Ernest Hemingway

[Ed I]

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

[A_C_Slater]

I have the new issue of Time magazine too. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[thatpfunk]

Interesting quote. Is there something about him in the new Time?

[Boris]

so true.

you feeling down these days?

[cnfuzzd]

why did the chicken cross the road?

hemingway: "To die. In the rain."

Not a happy man. I like him. Not enough to make me happy though.

peace

john nickle

[J.Brown]

Great Quote and way too often the stone cold truth.

I was feeling happy (except for this awful cold) until I read that and now I am feeling unhappy and smart.

I just got back from Mississippi and have some good poker stories, so Ed I. stop in and see me. J.

[nothumb]

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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Which is why I'm smart enough to indulge my stupid side as necessary.

NT

[glen]

sun also rises. . .. one of my all time favorites. "wouldn't it be pretty to think so." I remember that miserable line as though i just read it. . .

[ethan]

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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That is, in fact, a fantastic book. Far too few people read Hemingway.

[Boris]

saw that you cashed in one of the tournies. good job. not the big money but at least it payed for Matt Flynn's bar tab. Thanks again for the moose drool.

Ray is down here now. He keeps talking big about how he is going to buy me a beer. But he is always in a game and doesn't want to drink and play. What a wuss.

[Boris]

The Sun Also Rises. One of my favorite books ever.

[Zeno]

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But he is always in a game and doesn't want to drink and play. What a wuss.

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He also doesn't play when too tired. Ray is a smart man.

-Zeno

[Zeno]

Great quote. Now, go fishing and watch the sun set and the moon rise.

-Zeno

[J.Brown]

I chatted with Matt and met a few of the 2+2ers, but was really busy playing in the tournies almost everyday. I didn't get to buy him a beer though, next time for sure!

Tell Ray to buy you an extra beer for me and I will take it easy on him next time that we play together. He will really love that.

btw, tourneys........blaaaaah! We know where the real $$ is

I went 7-0 in the live action in MS playing everything from 10-25 PLO to 50-100 0/8 w/half kill to 50-300 triple draw.

I am a live action specialist now and I owe it all to Ray Zee! take care BC. J.Brown

[Leo99]

I read A Farewell to Arms a few years ago. I was a little disappointed. Is there another Hemingway I should read?

Now Mariel Hemingway. MMMMMMMMM

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0339-dec/Events/0339-dec/hemingwa.yma?path=pgallery&path_key=Hemingway,%20M ariel

[Graham]

always, and always, preview posts where you insert an image....

[ThaSaltCracka]

Hemingway was one of the few writers force fed to me in school I actually enjoyed.

Great writer.

[ilya]

Way to glamorize depression, Ernest!

[Scotch78]

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I read A Farewell to Arms a few years ago. I was a little disappointed. Is there another Hemingway I should read?


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I don't particularly understand the attraction to Hemingway's novels, either. I'm not saying they're bad by any stretch, but Hemingway's art was the short story. My favorite is probably "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", but there are very few I wouldn't recommend. And now on to more important matters . . . nobody could write about drunks like Hemingway:

"Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog."

"We'll get one on the way back."

"All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault."

Scott

[Zetack]

The strangest story having anything to do with Hemmingway is that his son had a sex change operation and became a woman. So when the son (daughter?) died his grandkids had a big court fight with his wife saying that her marriage was invalid because two women can't be married and thus the grandkids get the estate.

Hemmingway, a stereotypical Man's Man to end all Man's Men with a transexual son...hard to believe, but true.

Here's a link:

Hemmingway's transexual son (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1022123,00.html)

--Zetack