• Conversations with Hemingway (9)

    Friday, May 7, 2010 8:30 AM. Papa, do you have a selected topic this morning? We could go wherever you wish, provided that we talk about my inner reality as I experienced it or you imagine it. Yes, don’t think that isn’t always in my mind! You are doing all right. Just continue as you’re…

  • Two Views of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    So You Think Your Life Was Wasted — Part Three (8) This is a continuation of the very productive sessions I had one day in March, four years ago. This particular conversation took place at first with Claude Bowers, whose book The Tragic Era dealt with Reconstruction from a position of total sympathy with the…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (10)

    Saturday, May 8, 2010 8:30 AM. Okay, Papa, here we go again if you’re so inclined. Coffee in hand, eh? What would you have done if you’d lived before coffee? I have never known the difference, I presume. Yesterday we set out to talk about your state after the war, but didn’t get that far.…

  • Woodrow Wilson on Morgan and Panics and the Federal Reserve

    So You Think Your Life Was Wasted — Part Three (9) March 9, 2010 (9:40 p.m.) A first, a “by request” attempt to reach a specific historical individual. In this case it is Woodrow Wilson, at my brother Paul’s suggestion. “Here is the quote. If you reach Mr. Wilson, before you ask him about the…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (11)

    Sunday, May 9, 2010 7:30 AM. A lot of communicating, yesterday — 23 pages of journal. I don’t really know where to go with this today, but I have the sense, still, that you do, Papa. I have the continuing sense  that you have your own point of view, of your life from the inside,…

  • Lincoln Steffans: Politics is passé

    So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Part Three (10) Monday March 13, 2006 (10:30 a.m.) I’m open to suggestion, if anybody is queued up to talk. When you don’t ask for anyone in particular, your default guidance kicks in. your guardian angel, your conscience, your guidance system. Even when you don’t ask for…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (12)

    The Sun Also Rises Monday, May 10, 2010 8 AM. Papa, as you probably know, I’m rereading The Sun Also Rises. Can we talk about your philosophy on pages 152 and 153, that I will copy in here?

  • Conversations with Hemingway (13)

    Papa’s code  Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:45 AM. Papa, my friend Christel asks an interesting question. Did it occur to Jake (or to you) that a man might have ways to sexually satisfy a woman other than normal intercourse? Think about it, and you will see that in this case he could satisfy her, but…

  • “We’ve never seen anything like this”

    I don’t often include material here about investing or such-like. But I do know that astrology is not nonsense, and this man’s career seems to demonstrate it in a way that people can hear — he makes money using it. A lot of money! But, as you will see, money is not the point of…

  • So you think your life was wasted – part three (11)

    Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 7:25 a.m. Wednesday April 26, 2006 Wheezing a little this morning – just as I was wheezing, very slightly, on Cemetery Ridge. Just enough for me to note for later significance – for it is tied in to Joseph’s experience, I think. I can feel that someone else is in the wings…