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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, RAF
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 RAF
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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"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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"THAT HE WAS ARMED
AND USING THOSE ARMS."

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HEMINGWAY HAD WITNESSED
SEVERAL WARS FIRSTHAND,

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00:19:04,419 --> 00:19:06,939
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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00:19:38,867 --> 00:19:41,867
"RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE
OF A REALLY BAD SHELLING,

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00:19:42,042 --> 00:19:44,702
"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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00:19:56,747 --> 00:19:58,917
BUT HE
HAD HAD ENOUGH.

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HE LEFT THE WAR AND
WENT HOME TO CUBA.

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00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:09,000
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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00:20:11,417 --> 00:20:15,417
A GI's BODY FLATTENED BY
TANKS AND OTHER VEHICLES--

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00:20:15,593 --> 00:20:19,463
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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00:20:38,961 --> 00:20:42,931
"IT IS A HELL OF A THING
GOING AWAY FROM THE 22nd.

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00:20:43,069 --> 00:20:45,929
"IT PROBABLY SOUNDS WET,
BUT I WAS AND AM

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00:20:46,072 --> 00:20:48,282
"ABSOLUTELY HOMESICK
FOR THE REGIMENT,

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00:20:48,419 --> 00:20:51,459
"AND I MISS YOU
VERY BADLY, BUCK.

329
00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:54,425
"I DON'T GIVE A
DAMN ABOUT WRITING.

330
00:20:54,563 --> 00:20:57,913
"WILL HAVE TO GET OVER THAT.
I GUESS I WILL.

331
00:20:58,049 --> 00:21:01,399
"HAVE GOTTEN OVER
EVERYTHING ELSE.

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00:21:01,536 --> 00:21:04,816
"CERTAINLY HAVE THE
BLACK ASS TODAY.

333
00:21:04,987 --> 00:21:08,157
"I MISS MARY SO MUCH,
IT MAKES ME SICK.

334
00:21:08,336 --> 00:21:11,296
"ALWAYS BEFORE, WE HAD OUR
DOUBLE DEUCE PROBLEMS AND SOME

335
00:21:11,442 --> 00:21:14,622
"SORT OF FIGHT GOING ON WHEN
I WAS AWAY FROM HER AND I HAD

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00:21:14,756 --> 00:21:16,966
YOUR COMPANIONSHIP."

337
00:21:18,415 --> 00:21:22,485
IN THE SPRING OF
1945, WAITING FOR MARY WELSH

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00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:25,460
TO JOIN HIM AT THE FINCA,
HIS HOME IN THE HILLS

339
00:21:25,594 --> 00:21:29,874
OVERLOOKING HAVANA, ERNEST
HEMINGWAY FEARED HE WOULD

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00:21:29,978 --> 00:21:32,948
NEVER BE ABLE TO WRITE AGAIN.

341
00:21:33,084 --> 00:21:34,674
WHEN HE CAME
HOME FROM THE WAR,

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00:21:34,845 --> 00:21:40,575
I THINK HE HAD JUST LOTS AND
LOTS OF TRAUMA AND HE HAD SEEN

343
00:21:40,678 --> 00:21:44,918
SO MANY THINGS THAT
HE COULD NOT UN-SEE.

344
00:21:45,027 --> 00:21:52,137
AND THEN, HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC.
SO WHAT DO ALCOHOLICS DO WHEN

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00:21:52,276 --> 00:21:55,036
THEY HAVE THINGS IN THEIR
LIVES THAT THEY CAN'T UN-SEE

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00:21:55,175 --> 00:21:57,105
IS THEY DRINK, AND HE WRITES
TO BUCK LANHAM LIKE,

347
00:21:57,212 --> 00:21:59,942
"I'M DRINKING TO GO TO
SLEEP AT NIGHT.

348
00:22:00,077 --> 00:22:01,697
"I'M DRINKING WHEN I WAKE UP.

349
00:22:01,837 --> 00:22:05,077
"I GOT TO STOP DRINKING OR
MARY WON'T COME AND MARRY ME."

350
00:22:05,185 --> 00:22:09,185
BUT I MEAN, IT'S--
IT'S A DISASTER.

351
00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:11,188
THE PROBLEM WITH
ALCOHOLISM, AND I DON'T KNOW

352
00:22:11,364 --> 00:22:12,954
WHY IT WORKS LIKE THIS.

353
00:22:13,055 --> 00:22:16,885
IT MAKES YOU A LIAR,
PRIMARILY TO YOURSELF.

354
00:22:17,059 --> 00:22:19,299
YOU'RE ALWAYS
LYING TO YOURSELF.

355
00:22:19,441 --> 00:22:22,511
AND YOU'RE TRYING ALL
THESE DIFFERENT METHODS

356
00:22:22,651 --> 00:22:24,201
TO TRY TO QUIT.

357
00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:25,523
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING BEER.
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING WINE.

358
00:22:25,654 --> 00:22:27,044
YOU'RE ONLY DRINKING
AFTER 5:00.

359
00:22:27,207 --> 00:22:29,237
YOU'RE ONLY
DRINKING BEFORE 5:00.

360
00:22:29,382 --> 00:22:33,182
BUT WITH THAT MASCULINITY,
WITH THAT STOICISM,

361
00:22:33,317 --> 00:22:37,047
HEMINGWAY WAS DOOMED,
IN A WAY.

362
00:22:40,255 --> 00:22:43,395
MARY EVENTUALLY
ARRIVED IN HAVANA, HAVING

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00:22:43,569 --> 00:22:46,879
REQUESTED A YEAR'S SABBATICAL
FROM HER JOB AT "TIME."

364
00:22:47,020 --> 00:22:50,400
SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HEMINGWAY
BUT STILL UNSURE WHETHER SHE

365
00:22:50,541 --> 00:22:52,341
SHOULD MARRY HIM.

366
00:23:10,596 --> 00:23:12,596
YEAH,
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?

367
00:23:16,602 --> 00:23:17,882
YOU'RE WRONG.

368
00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:22,609
THAT'S WHAT YOU
THINK. I'M SURE TO FIND.

369
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,310
HE SAW TO IT THAT
SHE HAD SPANISH LESSONS SO THAT

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00:23:35,483 --> 00:23:38,973
SHE COULD RUN THE FINCA, TAUGHT
HER DEEP-SEA FISHING SO THAT

371
00:23:39,107 --> 00:23:43,277
SHE COULD BE HIS COMPANION,
ENCOURAGED HER TO QUIT HER JOB

372
00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:47,052
ALTOGETHER SO THAT SHE COULD
DEVOTE HERSELF FULLY TO HIM

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00:23:47,149 --> 00:23:50,119
AS HIS FIRST AND SECOND
WIVES HAD DONE

374
00:23:50,256 --> 00:23:54,426
AND MARTHA GELLHORN
HAD NOT DONE.

375
00:23:54,571 --> 00:23:58,641
HEMINGWAY WANTED HIS WIFE TO
BE BOTH "COMPLETELY OBEDIENT

376
00:23:58,816 --> 00:24:02,336
AND SEXUALLY LOOSE,"
SHE CONFIDED TO HER DIARY.

377
00:24:02,475 --> 00:24:05,615
SHE ENJOYED THE SEXUAL PART,
CUT HER HAIR SHORT

378
00:24:05,754 --> 00:24:09,244
AND BLEACHED IT PLATINUM
BECAUSE IT EXCITED HIM,

379
00:24:09,344 --> 00:24:11,934
AND SOMETIMES PRETENDED
THAT SHE WAS A BOY

380
00:24:12,071 --> 00:24:14,071
AND HE WAS A GIRL.

381
00:24:14,211 --> 00:24:17,631
HE DYED HIS HAIR, TOO.

382
00:24:25,636 --> 00:24:28,156
I THINK IT'S
VERY BRAVE TO SAY

383
00:24:28,328 --> 00:24:30,678
WHAT YOUR
SEXUAL PREFERENCES ARE.

384
00:24:30,848 --> 00:24:33,438
HE REALLY HAD A THING ABOUT
ANDROGYNY,

385
00:24:33,575 --> 00:24:37,195
AND HE LIKED TO SWITCH
SEX ROLES IN BED.

386
00:24:37,337 --> 00:24:39,437
AND HE TELLS MARY, YOU KNOW,
"LET'S PLAY AROUND."

387
00:24:39,581 --> 00:24:41,001
"I'M GONNA CALL YOU 'PETE.'

388
00:24:41,134 --> 00:24:42,524
YOU CALL ME 'CATHERINE,'"

389
00:24:42,688 --> 00:24:45,518
YOU KNOW, AND THEY
GO BACK AND FORTH ON THIS.

390
00:24:45,656 --> 00:24:48,556
AND THEY PLAY AROUND WITH IT,
AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY

391
00:24:48,728 --> 00:24:54,288
DO IN BED, BUT SOMEHOW SHE'S
SATISFYING THAT INTENSE DESIRE

392
00:24:54,423 --> 00:24:57,193
OF HIS TO PLAY WITH
SEX ROLES THAT WAY.

393
00:25:00,464 --> 00:25:03,164
IT TOOK A LOT
OF GUTS FOR HIM.

394
00:25:03,294 --> 00:25:07,134
AND IN A WAY, HE WANTED TO
BE A WOMAN WHO LOVED

395
00:25:07,264 --> 00:25:08,894
ANOTHER WOMAN.

396
00:25:09,024 --> 00:25:12,174
NOW THIS KIND OF THING,
IT'S ALL ON A SPECTRUM, RIGHT?

397
00:25:12,303 --> 00:25:15,483
BUT THEN, IT WAS UNHEARD OF.

398
00:25:19,241 --> 00:25:22,831
"IN BED," SHE WROTE,
"HE HAS CERTAINLY BEEN BETTER

399
00:25:22,969 --> 00:25:25,699
FOR ME THAN ANY OTHER MAN,"

400
00:25:25,834 --> 00:25:29,844
BUT SHE CHAFED UNDER WHAT SHE
CALLED HIS "DICTATORSHIP."

401
00:25:29,976 --> 00:25:33,736
SHE DISLIKED HIS LECTURES
ON HOW THINGS MUST BE DONE,

402
00:25:33,911 --> 00:25:37,401
DETECTED THE GHOSTLY PRESENCE
OF MARTHA GELLHORN IN EVERY

403
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,636
ROOM OF THE HOUSE, FELT
CUT OFF FROM HER FRIENDS

404
00:25:40,746 --> 00:25:42,296
AND FORMER LIFE.

405
00:25:42,402 --> 00:25:44,512
"NOTHING IS MINE," SHE WROTE.

406
00:25:44,646 --> 00:25:48,196
"THE MAN IS HIS OWN
WITH VARIOUS ADJUNCTS--

407
00:25:48,339 --> 00:25:51,409
"HIS WRITING, HIS
CHILDREN, HIS CATS.

408
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:55,860
THE STRIP OF BED WHERE
I LIE IS NOT MINE."

409
00:25:56,002 --> 00:25:59,042
"CAN ONLY
CONCLUDE THAT I'D BE AN IDIOT

410
00:25:59,178 --> 00:26:01,528
"TO STAY HERE AND MARRY PAPA.

411
00:26:01,663 --> 00:26:04,493
"I'D BETTER GO WHILE
THE GOING IS POSSIBLE

412
00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:07,597
AND CAN BE WITHOUT
TOO MUCH BITTERNESS."

413
00:26:07,773 --> 00:26:12,673
BUT SHE STAYED,
AND IN THE SPRING OF 1946,

414
00:26:12,778 --> 00:26:16,918
AFTER BOTH HAD LEGALLY SHED
THEIR SPOUSES, MARY WELSH

415
00:26:17,058 --> 00:26:19,468
MARRIED ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

416
00:26:19,647 --> 00:26:23,687
BEFORE THE WEDDING, SHE HAD BEEN
"AN ENTITY," SHE REMEMBERED.

417
00:26:23,789 --> 00:26:28,309
AFTERWARDS,
SHE BECAME "AN APPENDAGE."

418
00:26:28,448 --> 00:26:31,938
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEIR
UNION FOLLOWED THE SAME

419
00:26:32,073 --> 00:26:33,453
TURBULENT PATTERN.

420
00:26:33,626 --> 00:26:35,966
HE WOULD INSULT
OR HUMILIATE HER.

421
00:26:36,146 --> 00:26:37,866
SHE WOULD THREATEN TO LEAVE.

422
00:26:37,975 --> 00:26:41,455
HE WOULD BEG HER TO STAY
AND SOMETIMES THREATEN

423
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,810
TO KILL HIMSELF
IF SHE DIDN'T.

424
00:26:43,947 --> 00:26:47,917
THEY WOULD RECONCILE IN BED
AND THEN START THE CYCLE

425
00:26:48,054 --> 00:26:50,094
ALL OVER AGAIN.

426
00:26:50,229 --> 00:26:54,749
MARY SOMETIMES LIKED TO CALL
HERSELF "THE SHORT, HAPPY WIFE

427
00:26:54,889 --> 00:26:57,129
OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY."

428
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:03,479
EDNA O'BRIEN: MAYBE WRITERS
DISIMPROVE AS THEY AGE

429
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,972
BECAUSE THEY LIVE WITH A
PERMANENT FEAR THAT

430
00:27:06,107 --> 00:27:08,937
THE GIFT HAS GONE.

431
00:27:09,075 --> 00:27:11,525
IT GETS WORSE WITH AGE.

432
00:27:11,664 --> 00:27:15,984
WHAT HAPPENS IN MID-LIFE,
IN YOUTH AND THEN MID-LIFE,

433
00:27:16,117 --> 00:27:20,467
THE SPASMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE
FAMOUS CLICHE, "THE BLANK PAGE,"

434
00:27:20,604 --> 00:27:24,474
HAPPENS WITHIN ONE
MORNING, A WRITER GETS UP

435
00:27:24,608 --> 00:27:28,678
AND THINKS, "AH, ONE LINE,
JUST ONE LINE

436
00:27:28,854 --> 00:27:30,484
AND OFF YOU ARE."

437
00:27:30,614 --> 00:27:33,174
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AS
MUCH IN OLD AGE.

438
00:27:33,341 --> 00:27:35,311
IT DOES NOT.

439
00:27:35,446 --> 00:27:40,346
ONLY BY SHEER PERSEVERANCE.

440
00:27:41,798 --> 00:27:44,968
HEMINGWAY'S
WRITING WAS NOT GOING WELL.

441
00:27:45,111 --> 00:27:49,501
IT HAD BEEN 6 YEARS
SINCE HE'D PUBLISHED
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."

442
00:27:49,633 --> 00:27:52,843
IT WOULD BE 4 MORE YEARS
BEFORE HE MANAGED TO PUBLISH

443
00:27:52,981 --> 00:27:54,851
ANOTHER NOVEL.

444
00:27:56,675 --> 00:28:00,885
HE WAS ONLY 46 BUT HAD BEGUN
TO BE SEEN BY CRITICS AS

445
00:28:01,058 --> 00:28:03,338
A RELIC OF THE 1920s.

446
00:28:03,474 --> 00:28:05,864
WHEN WOULD-BE BIOGRAPHERS
CONTACTED HIM,

447
00:28:05,994 --> 00:28:07,584
HE FENDED THEM OFF.

448
00:28:07,755 --> 00:28:10,475
HE RESENTED THE IMPLICATION
THAT HIS CAREER WAS

449
00:28:10,619 --> 00:28:12,899
NEARING ITS CLOSE.

450
00:28:13,070 --> 00:28:16,830
HE HAD AMBITIOUS PLANS--
A 3-VOLUME WORK

451
00:28:16,971 --> 00:28:20,251
ENCOMPASSING THE WAR YEARS
THAT WAS TO BEGIN ON BIMINI

452
00:28:20,388 --> 00:28:26,838
IN 1936 AND END WITH THE
BATTLE FOR THE HURTGEN FOREST.

453
00:28:26,981 --> 00:28:31,711
BUT NOVELS ABOUT THE WAR BY
YOUNGER WRITERS--IRWIN SHAW,

454
00:28:31,848 --> 00:28:35,988
JOHN HORNE BURNS, NORMAN
MAILER, ALL OF WHOM HAD BEEN

455
00:28:36,093 --> 00:28:40,243
INFLUENCED BY HIM--SOON MADE
HIM WONDER IF READERS WOULD

456
00:28:40,408 --> 00:28:42,998
WANT TO READ ABOUT HIS WAR.

457
00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:46,660
HIS PLANS FOR A NEW FAMILY
DIDN'T WORK OUT EITHER.

458
00:28:46,759 --> 00:28:49,899
MARY SUFFERED AN ECTOPIC
PREGNANCY, AND NEARLY

459
00:28:50,038 --> 00:28:51,378
BLED TO DEATH.

460
00:28:51,522 --> 00:28:54,112
HEMINGWAY WAS TOLD
TO SAY GOOD-BYE.

461
00:28:54,249 --> 00:28:58,179
INSTEAD, HE FORCED AN ATTENDANT
TO OPEN A NEW VEIN

462
00:28:58,322 --> 00:29:01,262
AND ADMINISTER PLASMA.

463
00:29:01,394 --> 00:29:05,954
MARY SURVIVED BUT WAS TOLD
SHE COULD NOT BEAR CHILDREN.

464
00:29:06,089 --> 00:29:10,959
HEMINGWAY WOULD NEVER HAVE
THE DAUGHTER HE'D HOPED FOR.

465
00:29:11,128 --> 00:29:15,478
THERE WERE NOW PROBLEMS
WITH HIS BOYS, TOO.

466
00:29:15,650 --> 00:29:18,690
THEY HAD A
VERY GOOD TIME WITH PAPA

467
00:29:18,791 --> 00:29:22,551
AND THEY LOVED
HIM DEARLY.

468
00:29:22,657 --> 00:29:26,587
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WERE
DEPRIVED OF THEIR FATHER

469
00:29:26,730 --> 00:29:30,670
FOR WHOLE STRETCHES
OF THEIR LIVES.

470
00:29:30,803 --> 00:29:37,983
HE WAS INCREDIBLY EXACTING AND
DEMANDING AND COULD TURN SOME

471
00:29:38,155 --> 00:29:41,675
OF THAT VERBAL ABUSE ON THEM.

472
00:29:41,814 --> 00:29:45,514
HE WAS PROUD OF HIS
OLDEST SON JACK'S WAR RECORD:

473
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:50,690
BUMBY HAD JOINED THE OSS,
PARACHUTED INTO OCCUPIED FRANCE,

474
00:29:50,858 --> 00:29:54,338
HAD BEEN WOUNDED AND SPENT TIME
IN A GERMAN PRISON CAMP,

475
00:29:54,516 --> 00:29:58,446
BUT HIS FATHER GREW IMPATIENT
WITH HIS APPARENT INABILITY TO

476
00:29:58,589 --> 00:30:02,589
DECIDE WHAT HE'D LIKE TO
DO IN PEACETIME.

477
00:30:02,731 --> 00:30:06,631
GREGORY, THE YOUNGEST,
HAD A SECRET.

478
00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:10,360
IT HAD BEGUN WHEN
GREGORY WAS A SMALL BOY.

479
00:30:10,498 --> 00:30:14,258
HE'D FOUND BOTH SOLACE AND
EXCITEMENT DURING HIS PARENTS'

480
00:30:14,364 --> 00:30:18,264
FREQUENT ABSENCES, FIRST BY
TAKING HIS MOTHER'S STOCKINGS

481
00:30:18,368 --> 00:30:22,198
FROM HER DRESSER AND RUBBING
THEM AGAINST HIS CHEEK,

482
00:30:22,337 --> 00:30:24,787
THEN BY PULLING THEM ON.

483
00:30:24,892 --> 00:30:28,342
HIS FATHER KNEW ABOUT IT.
"HE HAS THE BIGGEST DARK SIDE

484
00:30:28,481 --> 00:30:31,281
IN THE FAMILY EXCEPT ME AND
YOU," HE TOLD GREGORY'S

485
00:30:31,381 --> 00:30:37,041
MOTHER, PAULINE, BUT HOPED
HE'D GROW OUT OF IT SOMEHOW.

486
00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:41,980
MY BROTHER EXPLAINED TO
ME ONCE WHAT A WONDERFUL THING

487
00:30:42,116 --> 00:30:44,696
IT WAS TO BE
IN DRAG, YOU KNOW.

488
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,403
IT WAS JUST MARVELOUS,

489
00:30:46,568 --> 00:30:48,398
THE GREATEST THING
YOU COULD EXPERIENCE.

490
00:30:48,570 --> 00:30:51,540
AND I THOUGHT, WELL,
NOT FOR ME, YOU KNOW.

491
00:30:51,711 --> 00:30:54,061
NOT THAT I DIDN'T SYMPATHIZE,

492
00:30:54,197 --> 00:30:59,197
BUT IT WAS AN INTOLERABLE
SITUATION FOR HIM BEING THE

493
00:30:59,340 --> 00:31:01,140
SON OF WHO HE WAS THE SON OF.

494
00:31:01,238 --> 00:31:03,028
I THINK THAT WAS WHAT
MADE IT SO AWFUL.

495
00:31:03,171 --> 00:31:05,861
I MEAN THESE DAYS,
WHO WOULD GIVE A DAMN?

496
00:31:07,003 --> 00:31:10,283
BUT HIS MIDDLE
SON PATRICK WAS OF EVEN MORE

497
00:31:10,385 --> 00:31:12,215
IMMEDIATE CONCERN.

498
00:31:12,353 --> 00:31:16,533
WHILE VISITING HIS FATHER IN
CUBA IN THE SUMMER OF 1947,

499
00:31:16,667 --> 00:31:19,597
HE HAD A SEVERE
PSYCHOTIC EPISODE.

500
00:31:19,774 --> 00:31:22,504
HE HAD RECENTLY SUFFERED
A CONCUSSION WHICH DOCTORS

501
00:31:22,604 --> 00:31:24,784
THOUGHT MUST HAVE
TRIGGERED IT.

502
00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:29,092
PATRICK TORE OFF HIS CLOTHES,
REFUSED TO EAT, CURSED

503
00:31:29,232 --> 00:31:32,862
AND STRUCK OUT AT ANYONE
WHO CAME NEAR HIM.

504
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,030
IT IS PRETTY HARD
TO TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

505
00:31:37,171 --> 00:31:40,111
IF YOU WOULD GO BY
THE SYMPTOMS...

506
00:31:40,277 --> 00:31:43,067
EXTREME SCHIZOPHRENIA.

507
00:31:43,211 --> 00:31:44,631
HA.

508
00:31:44,764 --> 00:31:47,254
BUT YOU KNOW PEOPLE DON'T
GET OVER SCHIZOPHRENIA,

509
00:31:47,388 --> 00:31:49,628
DO THEY,
AS FAR AS I KNOW?

510
00:31:49,769 --> 00:31:51,909
HEMINGWAY
REFUSED TO HAVE HIS BOY

511
00:31:52,048 --> 00:31:55,778
INSTITUTIONALIZED, AND FOR
3 MONTHS SERVED AS HIS

512
00:31:55,914 --> 00:32:00,544
TENDER AND SUPPORTIVE NURSE,
GETTING BY ON 4 HOURS OF SLEEP

513
00:32:00,642 --> 00:32:05,102
ON THE FLOOR
OUTSIDE PATRICK'S DOOR.

514
00:32:05,233 --> 00:32:09,963
PATRICK'S MOTHER, PAULINE,
CAME TO CUBA TO NURSE HIM, TOO,

515
00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,480
AND SHE AND MARY BECAME
FRIENDS AS "ALUMNAE" OF WHAT

516
00:32:13,655 --> 00:32:17,135
THEY CALLED
"HEMINGWAY UNIVERSITY."

517
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,080
WITH THE HELP OF A GERMAN
PSYCHIATRIST, WHO PRESCRIBED

518
00:32:21,215 --> 00:32:26,765
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY,
PATRICK EVENTUALLY RECOVERED.

519
00:32:39,854 --> 00:32:43,864
IN DECEMBER, 1948,
THE HEMINGWAYS WERE STAYING

520
00:32:44,031 --> 00:32:47,521
HALF AN HOUR'S BOAT RIDE FROM
VENICE, FOR WHAT MARY HOPED

521
00:32:47,689 --> 00:32:49,999
WOULD BE A
MUCH-DELAYED HONEYMOON.

522
00:32:50,175 --> 00:32:54,135
BUT HEMINGWAY--GREY-BEARDED
AND BATTERED, STILL DRINKING

523
00:32:54,282 --> 00:32:57,772
FAR TOO MUCH, WITH CONSTANT
RINGING IN HIS EARS

524
00:32:57,906 --> 00:33:00,006
AND DANGEROUSLY HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE--

525
00:33:00,150 --> 00:33:05,290
MET AN 18-YEAR OLD
ITALIAN GIRL FROM AN OLD,
ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY--

526
00:33:05,431 --> 00:33:10,951
ADRIANA IVANCICH--AND FELL
OBSESSIVELY IN LOVE WITH HER.

527
00:33:11,058 --> 00:33:15,028
SHE WAS FRESH FROM CONVENT
SCHOOL AND WELL-READ, THOUGH

528
00:33:15,165 --> 00:33:18,165
SHE'D NEVER READ ANYTHING BY
HEMINGWAY, AND SHE ENJOYED

529
00:33:18,306 --> 00:33:21,546
LISTENING TO HIM TALK AT
HARRY'S BAR AND WHILE THEY

530
00:33:21,689 --> 00:33:23,549
AMBLED TOGETHER
THROUGH VENICE.

531
00:33:23,725 --> 00:33:27,865
HE CALLED HER "DAUGHTER" AND
ASKED HER TO CALL HIM "PAPA,"

532
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:31,526
BUT HE ALSO TOLD HER THAT HE
WOULD BEG HER TO MARRY HIM

533
00:33:31,664 --> 00:33:34,984
IF HE DIDN'T KNOW
SHE'D SAY NO.

534
00:33:35,082 --> 00:33:38,782
AND IT WAS A GREAT
BLOW TO HIM THAT SHE DIDN'T

535
00:33:38,878 --> 00:33:40,638
FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.

536
00:33:42,054 --> 00:33:45,824
EVERY TIME BEFORE THIS,
WHEN HE'S WANTED A WOMAN,

537
00:33:45,954 --> 00:33:48,134
THAT'S IT. SHE'S HIS.

538
00:33:48,233 --> 00:33:50,993
HE CAN DISCARD THIS
WIFE, TAKE THE NEW ONE.

539
00:33:51,098 --> 00:33:54,238
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD SAID HE
"WANTED A NEW--A NEW WIFE

540
00:33:54,411 --> 00:33:55,861
FOR EVERY BOOK."

541
00:33:55,999 --> 00:34:00,069
BUT, ADRIANA, THAT'S
DIFFERENT TO HIM, OK?

542
00:34:00,210 --> 00:34:03,080
MARY WORRIED THAT
HER HUSBAND WAS "WEAVING

543
00:34:03,248 --> 00:34:07,668
A MESH WHICH MIGHT ENTANGLE
AND PAIN HIM," BUT ADRIANA

544
00:34:07,769 --> 00:34:11,079
BECAME THE MODEL FOR THE LOVE
INTEREST IN THE NOVEL HE HAD

545
00:34:11,221 --> 00:34:16,991
FINALLY BEGUN WORKING ON,
"ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES."

546
00:34:17,089 --> 00:34:20,849
ITS PROTAGONIST, INSPIRED
IN PART BY BUCK LANHAM,

547
00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:24,785
IS A DYING 50-YEAR-OLD
AMERICAN INFANTRY COLONEL

548
00:34:24,959 --> 00:34:27,999
FILLED WITH MEMORIES OF THE
HORRORS HE HAS WITNESSED

549
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:29,550
IN TWO WARS.

550
00:34:29,688 --> 00:34:33,928
HE SPENDS HIS LAST 3 DAYS
IN VENICE WHERE HE MAKES LOVE

551
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:37,872
TO AN 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHOM
HEMINGWAY NAMES "RENATA"--

552
00:34:38,006 --> 00:34:41,106
ITALIAN FOR "REBORN."

553
00:34:41,251 --> 00:34:45,391
WHEN HE GOT BACK TO CUBA,
HE WROTE LIKE A MAN POSSESSED.

554
00:34:45,531 --> 00:34:49,781
HE WAS ALMOST 50, BUT HE TOLD
HIS PUBLISHER THAT SUMMER HE

555
00:34:49,949 --> 00:34:53,299
WAS WRITING AS IF
HE WERE 25 AGAIN.

556
00:34:53,470 --> 00:34:57,790
I DON'T THINK HE
WAS EVER UNHAPPY TO HAVE US

557
00:34:57,923 --> 00:35:00,373
CONFUSE HIM WITH
HIS CHARACTERS.

558
00:35:00,477 --> 00:35:05,967
BUT BY THEN, I THINK HE
ASSUMED THE IDENTIFICATION WAS

559
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:12,634
SO COMPLETE THAT HE HAD
TO MAKE A ROMANTIC,

560
00:35:12,765 --> 00:35:16,285
MANLY FIGURE OF
COLONEL CANTWELL

561
00:35:16,424 --> 00:35:19,154
WITH THE ITALIAN MISTRESS.

562
00:35:20,842 --> 00:35:24,122
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SHE CAME
INTO THE ROOM, SHINING IN HER

563
00:35:24,260 --> 00:35:28,130
YOUTH AND TALL STRIDING
BEAUTY, AND THE CARELESSNESS

564
00:35:28,264 --> 00:35:30,444
THE WIND HAD MADE OF HER HAIR.

565
00:35:30,576 --> 00:35:35,026
SHE HAD PALE, ALMOST OLIVE-
COLORED SKIN, A PROFILE THAT

566
00:35:35,202 --> 00:35:39,452
COULD BREAK YOUR, OR ANYONE
ELSE'S HEART, AND HER DARK HAIR,

567
00:35:39,585 --> 00:35:44,275
OF AN ALIVE TEXTURE,
HUNG DOWN OVER HER SHOULDERS.

568
00:35:44,418 --> 00:35:47,348
HEMINGWAY HAD
CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS

569
00:35:47,490 --> 00:35:49,460
WRITING BETTER THAN EVER.

570
00:35:49,595 --> 00:35:51,145
HE WAS NOT.

571
00:35:51,287 --> 00:35:53,357
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE WIND
WAS VERY COLD AND LASHED

572
00:35:53,496 --> 00:35:57,286
THEIR FACES, BUT UNDER THE
BLANKET THERE WAS NO WIND NOR

573
00:35:57,431 --> 00:36:01,541
NOTHING; ONLY HIS RUINED HAND
THAT SEARCHED FOR THE ISLAND

574
00:36:01,676 --> 00:36:04,846
IN THE GREAT RIVER WITH
THE HIGH STEEP BANKS.

575
00:36:04,990 --> 00:36:07,650
"PLEASE DON'T MOVE,"
THE GIRL SAID.

576
00:36:07,786 --> 00:36:09,646
"THEN MOVE A GREAT AMOUNT."

577
00:36:09,788 --> 00:36:13,308
THE COLONEL, LYING UNDER THE
BLANKET IN THE WIND, KNOWING

578
00:36:13,447 --> 00:36:17,517
IT IS ONLY WHAT MAN DOES FOR
WOMAN THAT HE RETAINS, EXCEPT

579
00:36:17,658 --> 00:36:20,488
WHAT HE DOES FOR HIS
FATHERLAND OR HIS MOTHERLAND,

580
00:36:20,626 --> 00:36:24,316
HOWEVER YOU GET THE
READING, PROCEEDED.

581
00:36:24,423 --> 00:36:27,883
HE THOUGHT HE WAS
REACHING A KIND OF PERFECTION

582
00:36:28,013 --> 00:36:30,023
AND ABUNDANCE IN HIS PROSE.

583
00:36:30,153 --> 00:36:34,743
AND WHAT HE WAS WRITING
WAS "ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES."

584
00:36:34,916 --> 00:36:38,816
HE WAS ALSO ACTING
STRANGELY, FIRING OFF LETTERS

585
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:43,720
FILLED WITH INCREASINGLY TALL
TALES AND IRRATIONAL BOASTING.

586
00:36:43,856 --> 00:36:47,206
"ALL WRITERS ARE LIARS,"
HE LIKED TO SAY, ESPECIALLY

587
00:36:47,343 --> 00:36:49,933
WHEN THEY'D HAD A FEW DRINKS.

588
00:36:50,104 --> 00:36:53,354
BUT HE NOW CLAIMED 4 OF
HIS ANCESTORS HAD FOUGHT

589
00:36:53,487 --> 00:36:57,107
IN THE CRUSADES, THAT HIS
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS

590
00:36:57,249 --> 00:37:00,699
A NORTHERN CHEYENNE, THAT
HE HIMSELF WAS CONDUCTING

591
00:37:00,839 --> 00:37:05,949
SIMULTANEOUS AFFAIRS WITH 4
VENETIAN COUNTESSES, HAD BEEN

592
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:12,510
WOUNDED 22 TIMES AND HAD
KILLED 122 ARMED MEN IN NOW

593
00:37:12,609 --> 00:37:15,129
5 DIFFERENT WARS.

594
00:37:15,267 --> 00:37:19,887
FRIENDS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT
SEEMED TO BE HAPPENING TO HIM.

595
00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:22,210
HIS MOODS HAD ALWAYS SHIFTED.

596
00:37:22,343 --> 00:37:26,383
NOW THEY WILDLY
SWUNG UP AND DOWN.

597
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,180
HE WAS, SO FLORIDLY
MANIC, THINKING THIS TERRIBLE

598
00:37:31,283 --> 00:37:33,803
BOOK IS HIS BEST BOOK
AND FALLING IN LOVE

599
00:37:33,941 --> 00:37:39,291
INAPPROPRIATELY, BUT YOU WERE
ALSO SEEING THESE DEPRESSIONS.

600
00:37:39,429 --> 00:37:42,289
AND WHEN HE WAS DEPRESSED,
HE WAS MEAN.

601
00:37:42,467 --> 00:37:45,117
HE DISAPPEARED
INTO HAVANA ONE DAY

602
00:37:45,297 --> 00:37:47,987
AND THEN TURNED
UP FOR LUNCH ON THE "PILAR"

603
00:37:48,162 --> 00:37:53,312
WITH A 17-YEAR-OLD
PROSTITUTE ON HIS ARM.

604
00:37:53,443 --> 00:37:56,243
WOMAN, AS WELSH HEMINGWAY:
"DEAR ERNEST, AS SOON AS IT

605
00:37:56,377 --> 00:37:58,927
"IS POSSIBLE FOR ME TO
MOVE OUT, I SHALL MOVE.

606
00:37:59,069 --> 00:38:03,659
"MAYBE IT IS AMBIGUOUS
FOR ME TO EXPLAIN MY
REASONS FOR LEAVING,

607
00:38:03,798 --> 00:38:06,658
"BUT I WRITE THEM DOWN BECAUSE
I THINK THIS TIME YOU SHOULD

608
00:38:06,836 --> 00:38:09,796
"HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF
KNOWING PRECISELY HOW I FEEL

609
00:38:09,977 --> 00:38:11,937
"ABOUT THIS MARRIAGE.

610
00:38:12,082 --> 00:38:17,362
"IT BEGAN IN 1944 IN BED IN THE
RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS AND MY OWN

611
00:38:17,502 --> 00:38:21,512
"REASONS FOR IT WERE TWO:
I THOUGHT YOU WERE A STRAIGHT

612
00:38:21,644 --> 00:38:24,924
"AND HONORABLE AND BRAVE
MAN AND MAGNETICALLY

613
00:38:25,061 --> 00:38:27,031
"ENDEARING TO ME.

614
00:38:27,201 --> 00:38:31,381
"AND BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH
I WAS SUSPICIOUS OF
YOUR OVER-DRINKING,

615
00:38:31,516 --> 00:38:34,756
"YOU SAID SO OFTEN THAT YOUR
CHIEF DESIRE WAS TO BE GOOD

616
00:38:34,864 --> 00:38:40,874
"AND ADULT AND TO LIVE YOUR ONE
AND ONLY LIFE INTELLIGENTLY.

617
00:38:41,042 --> 00:38:44,702
"I BELIEVED YOU
AND IN YOU.

618
00:38:44,874 --> 00:38:47,014
"YOUR PRINCIPAL
FAILURE IS THAT,

619
00:38:47,152 --> 00:38:49,642
"PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF
YOUR ACCUMULATING EGO

620
00:38:49,775 --> 00:38:53,185
"AND YOUR INCREASING LAPSES
INTO OVER-DRINKING, YOU HAVE

621
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:56,471
"NOT BEEN THE GOOD MAN YOU
SAID YOU INTENDED TO BE.

622
00:38:56,575 --> 00:38:59,845
"BOTH PRIVATELY AND IN PUBLIC,
YOU HAVE INSULTED ME AND MY

623
00:38:59,992 --> 00:39:05,522
"DIGNITY AS A HUMAN BEING AND
A WOMAN DEVOTED TO YOU AND HAVE

624
00:39:05,653 --> 00:39:09,353
"DEBASED MY PRIDE IN YOU
IN FRONT OF FRIENDS.

625
00:39:09,485 --> 00:39:14,555
"I THINK WE MUST NOW BOTH ADMIT
THAT THIS MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE.

626
00:39:14,731 --> 00:39:16,941
THEREFORE LET US END IT."

627
00:39:20,427 --> 00:39:23,527
"STICK WITH ME
KITTEN," HEMINGWAY RESPONDED.

628
00:39:23,671 --> 00:39:27,501
"I HOPE YOU WILL DECIDE
TO STICK WITH ME."

629
00:39:27,641 --> 00:39:31,371
MARY DID STICK WITH HIM,
BUT NOTHING WAS SETTLED

630
00:39:31,507 --> 00:39:34,267
BETWEEN THEM.

631
00:39:34,441 --> 00:39:37,861
A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HIS LONG-
AWAITED NOVEL ABOUT VENICE WAS

632
00:39:37,996 --> 00:39:41,966
TO BE PUBLISHED, HE LOST HIS
FOOTING ABOARD THE "PILAR"

633
00:39:42,069 --> 00:39:45,279
AND HIT HIS HEAD AGAIN.

634
00:39:45,417 --> 00:39:48,867
AFTERWARDS, HE WROTE A FRIEND
THAT HE HAD REACHED WHAT HE

635
00:39:49,007 --> 00:39:51,457
CALLED A "BAD LOW."

636
00:39:51,596 --> 00:39:56,286
HE'D TAKEN "A LONG DEEP DIVE
IN THE GULF STREAM," HE SAID.

637
00:39:56,428 --> 00:39:59,328
"IT WAS AWFULLY NICE DOWN
THERE AND I WAS TEMPTED TO

638
00:39:59,431 --> 00:40:01,051
"STAY THERE,

639
00:40:01,191 --> 00:40:03,091
"BUT YOU HAVE TO SET
A GOOD EXAMPLE TO YOUR

640
00:40:03,262 --> 00:40:05,472
CHILDREN AND ET CETERA."

641
00:40:05,610 --> 00:40:09,060
WHEN "ACROSS THE RIVER AND
INTO THE TREES" WAS PUBLISHED

642
00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:12,579
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1950,
IT BECAME AN INSTANT

643
00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:14,310
BEST-SELLER,

644
00:40:14,446 --> 00:40:17,966
BUT IT WAS NOT THE GREAT
NOVEL OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

645
00:40:18,105 --> 00:40:21,755
CRITICS WERE EXPECTING AND
HE RECEIVED THE WORST REVIEWS

646
00:40:21,936 --> 00:40:23,586
OF HIS CAREER.

647
00:40:23,731 --> 00:40:26,771
THEY CALLED THE BOOK
SENTIMENTAL, EMBARRASSING,

648
00:40:26,941 --> 00:40:29,291
EVEN PITIABLE.

649
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:32,147
"IT IS NOT ONLY HEMINGWAY'S
WORST NOVEL,"

650
00:40:32,326 --> 00:40:35,046
SAID THE "SATURDAY REVIEW OF
LITERATURE," "IT IS

651
00:40:35,156 --> 00:40:38,946
"A SYNTHESIS OF EVERYTHING THAT
IS BAD IN HIS PREVIOUS WORK

652
00:40:39,091 --> 00:40:42,581
AND IT THROWS A DOUBTFUL
LIGHT ON THE FUTURE."

653
00:40:42,716 --> 00:40:47,066
THE BOOK MADE MARTHA GELLHORN
"SICK," SHE TOLD A FRIEND,

654
00:40:47,203 --> 00:40:48,833
"SHIVERING SICK."

655
00:40:48,963 --> 00:40:52,803
IT HAD THE "SOUND OF MADNESS
AND A TERRIBLE SMELL,

656
00:40:52,967 --> 00:40:55,487
AS OF DECAY."

657
00:40:55,625 --> 00:40:58,655
"ACROSS THE RIVER
AND INTO THE TREES" COMES OUT,

658
00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:03,175
AND IT RECEIVES THE WORST
IMAGINABLE REVIEWS.

659
00:41:03,357 --> 00:41:06,357
PEOPLE CALL IT "MAUDLIN,"
THEY SAY HEMINGWAY IS

660
00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:10,643
FINISHED, THIS BOOK IS SO BAD
THAT IT CALLS INTO QUESTION

661
00:41:10,778 --> 00:41:13,018
HIS ENTIRE CAREER SO FAR.

662
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,130
HEMINGWAY'S DONE,
IT'S OVER, YOU KNOW.

663
00:41:15,265 --> 00:41:19,095
IT'S A DISASTER.
IT'S A DISASTER.

664
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,240
NOT TO MENTION THE
LOVEMAKING IN THE GONDOLA

665
00:41:21,340 --> 00:41:24,170
WITH THE BIRDS FLYING.
HA HA!

666
00:41:25,690 --> 00:41:29,690
SOMETHING IS STARTING
TO HAPPEN IN THE 1950s--

667
00:41:29,832 --> 00:41:37,182
CALL IT FAME, CALL IT TOO MUCH
DRINKING, TOO MUCH OF TOO MUCH.

668
00:41:37,322 --> 00:41:40,222
THERE IS A CONSTANT CHECK
OF BLOOD PRESSURE.

669
00:41:40,359 --> 00:41:44,539
THERE IS A CONCERN FOR
MORTALITY IN HEMINGWAY

670
00:41:44,674 --> 00:41:48,474
THAT HE ALWAYS KNEW
WAS THERE, AS WE ALL DO,

671
00:41:48,609 --> 00:41:52,889
BUT AT THE SAME TIME DON'T
KNOW UNTIL ILLNESS OR

672
00:41:53,062 --> 00:41:55,062
SOMETHING BEGINS
TO SHOW ITSELF.

673
00:41:55,236 --> 00:41:58,786
TO SOME EXTENT, SOMEONE AS
VIBRANT AS THIS, I THINK THAT

674
00:41:58,895 --> 00:42:01,655
CAME AS A BIT OF A SHOCK.

675
00:42:01,795 --> 00:42:07,385
AND THE DRINKING AND THE
HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS

676
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:11,175
IN THE FAMILY HAD
TO BE ON HIS MIND.

677
00:42:11,321 --> 00:42:15,361
HIS FATHER HAD TO
BE ON HIS MIND.

678
00:42:19,778 --> 00:42:24,438
IN EARLY 1951,
HEMINGWAY'S PUBLISHER
CHARLES SCRIBNER

679
00:42:24,611 --> 00:42:27,751
SENT HIM GALLEYS OF
A WORLD WAR II NOVEL CALLED,

680
00:42:27,890 --> 00:42:30,860
"FROM HERE TO ETERNITY,"
BY A YOUNG WRITER NAMED

681
00:42:30,996 --> 00:42:36,546
JAMES JONES IN THE HOPE
HEMINGWAY MIGHT WRITE A BLURB.

682
00:42:36,692 --> 00:42:40,212
AFTER SEEING COMBAT IN THE
PACIFIC, JONES HAD GONE AWOL

683
00:42:40,350 --> 00:42:44,600
DURING THE SECOND
WORLD WAR AND BEEN GIVEN
AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE

684
00:42:44,769 --> 00:42:51,879
FOR PSYCHIATRIC REASONS; HIS
PROTAGONIST WENT AWOL, TOO.

685
00:42:52,017 --> 00:42:55,057
HEMINGWAY TOLD SCRIBNER
HE HATED THE BOOK.

686
00:42:55,193 --> 00:42:58,963
THOUGH HIS OWN HERO OF "A
FAREWELL TO ARMS" HAD DESERTED,

687
00:42:59,128 --> 00:43:03,408
JONES WAS A COWARD, A WHINER,
A "BATTLE-FATIGUE TYPE,"

688
00:43:03,546 --> 00:43:07,096
HE WROTE, LIKELY TO
COMMIT SUICIDE ONCE "THINGS

689
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:08,929
CATCH UP WITH HIM."

690
00:43:09,069 --> 00:43:13,729
HIS BOOK WAS SURE TO "DO
GREAT DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY."

691
00:43:13,867 --> 00:43:16,277
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "PROBABLY
I SHOULD RE-READ IT AGAIN TO

692
00:43:16,421 --> 00:43:18,561
"GIVE YOU A TRUER ANSWER.

693
00:43:18,665 --> 00:43:22,425
"BUT I DO NOT HAVE TO EAT AN
ENTIRE BOWL OF SCABS TO KNOW

694
00:43:22,565 --> 00:43:27,975
"THEY ARE SCABS; NOR SUCK
A BOIL TO KNOW IT IS A BOIL;

695
00:43:28,122 --> 00:43:32,752
"NOR SWIM THROUGH A RIVER OF
SNOT TO KNOW IT IS SNOT.

696
00:43:32,886 --> 00:43:37,646
"I HOPE HE KILLS HIMSELF AS
SOON AS IT DOES NOT DAMAGE HIS

697
00:43:37,787 --> 00:43:39,437
"OR YOUR SALES.

698
00:43:39,582 --> 00:43:43,002
"IF YOU GIVE HIM A LITERARY TEA,
YOU MIGHT ASK HIM TO DRAIN

699
00:43:43,172 --> 00:43:50,522
"A BUCKET OF SNOT AND THEN
SUCK THE PUSS OUT OF
A DEAD N R'S EAR.

700
00:43:50,662 --> 00:43:53,942
"WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT HIM UP
IF YOU HADN'T ASKED ME.

701
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:59,149
NOW I FEEL AS UNCLEAN AS WHEN
I READ HIS FUCK-OFF BOOK."

702
00:44:01,328 --> 00:44:03,498
YEAH.

703
00:44:07,368 --> 00:44:11,028
IT'S--IT'S ANOTHER
MYSTERY WHY THIS MOST

704
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,030
FAMOUS WRITER OF
WRITERS, UH...

705
00:44:14,203 --> 00:44:19,283
WOULD HAVE FELT SO, UH...

706
00:44:19,380 --> 00:44:24,800
UNSAFE IN HIS POSITION
AND EMBATTLED IN IT

707
00:44:24,903 --> 00:44:30,013
AND NEEDING TO FEND OFF ALL
OTHER WRITERS AS IF THEY WERE

708
00:44:30,150 --> 00:44:32,220
CHALLENGING HIM.

709
00:44:32,359 --> 00:44:36,639
WHY DIDN'T HE JUST SAY,
"I, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T
WARM UP TO THIS BOOK,

710
00:44:36,743 --> 00:44:39,163
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD
SAY ABOUT IT," AND LET IT GO?

711
00:44:39,297 --> 00:44:40,987
BUT NO.

712
00:44:41,126 --> 00:44:43,396
THE FACT THAT HE WOULD
REVILE A FELLOW WRITER DOESN'T

713
00:44:43,577 --> 00:44:46,887
SHOCK ME AT ALL, BUT THE
HARSHNESS OF IT, YEAH.

714
00:44:47,029 --> 00:44:51,069
THE RACIAL EPITHETS HERE,
SOMETHING THAT HE KNEW WOULD

715
00:44:51,205 --> 00:44:55,345
PROBABLY SEE THE LIGHT
OF DAY AT SOME POINT.

716
00:44:55,485 --> 00:44:58,625
YEAH. IT COMPLICATES
THINGS IMMENSELY.

717
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,220
I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT
TO SAY ABOUT THIS,

718
00:45:03,355 --> 00:45:04,735
TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY.

719
00:45:04,909 --> 00:45:07,569
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU
CAN EXPLAIN IT AWAY.

720
00:45:07,739 --> 00:45:09,909
WE'RE
ALL DEEPLY FLAWED.

721
00:45:10,052 --> 00:45:14,092
AND HEMINGWAY'S YOU KNOW
COMPLEX NATURE IS SOMETHING

722
00:45:14,228 --> 00:45:17,578
THAT WE'LL NEVER SOLVE
WITH ONE PITHY PHRASE.

723
00:45:17,749 --> 00:45:20,889
WE WON'T EXPLAIN THESE
AWFUL LETTERS HE WROTE.

724
00:45:21,028 --> 00:45:24,268
WE WON'T EVER BE ABLE TO
FORGIVE HIM FOR THE AWFUL

725
00:45:24,411 --> 00:45:27,761
THINGS HE SAID ABOUT PEOPLE,
THE WORDS HE USED THAT HAD NO,

726
00:45:27,932 --> 00:45:33,352
NO REASON BUT HURT,
BUT THERE IT IS.

727
00:45:43,292 --> 00:45:45,362
IN CUBA,
HE WOULD ACTUALLY REHEARSE

728
00:45:45,501 --> 00:45:47,751
A SUICIDE FOR FRIENDS.

729
00:45:47,883 --> 00:45:50,963
HE WOULD HAVE FRIENDS OVER
FOR DINNER AND THEN HE WOULD,

730
00:45:51,127 --> 00:45:54,027
UH, PUT HIS SHOTGUN ON THE
FLOOR AND PUT HIS BIG TOE

731
00:45:54,130 --> 00:45:56,240
IN THE TRIGGER AND PUT THE
BARREL IN THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH,

732
00:45:56,374 --> 00:45:59,034
AND EVERYONE WOULD
LISTEN TO IT GO "CLICK."

733
00:45:59,135 --> 00:46:02,725
AND HE WOULD LIFT HIS MOUTH
OFF THE BARREL, GRINNING.

734
00:46:02,829 --> 00:46:05,379
"I HAVE NOTHING
IN MY HEAD," HEMINGWAY TOLD

735
00:46:05,521 --> 00:46:06,901
AN OLD FRIEND.

736
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,080
"I'M FED UP WITH LIVING.
I CAN'T WRITE.

737
00:46:10,215 --> 00:46:16,145
I LOVE ONLY ADRIANA.
I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE."

738
00:46:16,325 --> 00:46:20,325
HE TOOK OUT HIS DESPAIR AND
FRUSTRATION ON MARY, CALLING

739
00:46:20,501 --> 00:46:23,991
HER A "WHORE, BITCH,
LIAR, MORON."

740
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,340
SHE TOLD HIS PUBLISHER SHE
FEARED SHE WAS WITNESSING

741
00:46:27,508 --> 00:46:30,408
"THE DISINTEGRATION OF
A PERSONALITY."

742
00:46:32,237 --> 00:46:35,477
IT'S A VERY TRAGIC
THING, AND I BELIEVE THAT

743
00:46:35,654 --> 00:46:37,904
RELATIONSHIP DID GET PHYSICAL.

744
00:46:38,002 --> 00:46:41,522
SHE'S JUST LITTLE AND HE'S
THIS HULKING, YOU KNOW,

745
00:46:41,695 --> 00:46:45,175
6-FOOT-SOMETHING MAN.
IT'S--IT'S DANGEROUS.

746
00:46:45,319 --> 00:46:47,839
MARY HAD THREATENED
TO LEAVE HIM MANY TIMES.

747
00:46:48,012 --> 00:46:50,322
THEY WERE VIOLENT
TOWARDS EACH OTHER.

748
00:46:50,462 --> 00:46:52,462
HE WAS VIOLENT TOWARDS HER.

749
00:46:52,602 --> 00:46:54,712
AND AT ONE POINT,
THEIR CUBAN DOCTOR TOOK THE

750
00:46:54,881 --> 00:46:56,501
SHOTGUNS OUT OF THE HOME; THEY
WERE THREATENING EACH OTHER

751
00:46:56,675 --> 00:46:58,505
WITH SHOTGUNS.

752
00:46:58,643 --> 00:47:01,753
THEY WOULD GO AT EACH OTHER,
TOOTH AND NAIL.

753
00:47:01,853 --> 00:47:04,033
HE KNOWS HE'S
STRUGGLING TO WRITE.

754
00:47:04,166 --> 00:47:07,856
HE'S GOT TO DO SOMETHING.
EVERYTHING HE'S LIVED FOR,

755
00:47:07,997 --> 00:47:10,687
EVERYTHING HE'S WORKED FOR,
THE WHOLE IDEA OF BEING

756
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:15,248
AN IMMORTAL AMERICAN
WRITER IS AT STAKE.

757
00:47:17,904 --> 00:47:22,704
THEN IN OCTOBER OF
1950, ADRIANA AND HER MOTHER

758
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,330
CAME TO CUBA FOR
AN EXTENDED VISIT.

759
00:47:26,464 --> 00:47:29,644
HEMINGWAY WAS ELATED.

760
00:47:29,777 --> 00:47:31,707
HE GOES INTO TRAINING.

761
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:34,299
HE TALKS ABOUT GOING INTO
TRAINING LIKE A BOXER.

762
00:47:34,403 --> 00:47:39,173
AND FOR A PERIOD OF WEEKS,
HE LOSES WEIGHT, HE STOPS

763
00:47:39,304 --> 00:47:43,074
DRINKING EVERYTHING EXCEPT A
LITTLE BIT OF WINE, HE EATS

764
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,859
CELERY STICKS, LOTS OF
PROTEIN LIKE RAW WILD DUCK.

765
00:47:47,002 --> 00:47:51,392
HE SWIMS LAPS IN THE POOL,
HE GETS INTO SHAPE.

766
00:47:51,523 --> 00:47:55,913
HE IDEALIZED LOVE
SO MUCH AND IT GAVE HIM

767
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:57,670
SO MUCH ENERGY.

768
00:47:57,771 --> 00:48:00,811
IF YOU REMEMBER BEING IN
LOVE AS A TEENAGER,

769
00:48:00,912 --> 00:48:02,672
YOU'RE SO HAPPY.

770
00:48:02,810 --> 00:48:06,500
ADRIANA ALLOWED HIM
TO RE-CREATE THAT.

771
00:48:06,607 --> 00:48:11,227
SHE MOVES MUCH MORE FROM BEING
A POTENTIAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP

772
00:48:11,371 --> 00:48:13,551
TO BEING A KIND OF MUSE.

773
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:24,070
INSPIRED BY ADRIANA,
HEMINGWAY BEGAN A NEW STORY.

774
00:48:24,211 --> 00:48:27,531
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE OLD MAN
WAS THIN AND GAUNT WITH DEEP

775
00:48:27,628 --> 00:48:30,798
WRINKLES IN THE
BACK OF HIS NECK.

776
00:48:30,942 --> 00:48:34,362
THE BROWN BLOTCHES OF THE
BENEVOLENT SKIN CANCER THE SUN

777
00:48:34,463 --> 00:48:37,603
BRINGS FROM ITS REFLECTION
ON THE TROPIC SEA WERE

778
00:48:37,776 --> 00:48:39,736
ON HIS CHEEKS.

779
00:48:39,882 --> 00:48:42,822
THE BLOTCHES RAN WELL DOWN
THE SIDES OF HIS FACE AND HIS

780
00:48:42,989 --> 00:48:46,269
HANDS HAD THE DEEP-CREASED
SCARS FROM HANDLING HEAVY FISH

781
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,480
ON THE CORDS.

782
00:48:48,649 --> 00:48:51,139
BUT NONE OF THESE
SCARS WERE FRESH.

783
00:48:51,307 --> 00:48:56,797
THEY WERE AS OLD AS EROSIONS
IN A FISHLESS DESERT.

784
00:48:56,934 --> 00:49:02,014
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS OLD
EXCEPT HIS EYES AND THEY WERE

785
00:49:02,180 --> 00:49:08,500
THE SAME COLOR AS THE SEA AND
WERE CHEERFUL AND UNDEFEATED.

786
00:49:08,669 --> 00:49:10,839
IT WAS A
FICTIONALIZED VERSION

787
00:49:11,017 --> 00:49:14,297
OF AN ARTICLE HE'D FIRST
PUBLISHED IN "ESQUIRE" MAGAZINE

788
00:49:14,434 --> 00:49:16,924
15 YEARS EARLIER.

789
00:49:17,057 --> 00:49:22,167
HE WROTE THE NEW NOVEL
IN JUST 8 WEEKS.

790
00:49:22,304 --> 00:49:27,694
"THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"
TOLD THE STORY OF AN
OLD CUBAN FISHERMAN

791
00:49:27,826 --> 00:49:30,966
ALONE IN A SKIFF,
WHO HOOKED A GREAT MARLIN THAT

792
00:49:31,106 --> 00:49:34,656
TOWED HIM FAR OUT TO SEA
BEFORE HE COULD HARPOON

793
00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:37,843
AND LASH IT ALONGSIDE.

794
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:40,835
BUT AS HE STRUGGLED
TO RETURN TO LAND,

795
00:49:41,012 --> 00:49:44,812
SHARKS DEVOURED
MOST OF HIS PRIZE.

796
00:49:47,294 --> 00:49:50,264
IN THE EVENINGS, HEMINGWAY
WOULD LET MARY READ WHAT HE

797
00:49:50,366 --> 00:49:52,366
HAD WRITTEN THAT DAY.

798
00:49:52,506 --> 00:49:56,196
"LAMB," SHE TOLD HIM AFTER
FINISHING THE MANUSCRIPT,

799
00:49:56,338 --> 00:49:59,378
"I AM PREPARED TO PARDON YOU
FOR ALL THE DISAGREEABLE

800
00:49:59,548 --> 00:50:01,898
THINGS YOU HAVE DONE TO ME."

801
00:50:02,033 --> 00:50:04,213
WOMAN, AS WELSH HEMINGWAY:
THOSE WERE SWEET HOURS.

802
00:50:04,380 --> 00:50:08,870
ONLY THE SIGHS OF A BREEZE IN
THE PALMS OR THE FARAWAY CHUFF

803
00:50:09,006 --> 00:50:12,866
OF A LORRY ON THE MAIN ROAD
CAME THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOWS.

804
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,740
IF I MADE SOME
INVOLUNTARY WHISPER

805
00:50:15,874 --> 00:50:18,714
OF APPROVAL, HE CAME OVER
TO READ, PEERING OVER

806
00:50:18,843 --> 00:50:20,813
MY SHOULDER.

807
00:50:20,914 --> 00:50:25,164
THIS WAS SIMPLE LINE-DRAWING
BEAUTY, I THOUGHT.

808
00:50:25,263 --> 00:50:29,793
IT REMINDED ME OF BACH FUGUES
AND PICASSO DRAWINGS WITHOUT

809
00:50:29,888 --> 00:50:32,478
CLUTTER OR FRILLS.

810
00:50:33,685 --> 00:50:36,305
HEMINGWAY HAD
ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO INCLUDE

811
00:50:36,412 --> 00:50:40,382
THE STORY AS THE CODA TO
A LONGER NOVEL, BUT HE NOW

812
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,940
WANTED IT TO STAND ON ITS OWN.

813
00:50:43,074 --> 00:50:46,084
"PUBLISHING IT NOW," HE TOLD
SCRIBNER'S, "WILL GET RID

814
00:50:46,215 --> 00:50:49,935
"OF THE SCHOOL OF CRITICISM
THAT I AM THROUGH AS A WRITER,

815
00:50:50,116 --> 00:50:53,256
"THAT CLAIMS I CAN WRITE
ABOUT NOTHING EXCEPT MYSELF

816
00:50:53,395 --> 00:50:55,355
"AND MY OWN EXPERIENCES.

817
00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:59,330
"IT COULD EVEN SERVE AS AN
EPILOGUE TO ALL MY WRITING

818
00:50:59,435 --> 00:51:03,225
"AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED OR
TRIED TO LEARN, WHILE WRITING

819
00:51:03,370 --> 00:51:05,170
AND TRYING TO LIVE."

820
00:51:06,925 --> 00:51:09,445
MOST READERS SEEMED TO AGREE.

821
00:51:09,583 --> 00:51:13,283
"THE OLD MAN AND
THE SEA" APPEARED
FIRST IN "LIFE" MAGAZINE

822
00:51:13,415 --> 00:51:19,965
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1952 AND SOLD
WELL OVER 5 MILLION COPIES.

823
00:51:20,146 --> 00:51:22,936
THE HARD-COVER BOOK, WHEN IT
WAS PUBLISHED, WOULD REMAIN

824
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:27,260
ON THE BEST-SELLER
LIST FOR 26 WEEKS.

825
00:52:20,344 --> 00:52:23,424
MOST REVIEWERS
LOVED THE BOOK, TOO.

826
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:25,869
"THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"
PROVED, THE CRITIC

827
00:52:26,004 --> 00:52:28,804
MARK SCHORER WROTE,
THAT "HEMINGWAY'S ART,

828
00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:30,598
"WHEN IT IS ART,

829
00:52:30,699 --> 00:52:32,769
"IS ABSOLUTELY
INCOMPARABLE.

830
00:52:32,873 --> 00:52:37,603
"HE IS UNQUESTIONABLY
THE GREATEST CRAFTSMAN
IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL

831
00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:39,950
IN THIS CENTURY."

832
00:52:41,641 --> 00:52:45,611
EDNA O'BRIEN: THE TEST OF A BOOK
FOR ME IS HOW MANY TIMES YOU

833
00:52:45,748 --> 00:52:49,168
WANT TO RE-READ IT.

834
00:52:49,304 --> 00:52:55,214
IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME
BECAUSE IT'S SO ORDINARY.

835
00:52:55,379 --> 00:52:59,689
IT'S ADOLESCENCE.
IT'S SCHOOLBOY WRITING.

836
00:52:59,831 --> 00:53:01,871
I'M SORRY.

837
00:53:02,006 --> 00:53:04,966
IT'S THE WRITER.
HE'S THE BLOODY FISH.

838
00:53:05,112 --> 00:53:07,672
HE'S STRUGGLING TO DO IT.

839
00:53:07,805 --> 00:53:11,015
AND I FEEL, IN SOME WAYS,
SYMPATHETIC BECAUSE I KNOW HOW

840
00:53:11,153 --> 00:53:15,163
HARD IT IS TO WRITE
EVEN ONE GOOD SENTENCE.

841
00:53:15,261 --> 00:53:18,711
THIS IS NOT THE BOOK THAT
WOULD BE THE FINEST FLOWER

842
00:53:18,850 --> 00:53:21,580
ON HIS GRAVE.
IT'S NOT.

843
00:53:21,715 --> 00:53:24,235
WITH "THE OLD MAN
AND THE SEA," YOU SEE THE

844
00:53:24,408 --> 00:53:28,718
AGONY OF THIS OLD MAN, YOU
SEE HIS BRAVERY, YOU SEE HIS

845
00:53:28,860 --> 00:53:33,900
DESIRE TO REDEEM HIMSELF AND
YOU SEE HIM SORT OF ARRIVE

846
00:53:34,038 --> 00:53:37,558
WITH THE PRIZE, BUT THE
PRIZE IS IN TATTERS.

847
00:53:37,697 --> 00:53:39,177
AND ISN'T LIFE LIKE THAT?

848
00:53:39,319 --> 00:53:42,049
I MEAN, ULTIMATELY LIFE
IS SO IRONIC YOU KNOW.

849
00:53:42,184 --> 00:53:45,194
YOU GET THE BIGGEST DAMN FISH
OUT THERE, YOU REDEEM YOUR

850
00:53:45,291 --> 00:53:50,881
REPUTATION, BUT BY THE TIME
YOU GET IT TO SHORE, IT'S GONE

851
00:53:51,020 --> 00:53:52,750
AND SO ARE YOU.

852
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:54,358
THE REFRAIN,
AS HE'S TRYING TO COME IN

853
00:54:54,532 --> 00:54:58,302
AND THE SHARKS KEEP HITTING THE
FISH AND KEEP TAKING IT AWAY,

854
00:54:58,433 --> 00:55:02,583
AS HE SAID, "THE THING
I DID WRONG IS, I WENT

855
00:55:02,713 --> 00:55:04,963
OUT TOO FAR."

856
00:55:05,094 --> 00:55:07,344
I WENT BEYOND WHAT
I CAN CONTROL.

857
00:55:07,476 --> 00:55:10,306
I WENT BEYOND WHAT I
CAN COMPENSATE FOR.

858
00:55:10,445 --> 00:55:15,165
AND I HEAR THAT AS JUST
BEAUTIFUL AND AWFUL, AND FULL

859
00:55:15,346 --> 00:55:19,276
OF PATHOS, AND
THAT IS HEMINGWAY.

860
00:55:22,353 --> 00:55:25,323
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HE WAS PAST
EVERYTHING NOW AND HE SAILED

861
00:55:25,460 --> 00:55:28,080
THE SKIFF TO MAKE HIS
HOME PORT AS WELL AND AS

862
00:55:28,186 --> 00:55:30,326
INTELLIGENTLY AS HE COULD.

863
00:55:30,465 --> 00:55:34,185
IN THE NIGHT, SHARKS HIT THE
CARCASS AS SOMEONE MIGHT PICK UP

864
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,301
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE.

865
00:55:36,402 --> 00:55:40,542
THE OLD MAN PAID NO ATTENTION
TO THEM AND DID NOT PAY ANY

866
00:55:40,682 --> 00:55:43,552
ATTENTION TO ANYTHING
EXCEPT STEERING.

867
00:55:43,685 --> 00:55:47,025
HE ONLY NOTICED HOW LIGHTLY
AND HOW WELL THE SKIFF SAILED.

868
00:55:47,205 --> 00:55:49,995
NOW THERE WAS NO
GREAT WEIGHT BESIDE HER.

869
00:55:52,210 --> 00:55:54,730
HE COULD FEEL HE WAS
INSIDE THE CURRENT NOW

870
00:55:54,903 --> 00:55:56,463
AND HE COULD SEE THE LIGHTS

871
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,390
OF THE BEACH COLONIES
ALONG THE SHORE.

872
00:55:59,528 --> 00:56:05,018
HE KNEW WHERE HE WAS NOW AND
IT WAS NOTHING TO GET HOME.

873
00:56:05,154 --> 00:56:09,024
IT IS EASY WHEN YOU
ARE BEATEN, HE THOUGHT.

874
00:56:09,158 --> 00:56:12,228
I NEVER KNEW HOW EASY IT WAS.

875
00:56:12,369 --> 00:56:14,959
AND WHAT BEAT YOU, HE THOUGHT.

876
00:56:15,061 --> 00:56:19,171
"NOTHING," HE SAID ALOUD.

877
00:56:19,306 --> 00:56:22,206
"I WENT OUT TOO FAR."

878
00:56:28,074 --> 00:56:33,744
IN JUNE OF 1951,
ERNEST'S MOTHER,
GRACE HALL HEMINGWAY

879
00:56:33,873 --> 00:56:37,433
HAD DIED AT THE AGE OF 79.

880
00:56:37,566 --> 00:56:39,876
SHE'D BEEN LIVING IN MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE WITH ONE

881
00:56:40,017 --> 00:56:41,707
OF HIS SISTERS.

882
00:56:41,846 --> 00:56:44,566
HEMINGWAY HAD BEEN SUPPORTING
HIS MOTHER BUT HAD NOT

883
00:56:44,711 --> 00:56:46,261
SEEN HER IN YEARS.

884
00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:49,203
"I HATE HER GUTS,"
HE EXPLAINED TO A FRIEND,

885
00:56:49,336 --> 00:56:51,296
"AND SHE HATES MINE."

886
00:56:51,442 --> 00:56:55,102
HE DID NOT ATTEND HER FUNERAL
EITHER, BUT HE DID SOFTEN

887
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,789
A LITTLE AT HER DEATH.

888
00:56:57,966 --> 00:57:00,926
"I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT
HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE WAS WHEN SHE

889
00:57:01,072 --> 00:57:04,702
WAS YOUNG," HE WROTE, "BEFORE
EVERYTHING WENT TO HELL IN OUR

890
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:09,010
"FAMILY AND ABOUT HOW HAPPY
WE ALL WERE AS CHILDREN

891
00:57:09,115 --> 00:57:11,355
BEFORE IT ALL BROKE UP."

892
00:57:12,981 --> 00:57:15,981
MORE FAMILY HELL HAD FOLLOWED.

893
00:57:16,156 --> 00:57:20,326
IN SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR,
19-YEAR-OLD GREGORY HEMINGWAY

894
00:57:20,471 --> 00:57:22,721
WAS ARRESTED IN THE LADIES
ROOM OF A LOS ANGELES

895
00:57:22,818 --> 00:57:26,818
MOVIE THEATER WEARING
WOMEN'S CLOTHES.

896
00:57:26,995 --> 00:57:31,655
AFTER HIS ARREST,
HIS MOTHER, PAULINE,
HEMINGWAY'S SECOND WIFE,

897
00:57:31,827 --> 00:57:36,797
RUSHED TO LOS ANGELES TO BAIL
HIM OUT, THEN SPOKE BY PHONE

898
00:57:36,936 --> 00:57:38,826
WITH HEMINGWAY IN CUBA.

899
00:57:39,007 --> 00:57:43,147
EACH BLAMED THE OTHER FOR WHAT
HAD HAPPENED TO THEIR SON.

900
00:57:43,287 --> 00:57:47,077
THERE WAS SHOUTING AND TEARS.

901
00:57:47,187 --> 00:57:50,497
THE TWO OF THEM WENT
AT EACH OTHER TOOTH AND NAIL

902
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:53,499
ABOUT WHO WAS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

903
00:57:53,677 --> 00:57:58,957
MY DAD AND MY MOTHER REALLY
HAD A TERRIBLE TELEPHONE

904
00:57:59,096 --> 00:58:01,366
CONVERSATION ABOUT IT.

905
00:58:01,512 --> 00:58:06,312
THAT NIGHT,
PAULINE WAS RUSHED TO
THE HOSPITAL IN AGONY.

906
00:58:06,448 --> 00:58:11,518
A RARE AND UNDIAGNOSED
ADRENAL TUMOR HAD BURST.

907
00:58:11,660 --> 00:58:15,010
SHE DIED ON THE
OPERATING TABLE.

908
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,320
IT WAS A
DISASTER ALL AROUND.

909
00:58:19,461 --> 00:58:22,951
AND FROM THAT TIME ON,
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GREG

910
00:58:23,085 --> 00:58:24,705
AND MY DAD WAS TERRIBLE.

911
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,130
HEMINGWAY TOLD GREGORY
THAT THE SHOCK OF HIS ARREST

912
00:58:28,263 --> 00:58:31,373
HAD CAUSED
HIS MOTHER'S DEATH.

913
00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:35,478
GREGORY RESPONDED WITH FURY.

914
00:58:35,581 --> 00:58:37,861
MAN, AS GREGORY: "WHEN IT'S ALL
ADDED UP, PAPA, IT WILL BE...

915
00:58:37,997 --> 00:58:42,067
"HE WROTE A FEW GOOD STORIES,
HAD A FRESH APPROACH TO REALITY,

916
00:58:42,208 --> 00:58:46,208
"AND HE DESTROYED 5
PERSONS--HADLEY, PAULINE,

917
00:58:46,350 --> 00:58:52,010
"MARTY, PATRICK,
AND POSSIBLY MYSELF.

918
00:58:52,149 --> 00:58:56,739
"WHICH DO YOU THINK IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT,
YOU SELF-CENTERED SHIT,

919
00:58:56,912 --> 00:58:58,812
"THE STORIES OR THE PEOPLE?

920
00:58:58,914 --> 00:59:00,504
"I SUPPOSE YOU WONDER

921
00:59:00,606 --> 00:59:03,706
"WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
ALL MY FILIAL RESPECT FOR YOU.

922
00:59:03,850 --> 00:59:07,920
"WELL, IT'S GONE, ERNESTINE,
DEAR, IT'S GONE!

923
00:59:08,096 --> 00:59:11,096
"IT'S GONE WITH THE HUNDRED
THOUSAND CRUELTIES YOU HAVE

924
00:59:11,237 --> 00:59:13,757
"INFLICTED ON PEOPLE FOR THE
LAST 10 YEARS AND WITH THE

925
00:59:13,929 --> 00:59:17,589
"THOUSAND RIGHTEOUS
DRUNKS OF THAT PERIOD.

926
00:59:17,726 --> 00:59:21,696
"YOU'LL NEVER WRITE THAT
GREAT NOVEL BECAUSE
YOU'RE A SICK MAN--

927
00:59:21,799 --> 00:59:27,009
"SICK IN THE HEAD AND
TOO FUCKING PROUD AND
SCARED TO ADMIT IT.

928
00:59:27,115 --> 00:59:30,425
"IN SPITE OF THE CRITICS,
THAT LAST ONE WAS AS SICKLY

929
00:59:30,567 --> 00:59:33,327
"A BUCKET OF SENTIMENTAL
SLOP AS WAS EVER SCRUBBED

930
00:59:33,431 --> 00:59:35,541
"OFF A BARROOM FLOOR.

931
00:59:35,641 --> 00:59:39,271
"THERE'S NOTHING I'D RATHER
SEE THAN YOU WRITE A BEAUTY

932
00:59:39,403 --> 00:59:43,613
"AND THERE'S NOTHING I'D RATHER
SEE THAN YOU ACT INTELLIGENTLY,

933
00:59:43,752 --> 00:59:46,792
"BUT UNTIL YOU DO,
I'M GONNA GIVE YOU JUST

934
00:59:46,928 --> 00:59:50,548
"WHAT YOU DESERVE, AND IN
EXTRA-LARGE HANDFULS TO MAKE UP

935
00:59:50,690 --> 00:59:54,180
FOR THE TROUBLE
YOU'VE CAUSED ME."

936
00:59:56,144 --> 00:59:57,804
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "I HAVE
LEARNED FROM YOUR LETTERS,

937
00:59:57,973 --> 01:00:01,053
"IF I DID NOT KNOW IT BEFORE,
THAT I AM NOT ALWAYS

938
01:00:01,183 --> 01:00:03,223
"A CHARMING CHARACTER.

939
01:00:03,323 --> 01:00:09,643
"BUT I AM NOT A GIN-SOAKED
MONSTER GOING AROUND
RUINING PEOPLE'S LIVES.

940
01:00:09,778 --> 01:00:12,568
"YOUR MOTHER WROTE ME
BEFORE SHE DIED THAT

941
01:00:12,678 --> 01:00:15,958
"YOU STILL HAD FLASHES
OF YOUR OLD CHARM AND DECENCY

942
01:00:16,095 --> 01:00:18,925
"AND THAT WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE
UP HOPE THAT YOU WOULD COME

943
01:00:19,063 --> 01:00:22,413
"THROUGH WHATEVER WAS
HAPPENING TO YOU.

944
01:00:22,515 --> 01:00:27,065
"RIGHT NOW, I COULD USE
A GOOD FLASH OF YOUR
OLD CHARM AND DECENCY.

945
01:00:27,175 --> 01:00:33,345
I CANNOT USE ANY MORE OBSCENE
OR THREATENING LETTERS."

946
01:00:33,491 --> 01:00:35,911
GREGORY
WOULD LATER APOLOGIZE.

947
01:00:36,011 --> 01:00:39,951
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THOSE
THINGS," HE WROTE TO HIS FATHER.

948
01:00:40,084 --> 01:00:44,024
HEMINGWAY WROTE BACK,
"NOW EVERYTHING IS STRAIGHT...

949
01:00:44,192 --> 01:00:46,682
"NOT CHICKENSHIT
LIKE FORGIVENESS.

950
01:00:46,815 --> 01:00:47,915
"RUBBED OUT.

951
01:00:48,023 --> 01:00:52,103
ANY TIME YOU WANT TO
SHOW UP, SHOW UP."

952
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:57,930
THAT IT IS DANGEROUS
TO BE THE CHILD OF A WRITER IS

953
01:00:58,033 --> 01:01:00,863
CERTAINLY SUSTAINABLE.

954
01:01:01,002 --> 01:01:05,802
I THINK MY YOUNGER BROTHER
IS AS GOOD AN EXAMPLE AS ANY.

955
01:01:05,938 --> 01:01:09,868
I MEAN, THE MOST
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THIS

956
01:01:10,045 --> 01:01:16,425
IS A GOYA PAINTING
"CRONUS EATING HIS CHILDREN."

957
01:01:16,534 --> 01:01:20,444
IT'S PRETTY GOOD, YOU KNOW.

958
01:01:27,131 --> 01:01:29,621
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THAT NIGHT
WHEN WE HAD GONE TO OUR OWN BEDS

959
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:34,070
BUT WERE NOT YET ASLEEP,
WE HEARD THE LION ROAR.

960
01:01:34,207 --> 01:01:37,897
HE WAS NORTH OF THE CAMP AND
THE ROAR CAME LOW AND MOUNTING

961
01:01:38,073 --> 01:01:41,663
IN HEAVINESS AND THEN
ENDED IN A SIGH.

962
01:01:41,801 --> 01:01:45,011
"I'M COMING IN WITH YOU,"
MARY SAID.

963
01:01:45,149 --> 01:01:48,569
WE LAY CLOSE TOGETHER IN THE
DARK UNDER THE MOSQUITO BAR,

964
01:01:48,705 --> 01:01:51,045
MY ARM AROUND HER,
AND LISTENED TO HIM

965
01:01:51,190 --> 01:01:52,710
ROAR AGAIN.

966
01:01:54,780 --> 01:01:58,160
"THERE'S NO MISTAKING
WHEN IT'S HIM," MARY SAID.

967
01:01:58,266 --> 01:02:01,886
"I'M GLAD WE'RE IN BED
TOGETHER WHEN WE HEAR HIM."

968
01:02:03,374 --> 01:02:08,764
IN THE SUMMER OF 1953,
20 YEARS AFTER HIS FIRST VISIT,

969
01:02:08,897 --> 01:02:12,827
HEMINGWAY RETURNED
TO EAST AFRICA WITH MARY.

970
01:02:12,936 --> 01:02:15,936
FOR A MONTH, THEY WERE THE
SOLE FOREIGNERS PERMITTED

971
01:02:16,077 --> 01:02:20,837
IN THE SOUTHERN GAME RESERVE,
40 MILES SOUTH OF NAIROBI.

972
01:02:20,944 --> 01:02:24,604
THE KENYA GOVERNMENT
HAD SET HIM UP ON THIS.

973
01:02:24,775 --> 01:02:28,185
THEY JUST HAD A
MAJOR INSURRECTION.

974
01:02:28,330 --> 01:02:30,400
IT WAS AFFECTING TOURISM.

975
01:02:30,539 --> 01:02:33,539
THEY WANTED HIM TO HAVE
A GOOD TIME.

976
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:36,100
AND BOY WAS HE
HAVING A GOOD TIME!

977
01:02:36,235 --> 01:02:39,615
PATRICK NOW OWNED A
FARM IN EAST AFRICA AND WORKED

978
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:43,516
AS A GUIDE AND HUNTER, DESPITE
A GUERRILLA UPRISING AGAINST

979
01:02:43,621 --> 01:02:44,931
WHITE COLONIAL RULE.

980
01:02:46,832 --> 01:02:49,972
THEY HUNTED FOR A TIME, BUT
HEMINGWAY WAS DRINKING EVEN

981
01:02:50,111 --> 01:02:54,291
MORE HEAVILY THAN USUAL,
SHOT POORLY, ONCE FELL

982
01:02:54,425 --> 01:02:56,145
FROM HIS JEEP.

983
01:02:56,289 --> 01:03:00,329
HE FINALLY STOPPED SHOOTING
ALTOGETHER, DRIVING OUT FROM

984
01:03:00,500 --> 01:03:04,710
CAMP INSTEAD EACH MORNING
WITH MARY, JUST TO SEE

985
01:03:04,815 --> 01:03:07,465
AND PHOTOGRAPH THE ANIMALS.

986
01:03:13,928 --> 01:03:17,758
"HE LOVED AFRICA," A MEMBER
OF HIS PARTY REMEMBERED.

987
01:03:17,897 --> 01:03:20,687
"HE LOVED TO SIT IN
IT AND WATCH IT.

988
01:03:20,866 --> 01:03:24,896
HE HAD NATURAL KNOWLEDGE OF
WHAT ANIMALS DO AND WHERE

989
01:03:25,008 --> 01:03:27,178
THEY SHOULD BE."

990
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,840
HEMINGWAY, I THINK,
WAS ALSO REALLY INTERESTED

991
01:03:31,014 --> 01:03:34,264
IN THE PEOPLE AND WHO THEY
ACTUALLY WERE, A LOT MORE

992
01:03:34,362 --> 01:03:36,922
INTERESTED THAN HE WAS IN THE
THIRTIES WHEN HE WAS JUST THERE

993
01:03:37,020 --> 01:03:40,850
REALLY TO HUNT AND NOT
PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS

994
01:03:40,989 --> 01:03:42,199
ACTUALLY GOING ON.

995
01:03:42,370 --> 01:03:45,650
WHEN HEMINGWAY
COMES BACK, EAST AFRICA

996
01:03:45,787 --> 01:03:49,897
IN COLONIALISM,
IS LITERALLY UNDER ATTACK.

997
01:03:50,067 --> 01:03:53,347
AND HE SEES AN AFRICA THAT IS
LESS TOLERANT OF SOME OF THE...

998
01:03:53,484 --> 01:03:56,044
BEHAVIOR THAT HE
EXHIBITED EARLY ON.

999
01:03:56,211 --> 01:03:59,111
IT WAS WRONG TO CALL,
SAY, THOSE GROWN MEN WHO WERE

1000
01:03:59,214 --> 01:04:02,254
SERVING HIM, "BOYS" AND NOT
WANTING TO ACTIVELY GET TO

1001
01:04:02,355 --> 01:04:04,045
KNOW THEM.

1002
01:04:04,185 --> 01:04:08,015
HE NOW CONSIDERED
THE KENYAN GUIDES AND SERVANTS

1003
01:04:08,154 --> 01:04:09,644
"FRIENDS AND BROTHERS."

1004
01:04:09,742 --> 01:04:12,992
HE WROTE, "EVERYONE HAD
HIS DUTIES AND EVERYONE

1005
01:04:13,125 --> 01:04:15,225
HAD A NAME."

1006
01:04:15,368 --> 01:04:19,198
BUT WHEN MARY WENT OFF
TO NAIROBI TO DO SOME
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING,

1007
01:04:19,338 --> 01:04:22,928
HE SOMEHOW PERSUADED
HIMSELF THAT IN HER ABSENCE

1008
01:04:23,066 --> 01:04:27,856
HE SHOULD JOIN THE WAKAMBA
PEOPLE AND MARRY A YOUNG WOMAN.

1009
01:04:28,002 --> 01:04:31,902
HE SHAVED HIS HEAD, DYED HIS
CLOTHES TO IMITATE THEIRS,

1010
01:04:32,075 --> 01:04:36,035
AND TRIED HUNTING A
WARTHOG WITH A SPEAR.

1011
01:04:38,426 --> 01:04:43,356
DESPITE HIS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR,
IN AFRICA, HE AND MARY WERE AS

1012
01:04:43,500 --> 01:04:46,610
CLOSE AS THEY HAD EVER BEEN.

1013
01:04:46,744 --> 01:04:49,784
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: MARY IS
A PRINCE OF DEVILS,

1014
01:04:49,955 --> 01:04:53,225
AND ALMOST ANY PLACE YOU
TOUCH HER IT CAN KILL BOTH

1015
01:04:53,406 --> 01:04:54,986
YOU AND HER.

1016
01:04:55,098 --> 01:04:59,448
SHE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
A BOY AND THINKS AS A BOY

1017
01:04:59,585 --> 01:05:02,205
WITHOUT EVER LOSING
ANY FEMININITY.

1018
01:05:02,346 --> 01:05:06,796
IF YOU SHOULD BECOME CONFUSED
ON THIS, YOU SHOULD RETIRE.

1019
01:05:06,937 --> 01:05:11,667
SHE LOVES ME TO BE HER GIRLS,
WHICH I LOVE TO BE, NOT BEING

1020
01:05:11,769 --> 01:05:14,189
ABSOLUTELY STUPID.

1021
01:05:14,289 --> 01:05:17,359
IN RETURN, SHE MAKES ME AWARDS

1022
01:05:17,465 --> 01:05:20,675
AND AT NIGHT WE DO EVERY SORT
OF THING WHICH PLEASES HER

1023
01:05:20,778 --> 01:05:22,848
AND WHICH PLEASES ME.

1024
01:05:22,953 --> 01:05:24,923
I LOVED FEELING THE EMBRACE

1025
01:05:25,059 --> 01:05:28,439
OF MARY WHICH CAME TO ME
AS SOMETHING QUITE NEW

1026
01:05:28,579 --> 01:05:31,929
AND OUTSIDE ALL TRIBAL LAW.

1027
01:05:32,066 --> 01:05:36,686
ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 19th,
WE WORKED OUT THESE THINGS

1028
01:05:36,794 --> 01:05:40,044
AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER.

1029
01:05:41,420 --> 01:05:45,320
AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT
FOR HIS WIFE, HEMINGWAY HIRED

1030
01:05:45,458 --> 01:05:50,148
A SMALL PLANE THAT FLEW THEM
OVER THE NGORONGORO CRATER,

1031
01:05:50,291 --> 01:05:53,921
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON,
AND THE MIGHTY MURCHISON FALLS

1032
01:05:54,053 --> 01:05:56,333
IN UGANDA.

1033
01:05:56,504 --> 01:06:01,514
AS THE PLANE DIPPED LOW
ABOVE THE GORGE SO MARY
COULD TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS,

1034
01:06:01,681 --> 01:06:04,751
THE PILOT ENCOUNTERED
A FLOCK OF BIRDS,

1035
01:06:04,857 --> 01:06:10,587
DOVE TO AVOID THEM,
AND HIT A TELEGRAPH LINE.

1036
01:06:10,690 --> 01:06:13,590
THE PLANE PLUNGED
INTO THE BUSH.

1037
01:06:13,693 --> 01:06:17,803
MARY WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS,
TWO RIBS BROKEN.

1038
01:06:17,939 --> 01:06:20,979
HEMINGWAY SUFFERED
A TORN SHOULDER.

1039
01:06:21,115 --> 01:06:24,115
THEY SPENT THE NIGHT HIGH
ABOVE THE BANK OF THE NILE

1040
01:06:24,256 --> 01:06:27,666
FOR FEAR OF ELEPHANTS,
FORTIFIED BY A BOTTLE

1041
01:06:27,811 --> 01:06:31,091
OF SCOTCH THAT HAD
SOMEHOW SURVIVED THE CRASH

1042
01:06:31,194 --> 01:06:34,784
AND LISTENING TO
THE CRIES OF HYENAS.

1043
01:06:36,889 --> 01:06:41,269
A SEARCH PLANE SPOTTED THE
WRECKAGE BUT FAILED TO SEE

1044
01:06:41,376 --> 01:06:43,516
THE SURVIVORS.

1045
01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:48,868
WORD QUICKLY SPREAD AROUND THE
WORLD THAT THE GREAT WRITER

1046
01:06:49,039 --> 01:06:53,039
ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS DEAD.

1047
01:06:53,181 --> 01:06:57,531
MEANWHILE, HEMINGWAY HAD
FLAGGED DOWN A PASSING LAUNCH

1048
01:06:57,668 --> 01:07:00,458
AND WHEN THEY REACHED A
LANDING ON THE EASTERN SHORE

1049
01:07:00,568 --> 01:07:04,498
OF LAKE ALBERT, A POLICEMAN
AND A BUSH PILOT OFFERED TO

1050
01:07:04,641 --> 01:07:08,511
FLY THEM ON TO THE
UGANDAN CAPITAL, ENTEBBE.

1051
01:07:08,645 --> 01:07:11,915
THEY CLIMBED ABOARD.

1052
01:07:12,062 --> 01:07:15,582
BUT AS THE ANCIENT PLANE
RATTLED DOWN THE RUTTED RUNWAY,

1053
01:07:15,721 --> 01:07:18,551
THE FUEL TANK
EXPLODED IN FIRE.

1054
01:07:20,657 --> 01:07:24,177
THE PILOT HELPED MARY AND
THE POLICEMAN GET OUT THROUGH

1055
01:07:24,316 --> 01:07:25,586
THE WINDOWS.

1056
01:07:25,765 --> 01:07:28,725
HEMINGWAY WAS TOO
BIG TO FOLLOW THEM.

1057
01:07:28,872 --> 01:07:31,252
TWISTED METAL BARRED THE DOOR.

1058
01:07:31,392 --> 01:07:33,192
FLAMES WERE RISING.

1059
01:07:33,325 --> 01:07:35,015
HEMINGWAY WAS TRAPPED.

1060
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:39,330
HE HURLED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE
DOOR AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL

1061
01:07:39,434 --> 01:07:41,234
HE BATTERED IT OPEN.

1062
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:47,650
HE INSISTED TO NEWSMEN
GATHERED IN ENTEBBE THAT HE

1063
01:07:47,753 --> 01:07:49,243
HAD NEVER FELT BETTER.

1064
01:07:49,375 --> 01:07:52,925
"MY LUCK, SHE IS
STILL GOOD," HE SAID.

1065
01:07:53,103 --> 01:07:55,733
AND HE LOOKED FORWARD TO
READING ALL THE PREMATURE

1066
01:07:55,864 --> 01:07:58,524
OBITUARIES THAT HAD
ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED

1067
01:07:58,660 --> 01:08:01,870
AROUND THE WORLD.

1068
01:08:01,974 --> 01:08:05,224
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: IN ALL
OBITUARIES, OR ALMOST ALL,

1069
01:08:05,357 --> 01:08:10,707
IT WAS EMPHASIZED THAT I HAD
SOUGHT DEATH ALL MY LIFE.

1070
01:08:10,810 --> 01:08:15,130
CAN ONE IMAGINE THAT IF A MAN
SOUGHT DEATH ALL OF HIS LIFE

1071
01:08:15,263 --> 01:08:19,583
HE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND
HER BEFORE THE AGE OF 54?

1072
01:08:21,062 --> 01:08:26,482
WHO ELSE GETS
IN TWO PLANE CRASHES IN
TWO DAYS IN AFRICA,

1073
01:08:26,619 --> 01:08:29,659
HAS THE WORD GO OUT ALL OVER
THE WORLD THAT HE'S DEAD,

1074
01:08:29,829 --> 01:08:31,419
AND READS HIS
OWN OBITUARIES?

1075
01:08:31,555 --> 01:08:33,065
NO ONE DOES THAT.

1076
01:08:33,178 --> 01:08:35,008
SURVIVING
TWO AIRPLANE CRASHES

1077
01:08:35,145 --> 01:08:38,035
IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA,
ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND HIS PILOT

1078
01:08:38,148 --> 01:08:40,318
ROY MARCH RETURNED TO
NAIROBI IN HIGH FETTLE.

1079
01:08:40,461 --> 01:08:43,051
ON THE SECOND CRASH,
HEMINGWAY SUFFERED A BAD BUMP

1080
01:08:43,153 --> 01:08:44,333
ON THE HEAD.

1081
01:08:44,465 --> 01:08:46,565
MRS. HEMINGWAY, HOWEVER,
CAME THROUGH UNSCATHED.

1082
01:08:51,092 --> 01:08:54,752
DESPITE HEMINGWAY'S
BRAVADO, DOCTORS CONFIRMED

1083
01:08:54,889 --> 01:08:56,989
THAT HE HAD NEARLY DIED.

1084
01:08:57,133 --> 01:09:00,793
HIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED AND
HE HAD SUFFERED STILL ANOTHER

1085
01:09:00,929 --> 01:09:02,619
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY,

1086
01:09:02,759 --> 01:09:04,899
SLURRED SPEECH,
DOUBLE-VISION,

1087
01:09:05,002 --> 01:09:06,872
RECURRING DEAFNESS.

1088
01:09:07,039 --> 01:09:10,109
HE HAD FIRST-DEGREE BURNS
ON HIS HEAD, FACE,

1089
01:09:10,249 --> 01:09:11,349
AND HAND, TOO,

1090
01:09:11,526 --> 01:09:13,246
TWO FRACTURED VERTEBRAE,

1091
01:09:13,356 --> 01:09:14,936
INTERNAL INJURIES,

1092
01:09:15,047 --> 01:09:19,527
RIGHT SHOULDER AND ARM AND
LEFT LEG BADLY SPRAINED.

1093
01:09:19,707 --> 01:09:23,437
HE'S NEVER REALLY
QUITE THE SAME AGAIN.

1094
01:09:23,538 --> 01:09:29,368
DEPRESSION, HALLUCINATIONS,
AND THEN A KIND OF REPRIEVE.

1095
01:09:29,510 --> 01:09:32,310
HE'S ABLE TO DO MORE WORK.

1096
01:09:32,444 --> 01:09:39,004
HE'S TRAVELING ABOUT,
BUT WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING

1097
01:09:39,140 --> 01:09:42,210
OF WHAT IS GOING
TO BE THE END.

1098
01:09:42,350 --> 01:09:46,320
HE MANAGED TO
DICTATE A 15,000-WORD ACCOUNT

1099
01:09:46,458 --> 01:09:49,558
OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED FOR
"LOOK" MAGAZINE, THEN TRAVELED

1100
01:09:49,702 --> 01:09:53,882
WITH MARY TO SHIMONI, A CAMP
ON THE KENYA COAST WHERE HE

1101
01:09:54,017 --> 01:09:56,947
HAD PLANNED TO FISH
WITH HIS SON, PATRICK.

1102
01:09:57,054 --> 01:09:59,234
BUT HIS PAIN PROVED TOO GREAT.

1103
01:09:59,367 --> 01:10:02,467
DOCTORS WARNED HIM THAT HE
WAS RISKING HIS LIFE BY

1104
01:10:02,577 --> 01:10:04,127
CONTINUING TO DRINK.

1105
01:10:04,234 --> 01:10:07,484
AND SOMETHING ELSE
WAS WRONG, AS WELL.

1106
01:10:07,582 --> 01:10:10,832
"DUE TO THE CEREBRAL THING,"
HE WROTE TO A FRIEND.

1107
01:10:10,930 --> 01:10:14,690
"I SAY TERRIBLE THINGS
AND HEAR MYSELF SAY THEM.

1108
01:10:14,831 --> 01:10:17,111
IT IS NO GOOD."

1109
01:10:17,247 --> 01:10:21,357
HEMINGWAY WAS FEARFUL,
SHORT-TEMPERED, IMPATIENT,

1110
01:10:21,458 --> 01:10:25,318
SO ABUSIVE TO MARY THAT SHE
AGAIN THREATENED TO LEAVE HIM,

1111
01:10:25,428 --> 01:10:30,048
SO VICIOUS TO HIS SON
THAT PATRICK DID LEAVE.

1112
01:10:30,191 --> 01:10:35,751
THE ATMOSPHERE
AT SHIMONI WAS BAD.

1113
01:10:35,921 --> 01:10:39,751
I MEAN MY DAD REALLY...

1114
01:10:39,925 --> 01:10:41,195
I DON'T KNOW.

1115
01:10:41,340 --> 01:10:43,890
I MEAN,
IT WAS LIKE KING LEAR.

1116
01:10:44,032 --> 01:10:46,592
AND HE'S JUST,
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

1117
01:10:46,725 --> 01:10:48,865
AREN'T I KING?" YOU KNOW.

1118
01:10:48,968 --> 01:10:52,078
I SYMPATHIZED
WITH HIS PROBLEMS,

1119
01:10:52,213 --> 01:10:56,223
BUT YOU HAVE TO
SHOW SOME RESTRAINT.

1120
01:10:56,321 --> 01:11:03,811
THE LAST FEW WEEKS IN AFRICA,
HE JUST LOST ALL RESTRAINT.

1121
01:11:03,949 --> 01:11:08,779
AND FOR SOMEONE AS
POWERFUL AND AS...

1122
01:11:08,954 --> 01:11:12,584
HE--I REALLY HAD ENOUGH.

1123
01:11:12,716 --> 01:11:14,856
AND WE NEVER SAW
EACH OTHER AGAIN.

1124
01:11:29,285 --> 01:11:31,595
THE HEMINGWAYS
EVENTUALLY MADE THEIR WAY

1125
01:11:31,735 --> 01:11:34,665
HOME TO CUBA.

1126
01:11:34,807 --> 01:11:39,947
IT WAS THERE, ON THE
EVENING OF OCTOBER 28, 1954,

1127
01:11:40,088 --> 01:11:42,848
THAT ERNEST RECEIVED
A CALL FROM A REPORTER

1128
01:11:42,988 --> 01:11:45,608
FOR UNITED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL.

1129
01:11:45,749 --> 01:11:49,999
HEMINGWAY HAD WON WHAT HE
CALLED "THE SWEDISH THING"--

1130
01:11:50,167 --> 01:11:52,857
THE NOBEL PRIZE
FOR LITERATURE.

1131
01:11:52,998 --> 01:11:56,208
HIS HEALTH WOULD NOT PERMIT
HIM TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY

1132
01:11:56,346 --> 01:11:59,626
IN STOCKHOLM OR EVEN TRAVEL
TO THE SWEDISH EMBASSY

1133
01:11:59,763 --> 01:12:03,283
IN WASHINGTON TO ACCEPT
THE PRIZE, SO THE SWEDISH

1134
01:12:03,422 --> 01:12:06,632
AMBASSADOR CAME
TO HIM, IN CUBA.

1135
01:12:06,770 --> 01:12:11,190
PRIVATELY, HEMINGWAY BELIEVED,
"NO SON OF A BITCH WHO EVER

1136
01:12:11,327 --> 01:12:14,607
WON THE NOBEL PRIZE EVER
WROTE ANYTHING WORTH

1137
01:12:14,709 --> 01:12:17,709
READING AFTERWARDS."

1138
01:12:17,850 --> 01:12:19,540
TELL ME, DO YOU PLAN
TO GO TO SWEDEN TO

1139
01:12:19,714 --> 01:12:21,344
RECEIVE THE AWARD?

1140
01:12:21,475 --> 01:12:26,855
I'M SORRY THAT
I WILL NOT BE ABLE
TO GO TO SWEDEN

1141
01:12:26,997 --> 01:12:31,207
ON THE ORDERS OF MY
DOCTOR WHO SAYS

1142
01:12:31,347 --> 01:12:34,207
I'M DOING VERY WELL
AFTER...

1143
01:12:34,384 --> 01:12:36,464
HE HAD
ALWAYS BEEN TERRIFIED

1144
01:12:36,559 --> 01:12:39,669
OF SPEAKING IN PUBLIC,
BUT HE RELUCTANTLY AGREED

1145
01:12:39,803 --> 01:12:43,813
TO BE INTERVIEWED BY NBC,
PROVIDED QUESTIONS WERE

1146
01:12:43,911 --> 01:12:47,851
SUBMITTED IN ADVANCE AND HE
COULD READ OUT HIS ANSWERS

1147
01:12:47,984 --> 01:12:49,924
FROM CUE CARDS....BAD FOR ME.

1148
01:12:50,089 --> 01:12:52,579
DO YOU HAVE A NAME
FOR YOUR NEW NOVEL?

1149
01:12:52,713 --> 01:12:56,233
I NEVER HAVE ANY
NAMES FOR ANYTHING THAT

1150
01:12:56,406 --> 01:13:00,646
I PUBLISH UNTIL IT IS
TIME TO PUBLISH IT.

1151
01:13:00,755 --> 01:13:07,175
AS I SELECT A GREAT MANY
NAMES AND THEN REJECT THOSE,

1152
01:13:07,313 --> 01:13:10,393
WHICH ARE WORTHLESS.
PERIOD.

1153
01:13:10,524 --> 01:13:14,604
MOST OF THEM
ARE WORTHLESS.
PERIOD.

1154
01:13:14,735 --> 01:13:17,565
COULD YOU TELL ME A SHORT
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT

1155
01:13:17,703 --> 01:13:19,673
YOUR NEW NOVEL IS ABOUT?

1156
01:13:19,774 --> 01:13:26,094
UH...THE BOOK THAT I AM
WRITING ON AT PRESENT IS

1157
01:13:26,263 --> 01:13:28,203
ABOUT AFRICA...

1158
01:13:29,750 --> 01:13:36,720
ITS PEOPLE, IN THE PARK
THAT I KNOW THEM,

1159
01:13:36,860 --> 01:13:39,520
THE ANIMALS,

1160
01:13:39,622 --> 01:13:46,462
COMMA, AND THE
CHANGES IN AFRICA

1161
01:13:46,629 --> 01:13:50,939
SINCE I WAS
THERE LAST. PERIOD.

1162
01:13:53,325 --> 01:13:56,635
MUCH LATER, HE
WAS PERSUADED TO RECORD HIS

1163
01:13:56,811 --> 01:13:59,501
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
OFF-CAMERA.

1164
01:13:59,642 --> 01:14:02,922
EDNA O'BRIEN: WHEN HE WAS GIVEN
THE NOBEL PRIZE, AND HE COULDN'T

1165
01:14:03,059 --> 01:14:06,439
GO UP 'CAUSE OF ILLNESS,
IT WAS SO STRANGE.

1166
01:14:06,580 --> 01:14:09,240
WHAT HE WROTE,
IT'S SO PERFECT.

1167
01:14:09,375 --> 01:14:11,615
IT'S LIKE A PRAYER.

1168
01:14:13,897 --> 01:14:16,587
NO WRITER
WHO KNOWS THE GREAT WRITERS

1169
01:14:16,728 --> 01:14:20,148
WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THE PRIZE
CAN ACCEPT IT OTHER THAN

1170
01:14:20,317 --> 01:14:22,247
WITH HUMILITY.

1171
01:14:22,354 --> 01:14:26,194
WRITING, AT ITS BEST,
IS A LONELY LIFE.

1172
01:14:26,323 --> 01:14:29,783
ORGANIZATIONS FOR WRITERS
PALLIATE THE WRITER'S

1173
01:14:29,913 --> 01:14:34,373
LONELINESS BUT I DOUBT IF
THEY IMPROVE HIS WRITING.

1174
01:14:34,504 --> 01:14:39,164
HE GROWS IN PUBLIC STATURE
AS HE SHEDS HIS LONELINESS,

1175
01:14:39,302 --> 01:14:42,062
AND OFTEN HIS WORK
DETERIORATES.

1176
01:14:43,858 --> 01:14:47,758
FOR HE DOES HIS WORK ALONE AND
IF HE IS A GOOD ENOUGH WRITER,

1177
01:14:47,862 --> 01:14:55,702
HE MUST FACE ETERNITY, OR
THE LACK OF IT, EACH DAY.

1178
01:14:55,870 --> 01:14:59,980
IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD SUCH
GREAT WRITERS IN THE PAST THAT

1179
01:15:00,116 --> 01:15:04,286
A WRITER IS DRIVEN FAR OUT
PAST WHERE HE CAN GO, OUT TO

1180
01:15:04,430 --> 01:15:07,190
WHERE NO ONE CAN HELP HIM.

1181
01:15:07,364 --> 01:15:10,064
I HAVE SPOKEN TOO
LONG FOR A WRITER.

1182
01:15:10,195 --> 01:15:14,195
A WRITER SHOULD WRITE WHAT HE
HAS TO SAY AND NOT SPEAK IT.

1183
01:15:14,371 --> 01:15:17,131
AGAIN, I THANK YOU.

1184
01:15:20,516 --> 01:15:23,476
REQUESTS FOR
INTERVIEWS NOW POURED IN.

1185
01:15:23,622 --> 01:15:26,662
MAGAZINES FEATURED HIM
ON THEIR COVERS.

1186
01:15:26,763 --> 01:15:30,633
HOLLYWOOD RUSHED TO MAKE A
REMAKE OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS,"

1187
01:15:30,733 --> 01:15:34,053
A MOVIE OF "THE SUN
ALSO RISES" AND ANOTHER

1188
01:15:34,219 --> 01:15:37,329
OF "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA."

1189
01:15:37,429 --> 01:15:40,739
BIOGRAPHERS AND MOVIE STARS
AND AUTOGRAPH-SEEKERS

1190
01:15:40,881 --> 01:15:42,571
FLOCKED TO SEE HIM.

1191
01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:46,330
HE COMPLAINED THAT SIGHTSEERS
WERE TURNING UP AT THE FINCA,

1192
01:15:46,438 --> 01:15:48,888
CLAMORING FOR A GLIMPSE
OF WHAT HE CALLED

1193
01:15:49,027 --> 01:15:52,577
"THE OLD ELEPHANT
IN THE ZOO."

1194
01:15:52,755 --> 01:15:58,065
HE WAS TOLD AGAIN AND
AGAIN TO STOP DRINKING.

1195
01:15:58,208 --> 01:16:01,348
THE THING I KNOW
ABOUT ALCOHOLISM,
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE,

1196
01:16:01,453 --> 01:16:04,283
IS THAT IT'S PROGRESSIVE
AND IT'S FATAL.

1197
01:16:04,421 --> 01:16:06,011
AND THAT MEANS THAT IT
GETS WORSE AND WORSE,

1198
01:16:06,147 --> 01:16:08,557
AND THEN YOU DIE.

1199
01:16:08,702 --> 01:16:11,362
YOU EITHER KILL YOURSELF, YOU
GET PUT IN JAIL, OR YOU GO TO

1200
01:16:11,497 --> 01:16:13,427
THE LOONY BIN,
BUT THAT'S IT.

1201
01:16:13,603 --> 01:16:19,263
THOSE ARE YOUR 3 CHOICES,
OR YOU GET SOBER.

1202
01:16:19,402 --> 01:16:22,412
WHEN YOU HAVE
HEAD INJURY, YOUR MIND IS--

1203
01:16:22,543 --> 01:16:24,933
AND YOUR BODY--ARE LESS
WELL-EQUIPPED TO TOLERATE

1204
01:16:25,063 --> 01:16:26,723
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

1205
01:16:26,858 --> 01:16:31,208
IT MAGNIFIES THE DISINHIBITION
AND THE PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIORS,

1206
01:16:31,310 --> 01:16:34,240
BUT YOU JUST
TOLERATE IT LESS WELL.

1207
01:16:34,382 --> 01:16:38,462
DOCTORS PRESCRIBED A
BEWILDERING ARRAY OF DRUGS TO

1208
01:16:38,628 --> 01:16:41,938
COMBAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE,
LOWER CHOLESTEROL,

1209
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:47,430
CALM ANXIETY, ENCOURAGE SLEEP,
LIFT HIS SPIRITS.

1210
01:16:47,568 --> 01:16:51,808
FRIENDS OFFERED HIM UNAUTHORIZED
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, AS WELL.

1211
01:16:51,952 --> 01:16:55,542
THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH ONE
ANOTHER AND WITH ALCOHOL

1212
01:16:55,645 --> 01:16:59,615
LIKELY EXACERBATED HIS
DEPRESSION AND DELUSIONS

1213
01:16:59,753 --> 01:17:01,653
AND PARANOIA.

1214
01:17:01,824 --> 01:17:05,314
HE'S SELF-MEDICATING
WITH PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING HE

1215
01:17:05,448 --> 01:17:07,928
CAN LAY HANDS ON.

1216
01:17:08,071 --> 01:17:11,561
HE'S USING SYNTHETIC
TESTOSTERONE, WHICH IS

1217
01:17:11,661 --> 01:17:14,151
A STREET DRUG IN SPANISH
CULTURES 'CAUSE HE'S

1218
01:17:14,284 --> 01:17:17,084
STRUGGLING WITH IMPOTENCE
BECAUSE OF ALL THE WAYS HE'S

1219
01:17:17,218 --> 01:17:18,498
ABUSED HIS BODY.

1220
01:17:18,634 --> 01:17:21,194
HE'S BOUNCING FROM
DOCTOR TO DOCTOR.

1221
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:22,640
THERE'S NOT A DOCTOR
HE DIDN'T SEE

1222
01:17:22,776 --> 01:17:24,566
WHO WOULDN'T
GIVE HIM SOMETHING.

1223
01:17:24,674 --> 01:17:26,304
IT'S BAD.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY

1224
01:17:26,434 --> 01:17:28,024
THAT THE PEOPLE
IN THIS WORLD THAT GET

1225
01:17:28,195 --> 01:17:30,775
THE WORST MEDICAL CARE ARE
EITHER THE VERY POOR

1226
01:17:30,922 --> 01:17:33,792
OR CELEBRITIES BECAUSE
CELEBRITIES CAN HAVE WHATEVER

1227
01:17:33,925 --> 01:17:36,505
THEY ASK THE DOCTOR FOR AND
THE DOCTOR WON'T SAY "NO"

1228
01:17:36,652 --> 01:17:41,692
OR DISCIPLINE THEM,
SO HE'S IN BIG TROUBLE.

1229
01:17:41,829 --> 01:17:44,249
IT DOESN'T SOUND
LIKE THE DOCTOR SAID, "LOOK,

1230
01:17:44,349 --> 01:17:46,319
YOU SEEM TO BE MANIC,"

1231
01:17:46,454 --> 01:17:47,874
OR "LOOK, YOU SEEM TO BE

1232
01:17:48,008 --> 01:17:49,978
"REALLY A LITTLE CRAZY NOW.

1233
01:17:50,113 --> 01:17:52,183
I'M GONNA GIVE YOU
THIS TO HELP WITH IT."

1234
01:17:52,357 --> 01:17:54,187
NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING.

1235
01:17:54,324 --> 01:17:57,714
THERE'S A HUGE TABOO SO THAT
A HUSBAND AND WIFE DON'T EVEN

1236
01:17:57,845 --> 01:17:59,295
TALK ABOUT IT.

1237
01:17:59,398 --> 01:18:01,778
THERE'S SO MUCH STIGMA
ATTACHED TO IT THAT

1238
01:18:01,884 --> 01:18:04,544
NOBODY GETS HELP FOR HIM.

1239
01:18:06,371 --> 01:18:08,171
MEANWHILE,
REVOLUTIONARIES,

1240
01:18:08,304 --> 01:18:09,824
LED BY FIDEL CASTRO,

1241
01:18:09,961 --> 01:18:12,901
WERE WAGING WAR
AGAINST THE CUBAN DICTATOR

1242
01:18:13,067 --> 01:18:15,067
FULGENCIO BATISTA.

1243
01:18:15,242 --> 01:18:18,732
A GOVERNMENT PATROL CAME ONTO
HEMINGWAY'S PROPERTY SEARCHING

1244
01:18:18,866 --> 01:18:23,726
FOR REBELS AND BLUDGEONED TO
DEATH ONE OF THE FAMILY DOGS.

1245
01:18:23,871 --> 01:18:27,701
THROUGH IT ALL, HEMINGWAY
CONTINUED TO WRITE, BUT NOW

1246
01:18:27,841 --> 01:18:29,911
SEEMED UNABLE TO
COMPLETE ANYTHING.

1247
01:18:30,084 --> 01:18:34,334
A NOVEL ABOUT SAILING
OFF BIMINI, THAT AFTER
HIS DEATH WOULD

1248
01:18:34,433 --> 01:18:37,093
BECOME "ISLANDS
IN THE STREAM;"

1249
01:18:37,229 --> 01:18:38,849
800 PAGES OF A BOOK

1250
01:18:38,990 --> 01:18:42,930
INSPIRED BY HIS SECOND AFRICAN
SAFARI, PARTS OF WHICH WOULD

1251
01:18:43,097 --> 01:18:46,787
ONE DAY BE PUBLISHED AS
"TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT;"

1252
01:18:46,929 --> 01:18:51,449
AND 42 CHAPTERS OF "THE GARDEN
OF EDEN", A NOVEL HE HIMSELF

1253
01:18:51,623 --> 01:18:54,763
THOUGHT TOO SEXUALLY
ADVENTUROUS TO BE PUBLISHED

1254
01:18:54,937 --> 01:18:57,417
DURING HIS LIFETIME.

1255
01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:00,870
THE FACT THAT
HEMINGWAY ONCE AGAIN,

1256
01:19:01,012 --> 01:19:06,742
THE ARTIST, IS REALLY PUSHING
OUT, IS EXPERIMENTING,

1257
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:10,850
IS DOING THINGS THAT SOME
PEOPLE WOULD FIND SHOCKING

1258
01:19:10,953 --> 01:19:14,853
ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY--
THE FETISH ABOUT HAIR,

1259
01:19:14,957 --> 01:19:18,887
THE "YOU BE ME, I'LL BE YOU,"
THE SWITCHING OF ROLES.

1260
01:19:19,030 --> 01:19:23,660
AND HE'S NOT HIDING
HIMSELF VERY MUCH IN IT.

1261
01:19:23,828 --> 01:19:27,558
I THINK THIS IS REALLY QUITE
SOMETHING FOR A MAN WHO HAS

1262
01:19:27,659 --> 01:19:30,109
BEEN TRYING TO MAINTAIN
A CERTAIN PERSONA

1263
01:19:30,248 --> 01:19:33,488
FOR THE MAJORITY OF HIS LIFE.

1264
01:19:33,665 --> 01:19:37,145
MAYBE HE WASN'T TRYING
TO MAINTAIN IT, YOU KNOW.

1265
01:19:37,324 --> 01:19:39,334
HERE WE GO WITH
THE ENIGMA AGAIN.

1266
01:19:39,464 --> 01:19:44,094
WHERE ARE WE AND
WHAT'S HAPPENING AND
WHERE ARE YOU, ERNEST?

1267
01:19:44,227 --> 01:19:45,707
WHERE ARE YOU
WITH ALL OF THIS?

1268
01:19:45,815 --> 01:19:47,775
WHAT'S GOING ON?

1269
01:19:51,959 --> 01:19:54,649
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I SAT IN
A CORNER WITH THE AFTERNOON

1270
01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:57,830
LIGHT COMING IN OVER
MY SHOULDER AND WROTE

1271
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,690
IN THE NOTEBOOK.

1272
01:19:59,829 --> 01:20:03,829
THE WAITER BROUGHT ME A CAFE
CREME, AND I DRANK HALF OF IT

1273
01:20:03,971 --> 01:20:08,111
WHEN IT COOLED AND LEFT IT
ON THE TABLE WHILE I WROTE.

1274
01:20:08,251 --> 01:20:11,291
WHEN I STOPPED WRITING, I DID
NOT WANT TO LEAVE THE RIVER

1275
01:20:11,427 --> 01:20:16,257
WHERE I COULD SEE THE TROUT IN
THE POOL, ITS SURFACE PUSHING

1276
01:20:16,363 --> 01:20:18,683
AND SWELLING SMOOTH AGAINST
THE RESISTANCE OF THE

1277
01:20:18,848 --> 01:20:22,818
LOG-DRIVEN PILES OF THE BRIDGE,

1278
01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:26,716
BUT IN THE MORNING
THE RIVER WOULD BE THERE.

1279
01:20:26,856 --> 01:20:30,166
ALL I MUST DO NOW IS STAY
SOUND AND GOOD IN MY HEAD

1280
01:20:30,308 --> 01:20:33,408
UNTIL MORNING WHEN
I WOULD START TO WORK AGAIN.

1281
01:20:34,830 --> 01:20:38,040
IN THOSE DAYS, WE NEVER
THOUGHT THAT ANY OF THAT COULD

1282
01:20:38,212 --> 01:20:39,842
BE DIFFICULT.

1283
01:20:40,939 --> 01:20:44,769
IN EARLY 1957,
HE RETURNED TO YET ANOTHER

1284
01:20:44,874 --> 01:20:48,194
PROJECT, A SERIES OF
LOVING SKETCHES OF PARIS

1285
01:20:48,326 --> 01:20:52,296
IN THE 1920s, WHEN HE WAS
YOUNG AND EVERYTHING STILL

1286
01:20:52,433 --> 01:20:54,473
SEEMED POSSIBLE.

1287
01:20:54,573 --> 01:20:58,163
IN IT, HE ALSO SETTLED
SCORES WITH OLD FRIENDS--

1288
01:20:58,301 --> 01:21:01,751
SCORES THAT DIDN'T SEEM
TO NEED SETTLING--

1289
01:21:01,891 --> 01:21:05,901
ATTACKING GERTRUDE STEIN,
RIDICULING SCOTT FITZGERALD,

1290
01:21:06,068 --> 01:21:10,758
BOTH OF WHOM HAD HELPED HIM,
EACH OF THEM LONG DEAD.

1291
01:21:10,935 --> 01:21:16,005
HEMINGWAY WAS THE HERO OF HIS
BOOK, HIS FIRST WIFE HADLEY,

1292
01:21:16,147 --> 01:21:18,177
THE UNBLEMISHED HEROINE,

1293
01:21:18,321 --> 01:21:20,501
PAULINE PFEIFFER,
HIS SECOND WIFE,

1294
01:21:20,599 --> 01:21:23,329
THE WOMAN WHO
CAME BETWEEN THEM.

1295
01:21:23,430 --> 01:21:28,610
HEMINGWAY WOULD NEVER
COMPLETE THE MANUSCRIPT,
BUT, EDITED BY MARY,

1296
01:21:28,780 --> 01:21:32,030
IT WOULD BE PUBLISHED
AFTER HIS DEATH.

1297
01:21:32,128 --> 01:21:36,408
FOR MANY READERS, "A MOVEABLE
FEAST," A COMBINATION OF WHAT

1298
01:21:36,546 --> 01:21:40,336
HAD REALLY HAPPENED AND WHAT
HEMINGWAY WISHED HAD HAPPENED,

1299
01:21:40,447 --> 01:21:43,137
WOULD BE HIS
FINAL MASTERPIECE.

1300
01:21:44,623 --> 01:21:47,943
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: PARIS WAS A
VERY OLD CITY AND WE WERE YOUNG

1301
01:21:48,110 --> 01:21:51,700
AND NOTHING WAS SIMPLE
THERE, NOT EVEN POVERTY,

1302
01:21:51,803 --> 01:21:56,223
NOR SUDDEN MONEY, NOR
THE MOONLIGHT, NOR RIGHT

1303
01:21:56,359 --> 01:21:59,429
AND WRONG, NOR THE BREATHING
OF SOMEONE WHO LAY BESIDE YOU

1304
01:21:59,604 --> 01:22:01,714
IN THE MOONLIGHT.

1305
01:22:08,889 --> 01:22:12,269
IN THE SPRING OF
1959, THE HEMINGWAYS TRAVELED

1306
01:22:12,410 --> 01:22:16,480
BACK TO HIS BELOVED SPAIN
AND SETTLED INTO THE OPULENT

1307
01:22:16,621 --> 01:22:19,731
HACIENDA OF A WEALTHY
CELEBRITY-LOVING AMERICAN

1308
01:22:19,865 --> 01:22:22,385
ON THE COSTA DEL SOL.

1309
01:22:22,489 --> 01:22:26,149
THE TWO FINEST MATADORS IN
SPAIN WERE TO COMPETE AGAINST

1310
01:22:26,286 --> 01:22:30,386
ONE ANOTHER IN BULLRINGS
ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

1311
01:22:30,497 --> 01:22:34,777
HEMINGWAY HOPED THEY WOULD
PROVIDE MATERIAL FOR A REVISED

1312
01:22:34,915 --> 01:22:39,085
EDITION OF "DEATH IN THE
AFTERNOON," BUT WHEN THE

1313
01:22:39,195 --> 01:22:42,715
EDITORS OF "LIFE" GOT WIND OF
HIS TRIP, THEY ASKED HIM TO

1314
01:22:42,819 --> 01:22:45,649
WRITE A STAND-ALONE PIECE.

1315
01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:56,135
VALENCIA, GRANADA, BILBAO,

1316
01:22:56,281 --> 01:22:59,041
LINARES, CORDOBA--

1317
01:22:59,181 --> 01:23:04,011
THE BULLFIGHTS WENT ON AND ON,
WITH HEMINGWAY AND A CAVALCADE

1318
01:23:04,186 --> 01:23:07,496
OF HARD-DRINKING FRIENDS
AND HANGERS-ON FOLLOWING

1319
01:23:07,672 --> 01:23:09,432
IN THEIR WAKE.

1320
01:23:09,536 --> 01:23:13,196
EVERYWHERE HE WENT, THE
AUTHOR OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES"

1321
01:23:13,333 --> 01:23:18,653
WAS TREATED AS SOMETHING
LIKE A PATRON SAINT,

1322
01:23:18,786 --> 01:23:21,996
BUT THE FRENZIED SEASON
EXHAUSTED HIM.

1323
01:23:22,135 --> 01:23:25,545
AFTER THE BULLFIGHTS HAD
ENDED, A FRIEND REMEMBERED,

1324
01:23:25,690 --> 01:23:28,760
HE SEEMED LIKE
"AN OLD MAN, WORLD-WEARY,

1325
01:23:28,865 --> 01:23:32,035
HIS EYES HALF-CLOSED."

1326
01:23:32,179 --> 01:23:35,009
WHEN HE FINALLY GOT BACK
TO CUBA AND TRIED TO WRITE

1327
01:23:35,148 --> 01:23:38,838
ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES,
HIS OLD-TIME DISCIPLINE SEEMED

1328
01:23:38,979 --> 01:23:41,459
TO HAVE DESERTED HIM.

1329
01:23:41,568 --> 01:23:44,328
"LIFE" HAD ASKED
FOR 40,000 WORDS.

1330
01:23:44,467 --> 01:23:49,677
HE PRODUCED 120,000 AND
THEN HAD TO ASK A FRIEND

1331
01:23:49,817 --> 01:23:51,507
TO DO THE CUTTING.

1332
01:23:52,579 --> 01:23:57,029
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, WHO HAD ONCE
BEEN HIS OWN MOST UNFORGIVING

1333
01:23:57,170 --> 01:24:01,730
EDITOR, NO LONGER SEEMED ABLE
TO SEPARATE WHAT MATTERED

1334
01:24:01,864 --> 01:24:05,214
IN HIS WRITING
FROM WHAT DID NOT.

1335
01:24:09,734 --> 01:24:12,944
HAVANA,
BEARING 26th OF JULY BANNERS,

1336
01:24:13,117 --> 01:24:16,047
JOYOUS FOLLOWERS OF FIDEL
CASTRO SWEEP TRIUMPHANTLY

1337
01:24:16,189 --> 01:24:18,919
THROUGH THE CUBAN CAPITAL
HOURS AFTER THEIR REBELLION

1338
01:24:19,054 --> 01:24:22,064
HAD TOPPLED THE REGIME
OF FULGENCIO BATISTA.

1339
01:24:22,195 --> 01:24:25,845
HEMINGWAY SYMPATHIZED
WITH CASTRO'S REVOLUTION.

1340
01:24:25,957 --> 01:24:28,817
IT REMINDED HIM
OF THE LOYALIST CAUSE HE HAD

1341
01:24:28,925 --> 01:24:30,435
SUPPORTED IN SPAIN.

1342
01:24:30,617 --> 01:24:33,097
...THAT
BROUGHT BATISTA TO POWER.

1343
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,790
STILL, BEFORE
LEAVING FOR SPAIN,

1344
01:24:35,932 --> 01:24:38,802
HE AND MARY HAD BOUGHT
A HOUSE IN KETCHUM, IDAHO,

1345
01:24:38,935 --> 01:24:43,345
WHERE ERNEST HAD HUNTED
AND FISHED FOR YEARS.

1346
01:24:43,457 --> 01:24:47,387
IT WAS MEANT AS A FALL-BACK
IN CASE IT BECAME DIFFICULT TO

1347
01:24:47,530 --> 01:24:50,640
RETURN TO CUBA.

1348
01:24:50,775 --> 01:24:54,805
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I AM A GOOD
AMERICAN AND HAVE BEEN TO BAT

1349
01:24:54,951 --> 01:24:57,681
FOR MY COUNTRY AS OFTEN
AS MOST, WITHOUT PAY

1350
01:24:57,782 --> 01:24:59,472
AND WITHOUT AMBITION.

1351
01:24:59,646 --> 01:25:02,786
BUT I BELIEVE COMPLETELY
IN THE HISTORICAL NECESSITY

1352
01:25:02,925 --> 01:25:04,715
OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.

1353
01:25:04,823 --> 01:25:10,243
I DO NOT MIX IN CUBAN POLITICS.
I KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT ABOUT IT

1354
01:25:10,346 --> 01:25:14,866
AND HAVE NOT GIVEN AN INTERVIEW
TO AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN.

1355
01:25:14,971 --> 01:25:16,901
THERE IS NOTHING
I CAN SAY THAT

1356
01:25:17,008 --> 01:25:20,768
WOULD NOT BE MISINTERPRETED
OR TWISTED.

1357
01:25:22,324 --> 01:25:26,474
ONE EVENING IN
JANUARY 1960, THE HEMINGWAYS

1358
01:25:26,604 --> 01:25:28,924
DINED WITH FRIENDS IN KETCHUM.

1359
01:25:29,020 --> 01:25:31,990
FROM THEIR DINING TABLE,
HEMINGWAY SAW THAT THE LIGHTS

1360
01:25:32,127 --> 01:25:34,717
IN THE BANK DOWNTOWN WERE ON.

1361
01:25:34,819 --> 01:25:36,859
HE BECAME AGITATED.

1362
01:25:37,028 --> 01:25:39,338
"THEY'RE CHECKING OUR
ACCOUNTS," HE SAID.

1363
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:43,099
THEY TRIED TO REASSURE HIM
IT WAS JUST THE CLEANING LADIES.

1364
01:25:43,241 --> 01:25:46,001
"NO," HE SAID.
"THEY'RE TRYING TO CATCH US.

1365
01:25:46,175 --> 01:25:48,625
THEY WANT TO GET
SOMETHING ON US."

1366
01:25:48,764 --> 01:25:51,464
"WHO'S 'THEY?'" MARY ASKED.

1367
01:25:51,594 --> 01:25:54,184
"THE FBI," HE REPLIED.

1368
01:25:54,356 --> 01:25:58,946
MARY HAD NEVER SEEN
HIM SO FEARFUL.

1369
01:25:59,050 --> 01:26:02,920
HE DEVELOPS
DEPRESSION THAT'S SO EXTREME,

1370
01:26:03,019 --> 01:26:04,369
I DON'T THINK IT'S SOMETHING

1371
01:26:04,538 --> 01:26:08,128
THAT MOST PEOPLE
SEE IN THEIR LIFETIME.

1372
01:26:08,266 --> 01:26:10,266
HIS FATHER
HAD IT, TOO.

1373
01:26:10,372 --> 01:26:15,072
AND I THINK IT'S A KIND OF
PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION.

1374
01:26:15,239 --> 01:26:18,349
HE BEGAN AGAIN TO
SPEAK OF KILLING HIMSELF,

1375
01:26:18,483 --> 01:26:22,073
BUT REFUSED TO GO TO A
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.

1376
01:26:22,246 --> 01:26:26,386
HE WANTED IT HIDDEN.
HE WOULDN'T GO TO ANY KIND

1377
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:28,870
OF PSYCHIATRIC PLACE,
WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN

1378
01:26:29,011 --> 01:26:30,461
A BETTER PLACE.

1379
01:26:30,564 --> 01:26:32,224
HE WENT TO THE MAYO CLINIC.

1380
01:26:32,394 --> 01:26:34,674
THE STORY WENT OUT THAT
HE WAS THERE GETTING TREATED

1381
01:26:34,810 --> 01:26:36,330
FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

1382
01:26:36,467 --> 01:26:39,367
WELL, HE MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED
THAT, EVEN, YOU KNOW?

1383
01:26:39,504 --> 01:26:42,094
TO SOME EXTENT, MARY
MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED IT.

1384
01:26:42,266 --> 01:26:45,476
BUT HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR
MENTAL ILLNESS AND NOBODY WAS

1385
01:26:45,614 --> 01:26:47,724
ADMITTING IT.

1386
01:26:49,342 --> 01:26:52,102
HE REGISTERED UNDER
AN ASSUMED NAME BECAUSE,

1387
01:26:52,276 --> 01:26:55,416
HE SAID, HE DIDN'T WANT THE
WORLD TO THINK "I WAS LOSING

1388
01:26:55,555 --> 01:26:57,515
MY MARBLES."

1389
01:26:57,660 --> 01:27:01,180
BUT SOON, HE HAD A SIGN
HUNG ON HIS DOOR SAYING,

1390
01:27:01,319 --> 01:27:05,389
"FORMER WRITER.
DO NOT DISTURB."

1391
01:27:05,530 --> 01:27:07,570
IT'S GOT TO BE
DISTRACTING TO HAVE

1392
01:27:07,705 --> 01:27:09,255
THE CELEBRITY PATIENT.

1393
01:27:09,431 --> 01:27:12,261
I THINK THAT'S WHY THE
BOUNDARIES GOT BLURRED, WHY HE

1394
01:27:12,434 --> 01:27:14,374
WAS ALLOWED TO DRINK WINE
IN THE HOSPITAL AT MAYO,

1395
01:27:14,505 --> 01:27:17,435
WHY HE WAS ALLOWED OVER TO
THE HOMES OF THE DOCTORS

1396
01:27:17,577 --> 01:27:20,197
FOR DINNER, OR TO GO SHOOTING
WITH THE DOCTORS--

1397
01:27:20,338 --> 01:27:23,198
THINGS THAT WOULD BE
COMPLETELY OFF-LIMITS NOW

1398
01:27:23,341 --> 01:27:26,381
AND A REAL VIOLATION
OF BOUNDARIES.

1399
01:27:26,482 --> 01:27:29,422
HEMINGWAY'S DOCTORS
REPEATEDLY ADMINISTERED THE

1400
01:27:29,554 --> 01:27:32,114
STANDARD TREATMENT
FOR SEVERE DEPRESSION--

1401
01:27:32,281 --> 01:27:36,181
ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY, ECT.

1402
01:27:36,285 --> 01:27:38,245
YOU COULD SEE
THE IMPULSE TO TREAT HIM

1403
01:27:38,391 --> 01:27:41,461
WITH SHOCK THERAPY, WHICH IS A
GREAT THERAPY IF ALL YOU HAVE

1404
01:27:41,635 --> 01:27:44,465
IS MAJOR DEPRESSION WITH
PSYCHOTIC FEATURES.

1405
01:27:44,638 --> 01:27:47,428
CERTAINLY, HE HAD DEPRESSION.
CERTAINLY, HE HAD PSYCHOSIS.

1406
01:27:47,572 --> 01:27:49,612
BUT THEY WERE JUST
MANIFESTATIONS

1407
01:27:49,781 --> 01:27:52,131
OF A LARGER ILLNESS.

1408
01:27:52,267 --> 01:27:56,407
HEMINGWAY HAD ALSO
SURVIVED SEVERAL CONCUSSIONS,

1409
01:27:56,547 --> 01:27:59,927
WHICH MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY
INJURED HIS BRAIN, ALTERING

1410
01:28:00,067 --> 01:28:03,487
HIS PERSONALITY AND
CORRUPTING HIS REASONING.

1411
01:28:03,657 --> 01:28:07,657
HIS MIND WAS ALREADY MUDDLED
BY DECADES OF DRINKING TOO MUCH

1412
01:28:07,799 --> 01:28:11,009
AND BY A JUMBLE OF
MEDICATIONS MEANT TO COMBAT

1413
01:28:11,182 --> 01:28:14,462
ALL THE DAMAGE ALCOHOL
HAD DONE TO BOTH HIS BODY

1414
01:28:14,599 --> 01:28:16,499
AND HIS MIND.

1415
01:28:16,670 --> 01:28:20,120
HE HAD ENTERTAINED THOUGHTS
OF SUICIDE SINCE AT LEAST HIS

1416
01:28:20,260 --> 01:28:24,640
LATE TEENS, LONG BEFORE HIS
FATHER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

1417
01:28:24,782 --> 01:28:28,342
BUT HEMINGWAY COULD STILL
SUMMON ENOUGH OF HIS OLD CHARM

1418
01:28:28,475 --> 01:28:32,265
TO REASSURE HIS DOCTORS
THAT AFTER JUST 6 WEEKS

1419
01:28:32,376 --> 01:28:37,096
IN THE HOSPITAL HIS PARANOIA
AND DELUSIONS HAD ABATED,

1420
01:28:37,242 --> 01:28:40,382
THAT HIS DEPRESSION
HAD LIFTED.

1421
01:28:41,488 --> 01:28:46,698
IN JANUARY OF 1961, HE WAS
RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL

1422
01:28:46,873 --> 01:28:49,773
AND RETURNED TO KETCHUM.

1423
01:28:49,876 --> 01:28:53,326
HE WENT TO HIS WRITING
TABLE EACH MORNING, ORDERING

1424
01:28:53,466 --> 01:28:55,846
AND REORDERING THE CHAPTERS
THAT WOULD BECOME

1425
01:28:56,020 --> 01:28:57,640
"A MOVEABLE FEAST."

1426
01:28:57,780 --> 01:29:01,300
IN THE AFTERNOONS, HE WOULD
TAKE A LONG WALK AND WAVE

1427
01:29:01,405 --> 01:29:05,365
AT LOCAL CHILDREN ON THEIR
WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL.

1428
01:29:05,547 --> 01:29:09,547
BUT THE CLOUDS SOON
CLOSED IN AGAIN.

1429
01:29:09,723 --> 01:29:13,523
A COMMON SIDE-EFFECT OF
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY WAS LOSS

1430
01:29:13,658 --> 01:29:15,728
OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY.

1431
01:29:15,867 --> 01:29:19,177
THE DOCTORS HAD ASSURED HIM
IT WAS ONLY TEMPORARY.

1432
01:29:19,319 --> 01:29:21,909
HE DID NOT BELIEVE THEM.

1433
01:29:22,046 --> 01:29:24,526
WRITING WAS WHAT HE
WAS BORN TO DO,

1434
01:29:24,669 --> 01:29:27,569
AND HE HAD HOPED ONE
DAY TO DO MORE OF IT,

1435
01:29:27,741 --> 01:29:31,371
BUT HE NO LONGER
BELIEVED HE EVER WOULD.

1436
01:29:32,539 --> 01:29:34,229
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: WHEN HE
FINALLY GAVE UP WRITING

1437
01:29:34,403 --> 01:29:36,923
THAT DAY, IT WAS AFTERNOON.

1438
01:29:37,061 --> 01:29:40,201
HE HAD STARTED A SENTENCE AS
SOON AS HE HAD GONE INTO HIS

1439
01:29:40,340 --> 01:29:43,830
WORKING ROOM AND HAD COMPLETED
IT BUT HE COULD WRITE

1440
01:29:43,964 --> 01:29:46,214
NOTHING AFTER IT.

1441
01:29:46,346 --> 01:29:51,006
HE CROSSED IT OUT AND STARTED
ANOTHER SENTENCE AND AGAIN

1442
01:29:51,109 --> 01:29:54,009
CAME TO THE COMPLETE BLANKNESS.

1443
01:29:55,286 --> 01:29:58,046
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM
TO PUT DOWN THE NEXT

1444
01:29:58,185 --> 01:30:00,185
SENTENCE ON PAPER.

1445
01:30:00,291 --> 01:30:03,611
AT THE END OF TWO HOURS
IT WAS THE SAME.

1446
01:30:03,777 --> 01:30:06,607
HE COULD NOT WRITE MORE THAN
A SINGLE SENTENCE,

1447
01:30:06,780 --> 01:30:10,750
AND THE SENTENCES THEMSELVES
WERE INCREASINGLY SIMPLE

1448
01:30:10,888 --> 01:30:13,548
AND COMPLETELY DULL.

1449
01:30:13,684 --> 01:30:17,624
HE KEPT AT IT FOR 4 HOURS
BEFORE HE KNEW THAT RESOLUTION

1450
01:30:17,757 --> 01:30:21,857
AS POWERLESS AGAINST
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.

1451
01:30:21,968 --> 01:30:27,728
HE HAD BEEN SO GROUND
DOWN THAT HE LACKED THAT...

1452
01:30:27,870 --> 01:30:31,810
JUST THE STRENGTH,
THE PSYCHIC STRENGTH.

1453
01:30:31,943 --> 01:30:36,533
HE DESCRIBES IN THE BULLRING
THE BULL'S JOURNEY OF KNOWLEDGE.

1454
01:30:36,638 --> 01:30:39,918
INITIALLY,
THEY GO FOR THE CAPE.

1455
01:30:40,055 --> 01:30:42,705
AND THEN, BY THE END OF
THE BULLFIGHT, THEY'VE LOST

1456
01:30:42,816 --> 01:30:48,646
SO MUCH BLOOD THEY CAN'T
LIFT THEIR HEAD TO CHARGE.

1457
01:30:48,788 --> 01:30:52,308
AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT
HIM AS THIS TRAGIC FIGURE.

1458
01:30:52,447 --> 01:30:55,797
HE MUST HAVE FELT
VERY CORNERED.

1459
01:30:55,933 --> 01:30:58,943
IN LATE FEBRUARY,
HE WAS ASKED TO WRITE A LINE

1460
01:30:59,074 --> 01:31:03,184
OR TWO OF TRIBUTE TO THE
NEW PRESIDENT, JOHN F. KENNEDY.

1461
01:31:03,354 --> 01:31:06,744
IT TOOK HIM A WEEK
TO PRODUCE 4 LINES.

1462
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:10,290
WHEN HIS DOCTOR CAME TO TAKE
HIS BLOOD PRESSURE, HE FOUND

1463
01:31:10,430 --> 01:31:13,780
HEMINGWAY WEEPING
WITH FRUSTRATION.

1464
01:31:13,916 --> 01:31:17,196
IN MARCH, HE TELEPHONED
HIS FIRST WIFE, HADLEY.

1465
01:31:17,368 --> 01:31:21,298
THEY HAD NOT SEEN ONE
ANOTHER FOR 22 YEARS.

1466
01:31:21,441 --> 01:31:23,691
THERE WAS NOTHING
DISTURBING IN WHAT HE SAID,

1467
01:31:23,857 --> 01:31:25,377
SHE REMEMBERED.

1468
01:31:25,549 --> 01:31:27,589
HE ASKED IF SHE COULD REMEMBER
THE NAME OF SOMEONE

1469
01:31:27,689 --> 01:31:31,349
THEY'D KNOWN IN PARIS
AND SHE COULDN'T RECALL IT.

1470
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:34,940
BUT HIS VOICE SEEMED
SO SAD, SO WEARY,

1471
01:31:35,041 --> 01:31:39,601
THAT WHEN THEY HUNG UP,
SHE FOUND HERSELF IN TEARS.

1472
01:31:42,635 --> 01:31:48,045
IN APRIL OF 1961, THE CIA
SPONSORED AN INVASION OF CUBA

1473
01:31:48,226 --> 01:31:51,156
AT THE BAY OF PIGS, IN AN
ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW

1474
01:31:51,298 --> 01:31:54,718
THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
OF FIDEL CASTRO.

1475
01:31:54,888 --> 01:31:58,548
IT FAILED, ENDING ANY
POSSIBILITY OF NORMAL

1476
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:02,830
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND CUBA.

1477
01:32:02,965 --> 01:32:07,065
THE BAY OF PIGS IS REALLY
THE COUP DE GRACE, ISN'T IT?

1478
01:32:07,245 --> 01:32:11,145
THERE IS NOW NO ILLUSION, IF
THERE WAS ANY IN THE BEGINNING,

1479
01:32:11,249 --> 01:32:15,179
ABOUT "MAYBE THIS WILL BLOW
OVER AND I CAN GET BACK THERE."

1480
01:32:15,322 --> 01:32:16,842
THAT'S NOW DONE.

1481
01:32:16,979 --> 01:32:18,529
THAT'S NOW DONE.

1482
01:32:19,672 --> 01:32:21,642
IT IS CLEAR THAT THE FORCES

1483
01:32:21,743 --> 01:32:25,303
OF COMMUNISM ARE NOT TO BE
UNDERESTIMATED IN CUBA.

1484
01:32:25,401 --> 01:32:28,161
HE HAD LOST HIS HOME,

1485
01:32:28,266 --> 01:32:30,336
HE HAD LOST EVERYTHING
IN THAT HOME...

1486
01:32:30,441 --> 01:32:34,001
...WILL NOT ACCEPT
MR. CASTRO'S ATTEMPTS
TO BLAME THIS NATION...

1487
01:32:34,100 --> 01:32:36,760
HE LOST HIS BOOKS...

1488
01:32:36,930 --> 01:32:39,590
HE LOST HIS ART,

1489
01:32:39,726 --> 01:32:41,936
HE LOST HIS PETS,

1490
01:32:42,108 --> 01:32:43,938
HE LOST HIS COMMUNITY...

1491
01:32:44,075 --> 01:32:45,175
...LESSON FOR US ALL...

1492
01:32:45,283 --> 01:32:46,773
HE LOST
HIS BOAT "PILAR,"

1493
01:32:46,906 --> 01:32:50,246
HE LOST THE LIFESTYLE
WHERE HE COULD GO FISHING.

1494
01:32:50,426 --> 01:32:52,906
HE LOST EVERYTHING
THAT HE HAD,

1495
01:32:53,050 --> 01:32:57,260
AND HE KNEW IN THAT MOMENT
THAT HE COULD NOT GO BACK,

1496
01:32:57,433 --> 01:33:00,823
THAT THAT WAS DONE.

1497
01:33:00,954 --> 01:33:06,554
AND HE WAS MAROONED IN
THIS VERY SPARE LITTLE
BLOCK HOUSE IN IDAHO.

1498
01:33:07,858 --> 01:33:11,238
ON APRIL 21st,
MARY FOUND ERNEST

1499
01:33:11,378 --> 01:33:15,448
IN THE VESTIBULE
HOLDING A SHOTGUN.

1500
01:33:15,590 --> 01:33:19,730
TWO SHELLS WERE WITHIN
REACH ON THE WINDOW-SILL.

1501
01:33:19,835 --> 01:33:23,485
SHE MANAGED TO TALK HIM DOWN,
TELLING HIM HOW MUCH HE MEANT

1502
01:33:23,667 --> 01:33:27,457
TO HER AND HIS BOYS, HOW BRAVE
HE'D BEEN DURING THE WAR,

1503
01:33:27,602 --> 01:33:31,332
HOW MUCH THEY BOTH WANTED
TO GO BACK AGAIN TO AFRICA.

1504
01:33:31,467 --> 01:33:34,637
SHE INSISTED HE RETURN
TO THE MAYO CLINIC.

1505
01:33:34,781 --> 01:33:37,821
WHEN THE PRIVATE PLANE SHE
HAD ARRANGED TO TAKE HIM THERE

1506
01:33:37,957 --> 01:33:42,057
STOPPED TO REFUEL IN RAPID
CITY, HE TRIED TO WALK INTO

1507
01:33:42,168 --> 01:33:44,648
A SPINNING PROPELLER.

1508
01:33:44,791 --> 01:33:49,901
THIS TIME, HE WAS GIVEN A
ROOM IN THE LOCKED WARD.

1509
01:33:50,003 --> 01:33:54,323
HE UNDERWENT A SECOND SERIES
OF ELECTRO-SHOCK TREATMENTS.

1510
01:33:54,456 --> 01:33:58,076
HIS MEMORY
DETERIORATED FURTHER.

1511
01:33:59,116 --> 01:34:01,256
ONE OF THE LAST
CONVERSATIONS THAT I HAD

1512
01:34:01,359 --> 01:34:06,159
WITH ERNEST, I HAD A RENTED
CHEVY AND GOT PERMISSION THAT

1513
01:34:06,295 --> 01:34:08,085
HE COULD LEAVE THE HOSPITAL.

1514
01:34:08,194 --> 01:34:11,304
AND WE DROVE TO A LITTLE PLACE
THAT WAS A SORT OF A LITTLE

1515
01:34:11,438 --> 01:34:12,988
PARK-LIKE PLACE.

1516
01:34:13,130 --> 01:34:15,860
HE GOT OUT SO THERE WAS
NO QUESTION THAT THERE WAS

1517
01:34:15,995 --> 01:34:17,645
ANYTHING BUGGED.

1518
01:34:20,344 --> 01:34:23,694
AND I WAS TRYING TO--
TO BE POSITIVE.

1519
01:34:23,865 --> 01:34:28,345
AND I SAID, "LISTEN, SOON AS
YOU FINISH UP HERE, WHY DON'T WE

1520
01:34:28,490 --> 01:34:30,940
GO FISH DOWN THERE?"

1521
01:34:31,044 --> 01:34:32,394
AND HE TURNED ON ME.

1522
01:34:32,563 --> 01:34:35,643
HE SAID, "YOU DON'T
SEEM TO UNDERSTAND."

1523
01:34:35,739 --> 01:34:40,809
HE SAID, "WHAT HAVE I GOT
TO BE HANGING AROUND FOR?"

1524
01:34:40,951 --> 01:34:42,951
IN LATE JUNE,

1525
01:34:43,056 --> 01:34:46,466
MARY GOT A PHONE CALL
FROM THE MAYO CLINIC.

1526
01:34:46,611 --> 01:34:49,341
THE DOCTOR TOLD HER
HE HAD GOOD NEWS.

1527
01:34:49,476 --> 01:34:52,166
ERNEST WAS READY TO GO HOME.

1528
01:34:52,307 --> 01:34:55,407
WHEN SHE ARRIVED, HER HUSBAND
WAS ALREADY DRESSED

1529
01:34:55,551 --> 01:34:57,551
IN HIS STREET CLOTHES,
SHE REMEMBERED,

1530
01:34:57,726 --> 01:35:00,556
"GRINNING LIKE
A CHESHIRE CAT."

1531
01:35:00,729 --> 01:35:02,659
MARY WAS NOT CONVINCED,

1532
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:04,980
BUT SHE DID NOT
PUT UP A FIGHT.

1533
01:35:05,078 --> 01:35:09,878
AN OLD FRIEND DROVE
THEM BACK TO KETCHUM.

1534
01:35:10,014 --> 01:35:14,784
HEMINGWAY'S PARANOIA QUICKLY
MANIFESTED ITSELF AGAIN.

1535
01:35:14,950 --> 01:35:19,060
ON SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1st,
THE HEMINGWAYS AND A FRIEND

1536
01:35:19,196 --> 01:35:20,916
DROVE INTO TOWN FOR DINNER.

1537
01:35:21,094 --> 01:35:24,894
ERNEST WAS SURE TWO STRANGERS
SITTING AT THE BAR WERE

1538
01:35:25,029 --> 01:35:26,439
FEDERAL AGENTS.

1539
01:35:26,582 --> 01:35:29,242
MARY COULDN'T
CONVINCE HIM OTHERWISE.

1540
01:35:30,621 --> 01:35:33,451
BUT WHEN HE WENT TO HIS
BEDROOM THAT EVENING

1541
01:35:33,624 --> 01:35:36,874
AND CALLED OUT TO HER,
"GOOD NIGHT, MY KITTEN,"

1542
01:35:37,007 --> 01:35:39,317
"HIS VOICE WAS
WARM AND FRIENDLY,"

1543
01:35:39,423 --> 01:35:41,083
SHE REMEMBERED.

1544
01:35:41,218 --> 01:35:44,638
MARY HAD LEFT THE KEYS TO THE
BASEMENT CABINET WHERE HIS

1545
01:35:44,808 --> 01:35:48,498
GUNS WERE KEPT OUT IN THE
OPEN IN THE KITCHEN, JUST AS

1546
01:35:48,604 --> 01:35:50,574
THEY HAD ALWAYS BEEN.

1547
01:35:50,710 --> 01:35:53,610
SHE CONSIDERED HIDING THEM,
SHE LATER RECALLED,

1548
01:35:53,782 --> 01:35:57,202
BUT "DECIDED THAT NO ONE
HAD A RIGHT TO DENY A MAN

1549
01:35:57,337 --> 01:35:59,267
HIS POSSESSIONS."

1550
01:36:00,962 --> 01:36:07,212
AT ABOUT 7:00 THE NEXT MORNING,
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1961,

1551
01:36:07,313 --> 01:36:11,943
MARY WAS AWAKENED
BY A LOUD BANG.

1552
01:36:12,076 --> 01:36:15,976
HEMINGWAY, STILL WEARING
HIS BATHROBE AND SLIPPERS,

1553
01:36:16,115 --> 01:36:19,805
HAD SLIPPED DOWN TO THE
BASEMENT, RETRIEVED A SHOTGUN

1554
01:36:19,946 --> 01:36:24,326
AND TWO SHELLS, AND CLIMBED
BACK UP TO THE VESTIBULE.

1555
01:36:24,502 --> 01:36:27,822
THERE, HE HAD BENT OVER,
PLACED THE TWIN BARRELS

1556
01:36:27,989 --> 01:36:32,929
AGAINST HIS FOREHEAD
AND PULLED THE TRIGGER.

1557
01:36:33,063 --> 01:36:36,413
HE WAS 61 YEARS OLD.

1558
01:36:38,171 --> 01:36:39,481
GOOD EVENING.

1559
01:36:39,621 --> 01:36:42,621
THE NOVELIST ERNEST
HEMINGWAY IS DEAD.

1560
01:36:42,762 --> 01:36:45,662
THE REPORTS FROM HIS HOME
IN KETCHUM, IDAHO ARE SPARSE

1561
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,180
AND NOT VERY CLEAR, BUT WE
KNOW THAT HE KILLED HIMSELF,

1562
01:36:48,354 --> 01:36:51,944
THE SHERIFF SAYS ACCIDENTALLY,
WITH A 12-GAUGE SHOTGUN.

1563
01:36:52,082 --> 01:36:55,602
HEMINGWAY ONLY LAST WEEK WAS
DISCHARGED FROM THE MAYO CLINIC

1564
01:36:55,706 --> 01:36:57,976
IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA,
WHERE HE HAD BEEN TREATED

1565
01:36:58,122 --> 01:36:59,782
FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

1566
01:36:59,883 --> 01:37:02,303
THIS MORNING, THE NOBEL
PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST WAS ALONE

1567
01:37:02,437 --> 01:37:05,027
IN HIS ROOM, PREPARING TO
GO HUNTING, WHEN THE FATAL

1568
01:37:05,198 --> 01:37:06,958
ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

1569
01:37:07,994 --> 01:37:11,034
HE WAS A LITERARY MAN WHO
PROBABLY HAD MORE INFLUENCE

1570
01:37:11,204 --> 01:37:14,104
ON THE STYLE OF THE WRITING OF
NOVELS THAN ANY OTHER WRITER

1571
01:37:14,207 --> 01:37:15,827
IN THE 20th CENTURY.

1572
01:37:15,968 --> 01:37:19,038
THAT WAS PARTLY BECAUSE OF
THE WAY HE WROTE, THE TERSE,

1573
01:37:19,178 --> 01:37:23,798
OFTEN FLAT AND SARDONIC STYLE,
ALMOST PAINFULLY MASCULINE.

1574
01:37:23,907 --> 01:37:27,287
HE WAS LESS AN INDIVIDUAL THAN
A CHARACTER, LESS A PERSON

1575
01:37:27,427 --> 01:37:28,947
THAN AN INSTITUTION.

1576
01:37:29,050 --> 01:37:31,780
HE WORSHIPPED VIRILITY AND
A SMALL RELIGION GREW UP

1577
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:33,230
ABOUT HIM.

1578
01:37:33,399 --> 01:37:36,889
HEMINGWAY'S PLACE IN LITERATURE,
I THINK CANNOT NOW BE FIXED.

1579
01:37:37,023 --> 01:37:39,513
WE DON'T KNOW WHICH OF
HIS BOOKS WILL LIVE.

1580
01:37:39,646 --> 01:37:43,196
WE SUSPECT THAT "A FAREWELL TO
ARMS," THE TENDEREST AND MOST

1581
01:37:43,340 --> 01:37:44,820
MOVING OF THEM WILL LIVE.

1582
01:37:44,928 --> 01:37:47,588
WE BELIEVE THAT SOME OF
HIS SHORT STORIES WILL,

1583
01:37:47,723 --> 01:37:50,043
PARTICULARLY
"THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO"

1584
01:37:50,174 --> 01:37:54,184
AND "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE
OF FRANCIS MACOMBER."

1585
01:37:54,316 --> 01:37:57,766
HE WAS, NEVERTHELESS, AN
INTENSELY AMERICAN WRITER.

1586
01:37:57,906 --> 01:38:00,906
HIS OWN CONTRIBUTION WAS
VERY LARGE, AND NOT ONLY TO

1587
01:38:01,082 --> 01:38:04,052
AMERICAN LETTERS, BUT TO
THE EXCITEMENT AND COLOR

1588
01:38:04,188 --> 01:38:06,428
OF THE LAST 4 DECADES.

1589
01:38:06,604 --> 01:38:09,814
EDWIN NEWMAN.
GOOD EVENING.

1590
01:38:09,918 --> 01:38:13,058
I WAS
PAINED AND GRIEVED,

1591
01:38:13,197 --> 01:38:17,997
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN--

1592
01:38:18,099 --> 01:38:20,479
I DON'T AGREE WITH IT--
BUT IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE

1593
01:38:20,584 --> 01:38:21,724
WHY HE DECIDED

1594
01:38:21,861 --> 01:38:24,001
TO END HIS LIFE WHEN HE HAD--

1595
01:38:24,105 --> 01:38:26,175
HIS TALENT HAD LEFT HIM.

1596
01:38:26,279 --> 01:38:29,899
WE SOMETIMES TALK ABOUT PEOPLE
AND WE IDOLIZE THEM AND WE

1597
01:38:30,042 --> 01:38:32,772
GIVE THEM EVERY
VIRTUE AND NO VICE.

1598
01:38:32,941 --> 01:38:35,561
HE HAD LOTS OF VICES.
HE HAD LOTS OF VICES.

1599
01:38:35,702 --> 01:38:38,222
HE WAS A HUMAN BEING.

1600
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:42,850
AND THAT, MY FRIEND,
ERASES A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER

1601
01:38:42,951 --> 01:38:46,581
WHAT MAY BE
FAILINGS IN LIFE.

1602
01:38:49,233 --> 01:38:53,893
HE KEEPS SPEAKING
TO US BECAUSE HIS WRITING WAS

1603
01:38:54,031 --> 01:38:59,831
BASICALLY HUMAN WITH
ALL THAT WE ARE--

1604
01:38:59,968 --> 01:39:03,728
THE DARK, THE LIGHT,
THE PASSIONATE, THE PETTY,

1605
01:39:03,868 --> 01:39:10,118
THE UGLY, THE BEAUTIFUL,
THE KIND, THE CRUEL.

1606
01:39:10,254 --> 01:39:15,054
I--I--JUST--HE JUST WAS
WRITING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR

1607
01:39:15,156 --> 01:39:16,776
AND HUMAN BEINGS.

1608
01:39:16,916 --> 01:39:22,336
AND I THINK HE WAS ABLE TO DO IT
BECAUSE HE SO LOVED THE WORLD.

1609
01:39:22,473 --> 01:39:23,963
"WHAT A SHAME
IT'S GOING TO BE

1610
01:39:24,096 --> 01:39:27,956
TO HAVE TO LEAVE IT,"
HE SAID.

1611
01:39:28,100 --> 01:39:29,650
EDNA O'BRIEN:
HE HAS IMMORTALITY,

1612
01:39:29,791 --> 01:39:32,831
AND HE DESERVES IT.

1613
01:39:33,001 --> 01:39:37,661
NOT MANY WRITERS GET THAT,
AND HE DESERVES IT.

1614
01:39:39,111 --> 01:39:42,181
MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: AND THEN
INSTEAD OF GOING ON TO ARUSHA,

1615
01:39:42,355 --> 01:39:43,935
THEY TURNED LEFT.

1616
01:39:44,081 --> 01:39:47,291
HE EVIDENTLY FIGURED
THAT THEY HAD THE GAS.

1617
01:39:47,429 --> 01:39:50,879
AND LOOKING DOWN, HE SAW A PINK
SIFTING CLOUD MOVING OVER

1618
01:39:51,054 --> 01:39:54,164
THE GROUND, AND IN THE AIR,
LIKE THE FIRST SNOW

1619
01:39:54,298 --> 01:39:57,608
IN A BLIZZARD, THAT COMES
FROM NOWHERE, AND HE KNEW

1620
01:39:57,715 --> 01:40:00,365
THE LOCUSTS WERE COMING UP
FROM THE SOUTH.

1621
01:40:00,546 --> 01:40:02,026
THEN THEY BEGAN TO CLIMB,

1622
01:40:02,168 --> 01:40:04,788
AND THEY WERE GOING
TO THE EAST, IT SEEMED,

1623
01:40:04,895 --> 01:40:07,895
AND THEN IT DARKENED
AND THEY WERE IN A STORM,

1624
01:40:08,071 --> 01:40:11,351
THE RAIN SO THICK IT SEEMED LIKE
FLYING THROUGH A WATERFALL.

1625
01:40:13,179 --> 01:40:15,389
AND THEN THEY WERE OUT
AND COMPIE TURNED HIS HEAD

1626
01:40:15,561 --> 01:40:21,051
AND GRINNED AND POINTED AND
THERE AHEAD, ALL HE COULD SEE,

1627
01:40:21,187 --> 01:40:26,367
AS WIDE AS ALL THE WORLD,
GREAT, HIGH, AND UNBELIEVABLY

1628
01:40:26,503 --> 01:40:32,513
WHITE IN THE SUN, WAS THE
SQUARE TOP OF KILIMANJARO.

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AND THEN HE KNEW THAT THERE
WAS WHERE HE WAS GOING.

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY.