Tuesday, July 20, 2010
4:30 AM. I’m not quite sure of how to proceed. Ernest?
Remember, in all this we are proceeding along more than one track. There is the correction of The Hemingway Myth for the sake of providing a model of completeness that the world misunderstood — not for the sake of doing me justice, although there is that, so much as for the sake of providing the model. The model is needed! And to correct the myth, it is necessary to understand; therefore it can’t be a whitewash job, and it can’t be superficial. But it isn’t a matter of research for new facts (though you should contact Terry Mort [author of The Hemingway Patrols] and ask about my official records, my reports to the Navy) — mostly it is a matter of interpreting what is known. That’s one strand.