I mentioned yesterday that I had discovered a book called The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway And His Hunt For U-Boats, by Terry Mort. I highly recommend it. The author respects Hemingway without being blind to his failings. Indeed, he seems troubled by them, in the same way I am. That’s a long way from condemnation, and it’s an attitude we don’t see enough of. The book is copyrighted 2009, published by Scribner, of course, Hemingway’s long-time publisher.
This is from the epilogue, “The Meaning Of Nothing”:
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