
1270
01:18:39,815 --> 01:18:42,375
DURING HIS LIFETIME.
1271
01:18:42,418 --> 01:18:46,048
THE FACT THAT
HEMINGWAY ONCE AGAIN,
1272
01:18:46,088 --> 01:18:51,925
THE ARTIST, IS REALLY PUSHING
OUT, IS EXPERIMENTING,
1273
01:18:51,961 --> 01:18:56,023
IS DOING THINGS THAT SOME
PEOPLE WOULD FIND SHOCKING
1274
01:18:56,065 --> 01:19:00,025
ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY...
THE FETISH ABOUT HAIR,
1275
01:19:00,069 --> 01:19:03,870
THE "YOU BE ME, I'LL BE YOU,"
THE SWITCHING OF ROLES.
1276
01:19:03,906 --> 01:19:08,844
AND HE'S NOT HIDING
HIMSELF VERY MUCH IN IT.
1277
01:19:08,877 --> 01:19:12,507
I THINK THIS IS REALLY QUITE
SOMETHING FOR A MAN WHO HAS
1278
01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:15,081
BEEN TRYING TO MAINTAIN
A CERTAIN PERSONA
1279
01:19:15,117 --> 01:19:18,485
FOR THE MAJORITY OF HIS LIFE.
1280
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:22,150
MAYBE HE WASN'T TRYING
TO MAINTAIN IT, YOU KNOW.
1281
01:19:22,191 --> 01:19:24,285
HERE WE GO WITH
THE ENIGMA AGAIN.
1282
01:19:24,326 --> 01:19:29,060
WHERE ARE WE AND
WHAT'S HAPPENING AND
WHERE ARE YOU, ERNEST?
1283
01:19:29,098 --> 01:19:30,498
WHERE ARE YOU
WITH ALL OF THIS?
1284
01:19:30,532 --> 01:19:32,433
WHAT'S GOING ON?
1285
01:19:37,006 --> 01:19:39,840
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I SAT IN
A CORNER WITH THE AFTERNOON
1286
01:19:39,875 --> 01:19:42,845
LIGHT COMING IN OVER
MY SHOULDER AND WROTE
1287
01:19:42,878 --> 01:19:44,847
IN THE NOTEBOOK.
1288
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:48,976
THE WAITER BROUGHT ME A CAFE
CREME, AND I DRANK HALF OF IT
1289
01:19:49,018 --> 01:19:53,285
WHEN IT COOLED AND LEFT IT
ON THE TABLE WHILE I WROTE.
1290
01:19:53,322 --> 01:19:56,258
WHEN I STOPPED WRITING, I DID
NOT WANT TO LEAVE THE RIVER
1291
01:19:56,292 --> 01:20:01,230
WHERE I COULD SEE THE TROUT IN
THE POOL, ITS SURFACE PUSHING
1292
01:20:01,263 --> 01:20:03,494
AND SWELLING SMOOTH AGAINST
THE RESISTANCE OF THE
1293
01:20:03,532 --> 01:20:07,993
LOG-DRIVEN PILES OF THE BRIDGE,
1294
01:20:08,037 --> 01:20:11,872
BUT IN THE MORNING
THE RIVER WOULD BE THERE.
1295
01:20:11,907 --> 01:20:15,139
ALL I MUST DO NOW IS STAY
SOUND AND GOOD IN MY HEAD
1296
01:20:15,177 --> 01:20:18,079
UNTIL MORNING WHEN
I WOULD START TO WORK AGAIN.
1297
01:20:19,882 --> 01:20:23,046
IN THOSE DAYS, WE NEVER
THOUGHT THAT ANY OF THAT COULD
1298
01:20:23,085 --> 01:20:24,485
BE DIFFICULT.
1299
01:20:26,021 --> 01:20:29,958
IN EARLY 1957,
HE RETURNED TO YET ANOTHER
1300
01:20:29,992 --> 01:20:33,156
PROJECT, A SERIES OF
LOVING SKETCHES OF PARIS
1301
01:20:33,195 --> 01:20:37,291
IN THE 1920s, WHEN HE WAS
YOUNG AND EVERYTHING STILL
1302
01:20:37,333 --> 01:20:39,427
SEEMED POSSIBLE.
1303
01:20:39,468 --> 01:20:43,132
IN IT, HE ALSO SETTLED
SCORES WITH OLD FRIENDS...
1304
01:20:43,172 --> 01:20:46,904
SCORES THAT DIDN'T SEEM
TO NEED SETTLING...
1305
01:20:46,942 --> 01:20:51,107
ATTACKING GERTRUDE STEIN,
RIDICULING SCOTT FITZGERALD,
1306
01:20:51,146 --> 01:20:55,948
BOTH OF WHOM HAD HELPED HIM,
EACH OF THEM LONG DEAD.
1307
01:20:55,984 --> 01:21:00,979
HEMINGWAY WAS THE HERO OF HIS
BOOK, HIS FIRST WIFE HADLEY,
1308
01:21:01,023 --> 01:21:03,151
THE UNBLEMISHED HEROINE,
1309
01:21:03,192 --> 01:21:05,457
PAULINE PFEIFFER,
HIS SECOND WIFE,
1310
01:21:05,494 --> 01:21:08,487
THE WOMAN WHO
CAME BETWEEN THEM.
1311
01:21:08,530 --> 01:21:13,594
HEMINGWAY WOULD NEVER
COMPLETE THE MANUSCRIPT,
BUT, EDITED BY MARY,
1312
01:21:13,635 --> 01:21:17,163
IT WOULD BE PUBLISHED
AFTER HIS DEATH.
1313
01:21:17,206 --> 01:21:21,371
FOR MANY READERS, "A MOVEABLE
FEAST," A COMBINATION OF WHAT
1314
01:21:21,410 --> 01:21:25,313
HAD REALLY HAPPENED AND WHAT
HEMINGWAY WISHED HAD HAPPENED,
1315
01:21:25,347 --> 01:21:28,010
WOULD BE HIS
FINAL MASTERPIECE.
1316
01:21:29,485 --> 01:21:33,149
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: PARIS WAS A
VERY OLD CITY AND WE WERE YOUNG
1317
01:21:33,188 --> 01:21:36,647
AND NOTHING WAS SIMPLE
THERE, NOT EVEN POVERTY,
1318
01:21:36,892 --> 01:21:41,387
NOR SUDDEN MONEY, NOR
THE MOONLIGHT, NOR RIGHT
1319
01:21:41,430 --> 01:21:44,457
AND WRONG, NOR THE BREATHING
OF SOMEONE WHO LAY BESIDE YOU
1320
01:21:44,500 --> 01:21:46,366
IN THE MOONLIGHT.
1321
01:21:48,937 --> 01:21:53,898
♪
1322
01:21:53,942 --> 01:21:57,242
IN THE SPRING OF
1959, THE HEMINGWAYS TRAVELED
1323
01:21:57,279 --> 01:22:01,444
BACK TO HIS BELOVED SPAIN
AND SETTLED INTO THE OPULENT
1324
01:22:01,483 --> 01:22:04,510
HACIENDA OF A WEALTHY
CELEBRITY-LOVING AMERICAN
1325
01:22:04,553 --> 01:22:07,352
ON THE COSTA DEL SOL.
1326
01:22:07,389 --> 01:22:11,121
THE TWO FINEST MATADORS IN
SPAIN WERE TO COMPETE AGAINST
1327
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:15,359
ONE ANOTHER IN BULLRINGS
ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
1328
01:22:15,397 --> 01:22:19,926
HEMINGWAY HOPED THEY WOULD
PROVIDE MATERIAL FOR A REVISED
1329
01:22:19,968 --> 01:22:24,235
EDITION OF "DEATH IN THE
AFTERNOON," BUT WHEN THE
1330
01:22:24,273 --> 01:22:27,710
EDITORS OF "LIFE" GOT WIND OF
HIS TRIP, THEY ASKED HIM TO
1331
01:22:27,943 --> 01:22:30,310
WRITE A STAND-ALONE PIECE.
1332
01:22:34,650 --> 01:22:41,113
VALENCIA, GRANADA, BILBAO,
1333
01:22:41,156 --> 01:22:44,183
LINARES, CORDOBA...
1334
01:22:44,226 --> 01:22:49,221
THE BULLFIGHTS WENT ON AND ON,
WITH HEMINGWAY AND A CAVALCADE
1335
01:22:49,264 --> 01:22:52,530
OF HARD-DRINKING FRIENDS
AND HANGERS-ON FOLLOWING
1336
01:22:52,568 --> 01:22:54,400
IN THEIR WAKE.
1337
01:22:54,436 --> 01:22:58,168
EVERYWHERE HE WENT, THE
AUTHOR OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES"
1338
01:22:58,207 --> 01:23:03,612
WAS TREATED AS SOMETHING
LIKE A PATRON SAINT,
1339
01:23:03,645 --> 01:23:07,138
BUT THE FRENZIED SEASON
EXHAUSTED HIM.
1340
01:23:07,182 --> 01:23:10,516
AFTER THE BULLFIGHTS HAD
ENDED, A FRIEND REMEMBERED,
1341
01:23:10,552 --> 01:23:13,545
HE SEEMED LIKE
"AN OLD MAN, WORLD-WEARY,
1342
01:23:13,589 --> 01:23:17,219
HIS EYES HALF-CLOSED."
1343
01:23:17,259 --> 01:23:20,161
WHEN HE FINALLY GOT BACK
TO CUBA AND TRIED TO WRITE
1344
01:23:20,195 --> 01:23:23,632
ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES,
HIS OLD-TIME DISCIPLINE SEEMED
1345
01:23:23,665 --> 01:23:26,430
TO HAVE DESERTED HIM.
1346
01:23:26,468 --> 01:23:29,302
"LIFE" HAD ASKED
FOR 40,000 WORDS.
1347
01:23:29,338 --> 01:23:34,470
HE PRODUCED 120,000 AND
THEN HAD TO ASK A FRIEND
1348
01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:36,376
TO DO THE CUTTING.
1349
01:23:37,646 --> 01:23:42,175
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, WHO HAD ONCE
BEEN HIS OWN MOST UNFORGIVING
1350
01:23:42,217 --> 01:23:46,712
EDITOR, NO LONGER SEEMED ABLE
TO SEPARATE WHAT MATTERED
1351
01:23:46,755 --> 01:23:50,089
IN HIS WRITING
FROM WHAT DID NOT.
1352
01:23:54,596 --> 01:23:58,124
HAVANA,
BEARING 26th OF JULY BANNERS,
1353
01:23:58,166 --> 01:24:01,193
JOYOUS FOLLOWERS OF FIDEL
CASTRO SWEEP TRIUMPHANTLY
1354
01:24:01,236 --> 01:24:04,104
THROUGH THE CUBAN CAPITAL
HOURS AFTER THEIR REBELLION
1355
01:24:04,139 --> 01:24:07,200
HAD TOPPLED THE REGIME
OF FULGENCIO BATISTA.
1356
01:24:07,242 --> 01:24:10,804
HEMINGWAY SYMPATHIZED
WITH CASTRO'S REVOLUTION.
1357
01:24:11,046 --> 01:24:13,606
IT REMINDED HIM
OF THE LOYALIST CAUSE HE HAD
1358
01:24:13,649 --> 01:24:15,447
SUPPORTED IN SPAIN.
1359
01:24:15,484 --> 01:24:18,283
THAT
BROUGHT BATISTA TO POWER.
1360
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:20,755
STILL, BEFORE
LEAVING FOR SPAIN,
1361
01:24:20,789 --> 01:24:23,759
HE AND MARY HAD BOUGHT
A HOUSE IN KETCHUM, IDAHO,
1362
01:24:23,792 --> 01:24:28,526
WHERE ERNEST HAD HUNTED
AND FISHED FOR YEARS.
1363
01:24:28,564 --> 01:24:32,399
IT WAS MEANT AS A FALL-BACK
IN CASE IT BECAME DIFFICULT TO
1364
01:24:32,434 --> 01:24:35,598
RETURN TO CUBA.
1365
01:24:35,637 --> 01:24:39,768
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I AM A GOOD
AMERICAN AND HAVE BEEN TO BAT
1366
01:24:39,808 --> 01:24:42,676
FOR MY COUNTRY AS OFTEN
AS MOST, WITHOUT PAY
1367
01:24:42,711 --> 01:24:44,475
AND WITHOUT AMBITION.
1368
01:24:44,513 --> 01:24:47,779
BUT I BELIEVE COMPLETELY
IN THE HISTORICAL NECESSITY
1369
01:24:47,816 --> 01:24:49,682
OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
1370
01:24:49,718 --> 01:24:55,385
I DO NOT MIX IN CUBAN POLITICS.
I KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT ABOUT IT
1371
01:24:55,424 --> 01:24:59,862
AND HAVE NOT GIVEN AN INTERVIEW
TO AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN.
1372
01:25:00,095 --> 01:25:01,859
THERE IS NOTHING
I CAN SAY THAT
1373
01:25:02,097 --> 01:25:05,431
WOULD NOT BE MISINTERPRETED
OR TWISTED.
1374
01:25:07,402 --> 01:25:11,430
ONE EVENING IN
JANUARY 1960, THE HEMINGWAYS
1375
01:25:11,473 --> 01:25:13,874
DINED WITH FRIENDS IN KETCHUM.
1376
01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,772
FROM THEIR DINING TABLE,
HEMINGWAY SAW THAT THE LIGHTS
1377
01:25:16,812 --> 01:25:19,714
IN THE BANK DOWNTOWN WERE ON.
1378
01:25:19,748 --> 01:25:21,842
HE BECAME AGITATED.
1379
01:25:21,883 --> 01:25:24,512
"THEY'RE CHECKING OUR
ACCOUNTS," HE SAID.
1380
01:25:24,553 --> 01:25:28,285
THEY TRIED TO REASSURE HIM
IT WAS JUST THE CLEANING LADIES.
1381
01:25:28,323 --> 01:25:31,225
"NO," HE SAID.
"THEY'RE TRYING TO CATCH US.
1382
01:25:31,259 --> 01:25:33,592
THEY WANT TO GET
SOMETHING ON US."
1383
01:25:33,629 --> 01:25:36,428
"WHO'S 'THEY?'" MARY ASKED.
1384
01:25:36,465 --> 01:25:39,196
"THE FBI," HE REPLIED.
1385
01:25:39,234 --> 01:25:43,899
MARY HAD NEVER SEEN
HIM SO FEARFUL.
1386
01:25:44,139 --> 01:25:47,906
HE DEVELOPS
DEPRESSION THAT'S SO EXTREME,
1387
01:25:48,143 --> 01:25:49,372
I DON'T THINK IT'S SOMETHING
1388
01:25:49,411 --> 01:25:52,904
THAT MOST PEOPLE
SEE IN THEIR LIFETIME.
1389
01:25:53,148 --> 01:25:55,447
HIS FATHER
HAD IT, TOO.
1390
01:25:55,484 --> 01:26:00,252
AND I THINK IT'S A KIND OF
PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION.
1391
01:26:00,288 --> 01:26:03,315
HE BEGAN AGAIN TO
SPEAK OF KILLING HIMSELF,
1392
01:26:03,358 --> 01:26:07,261
BUT REFUSED TO GO TO A
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.
1393
01:26:07,295 --> 01:26:11,391
HE WANTED IT HIDDEN.
HE WOULDN'T GO TO ANY KIND
1394
01:26:11,433 --> 01:26:13,664
OF PSYCHIATRIC PLACE,
WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN
1395
01:26:13,702 --> 01:26:15,432
A BETTER PLACE.
1396
01:26:15,470 --> 01:26:17,439
HE WENT TO THE MAYO CLINIC.
1397
01:26:17,472 --> 01:26:19,668
THE STORY WENT OUT THAT
HE WAS THERE GETTING TREATED
1398
01:26:19,708 --> 01:26:21,506
FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
1399
01:26:21,543 --> 01:26:24,342
WELL, HE MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED
THAT, EVEN, YOU KNOW?
1400
01:26:24,379 --> 01:26:27,281
TO SOME EXTENT, MARY
MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED IT.
1401
01:26:27,315 --> 01:26:30,479
BUT HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR
MENTAL ILLNESS AND NOBODY WAS
1402
01:26:30,519 --> 01:26:32,420
ADMITTING IT.
1403
01:26:34,389 --> 01:26:37,291
HE REGISTERED UNDER
AN ASSUMED NAME BECAUSE,
1404
01:26:37,325 --> 01:26:40,386
HE SAID, HE DIDN'T WANT THE
WORLD TO THINK "I WAS LOSING
1405
01:26:40,429 --> 01:26:42,489
MY MARBLES."
1406
01:26:42,531 --> 01:26:45,968
BUT SOON, HE HAD A SIGN
HUNG ON HIS DOOR SAYING,
1407
01:26:46,201 --> 01:26:50,366
"FORMER WRITER.
DO NOT DISTURB."
1408
01:26:50,405 --> 01:26:52,533
IT'S GOT TO BE
DISTRACTING TO HAVE
1409
01:26:52,574 --> 01:26:54,475
THE CELEBRITY PATIENT.
1410
01:26:54,509 --> 01:26:57,479
I THINK THAT'S WHY THE
BOUNDARIES GOT BLURRED, WHY HE
1411
01:26:57,512 --> 01:26:59,538
WAS ALLOWED TO DRINK WINE
IN THE HOSPITAL AT MAYO,
1412
01:26:59,581 --> 01:27:02,608
WHY HE WAS ALLOWED OVER TO
THE HOMES OF THE DOCTORS
1413
01:27:02,651 --> 01:27:05,382
FOR DINNER, OR TO GO SHOOTING
WITH THE DOCTORS...
1414
01:27:05,420 --> 01:27:08,390
THINGS THAT WOULD BE
COMPLETELY OFF-LIMITS NOW
1415
01:27:08,423 --> 01:27:11,518
AND A REAL VIOLATION
OF BOUNDARIES.
1416
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:14,394
HEMINGWAY'S DOCTORS
REPEATEDLY ADMINISTERED THE
1417
01:27:14,429 --> 01:27:16,921
STANDARD TREATMENT
FOR SEVERE DEPRESSION...
1418
01:27:16,965 --> 01:27:21,369
ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY, ECT.
1419
01:27:21,403 --> 01:27:23,395
YOU COULD SEE
THE IMPULSE TO TREAT HIM
1420
01:27:23,438 --> 01:27:26,465
WITH SHOCK THERAPY, WHICH IS A
GREAT THERAPY IF ALL YOU HAVE
1421
01:27:26,508 --> 01:27:29,672
IS MAJOR DEPRESSION WITH
PSYCHOTIC FEATURES.
1422
01:27:29,711 --> 01:27:32,408
CERTAINLY, HE HAD DEPRESSION.
CERTAINLY, HE HAD PSYCHOSIS.
1423
01:27:32,447 --> 01:27:34,643
BUT THEY WERE JUST
MANIFESTATIONS
1424
01:27:34,683 --> 01:27:37,278
OF A LARGER ILLNESS.
1425
01:27:37,319 --> 01:27:41,586
HEMINGWAY HAD ALSO
SURVIVED SEVERAL CONCUSSIONS,
1426
01:27:41,623 --> 01:27:44,889
WHICH MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY
INJURED HIS BRAIN, ALTERING
1427
01:27:44,926 --> 01:27:48,693
HIS PERSONALITY AND
CORRUPTING HIS REASONING.
1428
01:27:48,730 --> 01:27:52,633
HIS MIND WAS ALREADY MUDDLED
BY DECADES OF DRINKING TOO MUCH
1429
01:27:52,667 --> 01:27:56,001
AND BY A JUMBLE OF
MEDICATIONS MEANT TO COMBAT
1430
01:27:56,037 --> 01:27:59,439
ALL THE DAMAGE ALCOHOL
HAD DONE TO BOTH HIS BODY
1431
01:27:59,474 --> 01:28:01,705
AND HIS MIND.
1432
01:28:01,743 --> 01:28:05,271
HE HAD ENTERTAINED THOUGHTS
OF SUICIDE SINCE AT LEAST HIS
1433
01:28:05,313 --> 01:28:09,808
LATE TEENS, LONG BEFORE HIS
FATHER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
1434
01:28:09,851 --> 01:28:13,515
BUT HEMINGWAY COULD STILL
SUMMON ENOUGH OF HIS OLD CHARM
1435
01:28:13,555 --> 01:28:17,424
TO REASSURE HIS DOCTORS
THAT AFTER JUST 6 WEEKS
1436
01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:22,295
IN THE HOSPITAL HIS PARANOIA
AND DELUSIONS HAD ABATED,
1437
01:28:22,330 --> 01:28:25,061
THAT HIS DEPRESSION
HAD LIFTED.
1438
01:28:26,568 --> 01:28:31,700
IN JANUARY OF 1961, HE WAS
RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL
1439
01:28:31,740 --> 01:28:34,733
AND RETURNED TO KETCHUM.
1440
01:28:34,776 --> 01:28:38,508
HE WENT TO HIS WRITING
TABLE EACH MORNING, ORDERING
1441
01:28:38,547 --> 01:28:40,880
AND REORDERING THE CHAPTERS
THAT WOULD BECOME
1442
01:28:40,916 --> 01:28:42,817
"A MOVEABLE FEAST."
1443
01:28:42,851 --> 01:28:46,447
IN THE AFTERNOONS, HE WOULD
TAKE A LONG WALK AND WAVE
1444
01:28:46,488 --> 01:28:50,391
AT LOCAL CHILDREN ON THEIR
WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL.
1445
01:28:50,425 --> 01:28:54,760
BUT THE CLOUDS SOON
CLOSED IN AGAIN.
1446
01:28:54,796 --> 01:28:58,494
A COMMON SIDE-EFFECT OF
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY WAS LOSS
1447
01:28:58,533 --> 01:29:00,695
OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY.
1448
01:29:00,735 --> 01:29:03,967
THE DOCTORS HAD ASSURED HIM
IT WAS ONLY TEMPORARY.
1449
01:29:04,005 --> 01:29:06,873
HE DID NOT BELIEVE THEM.
1450
01:29:06,908 --> 01:29:09,503
WRITING WAS WHAT HE
WAS BORN TO DO,
1451
01:29:09,544 --> 01:29:12,571
AND HE HAD HOPED ONE
DAY TO DO MORE OF IT,
1452
01:29:12,614 --> 01:29:16,016
BUT HE NO LONGER
BELIEVED HE EVER WOULD.
1453
01:29:17,619 --> 01:29:19,063
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: WHEN HE
FINALLY GAVE UP WRITING
1454
01:29:19,087 --> 01:29:21,886
THAT DAY, IT WAS AFTERNOON.
1455
01:29:21,923 --> 01:29:25,360
HE HAD STARTED A SENTENCE AS
SOON AS HE HAD GONE INTO HIS
1456
01:29:25,393 --> 01:29:28,830
WORKING ROOM AND HAD COMPLETED
IT BUT HE COULD WRITE
1457
01:29:28,864 --> 01:29:31,356
NOTHING AFTER IT.
1458
01:29:31,399 --> 01:29:35,962
HE CROSSED IT OUT AND STARTED
ANOTHER SENTENCE AND AGAIN
1459
01:29:36,004 --> 01:29:38,667
CAME TO THE COMPLETE BLANKNESS.
1460
01:29:40,375 --> 01:29:42,844
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM
TO PUT DOWN THE NEXT
1461
01:29:42,878 --> 01:29:45,143
SENTENCE ON PAPER.
1462
01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:48,612
AT THE END OF TWO HOURS
IT WAS THE SAME.
1463
01:29:48,650 --> 01:29:51,814
HE COULD NOT WRITE MORE THAN
A SINGLE SENTENCE,
1464
01:29:51,853 --> 01:29:55,722
AND THE SENTENCES THEMSELVES
WERE INCREASINGLY SIMPLE
1465
01:29:55,757 --> 01:29:58,727
AND COMPLETELY DULL.
1466
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:02,595
HE KEPT AT IT FOR 4 HOURS
BEFORE HE KNEW THAT RESOLUTION
1467
01:30:02,631 --> 01:30:06,830
AS POWERLESS AGAINST
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
1468
01:30:06,868 --> 01:30:12,705
HE HAD BEEN SO GROUND
DOWN THAT HE LACKED THAT...
1469
01:30:12,741 --> 01:30:16,769
JUST THE STRENGTH,
THE PSYCHIC STRENGTH.
1470
01:30:16,811 --> 01:30:21,511
HE DESCRIBES IN THE BULLRING
THE BULL'S JOURNEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
1471
01:30:21,549 --> 01:30:24,883
INITIALLY,
THEY GO FOR THE CAPE.
1472
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,685
AND THEN, BY THE END OF
THE BULLFIGHT, THEY'VE LOST
1473
01:30:27,722 --> 01:30:33,821
SO MUCH BLOOD THEY CAN'T
LIFT THEIR HEAD TO CHARGE.
1474
01:30:33,862 --> 01:30:37,492
AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT
HIM AS THIS TRAGIC FIGURE.
1475
01:30:37,532 --> 01:30:40,969
HE MUST HAVE FELT
VERY CORNERED.
1476
01:30:41,002 --> 01:30:43,904
IN LATE FEBRUARY,
HE WAS ASKED TO WRITE A LINE
1477
01:30:43,939 --> 01:30:48,172
OR TWO OF TRIBUTE TO THE
NEW PRESIDENT, JOHN F. KENNEDY.
1478
01:30:48,209 --> 01:30:51,907
IT TOOK HIM A WEEK
TO PRODUCE 4 LINES.
1479
01:30:51,947 --> 01:30:55,475
WHEN HIS DOCTOR CAME TO TAKE
HIS BLOOD PRESSURE, HE FOUND
1480
01:30:55,517 --> 01:30:58,749
HEMINGWAY WEEPING
WITH FRUSTRATION.
1481
01:30:58,787 --> 01:31:02,189
IN MARCH, HE TELEPHONED
HIS FIRST WIFE, HADLEY.
1482
01:31:02,223 --> 01:31:06,456
THEY HAD NOT SEEN ONE
ANOTHER FOR 22 YEARS.
1483
01:31:06,494 --> 01:31:08,690
THERE WAS NOTHING
DISTURBING IN WHAT HE SAID,
1484
01:31:08,730 --> 01:31:10,562
SHE REMEMBERED.
1485
01:31:10,598 --> 01:31:12,760
HE ASKED IF SHE COULD REMEMBER
THE NAME OF SOMEONE
1486
01:31:12,801 --> 01:31:16,568
THEY'D KNOWN IN PARIS
AND SHE COULDN'T RECALL IT.
1487
01:31:16,604 --> 01:31:19,904
BUT HIS VOICE SEEMED
SO SAD, SO WEARY,
1488
01:31:19,941 --> 01:31:24,470
THAT WHEN THEY HUNG UP,
SHE FOUND HERSELF IN TEARS.
1489
01:31:27,682 --> 01:31:33,053
IN APRIL OF 1961, THE CIA
SPONSORED AN INVASION OF CUBA
1490
01:31:33,088 --> 01:31:36,115
AT THE BAY OF PIGS, IN AN
ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW
1491
01:31:36,157 --> 01:31:39,719
THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
OF FIDEL CASTRO.
1492
01:31:39,761 --> 01:31:43,755
IT FAILED, ENDING ANY
POSSIBILITY OF NORMAL
1493
01:31:43,798 --> 01:31:47,997
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND CUBA.
1494
01:31:48,036 --> 01:31:52,064
THE BAY OF PIGS IS REALLY
THE COUP DE GRACE, ISN'T IT?
1495
01:31:52,107 --> 01:31:56,101
THERE IS NOW NO ILLUSION, IF
THERE WAS ANY IN THE BEGINNING,
1496
01:31:56,144 --> 01:31:59,979
ABOUT "MAYBE THIS WILL BLOW
OVER AND I CAN GET BACK THERE."
1497
01:32:00,015 --> 01:32:03,213
THAT'S NOW DONE.
1498
01:32:04,753 --> 01:32:06,813
IT IS CLEAR THAT THE FORCES
1499
01:32:06,855 --> 01:32:10,292
OF COMMUNISM ARE NOT TO BE
UNDERESTIMATED IN CUBA.
1500
01:32:10,525 --> 01:32:13,120
HE HAD LOST HIS HOME,
1501
01:32:13,161 --> 01:32:15,289
HE HAD LOST EVERYTHING
IN THAT HOME...
1502
01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:18,967
WILL NOT ACCEPT
MR. CASTRO'S ATTEMPTS
TO BLAME THIS NATION...
1503
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,765
HE LOST HIS BOOKS...
1504
01:32:21,803 --> 01:32:24,568
HE LOST HIS ART,
1505
01:32:24,606 --> 01:32:26,939
HE LOST HIS PETS,
1506
01:32:26,975 --> 01:32:28,910
HE LOST HIS COMMUNITY...
1507
01:32:28,943 --> 01:32:30,154
LESSON FOR US ALL...
1508
01:32:30,178 --> 01:32:31,942
HE LOST
HIS BOAT "PILAR,"
1509
01:32:31,980 --> 01:32:35,280
HE LOST THE LIFESTYLE
WHERE HE COULD GO FISHING.
1510
01:32:35,316 --> 01:32:37,876
HE LOST EVERYTHING
THAT HE HAD,
1511
01:32:37,919 --> 01:32:42,084
AND HE KNEW IN THAT MOMENT
THAT HE COULD NOT GO BACK,
1512
01:32:42,123 --> 01:32:45,958
THAT THAT WAS DONE.
1513
01:32:45,994 --> 01:32:51,194
AND HE WAS MAROONED IN
THIS VERY SPARE LITTLE
BLOCK HOUSE IN IDAHO.
1514
01:32:52,734 --> 01:32:56,193
ON APRIL 21st, MARY FOUND ERNEST
1515
01:32:56,237 --> 01:33:00,607
IN THE VESTIBULE
HOLDING A SHOTGUN.
1516
01:33:00,642 --> 01:33:04,875
TWO SHELLS WERE WITHIN
REACH ON THE WINDOW-SILL.
1517
01:33:04,913 --> 01:33:08,680
SHE MANAGED TO TALK HIM DOWN,
TELLING HIM HOW MUCH HE MEANT
1518
01:33:08,716 --> 01:33:12,619
TO HER AND HIS BOYS, HOW BRAVE
HE'D BEEN DURING THE WAR,
1519
01:33:12,654 --> 01:33:16,284
HOW MUCH THEY BOTH WANTED
TO GO BACK AGAIN TO AFRICA.
1520
01:33:16,324 --> 01:33:19,783
SHE INSISTED HE RETURN
TO THE MAYO CLINIC.
1521
01:33:19,828 --> 01:33:22,992
WHEN THE PRIVATE PLANE SHE
HAD ARRANGED TO TAKE HIM THERE
1522
01:33:23,031 --> 01:33:27,025
STOPPED TO REFUEL IN RAPID
CITY, HE TRIED TO WALK INTO
1523
01:33:27,068 --> 01:33:29,833
A SPINNING PROPELLER.
1524
01:33:29,871 --> 01:33:35,071
THIS TIME, HE WAS GIVEN A
ROOM IN THE LOCKED WARD.
1525
01:33:35,110 --> 01:33:39,309
HE UNDERWENT A SECOND SERIES
OF ELECTRO-SHOCK TREATMENTS.
1526
01:33:39,347 --> 01:33:42,943
HIS MEMORY
DETERIORATED FURTHER.
1527
01:33:44,185 --> 01:33:46,230
ONE OF THE LAST
CONVERSATIONS THAT I HAD
1528
01:33:46,254 --> 01:33:51,158
WITH ERNEST, I HAD A RENTED
CHEVY AND GOT PERMISSION THAT
1529
01:33:51,192 --> 01:33:53,058
HE COULD LEAVE THE HOSPITAL.
1530
01:33:53,094 --> 01:33:56,087
AND WE DROVE TO A LITTLE PLACE
THAT WAS A SORT OF A LITTLE
1531
01:33:56,131 --> 01:33:57,963
PARK-LIKE PLACE.
1532
01:33:57,999 --> 01:34:00,833
HE GOT OUT SO THERE WAS
NO QUESTION THAT THERE WAS
1533
01:34:00,869 --> 01:34:02,337
ANYTHING BUGGED.
1534
01:34:05,206 --> 01:34:08,904
AND I WAS TRYING TO...
TO BE POSITIVE.
1535
01:34:08,943 --> 01:34:13,142
AND I SAID, "LISTEN, SOON AS
YOU FINISH UP HERE, WHY DON'T WE
1536
01:34:13,181 --> 01:34:15,912
GO FISH DOWN THERE?"
1537
01:34:15,950 --> 01:34:17,384
AND HE TURNED ON ME.
1538
01:34:17,418 --> 01:34:20,786
HE SAID, "YOU DON'T
SEEM TO UNDERSTAND."
1539
01:34:20,822 --> 01:34:25,783
HE SAID, "WHAT HAVE I GOT
TO BE HANGING AROUND FOR?"
1540
01:34:25,827 --> 01:34:27,921
IN LATE JUNE,
1541
01:34:27,962 --> 01:34:31,660
MARY GOT A PHONE CALL
FROM THE MAYO CLINIC.
1542
01:34:31,699 --> 01:34:34,328
THE DOCTOR TOLD HER
HE HAD GOOD NEWS.
1543
01:34:34,369 --> 01:34:37,134
ERNEST WAS READY TO GO HOME.
1544
01:34:37,172 --> 01:34:40,370
WHEN SHE ARRIVED, HER HUSBAND
WAS ALREADY DRESSED
1545
01:34:40,408 --> 01:34:42,377
IN HIS STREET CLOTHES,
SHE REMEMBERED,
1546
01:34:42,410 --> 01:34:45,380
"GRINNING LIKE
A CHESHIRE CAT."
1547
01:34:45,413 --> 01:34:47,439
MARY WAS NOT CONVINCED,
1548
01:34:47,682 --> 01:34:49,947
BUT SHE DID NOT
PUT UP A FIGHT.
1549
01:34:49,984 --> 01:34:55,048
AN OLD FRIEND DROVE
THEM BACK TO KETCHUM.
1550
01:34:55,089 --> 01:34:59,959
HEMINGWAY'S PARANOIA QUICKLY
MANIFESTED ITSELF AGAIN.
1551
01:34:59,994 --> 01:35:04,022
ON SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1st,
THE HEMINGWAYS AND A FRIEND
1552
01:35:04,065 --> 01:35:06,125
DROVE INTO TOWN FOR DINNER.
1553
01:35:06,167 --> 01:35:09,865
ERNEST WAS SURE TWO STRANGERS
SITTING AT THE BAR WERE
1554
01:35:09,904 --> 01:35:11,395
FEDERAL AGENTS.
1555
01:35:11,439 --> 01:35:13,931
MARY COULDN'T
CONVINCE HIM OTHERWISE.
1556
01:35:15,476 --> 01:35:18,446
BUT WHEN HE WENT TO HIS
BEDROOM THAT EVENING
1557
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:21,847
AND CALLED OUT TO HER,
"GOOD NIGHT, MY KITTEN,"
1558
01:35:21,883 --> 01:35:24,318
"HIS VOICE WAS
WARM AND FRIENDLY,"
1559
01:35:24,352 --> 01:35:26,253
SHE REMEMBERED.
1560
01:35:26,287 --> 01:35:29,815
MARY HAD LEFT THE KEYS TO THE
BASEMENT CABINET WHERE HIS
1561
01:35:29,857 --> 01:35:33,294
GUNS WERE KEPT OUT IN THE
OPEN IN THE KITCHEN, JUST AS
1562
01:35:33,328 --> 01:35:35,729
THEY HAD ALWAYS BEEN.
1563
01:35:35,763 --> 01:35:38,824
SHE CONSIDERED HIDING THEM,
SHE LATER RECALLED,
1564
01:35:38,866 --> 01:35:42,200
BUT "DECIDED THAT NO ONE
HAD A RIGHT TO DENY A MAN
1565
01:35:42,237 --> 01:35:43,967
HIS POSSESSIONS."
1566
01:35:46,074 --> 01:35:52,173
AT ABOUT 7:00 THE NEXT MORNING,
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1961,
1567
01:35:52,213 --> 01:35:57,117
MARY WAS AWAKENED
BY A LOUD BANG.
1568
01:35:57,151 --> 01:36:01,145
HEMINGWAY, STILL WEARING
HIS BATHROBE AND SLIPPERS,
1569
01:36:01,189 --> 01:36:04,990
HAD SLIPPED DOWN TO THE
BASEMENT, RETRIEVED A SHOTGUN
1570
01:36:05,026 --> 01:36:09,327
AND TWO SHELLS, AND CLIMBED
BACK UP TO THE VESTIBULE.
1571
01:36:09,364 --> 01:36:13,028
THERE, HE HAD BENT OVER,
PLACED THE TWIN BARRELS
1572
01:36:13,067 --> 01:36:17,903
AGAINST HIS FOREHEAD
AND PULLED THE TRIGGER.
1573
01:36:17,939 --> 01:36:21,068
HE WAS 61 YEARS OLD.
1574
01:36:23,044 --> 01:36:24,444
GOOD EVENING.
1575
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:27,779
THE NOVELIST ERNEST
HEMINGWAY IS DEAD.
1576
01:36:27,815 --> 01:36:30,808
THE REPORTS FROM HIS HOME
IN KETCHUM, IDAHO ARE SPARSE
1577
01:36:30,852 --> 01:36:33,185
AND NOT VERY CLEAR, BUT WE
KNOW THAT HE KILLED HIMSELF,
1578
01:36:33,221 --> 01:36:37,124
THE SHERIFF SAYS ACCIDENTALLY,
WITH A 12-GAUGE SHOTGUN.
1579
01:36:37,158 --> 01:36:40,560
HEMINGWAY ONLY LAST WEEK WAS
DISCHARGED FROM THE MAYO CLINIC
1580
01:36:40,795 --> 01:36:42,957
IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA,
WHERE HE HAD BEEN TREATED
1581
01:36:42,997 --> 01:36:44,932
FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
1582
01:36:44,966 --> 01:36:47,265
THIS MORNING, THE NOBEL
PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST WAS ALONE
1583
01:36:47,302 --> 01:36:50,033
IN HIS ROOM, PREPARING TO
GO HUNTING, WHEN THE FATAL
1584
01:36:50,071 --> 01:36:51,835
ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
1585
01:36:53,074 --> 01:36:56,238
HE WAS A LITERARY MAN WHO
PROBABLY HAD MORE INFLUENCE
1586
01:36:56,277 --> 01:36:59,076
ON THE STYLE OF THE WRITING OF
NOVELS THAN ANY OTHER WRITER
1587
01:36:59,113 --> 01:37:00,979
IN THE 20th CENTURY.
1588
01:37:01,015 --> 01:37:04,213
THAT WAS PARTLY BECAUSE OF
THE WAY HE WROTE, THE TERSE,
1589
01:37:04,252 --> 01:37:08,952
OFTEN FLAT AND SARDONIC STYLE,
ALMOST PAINFULLY MASCULINE.
1590
01:37:08,990 --> 01:37:12,290
HE WAS LESS AN INDIVIDUAL THAN
A CHARACTER, LESS A PERSON
1591
01:37:12,327 --> 01:37:14,125
THAN AN INSTITUTION.
1592
01:37:14,162 --> 01:37:16,563
HE WORSHIPPED VIRILITY AND
A SMALL RELIGION GREW UP
1593
01:37:16,597 --> 01:37:18,225
ABOUT HIM.
1594
01:37:18,266 --> 01:37:22,067
HEMINGWAY'S PLACE IN LITERATURE,
I THINK CANNOT NOW BE FIXED.
1595
01:37:22,103 --> 01:37:24,470
WE DON'T KNOW WHICH OF
HIS BOOKS WILL LIVE.
1596
01:37:24,505 --> 01:37:28,169
WE SUSPECT THAT "A FAREWELL TO
ARMS," THE TENDEREST AND MOST
1597
01:37:28,209 --> 01:37:29,973
MOVING OF THEM WILL LIVE.
1598
01:37:30,011 --> 01:37:32,537
WE BELIEVE THAT SOME OF
HIS SHORT STORIES WILL,
1599
01:37:32,580 --> 01:37:35,015
PARTICULARLY
"THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO"
1600
01:37:35,049 --> 01:37:39,145
AND "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE
OF FRANCIS MACOMBER."
1601
01:37:39,187 --> 01:37:42,919
HE WAS, NEVERTHELESS, AN
INTENSELY AMERICAN WRITER.
1602
01:37:42,957 --> 01:37:46,121
HIS OWN CONTRIBUTION WAS
VERY LARGE, AND NOT ONLY TO
1603
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:49,028
AMERICAN LETTERS, BUT TO
THE EXCITEMENT AND COLOR
1604
01:37:49,063 --> 01:37:51,430
OF THE LAST 4 DECADES.
1605
01:37:51,466 --> 01:37:54,994
EDWIN NEWMAN.
GOOD EVENING.
1606
01:37:55,036 --> 01:37:58,029
McCAlN: I WAS
PAINED AND GRIEVED,
1607
01:37:58,072 --> 01:38:03,170
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN...
1608
01:38:03,211 --> 01:38:05,271
I DON'T AGREE WITH IT...
BUT IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE
1609
01:38:05,313 --> 01:38:06,906
WHY HE DECIDED
1610
01:38:06,948 --> 01:38:08,974
TO END HIS LIFE WHEN HE HAD...
1611
01:38:09,016 --> 01:38:11,349
HIS TALENT HAD LEFT HIM.
1612
01:38:11,386 --> 01:38:15,084
WE SOMETIMES TALK ABOUT PEOPLE
AND WE IDOLIZE THEM AND WE
1613
01:38:15,123 --> 01:38:17,991
GIVE THEM EVERY
VIRTUE AND NO VICE.
1614
01:38:18,025 --> 01:38:20,551
HE HAD LOTS OF VICES.
HE HAD LOTS OF VICES.
1615
01:38:20,595 --> 01:38:23,190
HE WAS A HUMAN BEING.
1616
01:38:23,231 --> 01:38:27,635
AND THAT, MY FRIEND,
ERASES A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER
1617
01:38:27,668 --> 01:38:31,230
WHAT MAY BE
FAILINGS IN LIFE.
1618
01:38:34,308 --> 01:38:39,076
HE KEEPS SPEAKING
TO US BECAUSE HIS WRITING WAS
1619
01:38:39,113 --> 01:38:44,984
BASICALLY HUMAN WITH
ALL THAT WE ARE...
1620
01:38:45,019 --> 01:38:48,922
THE DARK, THE LIGHT,
THE PASSIONATE, THE PETTY,
1621
01:38:48,956 --> 01:38:55,294
THE UGLY, THE BEAUTIFUL,
THE KIND, THE CRUEL.
1622
01:38:55,329 --> 01:39:00,029
I... I... JUST... HE JUST WAS
WRITING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR
1623
01:39:00,067 --> 01:39:01,933
AND HUMAN BEINGS.
1624
01:39:01,969 --> 01:39:07,306
AND I THINK HE WAS ABLE TO DO IT
BECAUSE HE SO LOVED THE WORLD.
1625
01:39:07,341 --> 01:39:08,934
"WHAT A SHAME
IT'S GOING TO BE
1626
01:39:08,976 --> 01:39:12,936
TO HAVE TO LEAVE IT,"
HE SAID.
1627
01:39:12,980 --> 01:39:14,448
HE HAS IMMORTALITY,
1628
01:39:14,482 --> 01:39:18,044
AND HE DESERVES IT.
1629
01:39:18,085 --> 01:39:22,352
NOT MANY WRITERS GET THAT,
AND HE DESERVES IT.
1630
01:39:24,158 --> 01:39:27,185
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: AND THEN
INSTEAD OF GOING ON TO ARUSHA,
1631
01:39:27,228 --> 01:39:29,129
THEY TURNED LEFT.
1632
01:39:29,163 --> 01:39:32,463
HE EVIDENTLY FIGURED
THAT THEY HAD THE GAS.
1633
01:39:32,500 --> 01:39:36,062
AND LOOKING DOWN, HE SAW A PINK
SIFTING CLOUD MOVING OVER
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THE GROUND, AND IN THE AIR,
LIKE THE FIRST SNOW
1635
01:39:39,373 --> 01:39:42,571
IN A BLIZZARD, THAT COMES
FROM NOWHERE, AND HE KNEW
1636
01:39:42,610 --> 01:39:45,375
THE LOCUSTS WERE COMING UP
FROM THE SOUTH.
1637
01:39:45,413 --> 01:39:47,211
THEN THEY BEGAN TO CLIMB,
1638
01:39:47,248 --> 01:39:49,740
AND THEY WERE GOING
TO THE EAST, IT SEEMED,
1639
01:39:49,984 --> 01:39:53,079
AND THEN IT DARKENED
AND THEY WERE IN A STORM,
1640
01:39:53,120 --> 01:39:56,386
THE RAIN SO THICK IT SEEMED LIKE
FLYING THROUGH A WATERFALL.
1641
01:39:58,259 --> 01:40:00,387
AND THEN THEY WERE OUT
AND COMPIE TURNED HIS HEAD
1642
01:40:00,428 --> 01:40:06,197
AND GRINNED AND POINTED AND
THERE AHEAD, ALL HE COULD SEE,
1643
01:40:06,234 --> 01:40:11,332
AS WIDE AS ALL THE WORLD,
GREAT, HIGH, AND UNBELIEVABLY
1644
01:40:11,372 --> 01:40:17,471
WHITE IN THE SUN, WAS THE
SQUARE TOP OF KILIMANJARO.
1645
01:40:17,512 --> 01:40:23,213
AND THEN HE KNEW THAT THERE
WAS WHERE HE WAS GOING.
1646
01:40:23,251 --> 01:40:25,277
ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
1647
01:40:29,357 --> 01:40:32,691
♪
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01:40:45,139 --> 01:40:48,075
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01:40:58,719 --> 01:41:02,121
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01:41:21,309 --> 01:41:25,110
♪
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01:41:36,390 --> 01:41:40,418
♪
1652
01:41:55,309 --> 01:42:00,247
♪
1653
01:42:12,727 --> 01:42:16,789
♪
1654
01:42:38,319 --> 01:42:40,686
♪
1655
01:43:12,119 --> 01:43:13,263
DO STORIES HELP US
1656
01:43:13,287 --> 01:43:14,846
SEE THE WORLD IN A NEW LIGHT?
1657
01:43:14,889 --> 01:43:16,448
CAN THE PAST BE A WINDOW
TO THE FUTURE?
1658
01:43:16,490 --> 01:43:18,368
SINCE 2007, BANK OF AMERICA
HAS PROUDLY SUPPORTED
1659
01:43:18,392 --> 01:43:20,452
THE FILMS OF KEN BURNS
AS THEY TELL THE STORIES
1660
01:43:20,494 --> 01:43:22,827
OF OUR PAST
AND INSPIRE US TO MOVE FORWARD.
1661
01:43:22,863 --> 01:43:25,560
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE
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1662
01:43:28,502 --> 01:43:30,130
MAJOR FUNDING
FOR "HEMINGWAY"
1663
01:43:30,171 --> 01:43:32,936
WAS PROVIDED BY
THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY
1664
01:43:32,973 --> 01:43:34,874
AND BY ITS MEMBERS:
1665
01:43:34,909 --> 01:43:37,140
THE ELIZABETH RUTH WALLACE
LIVING TRUST,
1666
01:43:37,178 --> 01:43:39,113
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1667
01:43:39,146 --> 01:43:41,012
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1668
01:43:41,048 --> 01:43:43,540
THE FULLERTON FAMILY
CHARITABLE TRUST,
1669
01:43:43,584 --> 01:43:46,520
KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION,
GAIL ELDEN,
1670
01:43:46,554 --> 01:43:48,113
GILCHRIST AND AMY BERG,
1671
01:43:48,155 --> 01:43:49,919
ROBERT AND BEVERLY GRAPPONE,
1672
01:43:49,957 --> 01:43:52,392
AND MAUREE JANE AND MARK PERRY.
1673
01:43:52,426 --> 01:43:56,557
ADDITIONAL FUNDING WAS PROVIDED
BY THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION,
1674
01:43:56,597 --> 01:43:59,157
THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS
FOUNDATIONS,
1675
01:43:59,200 --> 01:44:01,897
THE CORPORATION
FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING,
1676
01:44:01,936 --> 01:44:04,963
AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR
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1677
01:44:05,005 --> 01:44:07,065
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1678
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