• Hemingway — what can’t quite be said

    Saturday, November 7, 2015 F: 3:20 a.m. I just re-read my typed-up pages from this week / month. Even six days’ material adds up, and of course it is a quicker, more concentrated experience to read type rather than handwriting. Papa, can we go back to what we were discussing Wednesday, that I got hadn’t…

  • A question, a dream, and a conversation

    Sunday, November 8, 2015 [For reasons that will appear, I need to first type in material from Saturday night.] [Saturday] 6:50 p.m. Bob Friedman wants me to ask if Papa will give us something we can use to prove our connection, a la the Afterlife of Billy Fingers book. F: Papa? If it were required,…

  • Hemingway – a question of focus

    Monday, November 9, 2015 F: 3:45 a.m. I think I will print John Wolf’s comment on my blog post “A question, a dream, and a conversation,” from yesterday, as we seem to be getting material together. Cross-correspondences, in a way. [JDW: Often I have longed for named attribution (which I have not received beyond a…

  • Mechanical and mindful living

    Tuesday, November 10, 2015 F: 4:55 a.m. All right, Papa, you were going to continue by describing living with a state of lesser focus, I think. EH: Now here we begin to cut close to the bone. Showing which world one tends to focus on is one thing, and we have done that. But any…

  • Hemingway on faith, discouragement, guilt, choice

    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 F: 4:25 a.m. Remarkable amount of work here, recently. Started a 150 page journal Oct. 26 and I’m nearly 2/3rds through it in 16 days. I’m ready to go again, if you are. But I’ve lost track of where we are. Seems like we were trying to show something that changed…

  • Two kinds of scholarship

    Thursday, November 12, 2015 F: 4:10 a.m. Okay, Papa, you said we’d go somewhere different today. At your service. EH: You listen in to conversations among Hemingway scholars [a discussion about trivial details in Hotchner’s latest book, on a Hemingway Society mailing list] and you think, “no, you’re missing the point,” and you are right…

  • Hemingway — the internal and the external

    Friday, November 13, 2015 F: 5:20 a.m. Seems fashionably late, not starting till now. All right, Papa, you’re on. The past few days have been different, and last night – all yesterday – was different, as we wrestled with what to do with this and other material. But I think I see my way on…

  • After the Paris bombings last night

    Saturday, November 14, 2015 F: 4:55 a.m. The bombings by Muslim terrorists in Paris last night are so disturbing, Papa. It seems to me your feeling that 1914 might be the beginning of another hundred years’ war is still in the process of being validated by events, as it was – unnoticed by critics of…

  • Hemingway and revolution

    Monday, November 16, 2015 F: 4:55 a.m. All right, Papa, I’m ready to go, I think, but I’ve lost track of where we were. And I was just too tired yesterday. EH: Nothing wrong with a day off, and if you will remember, I suggested a schedule that included days off. F: Which I have…

  • Hemingway and revolution and literary politics

    Thursday, November 17, 2015 F: 2 a.m. It’s only two, and my rule is, not earlier than three, but since a combination of problems has me up anyway, we might as well try to accomplish something. Okay with you, Papa? EH: It isn’t keeping me up – and as you said, you’re going to be…