Posts in Chronological Order

Friday, October 16, 2015 F: 2:55 a.m. So, Papa, you said start with the image of you at San Fermin. Not so much that image as, me – being what I thought I was – suddenly encountering another world and realizing that I belonged whole-heartedly to it, as well. Not that I had “gone native,”…

Saturday, October 17, 2015 F: 5:30 a.m. So, Papa, I think we have firmly in mind now that you were changed by your early experience of Spain but that it took a while for that change to manifest, just as it took a while for your near-death experience to manifest. EH: Here is a way…

Sunday, October 18, 2015 F: 5:10 a.m. So, Papa, to continue— EH: The book that first made my reputation – The Sun also Rises – came from my marrying what I knew, especially my craft I had been working so hard to perfect, and what F: Got tangled, didn’t it? On your end this time,…

[A weekend of guests led to a 4 a.m. wakeup to get them to the airport by 5 a.m., which we did. I then talked to Papa for a little bit, but never found the time and energy to transcribe and print, until this morning. I will transcribe and print this morning’s take after a…

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 F: 3:20 a.m. Awake enough, and encouraged by a slight wheeze. Let’s go. Papa? A matter of how we perceive the world? EH: By which I don’t quite mean “how we explain the world, how we interpret the world.” More like, how the world affects us as incoming signal. F: I…

Thursday, October 22, 2015 F: 6 a.m. So, Papa, I greatly appreciate the material you gave me yesterday after our morning session, and with luck maybe this winter will see us pulling together a lot of material gathered over eight years. EH: With luck and perseverance. They are always required. To continue where we left…

Saturday, October 24, 2015 F: 3 a.m. So, Papa, to resume. We may have gotten a little off-point in our discussion of your experience of Catholic versus Protestant countries. EH: Not off-point, but it has to be considered with other things. I wasn’t living in the 1600s, when people were killing each other over Catholic…

Sunday, October 25, 2015 F: All right, Papa. EH: I experienced the world as directly as a kid with a new BB gun on a camping trip, or like you with a new camera that time. Because I knew not to go to college but to take the world as my college, I didn’t have…

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 F: 6:30 a.m. Feels like half the morning is gone. Makes a difference, when you can sleep. I guess the shock I gave somebody is having a more permanent effect even than I had hoped. Well, good. I seem to be healthy again, Papa. Much obliged. And apparently others found the…

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 F: 3 a.m. All right, Papa, so yesterday you explained how your inner world changed and then your outer world changed to meet it, and then you responded to the new externalized challenge and the process continued. EH: All that was to show you a way to see that the Ernest…