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 collection. Which is to say, there would be enough source material, right there.
I’m very tired, very sleepy, this morning. And I suppose I should mention “Hemingway knee” for what it’s worth. Every night as I lie in bed, my right knee aches, sometimes violently; it gets stiff. Sometimes during the day, too, come to think of it. As far as I know, it doesn’t have a physical component, but it is strictly psychosomatic.