• Conversations with Hemingway (14)

    The Revolution titled A Farewell to Arms Thursday, May 13, 2010 10 AM. All right, papa. As you will know from tuning into this station, I found A Farewell To Arms different this time. Perhaps because I had just come from your later works, I found this one disappointing in the love story, riveting in…

  • Conversations with Hemingway — What’s going on

    What’s going on My ongoing communication with what I call The Other Side — meaning, minds not currently attached to bodies, regardless whether they have ever been in the physical or not — has ratcheted up in breadth, intensity, depth, and specificity within the past few months. Six days every week, I have arisen early…

  • Conversations May 14, 2010

    Friday, May 14, 2010 7 AM. Papa, re-reading Babe In The Woods, the novel you helped me write a couple years ago, was fun! It had been long enough since I’d looked at it that it was new to me again. Now, obviously the level of technical skill I could bring to it was nowhere…

  • Conversations May 15, 2010

    Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:45 AM. From Green Hills Of Africa, nearly the final page: “We have very primitive emotions,” he said. “It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.” “I’m all through with that,” I said. “I’m all right again.”

  • Conversations May 16, 2010

    Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:45 AM. Okay, Papa, I am ready to chat, but I don’t have a topic offhand. Perhaps you do? Oh yes. The prompting yesterday about Reynolds should serve to reassure you that whatever is happening here isn’t just your making it up in one part of your mind, and disclosing it…

  • Conversations May 17, 2010

    My friend Christel had asked why the Indian killed himself in Hemingway’s story “Indian Camp.” She said that over the years, some of her students had thought that it was because Uncle George was the real father. So I asked, and yesterday got the Reader’s Digest answer but was told to wait till I had…

  • Conversations May 18, 2010

    Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:20 AM. So. To continue — Papa, I suppose that “The Doctor And The Doctor’s Wife” is built upon your life but is no word-for-word autobiography, or even necessarily disguised autobiography — and critics who approach your work go wrong to think so.

  • Conversations May 21, 2010

    Friday, May 21, 2010 5:30 AM. Okay, Papa, much good discussion yesterday of how to work. It makes me aware that I do not work nearly enough, and that I am habitually lost as to what to do or how to proceed. Then every so often I will proceed in long bursts of energy and…

  • Conversations May 22, 2010

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:30 AM. Still reading Death In The Afternoon. If I had my way, I’d put out an edited addition — mutilated, people would think it at first — that showcased the truly wonderful learning there is to be had in it, merely by removing what sets up the narrator as querulous…

  • Conversations May 20, 2010

    Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:30 AM. Okay, Papa, what shall we talk about today? Started Death In The Afternoon again, as you no doubt know. If you were to keep a list of questions you wanted to ask, you could add to the list as you read. You won’t be able to keep them all…