Posts in Chronological Order

[After a bad night, I often take several naps throughout the day, at unpredictable intervals,and otherwise read or occasionally even do some work.] [11-17-2015] F: 3:35 p.m. Papa? Want to try it again? EH: We can try. Now, you know that To Have and Have Not was going to be my novel of revolution, with…

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 F: 4:15 a.m. Okay, Papa, “And then there was society, or class, whichever way you want to see it. And Spain and the church. And then Spain and the reports of Communists. And then to top it all, here came Martha.” Care to unpack? EH: Pauline was rich and her Uncle…

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 F: 8:10 p.m. All right, Papa, was that you that put the idea into my mind, or did I jump to this (possibly erroneous) conclusion all by myself? I was reading Hemingway and Pound: A Most Unlikely Friendship – rereading it – when something I’d read in dozens, maybe hundreds of…

Thursday, November 19, 2015 F: [Sometime after 6:30 a.m.] … So now I am at the brink, wondering if I should communicate as usual, or skip today since we did double duty yesterday. Nancy and I are going to the VMFA for the opening of its Rodin exhibit but that isn’t until after 10 sometime.…

[Thursday, November 19, 2015] F: 8 p.m. Okay, Papa, here’s something from Hemingway and Pound that may lead us onto a subject I have meant to discuss. “Hemingway went on to satirize [Glenway] Westcott in The Sun Also Rises as Roger Prentiss, who appeared in the novel’s first bar scene.” (p. 46) Not that specific…

Friday, November 20, 2015 F: 7:10 a.m. Awoke with the sun already up. Strange feeling, like I’m already behind. I have forgotten where we are and where we were going, Papa, except that in a general way we’re still centered on the description of the revolutionary novel about the keys. EH: Not so much about…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 F: 6 a.m. Papa, if you know where you want us to go, let’s go. Otherwise I’ll have to skim the past few days’ entries. EH: I know just where we’re going – which ought to reassure you. I was thinking to examine the question of revolution in To Have and…

[Saturday, November 21, 2015] 10:25 a.m. [Abruptly, without any preamble by me] EH: Now look at the book [To Have and Have Not] as it finally emerged, and take it apart to inventory its contents. First, Harry Morgan, a hard-handed sensible matter-of-fact guy who makes his own way in the world. He doesn’t ask for…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 F: 3:15 a.m. All right, Papa. Yesterday you said we’d look at To Have and Have Not as it turned out, and you started with Harry Morgan. Shall we continue? EH: Describing Harry was one way of describing Key West as I experienced it, and beyond the one island, the keys,…

[Sunday, November 22, 2015] F: 2:15 p.m. I’m ready to try again if you are, Papa. The writers and Harry? EH: It was a difficult stitching-together I was trying to do and, once again, I regret so much – and so much in vain – that I didn’t have the time I needed to work…