I Guess Hemingway Got Over It
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Sep 27, 2011 at 3:59am
This is about how I feel right now:
I suppose you heard about the loss of my Juvenalia? I went up to Paris last week to see what was left and found that Hadley had made the job complete by including all carbons, duplicates, etc. All that remains of my complete works are three pencil drafts of a bum poem which was later scrapped, some correspondence between John McClure and me, and some journalistic carbons. You, naturally, would say, ‘Good’ etc. But don’t say it to me. I ain’t yet reached that mood.
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Sep '10
Re: I Guess Hemingway Got Over It
Ozymandias ------------- I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear -- "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.' -----------Percy Bysshe Shelley
Re: I Guess Hemingway Got Over It
Quite.
May '10
Re: I Guess Hemingway Got Over It
T. E. Lawrence lost/had stolen the complete, and only, manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Make a notation, like Fermat, "I had an insight that will [fill in the blank]" and let posterity puzzle it out.
Jun '10
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These things always happen to the wrong people. The loss of my Juvenalia would be a blessing to the world, and to me.
Apr '11
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Speaking of Hemingway..
Hemingway's Boat - Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
From The NYRB:
review by James Salter
"Hemingway's Boat is a book written with the virtuosity of a novelist, hagiographic in the right way, sympathetic, assiduous, and imaginative. It does not rival the biographies but rather stands brilliantly beside them - the sea, Key West, Cuba, and all the places, the life he had and gloried in."
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/78500/hemingways-boat-by-paul-hendrickson/9781400041626/
Get a copy before the Palins get all of Random House's money.
Nov '10
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Claire -- I of course don't know just how long it was what you wrote, but my advice would be to go do a work-out (adrenaline). Back to your writing desk, and all the ideas and clever locutions will come back to you. You'll probably also think of yet further things that eluded you previously.
Edited on Sep 27, 2011 at 9:27amFeb '11
Re: I Guess Hemingway Got Over It
Proposed:
Having lost his Juvenalia, Hemingway spent the rest of his career trying to recreate it.
Discuss among yourselves