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Sunday, August 29, 2004


Bern, Switzerland

A Joyce on Hemingway:

Nettie Norred Sanders and Hyman Sanders, a superintendent of Pfeiffer Farms lived at 2nd and Orr in Piggott. Hyman was responsible for taking Ernest Hemingway hunting when he was in town. Often Hyman would take Ernest to Rose Dale Farm where Russell Norred and Ernest would go quail hunting.

A son, Robert Sanders and a friend, years later on a trip to Europe after graduation from college at University of Arkansas, were in a tavern in Bern, Switzerland when an esoteric question about Twentieth Century American novelists caught the attention of a gentleman at the bar. The question they offered out loud to each other was "What Hemingway novel did James Joyce like the most?" Overhearing this, the man turned around and said "I know the answer." It was Giorgio Joyce, James' son. He said "Father liked The Sun Also Rises best."

From The History of Rose Dale Farm

Monday, August 23, 2004


A Farewell to Arms ( chapter 1 page 1 )


" All good books are alike in that they are truer if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. "

- Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, August 22, 2004




" If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. "

- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Bull in the Afternoon ?

11 August 1937 - Under attack from Leftist American writer, Max Eastman, Ernest Hemingway accidently bumped into him in Max Perkins' Scribner Publishing office and a major altercation ensued...

In describing Hemingway's literary style in Death in the Afternoon, Eastman previously announced with assertion that the book was filled with "juvenile romantic sentimentalizing over a rather lamentable practice of the culture of Spain." Eastman challenged Hemingway's statement that the spectacle was a tragedy, insisting that it was merely a case of men torturing and killing a dumb animal. Moving from the book to the author, Eastman then suggested that Hemingway's defense of and interest in the bullfight was prompted by his lack of confidence in his own manliness, which had caused Hemingway to adopt a 'literary style of wearing false hair on the chest.'

Upon their accidental meeting, both men exchanged pleasantries and Hemingway, grinning, ripped open his shirt to reveal his hairy chest. He then, still grinning, ripped open Eastman's shirt to reveal no hair. Then Hemingway, in a flash of anger, hit Eastman in the face with a copy of the review and a wrestling match ensued. Hemingway's temper quickly quieted and no damage was done to either man.

Each went on his way to relate to the press and others, his version of the encounter.

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