• Conversations July 31, 2010

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:30 AM. The John F. Kennedy Library has 10,000 photos in its Hemingway collection. I don’t know what the rules are for use but that’s enough source material! You could find 500 close-ups — more than any book could ever use — and it would still be only 5% of the…

  • Conversations August 1, 2010

    Sunday, August 1, 2010 6:30 AM. Not feeling so hot. A combination of too much Star Trek, too late going to bed, too much uneasy breathing, apprehension over the talk I have to give this morning, and general symptoms that so often accompany a sudden cold snap, such as came in with rain last night.…

  • Conversations August 2, 2010

    Monday, August 2, 2010 5 AM. Yesterday worked out all right, and I didn’t get a bad night’s sleep. I’m regretfully concluding that sleeping with the windows open may be a problem. At least, not doing so has alleviated the problem, maybe. Open for business, papa? Not now — I’m busy re-running those Star Trek…

  • Three books that will make a difference in your life

    Friends, About a decade ago, by way of an email from Colin Wilson, I got to know a remarkable Englishman, about my age, named Robert Clarke. Robert was a quiet man who had been led through the individuation process by the works of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and, remarkably, by some 30,000 dreams. These dreams, and…

  • Conversations August 3, 2010

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010 3 AM. I was dreaming of dad. A very pleasant dream, centering on his cheerfulness. He had so much stuff to be gone through. He was gone and I dreaded to start going through it, drawers full of stuff packed tight, to be emptied out into shopping bags and assorted. But…

  • Conversations August 5, 2010

    Wednesday, August 4, 2010 From The Hemingway Women by Bernice Kert, page 48: “Years later Vincent Sheean remarked, having spent time with him when the two were war correspondents, then Ernest created outlandish stories as unthinkingly as other people breathed. Most of the time his listeners could not separate his reality from his fantasy.” This…

  • Conversations August 6, 2010

    Friday, August 6, 2010 5:40 AM. Starting to get that old feeling, time passing. And I can see that in fact I have reached the point where the accumulated material, undigested, is starting to overwhelm me. Time for the analytical work that will pull it all together. My friends Dale and joy, visiting from Arizona,…

  • Conversations August 7, 2010

    Saturday, August 7, 2010 6 AM. I am not yet doing the work in the way I will need to be doing it, but a couple of questions have come to mind. First, Papa, a question of “what if?” It seems to me that if you hadn’t gotten involved with Pauline Pfeiffer, your life would…

  • Conversations August 8, 2010

    Sunday, August 8, 2010 5 AM. Something different today. Just spent most of an hour posting a couple of conversations from May so as to have that chore done — I was too tired to do this, maybe, but couldn’t sleep longer. We’ll see if I drained the batteries or did something efficient. It was…

  • Conversations August 9, 2010

    Monday, August 9, 2010 4:30 AM. I couldn’t do a thing yesterday, other than the morning consultation which went extraordinarily well, I thought. Wasted the rest of the day evading impossibility. (Also, complaining about it, a bit.) Bob Friedman says outline it. Nancy Ford says, ask. Her point, and it’s a good one, is, if…