• Conversations May 23, 2010

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:15 AM. All right, Papa, here we go again. Before I ask the questions my friends have suggested, let me ask if you have something specific in mind for this session. Don’t forget the thoughts that have come up as you have continued to read Death In The Afternoon.

  • Conversations May 24, 2010

    Monday, May 24, 2010 6 AM. All right, Papa, here we go again. Should I ask one of my friends’ questions, or do you have a preferred topic? You are pretty tired to be doing this. Yes, I know, but I don’t want to leave the momentum of it. That’s good. The habits of work…

  • Conversations May 25, 2010

    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 5 AM. All right, Papa, I am ready if you are. Michael thanks you for your reading on things. I take it you had more to say about sex, as opposed to the relations between the sexes. Huge subject. If I were trying to write my autobiography from this perspective —…

  • Conversations May 27, 2010

    Thursday, May 27, 2010 6 AM. So. Quite a different feeling, taking a day off deliberately, rather than doing it behind my own back, so to speak. Told you. It puts you back in charge of you. Now, you must understand, this isn’t a problem I had in my life. Unlike you, I always felt…

  • Conversations May 28, 2010

    Friday, May 28, 2010 4:50 AM. Yesterday Dr. Jung started to say that Hemingway’s image skewed his life — well, let me quote the statement where we left off, and Dr. Jung and Papa Hemingway, if you are both here, let’s proceed. Dr. Jung said, “Hemingway is an example of wholeness, of gusto. The image,…

  • Conversations 5-29-2010

    Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:30 AM. Papa, now that I have reread what came yesterday (had to, to remember what we had been talking about, and where we left off), do you want to give your reaction to Dr. Jung’s analysis of the effect on you of that 1934 safari — or rather, the effects…

  • Conversations May 30, 2010

    Sunday, May 30, 2010 6:45 AM. I started re-reading Reynolds’ fourth volume, “The Thirties,” and it is interesting how much clearer it is and how my viewpoint seems to have changed, so that I am easily seeing a difference between fact and attribution, between description and attribution of motive, or judgment of state of mind.…

  • Conversations May 31, 2010

    Monday, May 31, 2010 5:15 AM. Finished re-reading Reynolds fourth volume, and will probably go on to re-read at least part of the fifth. It’s all clear enough, when you have eyes to see. In the middle of the night, I realized that we should talk, Papa, about temper and paranoia and what people call…

  • Conversations June 1, 2010

    Tuesday, June 1, 2010 7:15 AM. Well, that was quite a May, wasn’t it? I am a little tired this morning, so I hope you guys have the agenda and the game plan. I must say, though, that hasn’t been a problem up till now! Yesterday’s entries involved just a sketch of just one issue…

  • Conversations June 3, 2010

    Thursday, June 3, 2010 5:30 AM. Finished Reynolds’ fifth volume, The Final Years. Reading of that long last act, Papa, the drinking, the drug cocktails they put you on, the accumulating injuries, most notably those received in Africa — Looking at all that increasingly manic, increasingly depressive behavior — Looking at self-pitying, and lashing out,…