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September 18th 2008 23:34
Living life the Heming-way
Ernest Hemingway
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
Resembling the fictional characters he created in his masculine mind, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning Author Ernest Hemingway was enigmatic with a monstrous presence.
His was a colourful life full of physiological mayhem, complex drama, heated conflict, passionate love and fatal pain, it’s a story as epic as the myth that surrounds him.
Hemingway soaks up the words
Penning tales of strong stoic protagonists facing nature, the elements and there own internal demons. Told with the economics of understated power, his words have become iconic.
Born in 1899 Ernest Hemingway began writing at school and progressed through his whole career using what he learnt at his first job for The Kansas City Star to shape his unforgettable literary works. These were the rules "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.” – Ernest Hemingway
A Young Hemingway
Abandoning Journalism within a year of starting professionally Ernest instead served as a Red Cross medico during WWI. Experiences that fuel much of his work like A Farewell to Arms, Hemmingway carried what he witnessed about the nightmare of war and senseless death for the rest of his life.
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.” – Ernest Hemingway
the man always loved to fish
Returning from battle in 1920 he was mentored by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, becoming part of what be known as his self named “Lost Generation”
From Wikipedia:
Ernest hemingway said "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. Gertrude was always right." - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest hemingway said "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. Gertrude was always right." - Ernest Hemingway
Finding time to marry in the early part of the decade, he was working as a freelance journalist for the Toronto Star. The gig ended up as a war correspondent job living in Paris, France reporting on the Greek Revolution. After returning to the US from Europe as a somewhat successful foreign correspondent in 1925 Ernest Hemingway’s first short story In Our Time was published.
“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.” – Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway at work
The following year the semi autobiographical novel The Sun Also Rises was published and thus began one of the most influential writing careers of last century. Classics like The Old Man and the Sea, The Killers and For Whom the Bell Tolls came over the next 30 years.
The man had to fight
An avid sportsmen and aficionado of macho behaviour he managed to go through several wives and even become a Naval Officer fighting in WW2. In later life undergoing electro shock treatment for severe depression and unable to utilise his gift to its full potential he became mentally unstable. In 1961 Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the head with a Boss and Co Shotgun. He died.
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.” – Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway R.I.P.
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Comment by Ann 1
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And written a manner/style he undoubtedly would have approved of.
Comment by Tyronne
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I'm glad you noticed I tried my hardest to follow his dictum. (Wise words those)
Comment by Louie
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I went to cuba once, they WORSHIP him there, and rightly so.
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