Monday, July 26, 2010
4:40 AM. Well, here we go again. But I am blank this morning, so I hope somebody is primed to go. Who’s up?
Nobody? Maybe I’ll just go back to sleep. Good thing for you the coffee’s on. How about you, Papa?
Sure. Your queued-up questions refer to my relations with my parents.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
12:30 AM. Papa, let’s talk about your wounding, the out-of-body (or near-death) experience, the aftermath including light, letters, and Agnes, and fear.
All good topics. [Hemingway biographer Carlos] Baker has his uses.
All right. Your first unasked question is — how much of the story as understood is accurate. You’ve read that I carried a man to safety, and you’ve read that it would have been impossible, and you’ve read that I started to, then was hit again and fell and was carried in. You have become wary of anything I said anytime, because of my tendency to spin yarns about my life and exploits. In fact it was this very tendency and your dismay about it that helped hook us up a few years ago. So I’ll try to stick to the trail of the truth.