1 00:00:01,366 --> 00:00:02,833 ANNOUNCER: MAJOR FUNDING FOR "HEMINGWAY" 2 00:00:02,833 --> 00:00:05,800 WAS PROVIDED BY THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:07,566 AND BY ITS MEMBERS: 4 00:00:07,566 --> 00:00:10,033 THE ELIZABETH RUTH WALLACE LIVING TRUST, 5 00:00:10,033 --> 00:00:11,966 JOHN AND LESLIE McQUOWN, 6 00:00:11,966 --> 00:00:13,666 JOHN AND CATHERINE DEBS, 7 00:00:13,666 --> 00:00:16,400 THE FULLERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, 8 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,400 KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION, GAIL ELDEN, 9 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,000 GILCHRIST AND AMY BERG, 10 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,600 ROBERT AND BEVERLY GRAPPONE, 11 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,066 AND MAUREE JANE AND MARK PERRY. 12 00:00:25,066 --> 00:00:29,466 ADDITIONAL FUNDING WAS PROVIDED BY THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, 13 00:00:29,466 --> 00:00:32,033 THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS FOUNDATIONS, 14 00:00:32,033 --> 00:00:34,566 THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, 15 00:00:34,566 --> 00:00:37,833 AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PBS STATION 16 00:00:37,833 --> 00:00:39,900 FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. 17 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:44,266 THANK YOU. 18 00:00:45,400 --> 00:01:10,066 ♪ 19 00:01:10,066 --> 00:01:14,600 MAN: HEMINGWAY WAS A WRITER WHO HAPPENED TO BE AMERICAN, 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,133 BUT HIS PALETTE WAS INCREDIBLY WIDE 21 00:01:18,133 --> 00:01:24,833 AND DELICIOUS AND VIOLENT AND BRUTAL AND UGLY, 22 00:01:24,833 --> 00:01:27,300 ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 23 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:31,633 IT'S SOMETHING EVERY CULTURE CAN BASICALLY UNDERSTAND. 24 00:01:31,633 --> 00:01:37,500 EVERY CULTURE CAN UNDERSTAND FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE, 25 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,033 THE LOSS OF THAT PERSON, 26 00:01:40,033 --> 00:01:42,666 OF HOW GREAT A MEAL TASTES, 27 00:01:42,666 --> 00:01:46,033 HOW EXTRAORDINARY THIS JOURNEY IS. 28 00:01:46,033 --> 00:01:49,100 THAT IS NOT NATIONALISTIC. 29 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:51,133 IT'S HUMAN, 30 00:01:51,133 --> 00:01:53,633 AND I THINK WITH ALL OF HIS FLAWS, 31 00:01:53,633 --> 00:01:57,666 WITH ALL THE DIFFICULTIES, HIS PERSONAL LIFE, WHATEVER, 32 00:01:57,666 --> 00:02:03,400 HE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEINGS. 33 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,733 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: YOU SEE, I'M TRYING IN ALL MY STORIES 34 00:02:05,733 --> 00:02:09,800 TO GET THE FEELING OF THE ACTUAL LIFE ACROSS-- 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,500 NOT JUST TO DEPICT LIFE OR CRITICIZE IT-- 36 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:17,166 BUT TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT ALIVE 37 00:02:17,166 --> 00:02:19,533 SO THAT WHEN YOU'VE READ SOMETHING BY ME 38 00:02:19,533 --> 00:02:22,566 YOU ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE THE THING. 39 00:02:22,566 --> 00:02:24,433 YOU CAN'T DO THIS WITHOUT PUTTING IN 40 00:02:24,433 --> 00:02:28,033 THE BAD AND THE UGLY, AS WELL AS WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL, 41 00:02:28,033 --> 00:02:31,800 BECAUSE IF IT IS ALL BEAUTIFUL YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IN IT. 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,966 THINGS AREN'T THAT WAY. 43 00:02:33,966 --> 00:02:36,566 IT IS ONLY BY SHOWING BOTH SIDES-- 44 00:02:36,566 --> 00:02:39,766 3 DIMENSIONS AND IF POSSIBLE 4-- 45 00:02:39,766 --> 00:02:42,466 THAT YOU CAN WRITE THE WAY I WANT TO. 46 00:02:49,266 --> 00:02:52,866 [THE BENNY GOODMAN SEXTET'S "A SMO-O-O-OTH ONE" PLAYING] 47 00:02:52,866 --> 00:02:56,600 NARRATOR: ERNEST HEMINGWAY REMADE AMERICAN LITERATURE. 48 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,833 HE PARED STORY-TELLING TO ITS ESSENTIALS, 49 00:02:59,833 --> 00:03:02,333 CHANGED THE WAY CHARACTERS SPEAK, 50 00:03:02,333 --> 00:03:06,300 EXPANDED THE WORLDS A WRITER COULD LEGITIMATELY EXPLORE, 51 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,466 AND LEFT AN INDELIBLE RECORD OF HOW MEN AND WOMEN LIVED 52 00:03:10,466 --> 00:03:13,266 DURING HIS LIFETIME. 53 00:03:13,266 --> 00:03:16,100 GENERATIONS OF WRITERS WOULD FIND THEIR WORK 54 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:18,100 MEASURED AGAINST HIS. 55 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:20,833 SOME FOLLOWED THE PATH HE'D BLAZED. 56 00:03:20,833 --> 00:03:23,000 OTHERS REBELLED AGAINST IT. 57 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,166 NONE COULD ESCAPE IT. 58 00:03:26,166 --> 00:03:29,133 HE MADE HIMSELF THE MOST CELEBRATED AMERICAN WRITER 59 00:03:29,133 --> 00:03:30,933 SINCE MARK TWAIN, 60 00:03:30,933 --> 00:03:35,133 READ--AND REVERED-- AROUND THE WORLD. 61 00:03:35,133 --> 00:03:37,833 MAN: IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A WRITER TODAY 62 00:03:37,833 --> 00:03:42,133 WHO HASN'T BEEN IN SOME WAY INFLUENCED BY HIM. 63 00:03:42,133 --> 00:03:43,866 IT'S LIKE HE CHANGED ALL THE FURNITURE 64 00:03:43,866 --> 00:03:47,000 IN THE ROOM, RIGHT, AND WE ALL HAVE TO SIT IN IT 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,933 TO SOME--YOU KNOW, WE CAN KIND OF SIT 66 00:03:48,933 --> 00:03:52,400 ON THE EDGE OF THE ARMCHAIR, ON THE ARM OR DO THIS, 67 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,100 BUT, YOU KNOW HE CHANGED THE FURNITURE IN THE ROOM. 68 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:02,200 THE VALUE OF THE AMERICAN DECLARATIVE SENTENCE, RIGHT, 69 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,166 THE WAY YOU BUILD A HOUSE BRICK BY BRICK OUT OF THOSE. 70 00:04:06,166 --> 00:04:09,433 WITHIN A FEW SENTENCES OF READING A HEMINGWAY STORY, 71 00:04:09,433 --> 00:04:14,033 YOU WERE NOT IN ANY CONFUSION AS TO WHO HAD WRITTEN IT. 72 00:04:14,033 --> 00:04:17,566 WOMAN: I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW IT'S POSSIBLE 73 00:04:17,566 --> 00:04:22,833 THAT ANY ONE WRITER COULD HAVE SO CHANGED THE LANGUAGE. 74 00:04:22,833 --> 00:04:27,500 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COPYING HIM FOR NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS, 75 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:32,966 AND THEY HAVEN'T SUCCEEDED IN EQUALING WHAT HE DID. 76 00:04:32,966 --> 00:04:36,833 MAN: IF YOU'RE A WRITER, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE HEMINGWAY. 77 00:04:36,833 --> 00:04:40,066 HE'S SO DAMN POPULAR THAT YOU CAN'T BEGIN TO WRITE 78 00:04:40,066 --> 00:04:42,733 TILL YOU TRY AND KILL HIS GHOST IN YOU 79 00:04:42,733 --> 00:04:44,600 OR EMBRACE IT, 80 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,033 AND I THINK I IDENTIFY THAT MOST ABOUT HEMINGWAY 81 00:04:48,033 --> 00:04:50,200 IS THAT HE WAS ALWAYS QUESTING. 82 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,500 THE PERFECT LINE HAD NOT HAPPENED YET. 83 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,166 IT IS ALWAYS A STRUGGLE TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT, 84 00:04:55,166 --> 00:04:58,033 AND YOU NEVER WILL. 85 00:04:58,033 --> 00:05:00,900 NARRATOR: FOR 3 DECADES, PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT READ 86 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,266 A WORD HE'D WRITTEN THOUGHT THEY KNEW HIM-- 87 00:05:04,266 --> 00:05:07,600 WOUNDED VETERAN AND BATTLEFIELD CORRESPONDENT, 88 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,233 BIG-GAME HUNTER AND DEEP-SEA FISHERMAN, 89 00:05:11,233 --> 00:05:15,433 BULL-FIGHT AFICIONADO, BRAWLER, AND LOVER 90 00:05:15,433 --> 00:05:17,466 AND MAN ABOUT TOWN... 91 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:27,266 BUT BEHIND THE PUBLIC FIGURE WAS A TROUBLED AND CONFLICTED MAN, 92 00:05:27,266 --> 00:05:30,466 WHO BELONGED TO A TROUBLED AND CONFLICTED FAMILY 93 00:05:30,466 --> 00:05:35,700 WITH ITS OWN DRAMA AND DARKNESS AND CLOSELY-HELD SECRETS. 94 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:38,766 THE WORLD SAW HIM AS A MAN'S MAN, 95 00:05:38,766 --> 00:05:41,900 BUT ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD PRIVATELY BE INTRIGUED 96 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:45,066 BY THE BLURRED LINES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE, 97 00:05:45,066 --> 00:05:48,566 MEN AND WOMEN. 98 00:05:48,566 --> 00:05:50,500 THERE WERE SO MANY SIDES TO HIM, 99 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,900 THE FIRST OF HIS 4 WIVES REMEMBERED, 100 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:56,100 THAT HE DEFIED GEOMETRY. 101 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:57,733 WOMAN: HE WAS OPEN TO LIFE. 102 00:05:57,733 --> 00:06:00,300 HE WAS OPEN TO TRAGEDY. 103 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:02,933 HE WAS OPEN TO FEELING. 104 00:06:02,933 --> 00:06:05,866 I LIKED THAT HE FELL IN LOVE, 105 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:09,400 AND HE FELL IN LOVE QUITE A FEW TIMES. 106 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,500 HE ALWAYS HAD THE NEXT WOMAN 107 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:18,166 BEFORE HE LEFT THE EXISTING WOMAN. 108 00:06:18,166 --> 00:06:20,733 NARRATOR: HE WAS OFTEN KIND AND GENEROUS TO THOSE 109 00:06:20,733 --> 00:06:24,033 IN NEED OF HELP AND SOMETIMES JUST AS CRUEL 110 00:06:24,033 --> 00:06:28,866 AND VENGEFUL TO THOSE WHO HAD HELPED HIM. 111 00:06:28,866 --> 00:06:30,800 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE ILLUSION 112 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,666 IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT, OR AS IMPORTANT, 113 00:06:33,666 --> 00:06:37,200 TO BE A GOOD MAN AS TO BE A GREAT WRITER. 114 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,566 I MAY TURN OUT TO BE NEITHER 115 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:42,100 BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE BOTH. 116 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,633 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S STORY IS A TALE OLDER EVEN 117 00:06:48,633 --> 00:06:51,700 THAN THE WRITTEN WORD OF A YOUNG MAN 118 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:53,966 WHOSE AMBITION AND IMAGINATION, 119 00:06:53,966 --> 00:06:58,033 ENERGY AND ENORMOUS GIFTS BRING HIM WEALTH AND FAME 120 00:06:58,033 --> 00:07:02,100 BEYOND IMAGINING, 121 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,833 WHO DESTROYS HIMSELF TRYING TO REMAIN TRUE 122 00:07:05,833 --> 00:07:10,033 TO THE CHARACTER HE HAS INVENTED. 123 00:07:10,033 --> 00:07:12,633 O'BRIEN: ONE OF HIS WEAKNESSES-- 124 00:07:12,633 --> 00:07:17,033 I WAS GOING TO SAY, "FAILINGS," AND IT WAS A GREAT PITY-- 125 00:07:17,033 --> 00:07:19,600 IT'S A GREAT PITY FOR ANY WRITER-- 126 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,933 HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE. 127 00:07:22,933 --> 00:07:27,066 HE LOVED AN AUDIENCE, AND IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE, 128 00:07:27,066 --> 00:07:30,500 HE LOST THE BEST PART OF HIMSELF 129 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:34,333 BY TRYING TO IMPRESS THE AUDIENCE. 130 00:07:34,333 --> 00:07:36,566 KATAKIS: I HATE THE MYTH OF HEMINGWAY, 131 00:07:36,566 --> 00:07:39,433 AND THE REASON I HATE THE MYTH OF HEMINGWAY, 132 00:07:39,433 --> 00:07:42,300 IT OBSCURES THE MAN, 133 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:48,033 AND THE MAN IS MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN THE MYTH. 134 00:07:48,033 --> 00:07:51,433 I THINK HE WAS A TERRIFIC FATHER SOMETIMES. 135 00:07:51,433 --> 00:07:55,733 I THINK THAT HE WAS A LOVING HUSBAND SOMETIMES. 136 00:07:55,733 --> 00:07:59,066 I THINK HE WAS LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE 137 00:07:59,066 --> 00:08:02,133 EXCEPT THIS ENORMOUS TALENT. 138 00:08:02,133 --> 00:08:06,000 HEMINGWAY IS COMPLICATED. HE'S VERY COMPLICATED. 139 00:08:07,466 --> 00:08:09,633 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE GREAT THING IS TO LAST 140 00:08:09,633 --> 00:08:12,333 AND GET YOUR WORK DONE 141 00:08:12,333 --> 00:08:17,166 AND SEE AND HEAR AND LEARN AND UNDERSTAND; 142 00:08:17,166 --> 00:08:20,133 AND WRITE WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW; 143 00:08:20,133 --> 00:08:22,333 AND NOT BEFORE; 144 00:08:22,333 --> 00:08:25,433 AND NOT TOO DAMNED MUCH AFTER. 145 00:08:25,433 --> 00:08:41,300 ♪ 146 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:43,500 [SCOTT JOPLIN'S "PARAGON RAG" PLAYING] 147 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:56,766 ♪ 148 00:08:56,766 --> 00:08:58,666 WOMAN, AS GRACE HEMINGWAY: MY BOY DELIGHTS IN SHOOTING 149 00:08:58,666 --> 00:09:02,166 IMAGINARY WOLVES, BEARS, LIONS. 150 00:09:02,166 --> 00:09:05,733 ALSO LIKES TO PRETEND HE IS A SOLDIER. 151 00:09:05,733 --> 00:09:10,866 HE STORMS AND KICKS AND DANCES WITH RAGE WHEN THWARTED. 152 00:09:10,866 --> 00:09:13,000 WHEN ASKED WHAT HE IS AFRAID OF, 153 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,066 HE SHOUTS OUT "'FRAID OF NOTHING!" 154 00:09:18,066 --> 00:09:20,700 NARRATOR: ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY WAS BORN 155 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:26,166 JULY 21, 1899, THE SECOND OF 6 CHILDREN 156 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:30,366 AND ENJOYED WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN IDYLLIC BOYHOOD. 157 00:09:30,366 --> 00:09:32,533 HE HAD 4 ADORING SISTERS 158 00:09:32,533 --> 00:09:34,933 AND A WORSHIPFUL YOUNGER BROTHER. 159 00:09:34,933 --> 00:09:37,066 THEY ALL LIVED IN A BIG, COMFORTABLE HOME 160 00:09:37,066 --> 00:09:41,033 IN THE PROSPEROUS CHICAGO SUBURB OF OAK PARK, 161 00:09:41,033 --> 00:09:43,533 A COMPLACENT, WELL-MANNERED COMMUNITY 162 00:09:43,533 --> 00:09:46,066 WITH NO SALOONS AND SO MANY CHURCHES 163 00:09:46,066 --> 00:09:50,466 IT LIKED TO CALL ITSELF "SAINT'S REST." 164 00:09:50,466 --> 00:09:54,033 THE HEMINGWAYS SPENT LONG SUMMERS AT WINDEMERE, 165 00:09:54,033 --> 00:09:57,400 THEIR COTTAGE ON WALLOON LAKE IN MICHIGAN. 166 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,700 [FIRE CRACKLING] 167 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:03,566 ERNEST'S FATHER CLARENCE HEMINGWAY-- 168 00:10:03,566 --> 00:10:08,000 KNOWN TO EVERYONE AS ED-- WAS A FAMILY DOCTOR. 169 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,800 HE KEPT OFFICE HOURS EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK 170 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,133 BUT WAS OFTEN FORCED TO MAKE HOUSE CALLS 171 00:10:13,133 --> 00:10:15,000 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, 172 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,866 PERFORMING EMERGENCY CESAREAN SECTIONS 173 00:10:17,866 --> 00:10:20,266 BY LANTERN LIGHT. 174 00:10:20,266 --> 00:10:27,000 SOMETIMES, HE FAILED TO SAVE THE MOTHER OR THE BABY OR BOTH. 175 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,566 "MY FATHER WAS VERY DEVOTED TO MY MOTHER," 176 00:10:29,566 --> 00:10:31,933 ERNEST'S YOUNGEST SISTER REMEMBERED, 177 00:10:31,933 --> 00:10:35,100 "BUT SHE WAS DEVOTED TO HERSELF." 178 00:10:36,666 --> 00:10:39,066 HIS MOTHER GRACE HALL HEMINGWAY 179 00:10:39,066 --> 00:10:41,333 HAD MARRIED AFTER ABANDONING HER DREAM 180 00:10:41,333 --> 00:10:44,366 OF BEING AN OPERA SINGER, BUT SHE GAVE 181 00:10:44,366 --> 00:10:47,200 VOICE AND VIOLIN AND PIANO LESSONS, 182 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,733 DIRECTED A CHOIR, 183 00:10:48,733 --> 00:10:52,366 AND EARNED MORE THAN HER HUSBAND. 184 00:10:52,366 --> 00:10:55,700 GRACE EXPOSED ALL OF HER CHILDREN TO THE ARTS, 185 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,866 BUT SHE NEVER LET THEM FORGET THAT SHE HAD SACRIFICED 186 00:10:58,866 --> 00:11:02,233 A CONCERT CAREER TO RAISE THEM. 187 00:11:02,233 --> 00:11:04,900 IF THEY LOVED HER, SHE SAID, THEY WOULD DO 188 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:07,433 WHATEVER SHE TOLD THEM TO DO. 189 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,933 IT AMUSED HER FOR A TIME TO PRETEND THAT ERNEST 190 00:11:11,933 --> 00:11:16,133 AND HIS OLDER SISTER MARCELLINE WERE SOMEHOW TWINS, 191 00:11:16,133 --> 00:11:22,966 SOMETIMES TWO BOYS, SOMETIMES TWO GIRLS. 192 00:11:22,966 --> 00:11:26,566 WOMAN: SHE DID THIS THING OF TWINNING HIM WITH HIS SISTER. 193 00:11:26,566 --> 00:11:28,233 SHE DRESSED THEM ALIKE. 194 00:11:28,233 --> 00:11:31,466 SHE DRESSED THEM IN DRESSES OFTEN, 195 00:11:31,466 --> 00:11:34,233 BUT THEN SHE'D PUT THEM IN OVERALLS. 196 00:11:34,233 --> 00:11:36,466 SHE DIDN'T ONLY DRESS HIM UP AS A GIRL. 197 00:11:36,466 --> 00:11:38,900 SOMETIMES, SHE'D DRESS THE GIRLS UP AS BOYS, 198 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,733 AND THERE'S THIS--THERE IS THIS ANDROGYNY GOING ON. 199 00:11:42,733 --> 00:11:45,333 WOMAN, AS MARCELLINE: WE WORE OUR HAIR EXACTLY THE SAME 200 00:11:45,333 --> 00:11:48,166 IN A SQUARE-CUT DUTCH BOB. 201 00:11:48,166 --> 00:11:51,533 WE PLAYED WITH SMALL CHINA TEA SETS. 202 00:11:51,533 --> 00:11:54,700 WE HAD DOLLS ALIKE, AND WHEN ERNEST WAS GIVEN 203 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:59,266 A LITTLE AIR RIFLE, I HAD ONE, TOO. 204 00:11:59,266 --> 00:12:01,500 NARRATOR: ONE OF HIS TEACHERS THOUGHT GRACE TOO CLOSE 205 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,033 TO HER SON, TOO CONTROLLING. 206 00:12:04,033 --> 00:12:07,266 SHE REMEMBERED WONDERING IF, "GIVEN THE LUSH MOTHERHOOD 207 00:12:07,266 --> 00:12:11,200 HE KNEW, HE WOULD FIND WIFE." 208 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,666 [BIRDS CHIRPING, DUCKS QUACKING] 209 00:12:17,666 --> 00:12:19,633 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HIS FATHER CAME BACK TO HIM 210 00:12:19,633 --> 00:12:21,800 IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR, 211 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,800 OR IN THE EARLY SPRING WHEN THERE HAD BEEN JACKSNIPE 212 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,400 ON THE PRAIRIE, 213 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,566 OR WHEN HE SAW SHOCKS OF CORN, 214 00:12:29,566 --> 00:12:32,966 OR WHEN HE SAW A LAKE, 215 00:12:32,966 --> 00:12:36,066 OR IF HE EVER SAW A HORSE AND BUGGY, 216 00:12:36,066 --> 00:12:39,233 OR WHEN HE SAW, OR HEARD, WILD GEESE, 217 00:12:39,233 --> 00:12:41,466 OR IN A DUCK BLIND. 218 00:12:41,466 --> 00:12:45,866 HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM, SUDDENLY, 219 00:12:45,866 --> 00:12:49,166 IN DESERTED ORCHARDS AND IN NEW-PLOWED FIELDS, 220 00:12:49,166 --> 00:12:52,500 IN THICKETS, ON SMALL HILLS, 221 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,266 OR WHEN GOING THROUGH DEAD GRASS, 222 00:12:55,266 --> 00:12:58,266 WHENEVER SPLITTING WOOD OR HAULING WATER, 223 00:12:58,266 --> 00:13:01,866 BY GRIST MILLS, CIDER MILLS, AND DAMS 224 00:13:01,866 --> 00:13:06,733 AND ALWAYS WITH OPEN FIRES. 225 00:13:06,733 --> 00:13:08,900 NARRATOR: ERNEST WORSHIPPED HIS FATHER, 226 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:14,166 WHO SPENT HOURS TEACHING HIM HOW TO HUNT AND FISH AND CANOE, 227 00:13:14,166 --> 00:13:16,700 INCULCATING A LIFE-LONG FASCINATION 228 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:20,200 WITH THE OUTDOORS AND WITH LEARNING PRECISELY 229 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,700 HOW THINGS SHOULD BE DONE. 230 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:27,533 MAN: HE INSTILLED IN THIS BOY BEFORE THE BOY 231 00:13:27,533 --> 00:13:32,066 ALMOST COULD WALK THIS PRIMAL FEELING 232 00:13:32,066 --> 00:13:34,100 FOR THE BEAUTY OF NATURE, 233 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:38,233 JUST THE ORGANIC LOVE FOR THE WOODS, FOR WATER. 234 00:13:38,233 --> 00:13:42,033 NARRATOR: BUT ED HEMINGWAY WAS ALSO SEVERE, PIOUS, 235 00:13:42,033 --> 00:13:45,700 OPPOSED TO DRINKING, CARD-PLAYING, AND DANCING 236 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:47,733 AND, AS ERNEST GREW OLDER, 237 00:13:47,733 --> 00:13:51,966 INCREASINGLY ANXIOUS, MOODY, AND UNPREDICTABLE. 238 00:13:51,966 --> 00:13:54,466 ONE MINUTE HE WAS LAUGHING WITH HIS CHILDREN, 239 00:13:54,466 --> 00:13:59,733 THE NEXT HE WAS PUNISHING THEM WITH A LEATHER STRAP. 240 00:13:59,733 --> 00:14:03,433 TWICE, HEMINGWAY'S FATHER WAS SO CRIPPLED BY DEPRESSION 241 00:14:03,433 --> 00:14:06,300 THAT HE HAD TO LEAVE TOWN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS 242 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:08,933 IN ORDER TO REST WHAT HIS WIFE CALLED 243 00:14:08,933 --> 00:14:13,266 "THE WORRYING PLACE IN YOUR BRAIN." 244 00:14:13,266 --> 00:14:16,633 BY THE TIME ERNEST WAS A TEENAGER, HE REMEMBERED, 245 00:14:16,633 --> 00:14:20,800 HIS ADMIRATION FOR HIS FATHER HAD BEGUN TO TURN TO PITY. 246 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,800 HE CAME TO SEE HIM AS WEAK AND SUBMISSIVE 247 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,400 AND BLAMED HIS MOTHER FOR HIS FATHER'S UNHAPPINESS. 248 00:14:29,366 --> 00:14:32,700 ERNEST DREAMED OF ONE DAY BECOMING A NATURALIST 249 00:14:32,700 --> 00:14:38,100 OR AN EXPLORER LIKE HIS HERO THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 250 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:41,466 HE WAS ALSO A GOOD STUDENT AND A FERVENT READER, 251 00:14:41,466 --> 00:14:46,333 WHO LOVED O. HENRY, JACK LONDON, AND RUDYARD KIPLING. 252 00:14:46,333 --> 00:14:47,966 AT HIS MOTHER'S URGING, 253 00:14:47,966 --> 00:14:50,500 HE SANG IN HER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR 254 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:52,500 AND PLAYED THE CELLO. 255 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,466 HE REMEMBERED THAT HE ESPECIALLY ENJOYED THE REPETITION 256 00:14:55,466 --> 00:14:59,000 AND COUNTERPOINT, COUNTERPOINT AND REPETITION 257 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,666 THAT RAN THROUGH THE WORKS OF BACH. 258 00:15:02,666 --> 00:15:05,500 WOMAN: SHE ALSO TAUGHT HER KIDS WHAT EVERY MUSICIAN 259 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:08,633 TEACHES THEIR KIDS, TO PRACTICE. 260 00:15:08,633 --> 00:15:13,000 "DON'T COME TO ME AND SAY THAT YOU LOVE ART 261 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,500 "IF YOU DON'T PRACTICE YOUR ART BECAUSE PRACTICE IS LOVE. 262 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:18,400 WORK IS LOVE." 263 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,033 AND THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, 264 00:15:20,033 --> 00:15:23,300 HE WAS A TREMENDOUSLY DISCIPLINED WRITER. 265 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,233 NARRATOR: IN HIS JUNIOR YEAR, HE BEGAN TO WRITE, 266 00:15:26,233 --> 00:15:29,833 CONTRIBUTING SPORTS STORIES AND TALES OF ADVENTURE 267 00:15:29,833 --> 00:15:33,733 TO THE HIGH SCHOOL PAPER AND ITS LITERARY MAGAZINE, 268 00:15:33,733 --> 00:15:36,566 BUT HE WAS REMEMBERED MOST BY HIS CLASSMATES 269 00:15:36,566 --> 00:15:40,366 AS A BIG, HANDSOME, SLIGHTLY AWKWARD BOY 270 00:15:40,366 --> 00:15:44,166 FOND OF BOXING BUT TOO NEARSIGHTED AND TOO CLUMSY 271 00:15:44,166 --> 00:15:46,700 TO EXCEL AT TEAM SPORTS, 272 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:50,000 WHO WAS SHY WITH GIRLS AND PREFERRED TO HUNT 273 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,200 AND HIKE AND FISH IN THE WOODS 274 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,400 OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN WHENEVER HE GOT THE CHANCE. 275 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,900 HIS SHYNESS WITH WOMEN WOULD EVENTUALLY EVAPORATE, 276 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:02,633 BUT HE WOULD REMAIN EAGER ALL HIS LIFE 277 00:16:02,633 --> 00:16:05,366 FOR THE COMPANY OF MEN WHO SHARED HIS LOVE 278 00:16:05,366 --> 00:16:08,766 OF GOOD TIMES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS. 279 00:16:12,533 --> 00:16:16,200 [EXPLOSIONS] 280 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:41,133 ♪ 281 00:16:41,133 --> 00:16:45,000 NARRATOR: ON APRIL 6, 1917, THE UNITED STATES 282 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,766 ENTERED THE GREAT WAR THAT HAD BEEN UNDERWAY 283 00:16:47,766 --> 00:16:51,600 IN EUROPE FOR NEARLY 3 YEARS. 284 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,400 MILLIONS OF YOUNG MEN HAD ALREADY BEEN SLAUGHTERED. 285 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,500 THE WORLD ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S PARENTS HAD PREPARED HIM FOR 286 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,533 HAD DISAPPEARED. 287 00:17:03,533 --> 00:17:05,700 SEVERAL OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATES 288 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:09,100 HAD ALREADY VOLUNTEERED TO GO TO WAR. 289 00:17:09,100 --> 00:17:13,800 HE HOPED TO GO, TOO, BUT HE WAS TOO YOUNG AT 17, 290 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,133 AND HIS PARENTS WOULD NOT SIGN THE PAPERS 291 00:17:16,133 --> 00:17:18,500 THAT WOULD HAVE WAIVED THAT REQUIREMENT. 292 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:21,200 THEY WANTED HIM TO GO TO COLLEGE. 293 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,500 HE REFUSED. 294 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:28,100 A COMPROMISE WAS EVENTUALLY REACHED. 295 00:17:28,100 --> 00:17:33,133 AN UNCLE GOT THE BOY A JOB AT A NEWSPAPER IN KANSAS CITY. 296 00:17:33,133 --> 00:17:36,333 KANSAS CITY WAS A TOUGH, WIDE-OPEN TOWN, 297 00:17:36,333 --> 00:17:39,166 AND THE "KANSAS CITY STAR" WAS ONE OF THE BEST PAPERS 298 00:17:39,166 --> 00:17:40,866 IN THE COUNTRY, 299 00:17:40,866 --> 00:17:46,033 A PIONEER IN CRISP, CLEAR, IMMEDIATE REPORTING. 300 00:17:46,033 --> 00:17:49,166 ITS STYLE-SHEET SET THE TONE. 301 00:17:49,166 --> 00:17:51,300 MAN: USE SHORT SENTENCES. 302 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:53,833 USE SHORT FIRST PARAGRAPHS. 303 00:17:53,833 --> 00:17:56,133 USE VIGOROUS ENGLISH. 304 00:17:56,133 --> 00:17:58,800 BE POSITIVE, NOT NEGATIVE. 305 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,966 AVOID THE USE OF ADJECTIVES. 306 00:18:01,966 --> 00:18:04,733 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY COVERED SHOOTINGS, STABBINGS, 307 00:18:04,733 --> 00:18:07,766 LABOR TROUBLES, A SMALLPOX SCARE. 308 00:18:07,766 --> 00:18:10,533 HE WAS FASCINATED BY ALL OF IT, 309 00:18:10,533 --> 00:18:14,166 AND ECHOES OF WHAT HE HAD HEARD AND SEEN IN KANSAS CITY 310 00:18:14,166 --> 00:18:18,600 WOULD APPEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN IN HIS LATER WRITING. 311 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,400 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR DAD, WE ARE HAVING 312 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,900 A LAUNDRY STRIKE HERE, 313 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:23,900 AND I AM HANDLING THE POLICE END. 314 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:25,666 THE VIOLENCE STORIES. 315 00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:28,233 WRECKING TRUCKS, RUNNING THEM OVER CLIFFS, 316 00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:31,533 AND YESTERDAY, THEY MURDERED A NON-UNION GUARD. 317 00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:33,233 FOR OVER A MONTH I HAVE AVERAGED 318 00:18:33,233 --> 00:18:36,100 OVER A COLUMN A DAY. 319 00:18:38,066 --> 00:18:40,100 NARRATOR: AFTER HEMINGWAY TURNED 18, 320 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:44,566 HE NO LONGER NEEDED HIS PARENTS' PERMISSION TO JOIN THE ARMY, 321 00:18:44,566 --> 00:18:46,633 BUT HE WAS CONVINCED HE WOULD BE REJECTED 322 00:18:46,633 --> 00:18:49,033 BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED AND JOINED 323 00:18:49,033 --> 00:18:52,766 THE RED CROSS AMBULANCE SERVICE INSTEAD. 324 00:18:52,766 --> 00:18:59,433 NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HIM FOR WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SEE. 325 00:18:59,433 --> 00:19:01,633 HEMINGWAY WAS SENT TO ITALY, 326 00:19:01,633 --> 00:19:03,866 WHERE HE WAS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO THE SCENE 327 00:19:03,866 --> 00:19:06,466 OF A HORRIFIC DISASTER. 328 00:19:06,466 --> 00:19:09,400 A MUNITIONS FACTORY HAD EXPLODED. 329 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,733 35 WORKERS WERE BLOWN TO PIECES. 330 00:19:13,733 --> 00:19:17,000 HE HELPED GATHER UP THE DEAD, INCLUDING THE CORPSE 331 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,166 OF A HEADLESS, LEGLESS WOMAN. 332 00:19:20,166 --> 00:19:22,500 "HEMMIE AND I NEARLY PASSED OUT COLD," 333 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,633 A FRIEND REMEMBERED, "BUT GRITTED OUR TEETH 334 00:19:25,633 --> 00:19:30,100 AND LAID THE THING ON THE STRETCHER." 335 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:34,100 HEMINGWAY'S RED CROSS UNIT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY, 336 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:35,900 FIGHTING THE AUSTRIANS IN THE FOOTHILLS 337 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:39,133 OF THE ITALIAN ALPS. 338 00:19:39,133 --> 00:19:42,166 HE DROVE AN AMBULANCE FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS, 339 00:19:42,166 --> 00:19:44,500 BRINGING WOUNDED ITALIAN SOLDIERS DOWN 340 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,366 FROM THE MOUNTAINS. 341 00:19:47,366 --> 00:19:49,200 "THERE'S NOTHING HERE BUT SCENERY 342 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,133 AND TOO DAMN MUCH OF THAT," HE TOLD A FRIEND. 343 00:19:52,133 --> 00:19:54,466 "I'M GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS AMBULANCE SECTION 344 00:19:54,466 --> 00:20:00,000 AND SEE IF I CAN'T FIND OUT WHERE THE WAR IS." 345 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,633 ERNEST VOLUNTEERED TO BICYCLE UP TO THE FRONTLINE TRENCHES 346 00:20:03,633 --> 00:20:06,633 NEAR THE TOWN OF FOSSALTA AND DISTRIBUTE 347 00:20:06,633 --> 00:20:09,500 CANDY AND CIGARETTES TO THE MEN. 348 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:14,100 LESS THAN A WEEK LATER, ON JULY 8, 1918, 349 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,300 HE WAS PASSING OUT CHOCOLATE BARS 350 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,066 IN A FORWARD LISTENING POST ON THE WEST BANK 351 00:20:19,066 --> 00:20:20,900 OF THE PIAVE RIVER 352 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:27,400 WHEN AN ENEMY MORTAR SHELL EXPLODED JUST 3 FEET AWAY. 353 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,666 ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED. 354 00:20:29,666 --> 00:20:33,566 ANOTHER HAD HIS LEGS BLOWN OFF. 355 00:20:33,566 --> 00:20:38,633 MORE THAN 220 SHARDS OF SHRAPNEL RIPPED INTO HEMINGWAY'S LEGS 356 00:20:38,633 --> 00:20:42,100 AND LACERATED HIS SCALP, AND THE BLAST CAUSED 357 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:44,833 THE FIRST OF MANY SERIOUS CONCUSSIONS 358 00:20:44,833 --> 00:20:49,366 HE WOULD ENDURE DURING HIS LIFETIME. 359 00:20:49,366 --> 00:20:51,700 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I DIED THEN. 360 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:56,633 I FELT MY SOUL OR SOMETHING COMING RIGHT OUT OF MY BODY, 361 00:20:56,633 --> 00:20:58,500 LIKE YOU'D PULL A SILK HANDKERCHIEF 362 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:02,566 OUT OF A POCKET BY ONE CORNER. 363 00:21:02,566 --> 00:21:04,833 IT FLEW AROUND AND THEN CAME BACK 364 00:21:04,833 --> 00:21:11,000 AND WENT IN AGAIN, AND I WASN'T DEAD ANYMORE. 365 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,366 NARRATOR: AS STRETCHER-BEARERS STRUGGLED TO GET HEMINGWAY 366 00:21:13,366 --> 00:21:15,033 TO AN AID STATION, 367 00:21:15,033 --> 00:21:17,866 AN ENEMY MACHINE GUNNER OPENED UP. 368 00:21:17,866 --> 00:21:21,233 BULLETS LODGED IN HIS RIGHT KNEE AND FOOT. 369 00:21:21,233 --> 00:21:24,166 HE REFUSED TO BE TREATED FOR A TIME BECAUSE HE SAID 370 00:21:24,166 --> 00:21:29,000 THERE WERE OTHER MEN MORE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED THAN HE. 371 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,633 HE THEN ENDURED THE REMOVAL OF THE LARGEST PIECES 372 00:21:31,633 --> 00:21:34,633 OF SHRAPNEL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC. 373 00:21:34,633 --> 00:21:37,166 BECAUSE HIS WOUNDS SEEMED SO SEVERE, 374 00:21:37,166 --> 00:21:41,700 A CATHOLIC PRIEST ADMINISTERED EXTREME UNCTION. 375 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,933 ITALY WOULD EVENTUALLY AWARD HIM ITS SILVER MEDAL 376 00:21:44,933 --> 00:21:47,033 FOR WHAT THE CITATION CALLED 377 00:21:47,033 --> 00:21:51,233 HIS "ADMIRABLE SPIRIT OF FRATERNITY." 378 00:21:51,233 --> 00:21:54,433 HEMINGWAY FINALLY REACHED THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL 379 00:21:54,433 --> 00:21:58,700 IN MILAN AND UNDERWENT A FURTHER SERIES OF SURGERIES 380 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:03,833 TO REMOVE THE REMAINING SHRAPNEL AND THE MACHINE GUN BULLETS. 381 00:22:05,833 --> 00:22:09,300 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: DEAR FOLKS, THIS IS A PEACH OF A HOSPITAL. 382 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:11,600 THERE ARE ABOUT 18 AMERICAN NURSES 383 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,366 TO TAKE CARE OF 4 PATIENTS. 384 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:16,866 I'M ENCLOSING A PICTURE OF ME IN BED. 385 00:22:16,866 --> 00:22:19,133 IT LOOKS LIKE MY LEFT LEG WAS A STUMP, 386 00:22:19,133 --> 00:22:20,633 BUT IT REALLY ISN'T, 387 00:22:20,633 --> 00:22:24,200 JUST BENT SO IT LOOKS THAT WAY. 388 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,433 THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU TO WORRY ABOUT 389 00:22:26,433 --> 00:22:29,100 BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONCLUSIVELY PROVED 390 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:31,800 THAT I CAN'T BE BUMPED OFF, 391 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,866 AND WOUNDS DON'T MATTER. 392 00:22:33,866 --> 00:22:36,233 I WOULDN'T MIND BEING WOUNDED AGAIN SO MUCH 393 00:22:36,233 --> 00:22:39,733 BECAUSE I KNOW JUST WHAT IT IS LIKE, 394 00:22:39,733 --> 00:22:42,866 AND YOU CAN ONLY SUFFER SO MUCH, YOU KNOW, 395 00:22:42,866 --> 00:22:45,666 AND IT DOES GIVE YOU AN AWFULLY SATISFACTORY FEELING 396 00:22:45,666 --> 00:22:47,233 TO BE WOUNDED. 397 00:22:47,233 --> 00:22:52,066 IT'S GETTING BEATEN UP IN A GOOD CAUSE. 398 00:22:52,066 --> 00:22:55,766 THERE ARE NO HEROES IN THIS WAR. 399 00:22:55,766 --> 00:22:57,900 ALL THE HEROES ARE DEAD, 400 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:01,800 AND THE REAL HEROES ARE THE PARENTS. 401 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,666 DYING IS A VERY SIMPLE THING. 402 00:23:04,666 --> 00:23:08,366 I'VE LOOKED AT DEATH, AND REALLY I KNOW. 403 00:23:08,366 --> 00:23:10,066 IF I SHOULD HAVE DIED, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 404 00:23:10,066 --> 00:23:12,833 VERY EASY FOR ME, 405 00:23:12,833 --> 00:23:15,500 AND HOW MUCH BETTER TO DIE IN ALL THE HAPPY PERIOD 406 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,366 OF UNDISILLUSIONED YOUTH, 407 00:23:18,366 --> 00:23:20,866 TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF LIGHT, 408 00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:23,600 THAN TO HAVE YOUR BODY WORN OUT AND OLD 409 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,200 AND ILLUSIONS SHATTERED. 410 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,700 SO, DEAR OLD FAMILY, DON'T EVER WORRY ABOUT ME! 411 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,200 IT ISN'T BAD TO BE WOUNDED: 412 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,533 I KNOW BECAUSE I'VE EXPERIENCED IT, 413 00:23:37,533 --> 00:23:41,466 AND IF I DIE, I'M LUCKY. 414 00:23:44,633 --> 00:23:46,933 WOMAN: AUGUST 26. 415 00:23:46,933 --> 00:23:50,033 ERNEST HEMINGWAY IS GETTING EARNEST. 416 00:23:50,033 --> 00:23:52,133 HE WAS TALKING LAST NIGHT OF WHAT MIGHT BE 417 00:23:52,133 --> 00:23:54,700 IF HE WAS 26 OR 28. 418 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:59,333 IN SOME WAYS--AT SOME TIMES-- I WISH VERY MUCH THAT HE WAS. 419 00:23:59,333 --> 00:24:01,733 HE IS ADORABLE, AND WE ARE VERY CONGENIAL 420 00:24:01,733 --> 00:24:05,133 IN EVERY WAY. 421 00:24:05,133 --> 00:24:07,800 NARRATOR: AS HE WAS RECOVERING, HEMINGWAY FELL IN LOVE 422 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,566 WITH HIS NIGHT NURSE, 423 00:24:09,566 --> 00:24:12,900 AN AMERICAN NAMED AGNES VON KUROWSKY. 424 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:16,033 SHE WAS AUBURN-HAIRED AND 26, 425 00:24:16,033 --> 00:24:19,033 7 1/2 YEARS OLDER THAN HER PATIENT, 426 00:24:19,033 --> 00:24:23,533 ENGAGED TO A DOCTOR BACK HOME, AND FLIRTATIOUS. 427 00:24:23,533 --> 00:24:25,833 HE BEGAN CALLING HER "AG." 428 00:24:25,833 --> 00:24:29,033 SHE CALLED HIM "KID," AND OVER THE WEEKS 429 00:24:29,033 --> 00:24:32,000 THAT FOLLOWED, SHE GAVE HIM A RING TO WEAR, 430 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,233 ENJOYED WITH HIM THE WINE AND COGNAC 431 00:24:34,233 --> 00:24:37,033 HE BRIBED THE PORTER TO SMUGGLE IN, 432 00:24:37,033 --> 00:24:39,433 TOOK WALKS AND CARRIAGE RIDES WITH HIM 433 00:24:39,433 --> 00:24:42,266 AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE TO LEAVE HIS ROOM, 434 00:24:42,266 --> 00:24:45,533 AND SHE WAS ONCE REPRIMANDED BY HER SUPERIOR 435 00:24:45,533 --> 00:24:50,366 FOR HAVING LEFT A GOLD HAIR-PIN BENEATH HIS PILLOW. 436 00:24:50,366 --> 00:24:52,900 WHEN AGNES WAS TRANSFERRED TO AN ARMY HOSPITAL 437 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:56,366 IN FLORENCE, ERNEST WROTE HER SO MANY LETTERS, 438 00:24:56,366 --> 00:24:59,900 SHE URGED HIM TO SLOW DOWN, 439 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,266 BUT SHE ALSO TOLD HIM SHE WAS LOST WITHOUT HIM, 440 00:25:03,266 --> 00:25:05,666 WISHED SHE COULD PUT HER ARMS AROUND HIM, 441 00:25:05,666 --> 00:25:08,033 DREAMED OF HIM EVERY NIGHT. 442 00:25:08,033 --> 00:25:11,766 "I SOMETIMES WISH WE COULD MARRY OVER HERE," SHE WROTE, 443 00:25:11,766 --> 00:25:15,600 AND SHE SIGNED SOME OF HER LETTERS "MRS. KID," 444 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:22,266 BUT SHE SIGNED OTHERS SIMPLY, "YOURS TILL THE WAR IS OVER." 445 00:25:22,266 --> 00:25:24,500 TO FILL THE HOURS WHILE SHE WAS AWAY, 446 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:26,966 ERNEST BEGAN TO WRITE A SHORT STORY 447 00:25:26,966 --> 00:25:30,000 ABOUT A HIDEOUSLY WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIER, 448 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,266 WHO MUSES OVER THE MEDALS HE'D BEEN GIVEN FOR HIS HEROISM 449 00:25:34,266 --> 00:25:37,733 AND THE MEANINGLESS CITATION THAT ACCOMPANIED THEM 450 00:25:37,733 --> 00:25:42,933 AND THEN DECIDES TO KILL HIMSELF. 451 00:25:42,933 --> 00:25:45,766 BY THE TIME HEMINGWAY WAS FINALLY WELL ENOUGH TO SAIL 452 00:25:45,766 --> 00:25:49,733 FOR HOME IN EARLY 1919, THE WAR HAD ENDED, 453 00:25:49,733 --> 00:25:53,466 AND HE WAS DETERMINED, HE SAID, TO "MAKE THE WORLD SAFE 454 00:25:53,466 --> 00:25:55,700 FOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY." 455 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:58,500 AS SOON AS HIS WRITING PROVIDED HIM WITH A LIVING, 456 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:01,566 HE AND AGNES WOULD MARRY. 457 00:26:01,566 --> 00:26:05,666 NARRATOR: AS HEMINGWAY LIMPED DOWN THE GANGPLANK IN NEW YORK, 458 00:26:05,666 --> 00:26:07,700 A REPORTER FROM THE "NEW YORK SUN" 459 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,533 WAS THERE TO MEET HIM. 460 00:26:09,533 --> 00:26:11,366 HE MADE THE FIRST OF THE HUNDREDS 461 00:26:11,366 --> 00:26:15,200 OF NATIONAL HEADLINES HE WOULD MAKE DURING HIS LIFETIME. 462 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:21,666 HE RETURNED TO OAK PARK TO A HERO'S WELCOME. 463 00:26:21,666 --> 00:26:24,700 HE LOVED THE ADULATION, WAS DELIGHTED 464 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,700 WHEN AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN DELEGATION CAME OUT 465 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,566 FROM CHICAGO TO HIS MOTHER'S MUSIC ROOM 466 00:26:30,566 --> 00:26:35,633 TO HONOR HIM FOR HIS COURAGE UNTIL HIS TEETOTALING PARENTS-- 467 00:26:35,633 --> 00:26:38,400 APPALLED BY THE FREE-FLOWING WINE-- 468 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,366 PUT A STOP TO SUCH VISITS. 469 00:26:41,366 --> 00:26:43,233 WHENEVER HE LEFT HIS PARENTS' HOUSE, 470 00:26:43,233 --> 00:26:45,000 HE WORE HIS UNIFORM, 471 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,200 COMPLETE WITH A BLACK VELVET ITALIAN CAPE, 472 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,366 AND HE APPEARED BEFORE LOCAL GROUPS, 473 00:26:50,366 --> 00:26:55,200 RETELLING AND EMBELLISHING HIS WAR STORIES FOR A FEE, 474 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,233 THOUGH HE SAID HE HAD NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT 475 00:26:57,233 --> 00:27:01,833 FOR THOSE WHO WANTED TO BE "VICARIOUSLY HORRIFIED." 476 00:27:05,066 --> 00:27:07,933 BUT NOW HE CLAIMED, DESPITE HIS WOUNDS, 477 00:27:07,933 --> 00:27:11,133 HE'D MANAGED TO CARRY AN INJURED MAN TO SAFETY 478 00:27:11,133 --> 00:27:14,466 BEFORE COLLAPSING, AND HE LET HIS AUDIENCES BELIEVE 479 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:17,466 THAT, ALTHOUGH HE STILL COULD NOT WALK WITHOUT A CANE, 480 00:27:17,466 --> 00:27:20,400 HE'D SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE TO RETURN TO THE FRONT 481 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,433 AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE AN ELITE UNIT OF THE ITALIAN ARMY 482 00:27:24,433 --> 00:27:27,133 BEFORE THE SHOOTING STOPPED. 483 00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:32,066 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO BE LISTENED TO AT ALL HE 484 00:27:32,066 --> 00:27:33,800 HAD TO LIE, 485 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,700 AND AFTER HE HAD DONE THIS TWICE, 486 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:38,466 HE, TOO, HAD A REACTION AGAINST THE WAR 487 00:27:38,466 --> 00:27:40,566 AND AGAINST TALKING ABOUT IT. 488 00:27:40,566 --> 00:27:43,300 A DISTASTE FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM 489 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:45,866 IN THE WAR SET IN 490 00:27:45,866 --> 00:27:50,066 BECAUSE OF THE LIES HE HAD TOLD. 491 00:27:50,066 --> 00:27:53,133 NARRATOR: WHEN ERNEST WAS NOT MAKING PUBLIC APPEARANCES, 492 00:27:53,133 --> 00:27:56,300 HE WAS IN HIS THIRD-FLOOR BEDROOM UNDER THE EAVES, 493 00:27:56,300 --> 00:28:00,000 HUNCHED OVER AN OLD TYPEWRITER, WRITING WAR STORIES 494 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,866 AND SENDING THEM OFF TO THE "SATURDAY EVENING POST" 495 00:28:02,866 --> 00:28:07,033 AND "REDBOOK," TRYING TO SHOW AGNES AND HIS PARENTS 496 00:28:07,033 --> 00:28:10,000 THAT HE COULD MAKE IT AS A WRITER. 497 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,533 ALL THE STORIES WERE REJECTED. 498 00:28:13,533 --> 00:28:15,400 DESPITE THE BRAVADO WITH WHICH 499 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,666 HE FACED HIS NEIGHBORS, HE HAD BEEN DEEPLY AFFECTED 500 00:28:18,666 --> 00:28:21,533 BY THE WAR AND BY HIS WOUNDING. 501 00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:25,066 AN OLD FRIEND WHO VISITED HIM THAT WINTER REMEMBERED 502 00:28:25,066 --> 00:28:28,600 THAT "HE CAME BACK FIGURATIVELY AS WELL AS LITERALLY 503 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,433 SHOT TO PIECES." 504 00:28:30,433 --> 00:28:32,466 HE COULD NOT SLEEP WITHOUT A LIGHT 505 00:28:32,466 --> 00:28:34,666 BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED AT NIGHT 506 00:28:34,666 --> 00:28:37,000 AND HAD COME TO BELIEVE, HE WOULD WRITE, 507 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,333 "THAT IF I EVER SHUT MY EYES IN THE DARK AND LET MYSELF GO, 508 00:28:41,333 --> 00:28:45,700 MY SOUL WOULD GO OUT OF MY BODY." 509 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:48,366 HIS SISTER URSULA SOMETIMES SLEPT IN HIS ROOM 510 00:28:48,366 --> 00:28:50,466 TO SOOTHE HIS FEARS. 511 00:28:50,466 --> 00:28:55,166 ALL HIS LIFE, HE WOULD BE FRIGHTENED OF SLEEPING ALONE. 512 00:28:55,166 --> 00:28:58,700 HIS GREAT CONSOLATION WAS THAT AGNES WOULD SOON 513 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:03,200 BE COMING HOME TO MARRY HIM. 514 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,200 WOMAN, AS AGNES: MARCH 7, 1919. 515 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,200 ERNIE, DEAR BOY, I AM WRITING THIS 516 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,433 LATE AT NIGHT AFTER A LONG THINK BY MYSELF, 517 00:29:13,433 --> 00:29:15,933 AND I AM AFRAID IT IS GOING TO HURT YOU, 518 00:29:15,933 --> 00:29:19,400 BUT I'M SURE IT WON'T HARM YOU PERMANENTLY. 519 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,366 FOR QUITE A WHILE BEFORE YOU LEFT, 520 00:29:21,366 --> 00:29:26,633 I WAS TRYING TO CONVINCE MYSELF IT WAS A REAL LOVE-AFFAIR, 521 00:29:26,633 --> 00:29:30,733 BUT NOW, AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS AWAY FROM YOU, 522 00:29:30,733 --> 00:29:33,400 I KNOW THAT I AM STILL VERY FOND OF YOU, 523 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,166 BUT IT IS MORE AS A MOTHER THAN AS A SWEETHEART, 524 00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:38,833 AND I CAN'T GET AWAY FROM THE FACT 525 00:29:38,833 --> 00:29:41,933 THAT YOU'RE JUST A BOY, A KID. 526 00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:46,933 I EXPECT TO BE MARRIED SOON. 527 00:29:46,933 --> 00:29:49,400 AND I HOPE AND PRAY THAT AFTER YOU HAVE THOUGHT 528 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,033 THINGS OUT, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO FORGIVE ME AND START 529 00:29:52,033 --> 00:29:56,533 A WONDERFUL CAREER AND SHOW WHAT A MAN YOU REALLY ARE. 530 00:29:56,533 --> 00:30:02,966 EVER ADMIRINGLY AND FONDLY, YOUR FRIEND, AGGIE. 531 00:30:02,966 --> 00:30:05,733 NARRATOR: ERNEST IMMEDIATELY WROTE TO BILL HORNE, 532 00:30:05,733 --> 00:30:08,600 A FRIEND FROM THE AMBULANCE SERVICE. 533 00:30:12,066 --> 00:30:14,966 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: IT HAS HIT ME SO SUDDEN. 534 00:30:14,966 --> 00:30:17,200 SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME, BILL. 535 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,233 SHE TAKES IT ALL BACK. 536 00:30:19,233 --> 00:30:24,400 A "MISTAKE," ONE OF THOSE LITTLE MISTAKES, YOU KNOW. 537 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,200 OH, BILL, I CAN'T KID ABOUT IT 538 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,433 BECAUSE I'M JUST SMASHED BY IT, 539 00:30:28,433 --> 00:30:30,033 BUT SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME NOW, BILL, 540 00:30:30,033 --> 00:30:33,400 AND SHE IS GOING TO MARRY SOMEONE ELSE, 541 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,900 AND SHE HOPES THAT AFTER I HAVE FORGIVEN HER 542 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,866 I WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL CAREER AND EVERYTHING, 543 00:30:39,866 --> 00:30:43,866 BUT, BILL, I DON'T WANT A WONDERFUL CAREER. 544 00:30:43,866 --> 00:30:47,366 ALL I WANTED WAS AG AND HAPPINESS, 545 00:30:47,366 --> 00:30:52,166 AND NOW THE BOTTOM HAS DROPPED OUT OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 546 00:30:52,166 --> 00:30:55,433 NARRATOR: HE DEVELOPED A FEVER, REFUSED TO SEE ANYONE, 547 00:30:55,433 --> 00:30:58,400 BEGAN DRINKING SECRETLY FROM BOTTLES OF LIQUEUR 548 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,766 HE HID IN HIS BOOKCASE, STOPPED WRITING FOR A TIME. 549 00:31:02,766 --> 00:31:06,833 THERE SEEMED TO BE NO POINT. 550 00:31:06,833 --> 00:31:10,366 I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH HE TRUSTED WOMEN AFTER THAT. 551 00:31:10,366 --> 00:31:12,333 I JUST DON'T, 552 00:31:12,333 --> 00:31:15,333 BUT I DO KNOW HE LOVED BEING IN LOVE. 553 00:31:18,666 --> 00:31:21,166 NARRATOR: HE'D BEEN A BIG-CITY NEWSPAPERMAN, 554 00:31:21,166 --> 00:31:24,700 HAD EXPERIENCED WAR AND NEARLY BEEN KILLED, 555 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:26,966 HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE 556 00:31:26,966 --> 00:31:30,433 AND SOMEHOW NOW FOUND HIMSELF BACK HOME, 557 00:31:30,433 --> 00:31:33,200 STILL BEING TREATED AS IF HE WERE A BOY, 558 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,066 AS IF NONE OF IT HAD HAPPENED. 559 00:31:37,066 --> 00:31:39,333 KATAKIS: THINGS WERE OUT THERE. 560 00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:43,933 HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN HUNGRY FROM AN EARLY AGE, 561 00:31:43,933 --> 00:31:47,466 AND HE COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN IN MY OPINION, 562 00:31:47,466 --> 00:31:50,133 ESPECIALLY AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 563 00:31:50,133 --> 00:31:57,333 CONTAINED BY OAK PARK'S QUIET SUNDAYS AND PERFECT LAWNS. 564 00:31:57,333 --> 00:31:59,766 I THINK THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE THEN. 565 00:31:59,766 --> 00:32:04,400 SO THAT, OF COURSE, LED TO A CONFLICT WITH HIS FAMILY, 566 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,533 WHO FELT AFTER WAR YOU SHOULD BE 567 00:32:07,533 --> 00:32:10,566 WHAT THEY PERCEIVED YOU TO BE BEFORE YOU LEFT, 568 00:32:10,566 --> 00:32:12,500 BUT YOU'RE NO LONGER THE SAME PERSON. 569 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:16,100 HE WAS NO LONGER THE SAME PERSON. 570 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,566 NARRATOR: THE PAIN OF LOSING AGNES EVENTUALLY EASED. 571 00:32:19,566 --> 00:32:21,866 THAT SUMMER, ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND, 572 00:32:21,866 --> 00:32:25,900 HE UNDERWENT WHAT HE CALLED A "PROCESS OF CAUTERIZATION 573 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,700 "IN WHICH COGNAC AND 2 OR 3 GIRLS I CARED NOTHING ABOUT 574 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:34,300 BUT VIOLENTLY RUSHED TOOK THE PLACE OF THE RED IRON." 575 00:32:37,833 --> 00:32:41,733 HEMINGWAY EVENTUALLY RETURNED TO HIS TYPEWRITER THAT FALL, 576 00:32:41,733 --> 00:32:44,533 FIRST WRITING MORE STORIES IN A RENTED ROOM 577 00:32:44,533 --> 00:32:48,166 IN PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN, THEN IN TORONTO, 578 00:32:48,166 --> 00:32:51,466 WRITING FREELANCE PIECES FOR THE "DAILY STAR" 579 00:32:51,466 --> 00:32:55,700 AND "STAR WEEKLY" ABOUT FISHING AND CHICAGO GANGSTERS 580 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:58,533 AND THE DANGERS OF ACCEPTING A FREE SHAVE 581 00:32:58,533 --> 00:33:00,966 AT A BARBER'S COLLEGE. 582 00:33:04,133 --> 00:33:06,800 BUT WHEN HE RETURNED TO HIS FAMILY AT WALLOON LAKE 583 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:12,100 IN THE SUMMER OF 1920, THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE. 584 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:15,433 HE SEEMED UNINTERESTED IN LOOKING FOR A STEADY JOB, 585 00:33:15,433 --> 00:33:17,500 SPOKE VAGUELY OF BOARDING A FREIGHTER 586 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,500 AND SAILING AROUND THE WORLD 587 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:23,833 AS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WRITERS JACK LONDON HAD DONE. 588 00:33:23,833 --> 00:33:27,133 WHEN HIS MOTHER OBJECTED, HE SNAPPED AT HER. 589 00:33:27,133 --> 00:33:30,666 HIS FATHER EXHORTED HIM TO "SOFTEN YOUR TEMPER 590 00:33:30,666 --> 00:33:34,966 AND FEAR GOD AND RESPECT WOMAN." 591 00:33:34,966 --> 00:33:40,233 THINGS CAME TO A HEAD 6 DAYS AFTER HIS 21st BIRTHDAY. 592 00:33:40,233 --> 00:33:43,466 HE AND TWO OF HIS YOUNGER SISTERS JOINED FRIENDS, 593 00:33:43,466 --> 00:33:46,266 INCLUDING THEIR NEIGHBOR'S TEENAGE DAUGHTERS, 594 00:33:46,266 --> 00:33:51,033 AT A SECRET MOONLIGHT PARTY ACROSS THE LAKE. 595 00:33:51,033 --> 00:33:54,200 WHEN HIS MOTHER FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, SHE WAS FURIOUS. 596 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,133 HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, SHE TOLD HIM. 597 00:33:57,133 --> 00:33:59,933 HE WAS CORRUPTING THE MORALS OF MINORS, 598 00:33:59,933 --> 00:34:03,533 HE WAS A DISGRACE TO HIS FAMILY. 599 00:34:03,533 --> 00:34:05,366 SHE HANDED HIM A LETTER ADDRESSED 600 00:34:05,366 --> 00:34:08,766 TO "MY DEAR SON ERNEST." 601 00:34:08,766 --> 00:34:11,666 IT BEGAN WITH A CATALOGUE OF THE SACRIFICES 602 00:34:11,666 --> 00:34:16,566 SHE SAID SHE HAD MADE FOR HIS BENEFIT. 603 00:34:16,566 --> 00:34:19,966 "A MOTHER'S LOVE," SHE TOLD HIM, WAS "LIKE A BANK." 604 00:34:19,966 --> 00:34:22,733 SHE HAD MADE ALL THE EARLY DEPOSITS-- 605 00:34:22,733 --> 00:34:25,833 THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH, THE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, 606 00:34:25,833 --> 00:34:28,200 THE YEARS OF PATIENT UNDERSTANDING 607 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,733 AND ENCOURAGEMENT, 608 00:34:30,733 --> 00:34:33,300 BUT NOW THAT "FULL MANHOOD" WAS HERE, 609 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:39,233 IT WAS HIS TURN TO MAKE "DEPOSITS" OF HIS OWN, SHE SAID. 610 00:34:39,233 --> 00:34:41,633 WOMAN, AS GRACE: UNLESS YOU, MY SON, ERNEST, 611 00:34:41,633 --> 00:34:45,100 COME TO YOURSELF, CEASE YOUR LAZY LOAFING 612 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,033 AND PLEASURE SEEKING-- BORROWING WITH NO THOUGHT 613 00:34:48,033 --> 00:34:49,766 OF RETURNING-- 614 00:34:49,766 --> 00:34:52,433 STOP TRYING TO GRAFT A LIVING OFF ANYBODY, 615 00:34:52,433 --> 00:34:56,333 AND EVERYBODY, SPENDING ALL YOUR EARNINGS 616 00:34:56,333 --> 00:35:00,633 LAVISHLY AND WASTEFULLY ON LUXURIES FOR YOURSELF-- 617 00:35:00,633 --> 00:35:03,333 STOP TRADING ON YOUR HANDSOME FACE 618 00:35:03,333 --> 00:35:06,733 TO FOOL LITTLE GULLIBLE GIRLS, 619 00:35:06,733 --> 00:35:09,400 AND NEGLECTING YOUR DUTIES TO GOD 620 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,000 AND YOUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, 621 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,566 UNLESS, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU COME INTO YOUR MANHOOD, 622 00:35:16,566 --> 00:35:21,033 THERE IS NOTHING BEFORE YOU, BUT BANKRUPTCY. 623 00:35:21,033 --> 00:35:24,566 YOU HAVE OVERDRAWN. 624 00:35:24,566 --> 00:35:27,200 NARRATOR: ERNEST WAS TO LEAVE HOME, SHE SAID, 625 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,066 AND NOT "COME BACK UNTIL YOUR TONGUE HAS LEARNED 626 00:35:30,066 --> 00:35:33,700 NOT TO INSULT AND SHAME YOUR MOTHER." 627 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,966 "MAKES A GUY FEEL KIND OF ROTTEN," 628 00:35:35,966 --> 00:35:38,033 ERNEST TOLD A FRIEND, "TO KNOW THAT 629 00:35:38,033 --> 00:35:42,766 HE HASN'T ANY HOME, EVEN IF HE DOESN'T USE IT." 630 00:35:42,766 --> 00:35:46,333 HE AND HIS MOTHER WOULD EVENTUALLY RECONCILE, 631 00:35:46,333 --> 00:35:47,900 BUT HEMINGWAY'S ANTIPATHY 632 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:50,766 TOWARD HER WOULD NEVER DISSIPATE, 633 00:35:50,766 --> 00:35:53,433 YET OF ALL HER CHILDREN, HE WOULD BECOME 634 00:35:53,433 --> 00:35:57,533 THE MOST LIKE HER-- OPINIONATED, JUDGMENTAL, 635 00:35:57,533 --> 00:36:02,600 CONTROLLING, SELF-DRAMATIZING. 636 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,300 ERNEST MOVED TO CHICAGO, ROOMED WITH OLD FRIENDS, 637 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,733 AND GOT TO KNOW THE CELEBRATED WRITER SHERWOOD ANDERSON, 638 00:36:09,733 --> 00:36:12,266 WHO BECAME SOMETHING OF A MENTOR. 639 00:36:12,266 --> 00:36:15,700 HEMINGWAY SUPPORTED HIMSELF WRITING AD COPY 640 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:19,133 AND WORKED AWAY AT SHORT STORIES AT NIGHT. 641 00:36:19,133 --> 00:36:22,166 NO ONE SEEMED INTERESTED IN THEM. 642 00:36:22,166 --> 00:36:25,200 WOMAN: ALL WRITERS ARE NARCISSISTIC. 643 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,100 THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS BEING A NARCISSIST, 644 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:28,700 AS BEING A SOCIOPATH, 645 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:31,033 BUT NO ONE CAN SIT IN A ROOM BY THEMSELVES 646 00:36:31,033 --> 00:36:34,666 12 HOURS A DAY, THINKING ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE THINKING 647 00:36:34,666 --> 00:36:36,533 AND NOT BE A LITTLE MORE SELF-FOCUSED 648 00:36:36,533 --> 00:36:38,300 THAN THE NORMAL PERSON. 649 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,400 YOU'RE DEFINITELY ON THE FAR END OF THE BELL CURVE. 650 00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:48,433 WOMAN: OH, MR. HEMINGWAY, HOW I LOVE YOU. 651 00:36:48,433 --> 00:36:50,333 HOW EXCITING YOU ARE. 652 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:52,933 HOW A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN AROUND YOU, 653 00:36:52,933 --> 00:36:57,733 AND BESIDES ALL THAT, I LOVE YOU ANYWAY. 654 00:36:57,733 --> 00:37:00,266 HOW I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME, 655 00:37:00,266 --> 00:37:04,733 AND YOUR FLANNEL SHIRT SEEMS A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL THING, 656 00:37:04,733 --> 00:37:07,500 AND IT SMELLS SO GOOD BESIDES. 657 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,800 SOME DAY, IF I DON'T WATCH OUT, THERE'LL BE A POEM 658 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,800 ON THE SMELL OF A CLEAN WHITE SHIRT 659 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,566 THAT'LL RAISE UP THE HAIR ON THE DEAD. 660 00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:17,766 HADLEY RICHARDSON. 661 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,866 NARRATOR: ONE OCTOBER EVENING IN 1920, 662 00:37:24,866 --> 00:37:27,900 HEMINGWAY ATTENDED A PARTY AT A FRIEND'S APARTMENT 663 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:32,200 AND WAS INTRODUCED TO A VISITOR FROM ST. LOUIS. 664 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,000 "THE MOMENT SHE ENTERED THE ROOM, 665 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,033 AN INTENSE FEELING CAME OVER ME," 666 00:37:36,033 --> 00:37:38,666 HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED MANY YEARS LATER. 667 00:37:38,666 --> 00:37:43,333 "I KNEW SHE WAS THE GIRL I WAS GOING TO MARRY." 668 00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:46,533 ELIZABETH HADLEY RICHARDSON WAS 28, 669 00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:49,333 THE SHY PRODUCT OF A WELL-TO-DO FAMILY 670 00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:53,400 FAR MORE TENSE AND TROUBLED EVEN THAN HIS. 671 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,566 HER ALCOHOLIC FATHER HAD SHOT HIMSELF WHEN SHE WAS 13. 672 00:37:57,566 --> 00:38:00,133 A BELOVED SISTER HAD BURNED TO DEATH. 673 00:38:00,133 --> 00:38:02,733 SHE HERSELF HAD SUFFERED A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 674 00:38:02,733 --> 00:38:06,066 AT BRYN MAWR AND BEEN FORCED TO SPEND THE LAST 8 YEARS 675 00:38:06,066 --> 00:38:10,600 AT HOME, CARING FOR HER ERRATIC AND DOMINEERING MOTHER, 676 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,700 SOMETIMES DRIVEN TO SUCH DESPAIR 677 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:17,400 THAT HADLEY CONSIDERED SUICIDE. 678 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,666 HER MOTHER HAD DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE MET HEMINGWAY. 679 00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:24,833 SHE WAS EAGER, SHE RECALLED, TO FIND SOMEONE 680 00:38:24,833 --> 00:38:29,133 WITH WHOM SHE COULD BEGIN TO BUILD A LIFE OF HER OWN. 681 00:38:33,566 --> 00:38:36,600 WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I NEED YOU IN EVERY PART OF MY LIFE. 682 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,500 I WANT TO BE KISSED. 683 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:40,500 I WANT TO PULL YOUR HEAD DOWN ON MY HEART 684 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:43,266 AND HOLD IT VERY CLOSE AND CRADLE YOU THERE 685 00:38:43,266 --> 00:38:46,966 FOR HOURS, YOU BLESSED THING. 686 00:38:46,966 --> 00:38:53,600 LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, YOUR OWNEST IN THE WORLD. 687 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,733 NARRATOR: FALLING IN LOVE WITH HEMINGWAY, HADLEY SAID, 688 00:38:56,733 --> 00:39:00,633 WAS A "GREAT EXPLOSION INTO LIFE." 689 00:39:00,633 --> 00:39:03,633 WITHIN 6 WEEKS, HE WAS CALLING HER "HASH," 690 00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:06,500 AND THEY WERE TALKING OF MARRIAGE. 691 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:09,466 THEY WOULD NOT ACTUALLY WED FOR NEARLY A YEAR 692 00:39:09,466 --> 00:39:12,166 AND WERE APART MOST OF THAT TIME, 693 00:39:12,166 --> 00:39:17,666 BUT THEY WROTE ONE ANOTHER ALMOST DAILY. 694 00:39:17,666 --> 00:39:19,633 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: 'COURSE I LOVE YOU. 695 00:39:19,633 --> 00:39:21,933 I LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME. 696 00:39:21,933 --> 00:39:24,666 WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND HAVE TO CLIMB OUT OF BED 697 00:39:24,666 --> 00:39:27,666 AND SPLASH AROUND AND SHAVE, I LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE 698 00:39:27,666 --> 00:39:30,200 AND THINK ABOUT YOU, 699 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,700 AND IN THE EVENING, IT'S TOO MUCH TO STAND. 700 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:37,666 'NIGHT, MY DEAREST HASH. 701 00:39:37,666 --> 00:39:40,500 I'D LIKE TO HOLD YOU SO AND KISS YOU SO 702 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,300 THAT YOU WOULDN'T DOUBT WHETHER I WANTED TO OR NOT. 703 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:48,533 LOVE YOU--ERNESTO 704 00:39:48,533 --> 00:39:51,466 NARRATOR: HIS LOVE RESTORED HER SELF-CONFIDENCE 705 00:39:51,466 --> 00:39:54,133 AFTER YEARS OF SELF-DOUBT. 706 00:39:54,133 --> 00:39:56,800 "WE'RE THE SAME FIRM," SHE TOLD HIM. 707 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,300 "THE WORLD'S A JAIL, 708 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:01,000 AND WE'RE GONNA BREAK IT TOGETHER." 709 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,833 HER CONFIDENCE IN HIM WOULD HELP HIM REALIZE HIS TALENT. 710 00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:09,966 WHEN ERNEST TOLD HADLEY HE NOW FELT READY TO START A NOVEL 711 00:40:09,966 --> 00:40:13,100 BASED UPON HIS OWN BOYHOOD WITH "REAL PEOPLE, 712 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:15,766 TALKING AND SAYING WHAT THEY THINK," 713 00:40:15,766 --> 00:40:19,533 SHE SENT HIM A NEW CORONA TYPEWRITER. 714 00:40:19,533 --> 00:40:21,933 FROM THE FIRST, SHE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND 715 00:40:21,933 --> 00:40:24,000 WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO. 716 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,400 SHE LOVED IT THAT HIS STYLE "ELIMINATED EVERYTHING 717 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,366 EXCEPT WHAT IS NECESSARY AND STRENGTHENING"... 718 00:40:34,566 --> 00:40:36,866 BUT AS THEIR WEDDING DAY APPROACHED, 719 00:40:36,866 --> 00:40:41,466 ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AGAIN ENVELOPED HIM. 720 00:40:41,466 --> 00:40:44,533 HE LOST WEIGHT, WORRIED THAT MARRIED LIFE 721 00:40:44,533 --> 00:40:47,133 MIGHT NOT BE FOR HIM AFTER ALL 722 00:40:47,133 --> 00:40:50,966 OR THAT HADLEY WOULD BETRAY HIM THE WAY AGNES HAD. 723 00:40:50,966 --> 00:40:53,833 HE GREW DARKER AND DARKER. 724 00:40:53,833 --> 00:41:00,000 HE HINTED TO HADLEY THAT HE WAS CONSIDERING SUICIDE. 725 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,233 WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: I KNOW HOW IT FEELS 'CAUSE I HAVE 726 00:41:02,233 --> 00:41:06,166 SO VERY MANY TIMES WANTED TO GO AND COULDN'T 727 00:41:06,166 --> 00:41:09,766 ON ACCOUNT OF THE MESS I'D LEAVE SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN, 728 00:41:09,766 --> 00:41:14,833 BUT REMEMBER IT WOULD KILL ME TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES. 729 00:41:14,833 --> 00:41:19,700 DON'T EVER GET CONFUSED WHEN SUCH A MOMENT COMES. 730 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:21,533 YOU GOTTA LIVE-- 731 00:41:21,533 --> 00:41:25,766 FIRST FOR YOU AND THEN FOR MY HAPPINESS. 732 00:41:25,766 --> 00:41:30,066 YOU MUSTN'T FEEL SO HORRIBLY, DEAR ERN. 733 00:41:30,066 --> 00:41:33,233 I'M ARRIVING SATURDAY TO LOVE YOU CLOSER. 734 00:41:35,566 --> 00:41:39,966 NARRATOR: ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921, 735 00:41:39,966 --> 00:41:43,233 IN A METHODIST CHURCH NOT FAR FROM THE FAMILY COTTAGE 736 00:41:43,233 --> 00:41:46,300 ON WALLOON LAKE, HADLEY RICHARDSON 737 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:52,066 BECAME MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY. 738 00:41:52,066 --> 00:42:06,966 ♪ 739 00:42:06,966 --> 00:42:09,800 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: JANUARY 1922. 740 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,433 DEAR FAMILY, HASH JUST CAME IN 741 00:42:12,433 --> 00:42:14,733 AND SAYS TO SEND LOTS OF LOVE TO YOU 742 00:42:14,733 --> 00:42:16,966 AND TELL YOU ABOUT OUR APARTMENT. 743 00:42:16,966 --> 00:42:20,633 IT IS AT 74 RUE DU CARDINAL LEMOINE 744 00:42:20,633 --> 00:42:24,000 AND IS THE JOLLIEST PLACE YOU EVER SAW. 745 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,400 WE RENTED IT FURNISHED FOR 250 FRANCS A MONTH, 746 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,133 ABOUT $18. 747 00:42:29,133 --> 00:42:31,966 IT IS THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND CHEAPEST WAY TO LIVE, 748 00:42:31,966 --> 00:42:34,766 AND HASH HAS A PIANO, AND WE HAVE ALL OUR PICTURES 749 00:42:34,766 --> 00:42:38,266 UP ON THE WALLS AND AN OPEN FIREPLACE. 750 00:42:38,266 --> 00:42:40,133 IT IS ON TOP OF A HIGH HILL 751 00:42:40,133 --> 00:42:43,466 IN THE VERY OLDEST PART OF PARIS. 752 00:42:43,466 --> 00:42:46,600 NARRATOR: THE NEWLY-WED HEMINGWAYS' FIRST REAL HOME 753 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,166 WAS A FOURTH-FLOOR WALKUP IN THE LATIN QUARTER. 754 00:42:50,166 --> 00:42:52,633 EACH EVENING, ACCORDION MUSIC DRIFTED UP 755 00:42:52,633 --> 00:42:55,933 FROM THE WORKING-MAN'S DANCE-HALL NEXT DOOR. 756 00:42:55,933 --> 00:42:58,500 HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR SHERWOOD ANDERSON 757 00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:01,800 HAD PERSUADED ERNEST THAT FOR A YOUNG WRITER 758 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,400 PARIS WAS THE PLACE TO BE. 759 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,966 ONE COULD LIVE CHEAPLY THERE, AND THE LEFT BANK TEEMED 760 00:43:07,966 --> 00:43:12,233 WITH REVOLUTIONARY ARTISTS AND WRITERS FROM EVERYWHERE-- 761 00:43:12,233 --> 00:43:15,800 PABLO PICASSO AND JOAN MIRÓ; 762 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,066 IGOR STRAVINSKY AND ERIK SATIE; 763 00:43:19,066 --> 00:43:23,733 JAMES JOYCE AND GERTRUDE STEIN, WHO REMEMBERED PARIS 764 00:43:23,733 --> 00:43:29,166 AS "THE PLACE WHERE THE 20th CENTURY WAS." 765 00:43:29,166 --> 00:43:33,233 ERNEST WAS JUST 22 YEARS OLD, WORKING AS A CORRESPONDENT 766 00:43:33,233 --> 00:43:35,100 FOR THE "TORONTO STAR," 767 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:38,233 OTHERWISE UNPUBLISHED AND UNKNOWN, 768 00:43:38,233 --> 00:43:41,366 BUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON HAD WRITTEN LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION 769 00:43:41,366 --> 00:43:45,533 TO 3 INFLUENTIAL FRIENDS, GENEROUSLY DESCRIBING HIM 770 00:43:45,533 --> 00:43:48,166 AS A "QUITE WONDERFUL NEWSPAPERMAN" 771 00:43:48,166 --> 00:43:51,833 WHOSE "EXTRAORDINARY TALENT" WAS SURE TO TAKE HIM 772 00:43:51,833 --> 00:43:55,066 FAR BEYOND JOURNALISM. 773 00:43:55,066 --> 00:43:56,666 VAILL: HE'S TALL. 774 00:43:56,666 --> 00:43:58,866 HE IS AS HANDSOME AS A MOVIE STAR. 775 00:43:58,866 --> 00:44:01,233 HE HAS DIMPLES. 776 00:44:01,233 --> 00:44:05,566 HE HAS A SWASHBUCKLING QUALITY TO HIM, 777 00:44:05,566 --> 00:44:08,200 BUT HE HAS THIS KIND OF MIDWESTERN SWEETNESS 778 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,933 AT THE SAME TIME. 779 00:44:09,933 --> 00:44:12,100 THE FACT IS THAT IF HE WOULD WALK INTO A ROOM 780 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,466 PEOPLE LOVED HIM THE MINUTE THEY SAW HIM, 781 00:44:15,466 --> 00:44:17,533 AND THAT GIVES YOU A KIND OF CONFIDENCE 782 00:44:17,533 --> 00:44:20,900 THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING. 783 00:44:20,900 --> 00:44:23,033 NARRATOR: SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S FRIENDS DID 784 00:44:23,033 --> 00:44:25,266 WHAT THEY COULD FOR THE NEWCOMER. 785 00:44:25,266 --> 00:44:29,300 THE FIRST WAS THE AMERICAN EXPATRIATE POET EZRA POUND. 786 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:32,766 HE WAS WELL-CONNECTED IN AVANT-GARDE LITERARY CIRCLES 787 00:44:32,766 --> 00:44:37,433 AND TALKED ERNEST UP TO EVERY MAGAZINE EDITOR HE KNEW. 788 00:44:37,433 --> 00:44:40,733 GERTRUDE STEIN PRESIDED OVER A SALON AT THE HOME 789 00:44:40,733 --> 00:44:44,566 SHE SHARED WITH HER PARTNER ALICE B. TOKLAS. 790 00:44:44,566 --> 00:44:47,233 ART COLLECTOR, AVANT-GARDE WRITER, 791 00:44:47,233 --> 00:44:50,266 CHAMPION OF MODERNISM IN ALL ITS FORMS, 792 00:44:50,266 --> 00:44:52,300 SHE TOOK A LIKING TO THE HANDSOME, 793 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:54,733 EAGER YOUNG VISITOR WITH WHAT SHE REMEMBERED 794 00:44:54,733 --> 00:44:59,800 AS "DARK LUMINOUS EYES" AND "A FLASHING SMILE." 795 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,966 SHE LIKED HIS TERSE, DECLARATIVE STYLE, TOO, 796 00:45:02,966 --> 00:45:06,866 AND OFFERED ENCOURAGEMENT AND USEFUL ADVICE. 797 00:45:06,866 --> 00:45:10,333 "MISS STEIN HAD DISCOVERED MANY TRUTHS ABOUT RHYTHMS 798 00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:12,933 AND THE USES OF WORDS IN REPETITION," 799 00:45:12,933 --> 00:45:15,833 HEMINGWAY REMEMBERED, THAT ECHOED THE COUNTERPOINT 800 00:45:15,833 --> 00:45:21,166 HE'D FIRST ENCOUNTERED IN THE MUSIC OF BACH. 801 00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:26,300 STEIN ALSO INTRODUCED HIM TO THE WORLD OF MODERN ART. 802 00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:29,666 HE WAS ESPECIALLY DRAWN TO THE WORK OF PAUL CÉZANNE, 803 00:45:29,666 --> 00:45:33,466 WHO PAINTED THE SAME SUBJECTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, 804 00:45:33,466 --> 00:45:36,100 BUILDING UP EACH IMAGE FROM THOUSANDS 805 00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,233 OF REPETITIVE BRUSH STROKES. 806 00:45:39,233 --> 00:45:42,233 MAN: CÉZANNE--HE'S TRYING TO BREAK DOWN 807 00:45:42,233 --> 00:45:44,133 NORMAL HABITS OF SEEING, 808 00:45:44,133 --> 00:45:47,233 AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT HEMINGWAY LIKED. 809 00:45:47,233 --> 00:45:53,400 THE GREAT ENEMY FOR HEMINGWAY IS BOREDOM AND ROUTINE 810 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,633 AND ANYTHING ACCUSTOMED, 811 00:45:56,633 --> 00:46:00,766 AND I THINK HE SAW IN CÉZANNE A MODEL FOR TAKING 812 00:46:00,766 --> 00:46:02,466 THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, 813 00:46:02,466 --> 00:46:04,066 LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE, 814 00:46:04,066 --> 00:46:06,033 THE SAME MOUNTAIN, THE SAME MOUNTAIN, 815 00:46:06,033 --> 00:46:09,600 AND RENDERING IT NEW 816 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,366 BY LOOKING AT IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS, 817 00:46:12,366 --> 00:46:15,833 AND I THINK THAT'S THE MODEL FOR HIM. 818 00:46:15,833 --> 00:46:19,266 NARRATOR: SYLVIA BEACH BECAME HEMINGWAY'S FRIEND, TOO. 819 00:46:19,266 --> 00:46:21,233 SHE RAN SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY, 820 00:46:21,233 --> 00:46:26,233 A BOOKSTORE AND LENDING LIBRARY, AT 12 RUE DE L'ODEON. 821 00:46:26,233 --> 00:46:28,100 SYLVIA BEACH: HE CAME INTO MY SHOP, 822 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:31,366 AND HE HAD AN INTRODUCTION FROM SHERWOOD ANDERSON, 823 00:46:31,366 --> 00:46:33,166 BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE THAT. 824 00:46:33,166 --> 00:46:34,766 HE'D FORGOTTEN TO BRING IT, AND HE DIDN'T NEED IT 825 00:46:34,766 --> 00:46:37,066 BECAUSE I THOUGHT HE WAS SO INTERESTING, 826 00:46:37,066 --> 00:46:41,266 AND HE SAID, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MY WOUNDS?" 827 00:46:41,266 --> 00:46:42,700 AND I SAID, "YES, INDEED," 828 00:46:42,700 --> 00:46:45,366 AND HE TOOK OFF HIS SHOE AND HIS SOCK 829 00:46:45,366 --> 00:46:47,366 AND SHOWED ME ALL THESE DREADFUL SCARS 830 00:46:47,366 --> 00:46:49,566 ON HIS LEG AND FOOT, 831 00:46:49,566 --> 00:46:53,233 AND THEN WE BECAME GREAT FRIENDS. 832 00:46:53,233 --> 00:46:55,100 NARRATOR: SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY WAS 833 00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:58,600 A GATHERING PLACE FOR EXPATRIATE ARTISTS AND WRITERS. 834 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,566 HEMINGWAY CHARMED THEM ALL, 835 00:47:00,566 --> 00:47:04,433 INCLUDING THE IRISH WRITER JAMES JOYCE, 836 00:47:04,433 --> 00:47:07,333 WHOSE DARINGLY EXPLICIT NOVEL "ULYSSES" 837 00:47:07,333 --> 00:47:10,966 SYLVIA BEACH HAD JUST PUBLISHED, 838 00:47:10,966 --> 00:47:13,733 AND HE SET OUT TO EDUCATE HIMSELF, 839 00:47:13,733 --> 00:47:18,066 BORROWING BOOKS FROM HER SHOP BY D.H. LAWRENCE, TURGENEV, 840 00:47:18,066 --> 00:47:22,466 DOSTOEVSKY, TOLSTOY. 841 00:47:22,466 --> 00:47:25,500 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: FEBRUARY 14, 1922. 842 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:28,400 WE KNOW A GOOD BATCH OF PEOPLE NOW IN PARIS 843 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,800 AND IF WE ALLOWED IT WOULD HAVE ALL OUR TIME 844 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,000 TAKEN UP SOCIALLY, BUT I AM WORKING VERY HARD, 845 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,666 AND WE KEEP PLENTY OF TIME TO OURSELVES. 846 00:47:37,666 --> 00:47:41,266 PARIS IS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL THAT IT SATISFIES SOMETHING 847 00:47:41,266 --> 00:47:44,333 IN YOU THAT IS ALWAYS HUNGRY IN AMERICA. 848 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,933 NARRATOR: FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, 849 00:47:48,933 --> 00:47:51,633 HEMINGWAY WOULD INSIST THAT HE AND HADLEY 850 00:47:51,633 --> 00:47:55,933 HAD BEEN VIRTUALLY PENNILESS WHEN THEY LIVED IN PARIS. 851 00:47:55,933 --> 00:47:57,666 THEY WERE NOT. 852 00:47:57,666 --> 00:48:01,700 BESIDES HIS SALARY, SHE HAD AN INHERITANCE. 853 00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:03,433 "WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY FOR ANYTHING 854 00:48:03,433 --> 00:48:06,366 WE REALLY WANTED TO DO," HADLEY REMEMBERED, 855 00:48:06,366 --> 00:48:10,700 "AND WE ALWAYS HAD MONEY FOR WHISKEY." 856 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,166 THE FIRST YEAR OF THEIR MARRIAGE CONSTITUTED 857 00:48:13,166 --> 00:48:18,200 A SORT OF EXTENDED HONEYMOON-- EXPLORING PARIS, TREKKING, 858 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:23,833 FISHING, SKIING, BOBSLEDDING IN THE ALPS. 859 00:48:23,833 --> 00:48:25,800 CUSHMAN: ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT HIM IS THAT 860 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,400 HE'S COMMITTED TO TRAVEL. 861 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,166 HE LIKES, I THINK, MORE THAN ANYTHING, 862 00:48:30,166 --> 00:48:34,166 TO BE A FOREIGNER, A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. 863 00:48:34,166 --> 00:48:37,633 EVERYTHING IS HEIGHTENED, AND TASTE IS HEIGHTENED, 864 00:48:37,633 --> 00:48:42,200 VISION IS HEIGHTENED, SMELLS ARE HEIGHTENED. 865 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,233 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY WROTE ABOUT EVERYTHING-- 866 00:48:45,233 --> 00:48:48,333 PARIS NIGHTLIFE AND GERMAN MANNERS, 867 00:48:48,333 --> 00:48:52,766 FASCISM AND COMMUNISM AND WOMEN'S HATS-- 868 00:48:52,766 --> 00:48:57,033 ALWAYS WITH A WEARY, INSIDER'S TONE REMARKABLE 869 00:48:57,033 --> 00:49:00,966 FOR A YOUNG MAN IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES, 870 00:49:00,966 --> 00:49:03,166 AND WHENEVER HE COULD FIND THE TIME, 871 00:49:03,166 --> 00:49:05,633 HE WORKED ON SHORT STORIES AND THE NOVEL 872 00:49:05,633 --> 00:49:08,833 HE HAD BEGUN IN CHICAGO. 873 00:49:08,833 --> 00:49:12,933 SOMETIMES, HE TOOK HADLEY ALONG ON ASSIGNMENT FOR THE "STAR"-- 874 00:49:12,933 --> 00:49:14,766 TO ITALY, WHERE HE SHOWED HER THE PLACE 875 00:49:14,766 --> 00:49:16,733 WHERE HE'D BEEN WOUNDED, 876 00:49:16,733 --> 00:49:19,566 TO THE BLACK FOREST FOR TROUT FISHING, 877 00:49:19,566 --> 00:49:21,900 ABOARD A PIONEERING PASSENGER FLIGHT 878 00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:25,033 FROM PARIS TO STRASBOURG-- 879 00:49:25,033 --> 00:49:27,700 BUT MORE OFTEN, HE TRAVELED ALONE, 880 00:49:27,700 --> 00:49:30,433 GETTING TO KNOW HIS FELLOW REPORTERS, 881 00:49:30,433 --> 00:49:34,533 COVERING AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AT GENOA, 882 00:49:34,533 --> 00:49:37,533 RIOTS IN COLOGNE, 883 00:49:37,533 --> 00:49:41,200 AND IN THE AUTUMN OF 1922, OPEN WARFARE 884 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:45,633 BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY THAT SEEMED FOR A TIME 885 00:49:45,633 --> 00:49:50,600 TO THREATEN A NEW WORLD WAR. 886 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,400 HE STOOD AND WATCHED AS A 20-MILE COLUMN 887 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,633 OF GREEK REFUGEES PASSED SLOWLY BY 888 00:49:56,633 --> 00:50:01,400 IN FLIGHT FROM THE TURKISH ARMY. 889 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,933 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: IT IS A SILENT PROCESSION. 890 00:50:03,933 --> 00:50:05,833 NOBODY EVEN GRUNTS. 891 00:50:05,833 --> 00:50:09,333 IT IS ALL THEY CAN DO TO KEEP MOVING. 892 00:50:09,333 --> 00:50:12,800 THEIR BRILLIANT PEASANT COSTUMES ARE SOAKED AND DRAGGLED. 893 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,800 CHICKENS DANGLE BY THEIR FEET FROM THE CARTS. 894 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,400 AN OLD MAN MARCHES UNDER A YOUNG PIG, 895 00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,133 A SCYTHE AND A GUN, WITH A CHICKEN TIED 896 00:50:22,133 --> 00:50:24,100 TO HIS SCYTHE. 897 00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:27,133 A HUSBAND SPREADS A BLANKET OVER A WOMAN IN LABOR 898 00:50:27,133 --> 00:50:30,766 IN ONE OF THE CARTS TO KEEP OFF THE DRIVING RAIN. 899 00:50:30,766 --> 00:50:34,466 SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON MAKING A SOUND. 900 00:50:34,466 --> 00:50:36,766 HER LITTLE DAUGHTER LOOKS AT HER IN HORROR 901 00:50:36,766 --> 00:50:39,400 AND BEGINS TO CRY. 902 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,800 AND THE PROCESSION KEEPS MOVING. 903 00:50:45,033 --> 00:50:47,800 NARRATOR: LATER, HEMINGWAY JOINED OTHER REPORTERS 904 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,333 AT LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, WHERE EUROPEAN STATESMEN 905 00:50:51,333 --> 00:50:54,900 WERE TRYING TO STOP THE FIGHTING. 906 00:50:54,900 --> 00:50:57,400 ONE OF THE REPORTERS WITH WHOM HEMINGWAY DRANK 907 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,866 EACH EVENING WAS THE VETERAN CORRESPONDENT LINCOLN STEFFENS. 908 00:51:01,866 --> 00:51:04,800 STEFFENS WAS IMPRESSED BY THE PIECE ERNEST HAD WRITTEN 909 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,033 ABOUT THE GREEK REFUGEES AND ASKED IF HE COULD SEE 910 00:51:08,033 --> 00:51:10,833 MORE OF THE YOUNG MAN'S WRITING. 911 00:51:10,833 --> 00:51:14,333 SO WHEN ERNEST ASKED HADLEY TO JOIN HIM IN SWITZERLAND, 912 00:51:14,333 --> 00:51:18,166 SHE DECIDED TO BRING ALONG HIS WORK. 913 00:51:18,166 --> 00:51:22,266 ON DECEMBER 2, 1922, SHE PACKED INTO A VALISE 914 00:51:22,266 --> 00:51:24,866 ALL THE MANUSCRIPTS SHE COULD FIND AND TOOK 915 00:51:24,866 --> 00:51:28,266 A TAXI TO THE GARE DE LYON. 916 00:51:28,266 --> 00:51:31,666 A PORTER CARRIED THE VALISE ONTO A TRAIN. 917 00:51:31,666 --> 00:51:35,133 WHEN SHE GOT TO HER COMPARTMENT, IT WASN'T THERE. 918 00:51:39,133 --> 00:51:43,200 THE FIRST CHAPTERS OF HIS NOVEL WERE LOST. 919 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,966 SO WERE SEVERAL SHORT STORIES. 920 00:51:46,966 --> 00:51:49,266 HADLEY WEPT ALL THE WAY TO LAUSANNE 921 00:51:49,266 --> 00:51:52,166 AND WHEN SHE GOT THERE COULD BARELY BRING HERSELF 922 00:51:52,166 --> 00:51:57,333 TO TELL HER HUSBAND WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 923 00:51:57,333 --> 00:51:59,066 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SHE HAD CRIED AND CRIED 924 00:51:59,066 --> 00:52:01,000 AND COULD NOT TELL ME. 925 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,566 I TOLD HER THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE DREADFUL THING WAS 926 00:52:03,566 --> 00:52:07,133 THAT HAD HAPPENED NOTHING COULD BE THAT BAD, 927 00:52:07,133 --> 00:52:10,066 AND WHATEVER IT WAS, IT WAS ALL RIGHT 928 00:52:10,066 --> 00:52:11,733 AND NOT TO WORRY. 929 00:52:11,733 --> 00:52:13,800 WE WOULD WORK IT OUT. 930 00:52:15,966 --> 00:52:18,933 NARRATOR: BUT THEY DID NOT REALLY WORK IT OUT. 931 00:52:18,933 --> 00:52:20,600 HEMINGWAY WAS ANGRY. 932 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,000 HE'D LOST, HE CLAIMED TO A FRIEND, 933 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,266 "EVERYTHING I'VE DONE FOR TWO YEARS." 934 00:52:26,266 --> 00:52:28,900 HE WOULD HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN, 935 00:52:28,900 --> 00:52:32,366 THOUGH IN FACT, SOME WRITING SURVIVED. 936 00:52:32,366 --> 00:52:34,866 HE WAS FURTHER SHAKEN SEVERAL WEEKS LATER 937 00:52:34,866 --> 00:52:37,566 WHEN HADLEY TOLD HIM SHE WAS PREGNANT. 938 00:52:37,566 --> 00:52:39,933 HE WAS JUST 23. 939 00:52:39,933 --> 00:52:44,200 "I AM TOO YOUNG TO BE A FATHER," HE TOLD GERTRUDE STEIN, 940 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,466 AND HE SAID IT, SHE REMEMBERED "WITH REAL BITTERNESS." 941 00:52:54,766 --> 00:52:57,700 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I WAS TRYING TO LEARN TO WRITE, 942 00:52:57,700 --> 00:53:00,266 COMMENCING WITH THE SIMPLEST THINGS, 943 00:53:00,266 --> 00:53:02,433 AND ONE OF THE SIMPLEST THINGS OF ALL 944 00:53:02,433 --> 00:53:06,466 AND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL IS VIOLENT DEATH, 945 00:53:06,466 --> 00:53:09,166 SO I WENT TO SPAIN TO SEE BULLFIGHTS 946 00:53:09,166 --> 00:53:12,333 AND TO TRY TO WRITE ABOUT THEM FOR MYSELF. 947 00:53:12,333 --> 00:53:15,800 [CROWD CHEERING, HOOFBEATS] 948 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,500 I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE SIMPLE AND BARBAROUS AND CRUEL 949 00:53:20,500 --> 00:53:22,800 AND THAT I WOULD NOT LIKE THEM, 950 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,766 BUT THAT I WOULD SEE CERTAIN DEFINITE ACTION 951 00:53:25,766 --> 00:53:28,566 WHICH WOULD GIVE ME THE FEELING OF LIFE AND DEATH 952 00:53:28,566 --> 00:53:31,766 THAT I WAS WORKING FOR. 953 00:53:31,766 --> 00:53:34,766 WOMAN: HE TALKED ABOUT SEEING HIS FIRST BULL. 954 00:53:34,766 --> 00:53:36,166 HE HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT. 955 00:53:36,166 --> 00:53:38,633 HE COULD SEE THE BULL VERY WELL, 956 00:53:38,633 --> 00:53:41,100 AND HE SAID HE WAS STRUCK BY THE POWER OF IT 957 00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:43,766 AND THE SIZE OF IT, 958 00:53:43,766 --> 00:53:47,300 THIS NATURAL STRENGTH OF IT. 959 00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:50,233 I THINK MAYBE SOME OF THAT SPOKE TO HIM BECAUSE 960 00:53:50,233 --> 00:53:52,300 HE HAD POWER AND NATURAL STRENGTH, 961 00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:55,600 AND HE WAS A FORCE OF NATURE, TOO, 962 00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:00,266 AND THAT'S WHAT AN ARTIST DOES WITH HIS SUBJECT MATTER. 963 00:54:00,266 --> 00:54:02,433 WITH YOUR STRENGTH, WITH YOUR WILL, 964 00:54:02,433 --> 00:54:05,233 WITH YOUR SKILLS, YOU GO IN, 965 00:54:05,233 --> 00:54:07,266 AND YOU CONTROL THE SUBJECT MATTER, 966 00:54:07,266 --> 00:54:09,533 AND YOU MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FROM IT. 967 00:54:09,533 --> 00:54:12,433 [CROWD CHEERING] 968 00:54:12,433 --> 00:54:16,000 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY FELL IN LOVE WITH SPAIN. 969 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,666 HE WAS SURE, HE WROTE, THAT BULLFIGHTING 970 00:54:18,666 --> 00:54:22,066 "WILL MAKE FINE STORIES SOMEDAY. 971 00:54:22,066 --> 00:54:25,366 "IT'S JUST LIKE HAVING A RINGSIDE SEAT AT THE WAR 972 00:54:25,366 --> 00:54:28,666 WITH NOTHING GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU." 973 00:54:28,666 --> 00:54:31,333 HADLEY REMEMBERED SITTING IN THE STANDS, 974 00:54:31,333 --> 00:54:33,233 STITCHING BABY CLOTHES, 975 00:54:33,233 --> 00:54:37,866 "EMBROIDERING IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THAT BRUTALITY." 976 00:54:41,566 --> 00:54:43,133 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TORONTO, CANADA, 977 00:54:43,133 --> 00:54:46,833 NOVEMBER 7, 1923. 978 00:54:46,833 --> 00:54:50,900 THE BABY HAS TAKEN TO SQUALLING AND IS A FINE NUISANCE. 979 00:54:50,900 --> 00:54:52,733 I SUPPOSE HE WILL YELL HIS HEAD OFF 980 00:54:52,733 --> 00:54:54,900 FOR THE NEXT 2 OR 3 YEARS. 981 00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:57,900 IT SEEMS HIS ONLY FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT. 982 00:54:57,900 --> 00:55:01,600 NO ONE GETS AS MUCH PLEASURE OUT OF IT AS HE DOES. 983 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,633 NARRATOR: JOHN HADLEY NICANOR HEMINGWAY WAS BORN 984 00:55:04,633 --> 00:55:10,133 IN TORONTO ON OCTOBER 10, 1923. 985 00:55:10,133 --> 00:55:13,100 "NICANOR" WAS IN HONOR OF A SPANISH BULLFIGHTER 986 00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:16,266 HEMINGWAY ESPECIALLY ADMIRED. 987 00:55:16,266 --> 00:55:18,800 HADLEY NICKNAMED THE BABY "BUMBY" 988 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,666 BECAUSE, SHE SAID, "OF THE ROUND, SOLID FEEL 989 00:55:21,666 --> 00:55:24,733 OF HIM," IN HER ARMS. 990 00:55:24,733 --> 00:55:26,900 THE HEMINGWAYS HAD COME BACK TO NORTH AMERICA 991 00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:28,966 EARLIER THAT YEAR. 992 00:55:28,966 --> 00:55:31,366 ERNEST THOUGHT HE SHOULD HAVE A STEADY JOB 993 00:55:31,366 --> 00:55:33,966 AT LEAST FOR THE BABY'S FIRST YEAR, 994 00:55:33,966 --> 00:55:36,233 AND THE "TORONTO STAR" WAS EAGER TO HAVE 995 00:55:36,233 --> 00:55:40,600 THEIR TALENTED CORRESPONDENT BACK IN THE HOME OFFICE, 996 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,100 BUT HE CAME TO HATE HIS EDITOR, 997 00:55:43,100 --> 00:55:46,533 LOATHED THE CUB REPORTER ASSIGNMENTS HE WAS GIVEN, 998 00:55:46,533 --> 00:55:49,733 COULD FIND NO TIME TO WRITE FOR HIMSELF, 999 00:55:49,733 --> 00:55:53,466 AND LONGED FOR PARIS, WHERE, HE TOLD HIS SISTER, 1000 00:55:53,466 --> 00:55:57,200 "THERE ARE FEW BATH TUBS, NO ELECTRIC FIXTURES, 1001 00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,333 "BUT VERY NEARLY ALL THE CHARM, ALL THE GOOD FOOD, 1002 00:56:01,333 --> 00:56:05,000 AND MOST OF THE GOOD PEOPLE IN THE WORLD." 1003 00:56:07,633 --> 00:56:11,866 IN FEBRUARY, 1924, AFTER LESS THAN 4 MONTHS, 1004 00:56:11,866 --> 00:56:16,300 THEY RETURNED TO PARIS AND MOVED INTO A SECOND-FLOOR APARTMENT 1005 00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:22,833 ABOVE A NOISY SAWMILL AT 113 RUE NOTRE-DAME-DES-CHAMPS. 1006 00:56:22,833 --> 00:56:26,500 "WE LIVED AS SAVAGES AND KEPT OUR OWN TRIBAL RULES," 1007 00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:29,666 HEMINGWAY WROTE, "AND HAD OUR OWN CUSTOMS 1008 00:56:29,666 --> 00:56:35,166 AND OUR OWN STANDARDS, SECRETS, TABOOS, AND DELIGHTS." 1009 00:56:35,166 --> 00:56:39,433 HADLEY CUT HER HAIR SHORT, AND HE GREW HIS LONG 1010 00:56:39,433 --> 00:56:41,566 UNTIL THEY MATCHED. 1011 00:56:44,433 --> 00:56:47,800 ERNEST HAD ALSO DECIDED TO ABANDON JOURNALISM 1012 00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,666 IN ORDER TO DO THE KIND OF WRITING HE WANTED TO DO. 1013 00:56:54,166 --> 00:56:57,433 "IN NEWSPAPER WORK," HE WOULD EVENTUALLY EXPLAIN, 1014 00:56:57,433 --> 00:57:00,766 "YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO FORGET EVERY DAY WHAT HAPPENED 1015 00:57:00,766 --> 00:57:02,533 "THE DAY BEFORE. 1016 00:57:02,533 --> 00:57:05,600 "NEWSPAPER WORK IS VALUABLE UP UNTIL THE POINT 1017 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,966 THAT IT FORCIBLY BEGINS TO DESTROY YOUR MEMORY." 1018 00:57:09,966 --> 00:57:11,933 WOLFF: WHAT DID HE SAY ONCE? 1019 00:57:11,933 --> 00:57:16,200 A WRITER MUST COME TO HIS WORK LIKE A PRIEST TO THE ALTAR, 1020 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,100 AND HE HAD THAT SENSE OF THE SACRED 1021 00:57:18,100 --> 00:57:19,733 ABOUT HIS VOCATION. 1022 00:57:19,733 --> 00:57:22,266 HE REALLY DID. HE WENT TO WORK, 1023 00:57:22,266 --> 00:57:25,133 AND I WOULD SAY THE COURAGE THAT HE SHOWED IN THE WAR 1024 00:57:25,133 --> 00:57:26,933 DOESN'T COMPARE TO ME TO THE COURAGE 1025 00:57:26,933 --> 00:57:29,400 HE SHOWED IN HIS WRITING LIFE. 1026 00:57:31,566 --> 00:57:33,733 NARRATOR: WITH THE HELP OF SYMPATHETIC FRIENDS, 1027 00:57:33,733 --> 00:57:37,033 HEMINGWAY WOULD PUBLISH TWO SLENDER BOOKS, 1028 00:57:37,033 --> 00:57:41,266 "THREE STORIES & TEN POEMS" AND "IN OUR TIME". 1029 00:57:41,266 --> 00:57:43,200 THEY MEANT THE WORLD TO HEMINGWAY, 1030 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,700 BUT ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES WERE PRINTED. 1031 00:57:46,700 --> 00:57:51,233 HEMINGWAY'S PARENTS ORDERED 6 COPIES OF "IN OUR TIME." 1032 00:57:51,233 --> 00:57:54,433 HIS SISTER REMEMBERED THAT WHEN HIS FATHER READ A STORY 1033 00:57:54,433 --> 00:57:56,600 ABOUT A WAR VETERAN, WHO HAS BEEN JILTED 1034 00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,166 BY A NURSE NAMED AG AND CONTRACTS GONORRHEA 1035 00:58:00,166 --> 00:58:03,166 FROM A SALESGIRL, HE WROTE TO HIS SON 1036 00:58:03,166 --> 00:58:05,433 THAT THE BOOK WAS FILTH. 1037 00:58:05,433 --> 00:58:08,666 NO GENTLEMAN EVER MENTIONED A VENEREAL DISEASE 1038 00:58:08,666 --> 00:58:11,700 OUTSIDE A DOCTOR'S OFFICE. 1039 00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:15,366 HIS MOTHER HAD HOPED HE MIGHT BECOME AN ARTIST 1040 00:58:15,366 --> 00:58:19,433 BUT NOT THIS KIND. 1041 00:58:19,433 --> 00:58:23,533 ANOTHER STORY WAS SO DARING, THAT EVEN GERTRUDE STEIN 1042 00:58:23,533 --> 00:58:28,033 HAD TOLD HEMINGWAY IT WAS TOO OBSCENE TO BE PUBLISHED. 1043 00:58:28,033 --> 00:58:33,200 IT WAS CALLED "UP IN MICHIGAN." 1044 00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:34,833 KATAKIS: I THINK "UP IN MICHIGAN" 1045 00:58:34,833 --> 00:58:38,300 IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, 1046 00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:41,166 HE IS SAYING THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES. 1047 00:58:41,166 --> 00:58:44,133 "I'M GOING TO WRITE WITH NO BOUNDARIES, NO RESTRICTIONS. 1048 00:58:44,133 --> 00:58:47,266 "I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU, POLITE WORLD. 1049 00:58:47,266 --> 00:58:50,133 "I'M GOING TO WHAT I THINK IS TRUE, 1050 00:58:50,133 --> 00:58:52,500 "BUT I'M GOING TO SEE IT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW 1051 00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:55,400 OF THE WOMAN." 1052 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,400 NARRATOR: LIZ COATES IS A TEEN-AGED GIRL WORKING 1053 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,000 IN A BOARDING HOUSE IN THE TINY TOWN 1054 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,000 OF HORTONS BAY. 1055 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,800 AMONG THE BOARDERS IS A HANDSOME YOUNG BLACKSMITH 1056 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,900 NAMED JIM GILMORE. 1057 00:59:08,900 --> 00:59:14,233 ONE EVENING, THEY GO DOWN TO THE DOCK. 1058 00:59:14,233 --> 00:59:17,500 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "DON'T, JIM," LIZ SAID. 1059 00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:20,433 JIM SLID THE HAND FURTHER UP. 1060 00:59:20,433 --> 00:59:22,166 "YOU MUSTN'T, JIM. 1061 00:59:22,166 --> 00:59:24,400 YOU MUSTN'T." 1062 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:26,566 NEITHER JIM NOR JIM'S BIG HAND PAID 1063 00:59:26,566 --> 00:59:28,400 ANY ATTENTION TO HER. 1064 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,433 THE BOARDS WERE HARD. 1065 00:59:30,433 --> 00:59:32,400 JIM HAD HER DRESS UP AND WAS TRYING TO DO 1066 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,600 SOMETHING TO HER. 1067 00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,200 SHE WAS FRIGHTENED, BUT SHE WANTED IT. 1068 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:41,033 SHE HAD TO HAVE IT, BUT IT FRIGHTENED HER. 1069 00:59:41,033 --> 00:59:43,833 "YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, JIM. YOU MUSTN'T." 1070 00:59:43,833 --> 00:59:46,633 "I GOT TO. I'M GOING TO. 1071 00:59:46,633 --> 00:59:49,366 YOU KNOW WE GOT TO." 1072 00:59:49,366 --> 00:59:52,866 "NO WE HAVEN'T, JIM. WE AIN'T GOT TO. 1073 00:59:52,866 --> 00:59:54,533 "OH, IT ISN'T RIGHT. 1074 00:59:54,533 --> 00:59:57,200 "OH, IT'S SO BIG, AND IT HURTS SO. 1075 00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,833 "YOU CAN'T. 1076 00:59:58,833 --> 01:00:00,300 "OH, JIM. 1077 01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:03,033 JIM. OH." 1078 01:00:06,033 --> 01:00:11,766 O'BRIEN: I THINK MANY WOMEN FEEL, AND, INDEED, 1079 01:00:11,766 --> 01:00:19,433 UM, BROADCAST THE IDEA THAT HEMINGWAY HATED WOMEN 1080 01:00:19,433 --> 01:00:23,833 AND WROTE ADVERSELY ALWAYS ABOUT THEM. 1081 01:00:23,833 --> 01:00:26,266 THIS ISN'T TRUE. 1082 01:00:26,266 --> 01:00:28,666 "THE HEMLOCK PLANKS OF THE DOCK WERE HARD 1083 01:00:28,666 --> 01:00:30,933 "AND SPLINTERY AND COLD, 1084 01:00:30,933 --> 01:00:34,866 "AND JIM WAS HEAVY ON HER, AND HE HAD HURT HER. 1085 01:00:34,866 --> 01:00:36,433 "LIZ PUSHED HIM. 1086 01:00:36,433 --> 01:00:39,033 "SHE WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLE AND CRAMPED. 1087 01:00:39,033 --> 01:00:41,566 "JIM WAS ASLEEP. HE WOULDN'T MOVE. 1088 01:00:41,566 --> 01:00:43,966 "SHE WORKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM 1089 01:00:43,966 --> 01:00:48,000 "AND SAT UP AND STRAIGHTENED HER SKIRT AND COAT 1090 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:51,500 "AND TRIED TO DO SOMETHING WITH HER HAIR. 1091 01:00:51,500 --> 01:00:54,733 "JIM WAS SLEEPING WITH HIS MOUTH A LITTLE OPEN. 1092 01:00:54,733 --> 01:00:58,033 "LIZ LEANED OVER AND KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK. 1093 01:00:58,033 --> 01:00:59,666 "HE WAS STILL ASLEEP. 1094 01:00:59,666 --> 01:01:03,366 "SHE LIFTED HIS HEAD A LITTLE AND SHOOK IT. 1095 01:01:03,366 --> 01:01:05,966 "HE ROLLED HIS HEAD OVER AND SWALLOWED. 1096 01:01:05,966 --> 01:01:08,366 "LIZ STARTED TO CRY. 1097 01:01:08,366 --> 01:01:10,633 "SHE WALKED OVER TO THE EDGE OF THE DOCK 1098 01:01:10,633 --> 01:01:13,433 "AND LOOKED DOWN TO THE WATER. 1099 01:01:13,433 --> 01:01:16,300 "THERE WAS A MIST COMING UP FROM THE BAY. 1100 01:01:16,300 --> 01:01:23,466 SHE WAS COLD AND MISERABLE AND EVERYTHING FELT GONE." 1101 01:01:23,466 --> 01:01:29,000 NOW, I WOULD ASK, UM, HIS DETRACTORS, 1102 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,300 FEMALE OR MALE, JUST TO READ THAT STORY, 1103 01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:38,500 AND COULD YOU IN ALL HONOR SAY THAT THIS WAS A WRITER 1104 01:01:38,500 --> 01:01:42,400 WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WOMEN'S EMOTIONS 1105 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,766 AND WHO HATED WOMEN? 1106 01:01:43,766 --> 01:01:46,733 YOU COULDN'T. NOBODY COULD. 1107 01:01:46,733 --> 01:01:49,366 KATAKIS: THIS IS ABOUT DATE RAPE. 1108 01:01:49,366 --> 01:01:54,533 HE WAS DRILLING DOWN DEEPER INTO THOSE DARK SIDES OF US, 1109 01:01:54,533 --> 01:01:58,466 AND MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE THAT, 1110 01:01:58,466 --> 01:02:01,033 LIKE HIS PARENTS, LIKE MS. STEIN, 1111 01:02:01,033 --> 01:02:04,100 LIKE SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE. 1112 01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:07,100 HE WAS UNCONCERNED WITH THAT, 1113 01:02:07,100 --> 01:02:12,166 AND I THINK AT THE END THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM AN ARTIST. 1114 01:02:12,166 --> 01:02:14,300 NARRATOR: THE CRITIC EDMUND WILSON 1115 01:02:14,300 --> 01:02:16,800 PRAISED HEMINGWAY FOR WRITING PROSE 1116 01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,800 OF "THE FIRST DISTINCTION" AND FOR PROVIDING 1117 01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,500 "A HARROWING RECORD OF THE BARBARITIES 1118 01:02:22,500 --> 01:02:26,966 OF THE PERIOD IN WHICH WE LIVE." 1119 01:02:26,966 --> 01:02:29,666 FULL-TIME WRITING WASN'T EASY. 1120 01:02:29,666 --> 01:02:31,300 THE BABY CRIED. 1121 01:02:31,300 --> 01:02:34,566 FRIENDS DROPPED IN, DAY AND NIGHT. 1122 01:02:34,566 --> 01:02:37,233 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: SOMETIMES WHEN I WAS STARTING A NEW STORY 1123 01:02:37,233 --> 01:02:41,033 AND I COULD NOT GET IT GOING, I WOULD STAND AND LOOK OUT 1124 01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:45,500 OVER THE ROOFS OF PARIS AND THINK, "DO NOT WORRY. 1125 01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:50,533 "YOU HAVE ALWAYS WRITTEN BEFORE, AND YOU WILL WRITE NOW. 1126 01:02:50,533 --> 01:02:54,033 "ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WRITE ONE TRUE SENTENCE. 1127 01:02:55,866 --> 01:03:00,133 WRITE THE TRUEST SENTENCE THAT YOU KNOW." 1128 01:03:00,133 --> 01:03:03,333 SO FINALLY I WOULD WRITE ONE TRUE SENTENCE 1129 01:03:03,333 --> 01:03:06,933 AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE. 1130 01:03:06,933 --> 01:03:10,366 IT WAS EASY THEN BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS ONE TRUE SENTENCE 1131 01:03:10,366 --> 01:03:15,200 THAT YOU KNEW OR HAD SEEN OR HEARD SOMEONE SAY. 1132 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,866 IF I STARTED TO WRITE ELABORATELY 1133 01:03:17,866 --> 01:03:21,266 OR LIKE SOMEONE INTRODUCING OR PRESENTING SOMETHING, 1134 01:03:21,266 --> 01:03:24,400 I FOUND THAT I COULD CUT THAT SCROLLWORK OR ORNAMENT OUT 1135 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,400 AND THROW IT AWAY AND START WITH THE FIRST TRUE, 1136 01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,966 SIMPLE DECLARATIVE SENTENCE I HAD WRITTEN 1137 01:03:30,966 --> 01:03:34,533 AND THEN GO ON FROM THERE. 1138 01:03:34,533 --> 01:03:38,433 KATAKIS: THE SHORT STORIES MEAN MORE TO ME NOW 1139 01:03:38,433 --> 01:03:41,066 BECAUSE IT IS A YOUNG MAN 1140 01:03:41,066 --> 01:03:44,866 AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS ADVENTURE. 1141 01:03:44,866 --> 01:03:48,433 HE'S HUNGRY, HE'S EXCITED, HIS OBSERVATIONS 1142 01:03:48,433 --> 01:03:51,600 ARE LIKE A HAWK. 1143 01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,833 HE'S FEELING EVERYTHING. 1144 01:03:53,833 --> 01:03:56,266 HE'S ANTICIPATING EVERYTHING. 1145 01:03:56,266 --> 01:04:00,433 HE'S TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING GO HIS WAY. 1146 01:04:00,433 --> 01:04:04,333 IT'S TERRIBLY EXCITING. 1147 01:04:04,333 --> 01:04:07,066 VAILL: IF HE WERE A CAMERA, HE WOULD BE COMING IN 1148 01:04:07,066 --> 01:04:09,133 FOR EXTREME CLOSEUP ALL THE TIME. 1149 01:04:09,133 --> 01:04:12,000 HE'S COMING IN, IN, IN AT IT, 1150 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:16,800 AND EVERY LITTLE DETAIL SUDDENLY IS VERY, VERY BIG. 1151 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,600 IT'S NOT LIKE THE WAY 19th CENTURY WRITERS 1152 01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,466 WOULD WRITE, WHICH WAS VERY PANORAMIC, 1153 01:04:21,466 --> 01:04:23,500 WHERE THE CAMERA IS SET WAY, WAY BACK, 1154 01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:27,133 AND YOU SEE A GIANT EXPANSE OF EXPERIENCE, 1155 01:04:27,133 --> 01:04:30,433 AND YET HE'S REALLY UP CLOSE AT IT. 1156 01:04:30,433 --> 01:04:33,266 YOU CAN SEE EVERY PORE IN EVERYBODY'S SKIN 1157 01:04:33,266 --> 01:04:38,433 WHEN HE'S WRITING, AND THIS IS EXTREMELY EXCITING. 1158 01:04:38,433 --> 01:04:41,500 NARRATOR: DURING THE FIRST 6 MONTHS OF 1924, 1159 01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:44,966 HEMINGWAY WROTE MORE STORIES, HOPING TO INCLUDE THEM 1160 01:04:44,966 --> 01:04:50,266 IN A NEW AND EXPANDED COLLECTION OF "IN OUR TIME." 1161 01:04:50,266 --> 01:04:54,800 CUSHMAN: "IN OUR TIME" JUST REARRANGED THE GEOGRAPHY 1162 01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,800 OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE WRITING IN ENGLISH. 1163 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,333 WHEN I GO BACK TO THAT BOOK AND TRY TO FORGET ABOUT 1164 01:05:02,333 --> 01:05:05,900 WHO HE BECAME, I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY. 1165 01:05:05,900 --> 01:05:09,066 THAT BOOK, IT TAKES THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD OFF. 1166 01:05:11,333 --> 01:05:14,633 NARRATOR: HALF THE STORIES IN "IN OUR TIME" FEATURE 1167 01:05:14,633 --> 01:05:20,233 NICK ADAMS, A CHARACTER WHO IS VERY LIKE THE YOUNG HEMINGWAY. 1168 01:05:20,233 --> 01:05:23,966 IN "INDIAN CAMP," HE IS A LITTLE BOY WHO ACCOMPANIES 1169 01:05:23,966 --> 01:05:26,866 HIS PHYSICIAN FATHER ACROSS A LAKE 1170 01:05:26,866 --> 01:05:28,966 TO AN ENCAMPMENT, WHERE A WOMAN 1171 01:05:28,966 --> 01:05:32,633 HAS BEEN IN LABOR FOR TWO DAYS. 1172 01:05:32,633 --> 01:05:35,700 PURE HORROR FOLLOWS. 1173 01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:38,466 AS THE BOY LOOKS ON, HIS FATHER PERFORMS 1174 01:05:38,466 --> 01:05:42,100 AN EMERGENCY CAESARIAN SECTION BY LAMP LIGHT, 1175 01:05:42,100 --> 01:05:45,166 USING A JACKKNIFE AND SUTURING THE WOUND 1176 01:05:45,166 --> 01:05:50,200 WITH FISHING LINE, ALL WITHOUT ANESTHETIC. 1177 01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,966 WHEN NICK ASKS HIS FATHER IF HE CAN'T DO SOMETHING 1178 01:05:52,966 --> 01:05:59,766 ABOUT HER SCREAMS, HE ANSWERS "THEY ARE NOT IMPORTANT." 1179 01:05:59,766 --> 01:06:02,466 AFTERWARDS, THE FATHER OF THE CHILD, 1180 01:06:02,466 --> 01:06:05,500 APPARENTLY UNABLE TO ENDURE HIS HELPLESSNESS 1181 01:06:05,500 --> 01:06:08,133 DURING HIS WIFE'S ORDEAL, IS FOUND 1182 01:06:08,133 --> 01:06:11,066 TO HAVE SLIT HIS OWN THROAT. 1183 01:06:13,833 --> 01:06:15,500 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "DO LADIES ALWAYS HAVE 1184 01:06:15,500 --> 01:06:19,033 SUCH A HARD TIME HAVING BABIES?" NICK ASKED. 1185 01:06:19,033 --> 01:06:23,066 "NO, THAT WAS VERY, VERY EXCEPTIONAL." 1186 01:06:23,066 --> 01:06:26,266 "WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF, DADDY?" 1187 01:06:26,266 --> 01:06:28,033 "I DON'T KNOW, NICK. 1188 01:06:28,033 --> 01:06:31,200 HE COULDN'T STAND THINGS, I GUESS." 1189 01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:34,200 "DO MANY MEN KILL THEMSELVES, DADDY?" 1190 01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,233 "NOT VERY MANY, NICK." 1191 01:06:36,233 --> 01:06:38,100 "DO MANY WOMEN?" 1192 01:06:38,100 --> 01:06:40,100 "HARDLY EVER." 1193 01:06:40,100 --> 01:06:41,933 "DON'T THEY EVER?" 1194 01:06:41,933 --> 01:06:45,233 "OH, YES. THEY DO SOMETIMES." 1195 01:06:45,233 --> 01:06:48,100 "IS DYING HARD, DADDY?" 1196 01:06:48,100 --> 01:06:51,400 "NO, I THINK IT'S PRETTY EASY, NICK. 1197 01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:53,600 IT ALL DEPENDS." 1198 01:06:56,333 --> 01:06:59,333 THEY WERE SEATED IN THE BOAT, NICK IN THE STERN, 1199 01:06:59,333 --> 01:07:02,033 HIS FATHER ROWING. 1200 01:07:02,033 --> 01:07:05,100 THE SUN WAS COMING UP OVER THE HILLS. 1201 01:07:05,100 --> 01:07:08,966 A BASS JUMPED, MAKING A CIRCLE IN THE WATER. 1202 01:07:08,966 --> 01:07:11,533 NICK TRAILED HIS HAND IN THE WATER. 1203 01:07:11,533 --> 01:07:14,600 IT FELT WARM IN THE SHARP CHILL OF THE MORNING. 1204 01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,466 IN THE EARLY MORNING ON THE LAKE, 1205 01:07:18,466 --> 01:07:22,400 SITTING IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT WITH HIS FATHER ROWING, 1206 01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:25,933 HE FELT QUITE SURE THAT HE WOULD NEVER DIE. 1207 01:07:28,733 --> 01:07:32,166 WOLFF: "INDIAN CAMP," THAT'S ONE 1208 01:07:32,166 --> 01:07:35,166 OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IN THE WORLD, 1209 01:07:35,166 --> 01:07:37,900 AND HE WAS A BABY WHEN HE WROTE IT, 1210 01:07:37,900 --> 01:07:41,766 BUT IT IS COMPL--IT IS A WORK OF GREAT SOPHISTICATION, 1211 01:07:41,766 --> 01:07:45,266 AND IT HANDLES VERY SENSATIONAL MATERIAL 1212 01:07:45,266 --> 01:07:48,400 IN AN ABSOLUTELY UNSENSATIONAL WAY. 1213 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:53,300 AND WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IS "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE." 1214 01:07:53,300 --> 01:07:56,166 HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO DIE. HE'S SEEN IT, 1215 01:07:56,166 --> 01:07:59,900 BUT THERE'S THIS FEELING, BEING WITH HIS FATHER, 1216 01:07:59,900 --> 01:08:03,966 BEING OUTDOORS IN THE DAWN, 1217 01:08:03,966 --> 01:08:09,833 THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO HOPE OR DENY OR EVADE THAT TRUTH 1218 01:08:09,833 --> 01:08:11,966 FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 1219 01:08:14,333 --> 01:08:16,766 NARRATOR: THE LAST STORIES IN THE COLLECTION 1220 01:08:16,766 --> 01:08:21,100 ARE "BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER, PARTS I AND II." 1221 01:08:21,100 --> 01:08:23,700 THEY ARE ABOUT A NOW OLDER NICK ADAMS, 1222 01:08:23,700 --> 01:08:26,300 A WRITER WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED AND TRAUMATIZED 1223 01:08:26,300 --> 01:08:28,533 FROM THE GREAT WAR. 1224 01:08:28,533 --> 01:08:31,666 "IT WAS ABOUT THE WAR," HEMINGWAY LATER RECALLED, 1225 01:08:31,666 --> 01:08:34,766 "BUT THERE WAS NO MENTION OF THE WAR IN IT." 1226 01:08:37,466 --> 01:08:38,966 NICK JOURNEYS ALONE 1227 01:08:38,966 --> 01:08:41,400 TO THE UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN, 1228 01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:46,133 WHERE HE HAD FREQUENTLY FISHED FOR TROUT BEFORE THE WAR. 1229 01:08:46,133 --> 01:08:49,866 A FOREST FIRE HAS DESTROYED THE TOWN HE HAD KNOWN. 1230 01:08:49,866 --> 01:08:52,500 HE FEARS THE RIVER AND THE LIFE HE KNEW 1231 01:08:52,500 --> 01:08:55,400 BEFORE THE WAR HAD BEEN RUINED, TOO. 1232 01:08:59,466 --> 01:09:02,166 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE RIVER WAS THERE. 1233 01:09:02,166 --> 01:09:06,366 IT SWIRLED AGAINST THE LOG PILES OF THE BRIDGE. 1234 01:09:06,366 --> 01:09:09,000 NICK LOOKED DOWN INTO THE CLEAR, BROWN WATER, 1235 01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,833 COLORED FROM THE PEBBLY BOTTOM, AND WATCHED THE TROUT 1236 01:09:12,833 --> 01:09:14,866 KEEPING THEMSELVES STEADY IN THE CURRENT 1237 01:09:14,866 --> 01:09:17,033 WITH WAVERING FINS. 1238 01:09:19,700 --> 01:09:22,166 AS HE WATCHED THEM, THEY CHANGED THEIR POSITIONS 1239 01:09:22,166 --> 01:09:24,933 BY QUICK ANGLES, ONLY TO HOLD STEADY 1240 01:09:24,933 --> 01:09:27,700 IN THE FAST WATER AGAIN. 1241 01:09:27,700 --> 01:09:30,433 NICK WATCHED THEM A LONG TIME. 1242 01:09:32,233 --> 01:09:34,200 IT WAS A HOT DAY. 1243 01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,233 A KINGFISHER FLEW UP THE STREAM. 1244 01:09:37,233 --> 01:09:40,133 IT WAS A LONG TIME SINCE NICK HAD LOOKED INTO A STREAM 1245 01:09:40,133 --> 01:09:42,366 AND SEEN TROUT. 1246 01:09:42,366 --> 01:09:46,133 THEY WERE VERY SATISFACTORY. 1247 01:09:46,133 --> 01:09:48,700 WOMAN: I LOVED IT. 1248 01:09:48,700 --> 01:09:52,100 I LOVED THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY 1249 01:09:52,100 --> 01:09:57,933 WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT HIS INNER SITUATION. 1250 01:09:57,933 --> 01:10:00,566 HE HAD SOME HURT, OR SOMETHING BAD, 1251 01:10:00,566 --> 01:10:03,066 IT WAS INSIDE OF HIMSELF. 1252 01:10:03,066 --> 01:10:07,233 BY FOLLOWING HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE LANDSCAPE 1253 01:10:07,233 --> 01:10:13,700 AND WHAT HE DOES, WE FEEL HE IS CURED, HEALED. 1254 01:10:16,900 --> 01:10:21,066 NARRATOR: IN 1925, THE NEW YORK PUBLISHER HORACE LIVERIGHT 1255 01:10:21,066 --> 01:10:25,000 BROUGHT OUT THE EXPANDED EDITION OF "IN OUR TIME," 1256 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,833 BUT HE REFUSED TO INCLUDE "UP IN MICHIGAN," 1257 01:10:27,833 --> 01:10:32,500 THE STORY GERTRUDE STEIN HAD SAID WAS UNPUBLISHABLE. 1258 01:10:32,500 --> 01:10:35,866 HEMINGWAY WAS DISAPPOINTED BUT SAID HE HOPED THE BOOK 1259 01:10:35,866 --> 01:10:40,900 WOULD BE "PRAISED BY HIGHBROWS AND CAN BE READ BY LOWBROWS. 1260 01:10:40,900 --> 01:10:43,200 "THERE IS NO WRITING IN IT THAT ANYBODY 1261 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:47,200 WITH A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION CANNOT READ." 1262 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:48,633 CUSHMAN: ONE OF THE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT, 1263 01:10:48,633 --> 01:10:50,766 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT MODERNISM, 1264 01:10:50,766 --> 01:10:54,433 AT LEAST ANGLO-IRISH, AMERICAN, HIGH MODERNISM, 1265 01:10:54,433 --> 01:10:59,100 IS THERE WAS A CULT OF DIFFICULTY: 1266 01:10:59,100 --> 01:11:02,700 JOYCE, DIFFICULT; GERTRUDE STEIN, DIFFICULT; 1267 01:11:02,700 --> 01:11:06,933 FAULKNER, DIFFICULT; E.E. CUMMINGS, DIFFICULT. 1268 01:11:06,933 --> 01:11:10,833 AND HEMINGWAY JUST WENT AGAINST THE GRAIN ON THAT. 1269 01:11:10,833 --> 01:11:13,300 HE DARED TO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD 1270 01:11:13,300 --> 01:11:15,300 OR APPARENTLY STRAIGHTFORWARD. 1271 01:11:15,300 --> 01:11:19,733 HE DARED TO IMPERSONATE SIMPLICITY. 1272 01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:22,966 HE HOOKS YOU WITH THE LOWBROW APPEARANCE. 1273 01:11:22,966 --> 01:11:29,966 THEN, HE PLAYS YOU, AND THEN, YOU'RE HIS TROPHY. 1274 01:11:29,966 --> 01:11:33,266 NARRATOR: THE BOOK WAS A CRITICAL SENSATION. 1275 01:11:33,266 --> 01:11:36,166 THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAID THAT HEMINGWAY PACKED 1276 01:11:36,166 --> 01:11:38,866 "A WHOLE CHARACTER INTO A PHRASE, 1277 01:11:38,866 --> 01:11:42,600 AN ENTIRE SITUATION INTO A SENTENCE OR TWO" 1278 01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:47,033 AND MADE "EACH WORD COUNT 3 OR 4 WAYS." 1279 01:11:47,033 --> 01:11:50,500 "ERNEST HEMINGWAY IS SOMEBODY," SAID "TIME," 1280 01:11:50,500 --> 01:11:59,433 "A NEW, HONEST, UNLITERARY TRANSCRIBER OF LIFE, A WRITER." 1281 01:11:59,433 --> 01:12:02,500 CUSHMAN: HE WAS VERY RESTLESS AND AMBITIOUS, 1282 01:12:02,500 --> 01:12:04,533 VERY COMPETITIVE, 1283 01:12:04,533 --> 01:12:11,000 AND FAULKNER'S GETTING GOING, FITZGERALD'S GETTING GOING, 1284 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,866 JOYCE IS KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, 1285 01:12:13,866 --> 01:12:18,466 AND HE KNEW THAT A NOVEL HAD TO HAPPEN. 1286 01:12:18,466 --> 01:12:23,333 HOW DOES ONE GO FROM THE MICROSTITCHING 1287 01:12:23,333 --> 01:12:26,166 OF SENTENCE TO SENTENCE TO SENTENCE AND, 1288 01:12:26,166 --> 01:12:28,466 "OH, MY GOODNESS, A PARAGRAPH! 1289 01:12:28,466 --> 01:12:31,033 IT ONLY TOOK ME A MORNING"-- 1290 01:12:31,033 --> 01:12:33,233 HOW DO YOU GO FROM THAT TO A LONGER FORM? 1291 01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,500 I STARTED IN VALENCIA ON MY 26th BIRTHDAY, 1292 01:12:42,500 --> 01:12:45,166 JULY 21st. 1293 01:12:45,166 --> 01:12:47,700 EVERYBODY MY AGE HAD WRITTEN A NOVEL, 1294 01:12:47,700 --> 01:12:49,533 AND I WAS STILL HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME 1295 01:12:49,533 --> 01:12:52,200 WRITING A PARAGRAPH, 1296 01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,933 SO I STARTED THE BOOK ON MY BIRTHDAY, 1297 01:12:54,933 --> 01:12:58,766 WROTE ALL THROUGH THE FERIA, IN BED IN THE MORNING, 1298 01:12:58,766 --> 01:13:02,666 WENT ON TO MADRID AND WROTE THERE. 1299 01:13:02,666 --> 01:13:05,900 WE HAD A ROOM WITH A TABLE, AND I WROTE IN GREAT LUXURY 1300 01:13:05,900 --> 01:13:08,633 ON THE TABLE AND AROUND THE CORNER 1301 01:13:08,633 --> 01:13:11,966 FROM THE HOTEL IN A BEER PLACE, WHERE IT WAS COOL. 1302 01:13:11,966 --> 01:13:27,866 ♪ 1303 01:13:27,866 --> 01:13:32,600 NARRATOR: IN THE SUMMER OF 1925, LEAVING BUMBY WITH A NANNY, 1304 01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,800 THE HEMINGWAYS RETURNED TO PAMPLONA 1305 01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,733 FOR THE ANNUAL RUNNING OF THE BULLS. 1306 01:13:38,733 --> 01:13:43,000 WITH THEM WENT A GROUP OF 5 AMERICAN AND BRITISH FRIENDS, 1307 01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:47,400 INCLUDING THE SEDUCTIVE LADY DUFF TWYSDEN. 1308 01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,900 "EVERYBODY WAS DRINKING ALL THE TIME, 1309 01:13:49,900 --> 01:13:52,500 AND EVERYBODY WAS HAVING AFFAIRS ALL THE TIME," 1310 01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:54,400 HADLEY REMEMBERED. 1311 01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,900 "I FOUND IT SORT OF UPSETTING." 1312 01:13:57,900 --> 01:14:01,100 AFTERWARDS, ERNEST AND HADLEY CONTINUED TO FOLLOW 1313 01:14:01,100 --> 01:14:08,800 THE BULLFIGHTS ACROSS SPAIN-- VALENCIA, MADRID, SAN SEBASTIAN, 1314 01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:12,633 AND AS THEY TRAVELED ABOARD TRAINS AND BUSES, 1315 01:14:12,633 --> 01:14:16,533 ON RESTAURANT TABLES AND IN HOTEL ROOMS AT NIGHT, 1316 01:14:16,533 --> 01:14:19,166 HE WORKED FEVERISHLY ON A NOVEL, 1317 01:14:19,166 --> 01:14:21,866 INSPIRED BY THE TURBULENT TIME THEY'D HAD 1318 01:14:21,866 --> 01:14:24,366 WITH THEIR FRIENDS IN PAMPLONA. 1319 01:14:24,366 --> 01:14:29,700 IT WOULD BE CALLED "THE SUN ALSO RISES." 1320 01:14:29,700 --> 01:14:33,933 THE FIRST DRAFT WAS FINISHED IN JUST 8 WEEKS. 1321 01:14:33,933 --> 01:14:36,700 IT WOULD BE A CLEAR-EYED AND SARDONIC PORTRAIT 1322 01:14:36,700 --> 01:14:41,133 OF WHAT GERTRUDE STEIN CALLED, "THE LOST GENERATION," 1323 01:14:41,133 --> 01:14:44,033 MEN AND WOMEN SCARRED BY THE GREAT WAR, 1324 01:14:44,033 --> 01:14:48,866 WHO DID THEIR BEST TO ERASE ITS MEMORY. 1325 01:14:48,866 --> 01:14:52,333 THE NARRATOR, A NEWSPAPERMAN FROM KANSAS CITY, 1326 01:14:52,333 --> 01:14:58,233 WAS FIRST NAMED "HEM" BEFORE HE BECAME JAKE BARNES. 1327 01:14:58,233 --> 01:15:01,100 BARNES IS A WAR VETERAN WITH A MYSTERIOUS 1328 01:15:01,100 --> 01:15:06,200 AND UNEXPLAINED WOUND THAT HAS MADE HIM IMPOTENT. 1329 01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,233 [MAN SPEAKING SPANISH] 1330 01:15:19,933 --> 01:15:22,066 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: OUTSIDE A NIGHT TRAIN, 1331 01:15:22,066 --> 01:15:23,833 RUNNING ON THE STREETCAR TRACKS, 1332 01:15:23,833 --> 01:15:26,900 WENT BY CARRYING VEGETABLES TO THE MARKETS. 1333 01:15:26,900 --> 01:15:31,033 THEY WERE NOISY AT NIGHT WHEN YOU COULD NOT SLEEP. 1334 01:15:31,033 --> 01:15:33,733 UNDRESSING, I LOOKED AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR 1335 01:15:33,733 --> 01:15:38,000 OF THE BIG ARMOIRE BESIDE THE BED. 1336 01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,533 OF ALL THE WAYS TO BE WOUNDED. 1337 01:15:42,266 --> 01:15:44,433 [VARGAS LLOSA SPEAKING SPANISH] 1338 01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,533 NARRATOR: IN THE EARLY DRAFTS, HEMINGWAY HAD USED 1339 01:16:09,533 --> 01:16:11,500 THE REAL NAMES OF HIS FRIENDS 1340 01:16:11,500 --> 01:16:15,000 FROM THEIR RECKLESS, DRUNKEN TIME IN PAMPLONA. 1341 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,500 FOR FEAR OF BEING SUED, HE LATER CHANGED THEM. 1342 01:16:19,500 --> 01:16:22,866 LADY DUFF TWYSDEN, WHO HAD CAPTIVATED HEMINGWAY 1343 01:16:22,866 --> 01:16:24,633 AND HAD WORRIED HADLEY, 1344 01:16:24,633 --> 01:16:27,333 WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME THE THINLY DISGUISED 1345 01:16:27,333 --> 01:16:30,600 LADY BRETT ASHLEY, THE PROMISCUOUS WOMAN 1346 01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:35,600 JAKE BARNES LONGS FOR BUT CAN NEVER HAVE. 1347 01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:38,500 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: BRETT WAS DAMNED GOOD-LOOKING. 1348 01:16:38,500 --> 01:16:40,533 SHE WORE A SLIPOVER JERSEY SWEATER 1349 01:16:40,533 --> 01:16:42,300 AND A TWEED SKIRT, 1350 01:16:42,300 --> 01:16:45,800 AND HER HAIR WAS BRUSHED BACK LIKE A BOY'S. 1351 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,633 SHE STARTED ALL THAT. 1352 01:16:48,633 --> 01:16:51,933 SHE WAS BUILT WITH CURVES LIKE THE HULL OF A RACING YACHT, 1353 01:16:51,933 --> 01:16:55,933 AND YOU MISSED NONE OF IT WITH THAT WOOL JERSEY. 1354 01:16:55,933 --> 01:16:58,733 MAN: SOMEBODY LIKE LADY BRETT IS EFFECTIVELY 1355 01:16:58,733 --> 01:17:00,800 A VERY STRONG CHARACTER. 1356 01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,666 SHE ACTIVELY GOES OUT OF HER WAY TO DRESS LIKE A MAN, 1357 01:17:03,666 --> 01:17:05,366 DRESS LIKE A BOY. 1358 01:17:05,366 --> 01:17:07,733 SHE WEARS A RUGBY SWEATER, CUTS HER HAIR SHORT, 1359 01:17:07,733 --> 01:17:12,166 AND CHOOSES TO LIVE HER LIFE AS A MAN WOULD IN THAT MOMENT. 1360 01:17:12,166 --> 01:17:17,200 THAT'S HIGHLY PROVOCATIVE FOR A 1926 TEXT. 1361 01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,166 NARRATOR: ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE PARTY HAROLD LOEB, 1362 01:17:20,166 --> 01:17:24,733 HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND JEWISH, BECAME ROBERT COHN, 1363 01:17:24,733 --> 01:17:26,733 WEAK AND OBNOXIOUS, 1364 01:17:26,733 --> 01:17:31,666 SCORNED BY SOME IN THE GROUP BECAUSE HE WAS A JEW. 1365 01:17:31,666 --> 01:17:33,833 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: BILL LOOKED AROUND, HALF-SHAVED, 1366 01:17:33,833 --> 01:17:35,466 AND THEN WENT ON TALKING INTO THE MIRROR 1367 01:17:35,466 --> 01:17:38,200 WHILE HE LATHERED HIS FACE. 1368 01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:39,833 "HAVEN'T YOU GOT SOME MORE JEWISH FRIENDS 1369 01:17:39,833 --> 01:17:42,000 YOU COULD BRING ALONG?" 1370 01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,533 HE RUBBED HIS CHIN WITH HIS THUMB, LOOKED AT IT, 1371 01:17:44,533 --> 01:17:47,200 AND THEN STARTED SCRAPING AGAIN. 1372 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,033 "YOU'VE GOT SOME FINE ONES YOURSELF." 1373 01:17:50,033 --> 01:17:52,833 "OH, YES. I'VE GOT SOME DARBS. 1374 01:17:52,833 --> 01:17:55,700 "BUT NOT ALONGSIDE OF THIS ROBERT COHN. 1375 01:17:55,700 --> 01:17:58,166 "THE FUNNY THING IS HE'S NICE, TOO. 1376 01:17:58,166 --> 01:17:59,766 "I LIKE HIM. 1377 01:17:59,766 --> 01:18:02,566 BUT HE'S JUST SO AWFUL." 1378 01:18:02,566 --> 01:18:04,900 "HE CAN BE DAMNED NICE." 1379 01:18:04,900 --> 01:18:06,733 "I KNOW IT. 1380 01:18:06,733 --> 01:18:09,833 THAT'S THE TERRIBLE PART." 1381 01:18:09,833 --> 01:18:12,566 DEARBORN: I LOVE "THE SUN ALSO RISES" 1382 01:18:12,566 --> 01:18:15,566 BUT IT'S TRAGIC THAT HE MAKES HAROLD LOEB 1383 01:18:15,566 --> 01:18:18,933 INTO THIS DESPICABLE JEW. 1384 01:18:18,933 --> 01:18:23,566 IT'S JUST, UM, STUNNING. 1385 01:18:23,566 --> 01:18:26,066 IT'S JUST STUNNING, 1386 01:18:26,066 --> 01:18:29,000 AND HAROLD LOEB COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. 1387 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,233 YOU KNOW, HE THOUGHT THEY WERE SO CLOSE. 1388 01:18:31,233 --> 01:18:32,966 THEY WERE CLOSE, 1389 01:18:32,966 --> 01:18:35,966 AND HE JUST SAID, "I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM. 1390 01:18:35,966 --> 01:18:38,300 HE WAS MY FRIEND." 1391 01:18:41,133 --> 01:18:43,966 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S PROTAGONIST JAKE BARNES 1392 01:18:43,966 --> 01:18:46,966 IS A JADED INSIDER AT PAMPLONA. 1393 01:18:46,966 --> 01:18:49,266 HE SEEMS TO KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW 1394 01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:51,800 ABOUT BULLFIGHTING. 1395 01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:56,066 THE STAR OF THE FIESTA IS A MATADOR NAMED PEDRO ROMERO, 1396 01:18:56,066 --> 01:18:59,966 JUST 19, INNOCENT, AND UNSPOILED. 1397 01:18:59,966 --> 01:19:03,933 THE BULLFIGHTING WORLD HOPES TO KEEP HIM THAT WAY, 1398 01:19:03,933 --> 01:19:06,000 BUT JAKE BREAKS THE RULES 1399 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,833 AND INTRODUCES HIM TO BRETT ASHLEY, 1400 01:19:08,833 --> 01:19:13,800 THE WOMAN HE CAN NEVER BE WITH HIMSELF. 1401 01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,100 MANDEL: JAKE BARNES SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT. 1402 01:19:16,100 --> 01:19:19,166 SHE'S NOT A SERIOUS, COMMITTED PERSON. 1403 01:19:19,166 --> 01:19:21,466 SHE'S A FREE WOMAN. SHE'S A FREE WOMAN. 1404 01:19:21,466 --> 01:19:23,533 SHE INDULGES HERSELF, 1405 01:19:23,533 --> 01:19:25,966 AND SHE WANTS TO INDULGE HERSELF WITH THE BULLFIGHTER. 1406 01:19:25,966 --> 01:19:28,100 JAKE BARNES SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED 1407 01:19:28,100 --> 01:19:32,266 THIS YOUNG, VULNERABLE, ETHICAL FIGURE, 1408 01:19:32,266 --> 01:19:35,466 AND AFTER THAT, THE PEOPLE IN THE KNOW IN PAMPLONA 1409 01:19:35,466 --> 01:19:37,633 TURN AGAINST JAKE. 1410 01:19:37,633 --> 01:19:40,666 THEY BARELY TALK TO HIM. THEY AVOID HIM, 1411 01:19:40,666 --> 01:19:44,533 AND THAT'S A BIG TURNING POINT IN THIS CHARACTER. 1412 01:19:44,533 --> 01:19:48,533 OF COURSE, HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID. 1413 01:19:48,533 --> 01:19:50,133 NARRATOR: AT THE END OF THE NOVEL, 1414 01:19:50,133 --> 01:19:54,066 JAKE AND BRETT SHARE A TAXI IN MADRID. 1415 01:19:56,366 --> 01:19:58,900 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE DRIVER STARTED UP THE STREET. 1416 01:19:58,900 --> 01:20:00,466 I SETTLED BACK. 1417 01:20:00,466 --> 01:20:02,900 BRETT MOVED CLOSE TO ME. 1418 01:20:02,900 --> 01:20:05,566 WE SAT CLOSE AGAINST EACH OTHER. 1419 01:20:05,566 --> 01:20:07,200 I PUT MY ARM AROUND HER, 1420 01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:10,233 AND SHE RESTED AGAINST ME COMFORTABLY. 1421 01:20:10,233 --> 01:20:12,400 IT WAS VERY HOT AND BRIGHT, 1422 01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:15,566 AND THE HOUSES LOOKED SHARPLY WHITE. 1423 01:20:15,566 --> 01:20:18,833 WE TURNED OUT ONTO THE GRAN VIA. 1424 01:20:18,833 --> 01:20:20,966 "OH, JAKE," BRETT SAID, 1425 01:20:20,966 --> 01:20:24,833 "WE COULD HAVE HAD SUCH A DAMNED GOOD TIME TOGETHER." 1426 01:20:24,833 --> 01:20:29,466 AHEAD WAS A MOUNTED POLICEMAN IN KHAKI DIRECTING TRAFFIC. 1427 01:20:29,466 --> 01:20:31,533 HE RAISED HIS BATON. 1428 01:20:31,533 --> 01:20:35,733 THE CAR SLOWED, SUDDENLY PRESSING BRETT AGAINST ME. 1429 01:20:35,733 --> 01:20:38,500 "YES," I SAID. 1430 01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:41,833 ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?" 1431 01:20:41,833 --> 01:20:44,500 TIM O'BRIEN: "ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?" 1432 01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:48,233 IT'S THE WISTFULNESS OF WHAT WE BOTH LOSE 1433 01:20:48,233 --> 01:20:51,333 AND NEVER HAD, A WISTFULNESS. 1434 01:20:51,333 --> 01:20:53,500 "ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK THAT MY DAD AND I 1435 01:20:53,500 --> 01:20:57,733 "COULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT VIRTUALLY ANYTHING? 1436 01:20:57,733 --> 01:21:00,533 IT'S PRETTY TO THINK SO," 1437 01:21:00,533 --> 01:21:03,366 BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, AND IT WON'T HAPPEN, 1438 01:21:03,366 --> 01:21:07,400 AND SO THERE'S A SADNESS TO IT THAT FEELS TO ME FULLY HUMAN. 1439 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:10,166 "ALL THAT WILL NOT BE," WHICH IS GOING TO BE TRUE 1440 01:21:10,166 --> 01:21:12,866 FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER 1441 01:21:12,866 --> 01:21:15,833 ON THIS PLANET, "ALL THAT WILL NEVER BE." 1442 01:21:15,833 --> 01:21:18,733 IT HAS A UNIVERSALITY TO IT. 1443 01:21:18,733 --> 01:21:21,700 "ISN'T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?" 1444 01:21:23,900 --> 01:21:26,500 NARRATOR: THE WAR HAD OBLITERATED ANY ILLUSIONS 1445 01:21:26,500 --> 01:21:29,433 ABOUT THE FUTURE, BUT HEMINGWAY SEEMED 1446 01:21:29,433 --> 01:21:33,500 TO BE SUGGESTING THAT EVEN IN THE MOST DAMAGED LIVES, 1447 01:21:33,500 --> 01:21:36,566 DESPITE THE INDIGNITIES MEN AND WOMEN INFLICT 1448 01:21:36,566 --> 01:21:42,733 UPON EACH OTHER, SOME HOPE, SOME SWEETNESS COULD BE FOUND. 1449 01:21:42,733 --> 01:21:45,600 EDNA O'BRIEN: I LOVE "THE SUN ALSO RISES." 1450 01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:49,500 THE PITH OF IT, FOR ME. 1451 01:21:49,500 --> 01:21:53,000 THERE'S ALL THE HOTELS AND THE DRINK 1452 01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,266 AND THE BULLFIGHTING AND THE FISHING 1453 01:21:55,266 --> 01:21:57,666 AND THE MOUNTAINS AND THEIR KNAPSACKS, 1454 01:21:57,666 --> 01:21:59,500 "THAT'S A DAMN FINE WINE," 1455 01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:03,000 AND THERE'S ALL THAT BLUSTER, 1456 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,700 AND THERE'S IMPOTENCE. 1457 01:22:05,700 --> 01:22:08,666 WHAT IT DID FOR ME, WHEN I READ IT, 1458 01:22:08,666 --> 01:22:16,600 WAS TO INTRODUCE ME TO AN EXOTICA, A GLAMOUR, 1459 01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:22,200 A LIFE THAT, COMING FROM COUNTY CLARE IN IRELAND, 1460 01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:23,666 I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 1461 01:22:23,666 --> 01:22:24,966 I WAS SEDUCED BY IT. 1462 01:22:24,966 --> 01:22:27,766 THAT IS THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR. 1463 01:22:27,766 --> 01:22:31,133 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: AUGUST 23, 1925. 1464 01:22:31,133 --> 01:22:33,466 IT IS A HELL OF A FINE NOVEL. 1465 01:22:33,466 --> 01:22:36,300 WRITTEN VERY SIMPLY AND FULL OF THINGS HAPPENING 1466 01:22:36,300 --> 01:22:39,133 AND PEOPLE AND PLACES AND EXCITING AS HELL 1467 01:22:39,133 --> 01:22:42,200 AND NO AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FIRST NOVEL STUFF. 1468 01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:44,166 I THINK IT WILL BE A KNOCKOUT 1469 01:22:44,166 --> 01:22:46,033 AND WILL LET THESE BASTARDS WHO SAY, 1470 01:22:46,033 --> 01:22:48,333 "YES, HE CAN WRITE VERY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PARAGRAPHS KNOW 1471 01:22:48,333 --> 01:22:50,633 WHERE THEY GET OFF AT." 1472 01:22:50,633 --> 01:22:52,466 I'VE TRIED TO WRITE A HELL OF A GOOD STORY 1473 01:22:52,466 --> 01:22:57,200 ABOUT PEOPLE WITHOUT FAKING, PRECIOSITY, OR HORSE... 1474 01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,933 EVERYBODY KNOWS LIFE IS A TRAGIC SHOW, 1475 01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:03,733 I.E. BORN HERE, DIE THERE. 1476 01:23:03,733 --> 01:23:07,666 EVERYBODY DIES, EVERYBODY GETS BITCHED. 1477 01:23:10,333 --> 01:23:13,000 NARRATOR: ERNEST WAS HAPPY WITH HIS MANUSCRIPT 1478 01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,166 BUT UNHAPPY WITH HIS PUBLISHER HORACE LIVERIGHT. 1479 01:23:17,166 --> 01:23:21,200 HIS LAST BOOK "IN OUR TIME" HAD BEEN A CRITICAL SUCCESS, 1480 01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,300 BUT IT HADN'T SOLD. 1481 01:23:23,300 --> 01:23:26,466 BY CONTRACT, LIVERIGHT HAD THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH 1482 01:23:26,466 --> 01:23:30,366 HIS NEXT TWO BOOKS PROVIDED HE ACCEPTED THE FIRST ONE 1483 01:23:30,366 --> 01:23:33,666 WITHIN 60 DAYS OF ITS SUBMISSION. 1484 01:23:33,666 --> 01:23:37,733 BY THIS TIME, THE CELEBRATED NOVELIST F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1485 01:23:37,733 --> 01:23:41,133 HAD BECOME A GOOD FRIEND AND HAD ALERTED HIS OWN EDITOR 1486 01:23:41,133 --> 01:23:46,833 MAXWELL PERKINS OF SCRIBNER'S, TO HEMINGWAY'S GREAT PROMISE. 1487 01:23:46,833 --> 01:23:49,233 MAN AS FITZGERALD: DEAR MAX, THIS IS TO TELL YOU 1488 01:23:49,233 --> 01:23:51,866 ABOUT A YOUNG MAN NAMED ERNEST HEMINGWAY, 1489 01:23:51,866 --> 01:23:53,733 WHO LIVES IN PARIS, 1490 01:23:53,733 --> 01:23:57,133 AN AMERICAN, WRITES FOR THE "TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW," 1491 01:23:57,133 --> 01:23:59,666 AND HAS A BRILLIANT FUTURE. 1492 01:23:59,666 --> 01:24:01,400 EZRA POUND PUBLISHED A COLLECTION 1493 01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:03,133 OF HIS SHORT PIECES. 1494 01:24:03,133 --> 01:24:05,666 I HAVEN'T IT HERE NOW, BUT IT'S REMARKABLE, 1495 01:24:05,666 --> 01:24:07,766 AND I'D LOOK HIM UP RIGHT AWAY. 1496 01:24:07,766 --> 01:24:09,633 HE'S THE REAL THING. 1497 01:24:09,633 --> 01:24:11,466 SCOTT. 1498 01:24:11,466 --> 01:24:14,500 NARRATOR: FITZGERALD WOULD EVENTUALLY PERSUADE ERNEST 1499 01:24:14,500 --> 01:24:17,433 TO JETTISON THE FIRST TWO CLUMSY CHAPTERS 1500 01:24:17,433 --> 01:24:20,133 OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES," THOUGH HEMINGWAY 1501 01:24:20,133 --> 01:24:25,066 WOULD LATER CLAIM IT HAD BEEN HIS IDEA ALL ALONG. 1502 01:24:25,066 --> 01:24:28,133 NOW, FITZGERALD SUGGESTED A WAY HEMINGWAY COULD GET 1503 01:24:28,133 --> 01:24:30,833 OUT OF HIS CONTRACT-- WRITE SOMETHING 1504 01:24:30,833 --> 01:24:34,800 HORACE LIVERIGHT WOULD HAVE TO REJECT. 1505 01:24:36,933 --> 01:24:41,600 IN JUST 10 DAYS, ERNEST BANGED OUT "THE TORRENTS OF SPRING," 1506 01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:43,933 A CRUEL LAMPOON OF HIS FRIEND 1507 01:24:43,933 --> 01:24:45,500 SHERWOOD ANDERSON, 1508 01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:47,166 WHO HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY KIND 1509 01:24:47,166 --> 01:24:48,300 TO HEMINGWAY 1510 01:24:48,300 --> 01:24:49,666 AND WAS ONE OF LIVERIGHT'S 1511 01:24:49,666 --> 01:24:52,400 BEST-SELLING AUTHORS. 1512 01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:56,433 HADLEY THOUGHT THE PARODY OF ANDERSON "DETESTABLE," 1513 01:24:56,433 --> 01:24:59,333 BUT ANOTHER WOMAN'S OPINION HAD BEGUN TO MATTER 1514 01:24:59,333 --> 01:25:02,900 MORE TO HIM THAN HADLEY'S. 1515 01:25:02,900 --> 01:25:06,733 PAULINE PFEIFFER THOUGHT THE MANUSCRIPT WAS HILARIOUS, 1516 01:25:06,733 --> 01:25:10,166 FURTHER EVIDENCE OF ERNEST'S GENIUS. 1517 01:25:10,166 --> 01:25:13,866 SHE WAS WITTY, WEALTHY, WELL-READ, 1518 01:25:13,866 --> 01:25:16,833 A REPORTER COVERING PARIS FASHION FOR "VOGUE," 1519 01:25:16,833 --> 01:25:19,100 AND A PRACTICING CATHOLIC. 1520 01:25:19,100 --> 01:25:21,833 SHE HAD BECOME HADLEY'S FRIEND FIRST, 1521 01:25:21,833 --> 01:25:23,833 A FREQUENT VISITOR AT THE APARTMENT 1522 01:25:23,833 --> 01:25:26,533 ABOVE THE SAWMILL. 1523 01:25:26,533 --> 01:25:29,466 ERNEST INVITED PAULINE TO JOIN HIM AND HADLEY 1524 01:25:29,466 --> 01:25:32,000 FOR CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIA. 1525 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,533 "PAULINE WAS NICE TO ME," HADLEY RECALLED. 1526 01:25:34,533 --> 01:25:37,033 "SHE WANTED TO BE FRIENDS." 1527 01:25:37,033 --> 01:25:39,333 THEY TOOK TURNS PLAYING WITH BUMBY, 1528 01:25:39,333 --> 01:25:44,466 SKIED AND DRANK AND PLAYED BRIDGE TOGETHER EVERY EVENING, 1529 01:25:44,466 --> 01:25:48,133 BUT IN THE AFTERNOONS, IT WAS PAULINE, NOT HADLEY, 1530 01:25:48,133 --> 01:25:53,166 WHOM ERNEST TOOK FOR LONG WALKS THROUGH THE SNOW. 1531 01:25:53,166 --> 01:25:55,466 "SHE DIDN'T GO STRAIGHT FOR MY HUSBAND," 1532 01:25:55,466 --> 01:25:57,966 HADLEY RECALLED YEARS LATER, 1533 01:25:57,966 --> 01:26:01,500 "BUT ONCE SHE MADE UP HER MIND THAT HE WAS WHAT SHE WANTED, 1534 01:26:01,500 --> 01:26:04,333 "SHE WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE. 1535 01:26:04,333 --> 01:26:06,466 HE COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF." 1536 01:26:10,733 --> 01:26:14,100 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: TO REALLY LOVE TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME, 1537 01:26:14,100 --> 01:26:18,600 TRULY LOVE THEM, IS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE AND TERRIBLE THING 1538 01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,200 THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN. 1539 01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,566 YOU DO THINGS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE, 1540 01:26:23,566 --> 01:26:26,300 AND WHEN YOU ARE WITH ONE, YOU LOVE HER, 1541 01:26:26,300 --> 01:26:29,266 AND WITH THE OTHER, YOU LOVE HER, 1542 01:26:29,266 --> 01:26:32,233 AND TOGETHER, YOU LOVE THEM BOTH. 1543 01:26:32,233 --> 01:26:35,566 YOU BREAK ALL PROMISES, AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU KNEW 1544 01:26:35,566 --> 01:26:39,366 THAT YOU COULD NEVER DO NOR WOULD WANT TO DO. 1545 01:26:39,366 --> 01:26:43,533 YOU LIE AND HATE IT, AND IT DESTROYS YOU, 1546 01:26:43,533 --> 01:26:46,366 AND EVERY DAY IS MORE DANGEROUS. 1547 01:26:46,366 --> 01:26:48,866 EVERYTHING IS SPLIT INSIDE OF YOU, 1548 01:26:48,866 --> 01:26:52,766 AND YOU LOVE TWO PEOPLE NOW INSTEAD OF ONE, 1549 01:26:52,766 --> 01:26:56,633 AND THE STRANGE PART IS THAT YOU ARE HAPPY. 1550 01:26:58,433 --> 01:27:00,033 NARRATOR: WHEN HEMINGWAY SUBMITTED 1551 01:27:00,033 --> 01:27:02,700 "THE TORRENTS OF SPRING" TO HORACE LIVERIGHT, 1552 01:27:02,700 --> 01:27:08,300 THE PUBLISHER REJECTED IT RIGHT AWAY JUST AS ERNEST HAD HOPED. 1553 01:27:08,300 --> 01:27:12,033 HE WAS NOW FREE TO BRING IT AND "THE SUN ALSO RISES" 1554 01:27:12,033 --> 01:27:13,966 TO SCRIBNER'S. 1555 01:27:13,966 --> 01:27:19,433 IN JANUARY 1926, ERNEST MADE A 3-WEEK TRIP TO NEW YORK 1556 01:27:19,433 --> 01:27:23,933 TO MEET WITH HIS NEW EDITOR MAX PERKINS. 1557 01:27:23,933 --> 01:27:27,166 HADLEY AND BUMBY STAYED ON IN AUSTRIA. 1558 01:27:27,166 --> 01:27:29,733 AS SOON AS HER HUSBAND RETURNED TO FRANCE, 1559 01:27:29,733 --> 01:27:32,633 HADLEY EXPECTED HIM TO BOARD THE TRAIN 1560 01:27:32,633 --> 01:27:35,000 AND COME TO HER IN THE ALPS. 1561 01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:38,766 INSTEAD, HE WENT TO PARIS, TO PAULINE'S APARTMENT, 1562 01:27:38,766 --> 01:27:42,300 A DECISION THAT WOULD ONE DAY COME TO HAUNT HIM. 1563 01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:48,566 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: THE GIRL I WAS IN LOVE WITH 1564 01:27:48,566 --> 01:27:50,833 WAS IN PARIS NOW, AND I DID NOT TAKE 1565 01:27:50,833 --> 01:27:54,733 THE FIRST TRAIN OR THE SECOND OR THE THIRD, 1566 01:27:54,733 --> 01:27:57,300 AND WHERE WE WENT AND WHAT WE DID 1567 01:27:57,300 --> 01:28:01,700 AND THE UNBELIEVABLE WRENCHING, KICKING HAPPINESS, 1568 01:28:01,700 --> 01:28:05,166 THE SELFISHNESS AND TREACHERY OF EVERYTHING WE DID, 1569 01:28:05,166 --> 01:28:07,033 GAVE ME SUCH HAPPINESS 1570 01:28:07,033 --> 01:28:11,866 AND UNKILLABLE DREADFUL HAPPINESS 1571 01:28:11,866 --> 01:28:14,200 SO THAT THE BLACK REMORSE CAME 1572 01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,333 AND HATRED OF THE SIN AND NO CONTRITION, 1573 01:28:17,333 --> 01:28:21,033 ONLY A TERRIBLE REMORSE. 1574 01:28:21,033 --> 01:28:26,200 NARRATOR: HE DID NOT GET TO HADLEY FOR 3 DAYS. 1575 01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:27,900 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: WHEN I SAW MY WIFE AGAIN 1576 01:28:27,900 --> 01:28:30,566 STANDING BY THE TRACKS AS THE TRAIN CAME IN 1577 01:28:30,566 --> 01:28:32,933 BY THE PILED LOGS AT THE STATION, 1578 01:28:32,933 --> 01:28:35,200 I WISHED I HAD DIED BEFORE I EVER LOVED 1579 01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:37,200 ANYONE BUT HER. 1580 01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:40,333 SHE WAS SMILING, THE SUN ON HER LOVELY FACE 1581 01:28:40,333 --> 01:28:44,900 TANNED BY THE SNOW AND SUN, BEAUTIFULLY BUILT, 1582 01:28:44,900 --> 01:28:47,333 HER HAIR RED GOLD IN THE SUN 1583 01:28:47,333 --> 01:28:50,766 AND MR. BUMBY STANDING WITH HER, BLONDE AND CHUNKY 1584 01:28:50,766 --> 01:28:54,100 AND WITH WINTER CHEEKS. 1585 01:28:54,100 --> 01:28:57,366 I LOVED HER, AND I LOVED NO ONE ELSE, 1586 01:28:57,366 --> 01:29:01,066 AND WE HAD A LOVELY MAGIC TIME WHILE WE WERE ALONE. 1587 01:29:01,066 --> 01:29:05,100 I WORKED WELL, AND WE MADE GREAT TRIPS, 1588 01:29:05,100 --> 01:29:08,466 AND IT WASN'T UNTIL WE WERE OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS IN LATE SPRING, 1589 01:29:08,466 --> 01:29:12,633 AND BACK IN PARIS THAT THE OTHER THING STARTED AGAIN. 1590 01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,700 NARRATOR: ERNEST HOPED THAT THINGS COULD SOMEHOW 1591 01:29:17,700 --> 01:29:21,033 GO ON THAT WAY, STILL MARRIED TO HADLEY 1592 01:29:21,033 --> 01:29:24,400 BUT WITH HIS MISTRESS CONVENIENTLY AT HAND, 1593 01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:28,200 BUT PAULINE WAS NOT CONTENT TO REMAIN HIS MISTRESS. 1594 01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:31,400 SHE WAS DETERMINED TO BECOME HIS WIFE. 1595 01:29:32,766 --> 01:29:35,300 HADLEY CONFRONTED HER HUSBAND. 1596 01:29:35,300 --> 01:29:37,900 "WE HAD A TERRIFIC SCENE," SHE RECALLED. 1597 01:29:37,900 --> 01:29:40,800 ERNEST LASHED OUT AT HER. 1598 01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:44,466 IF ONLY SHE HADN'T BROUGHT UP HIS INFIDELITY, HE SAID, 1599 01:29:44,466 --> 01:29:47,266 THINGS COULD HAVE CONTINUED AS THEY WERE, 1600 01:29:47,266 --> 01:29:49,466 BUT NOW THAT SHE HAD BROKEN THE SPELL 1601 01:29:49,466 --> 01:29:52,466 THEIR LOVE WAS NO LONGER SAFE. 1602 01:29:52,466 --> 01:29:56,100 "IF I'D HAD ANY SENSE AT ALL," HADLEY REMEMBERED YEARS LATER, 1603 01:29:56,100 --> 01:29:58,033 "I'D HAVE LET HIM GO WITH PAULINE 1604 01:29:58,033 --> 01:29:59,700 "AND BURN HIMSELF OUT, 1605 01:29:59,700 --> 01:30:02,866 AND THEN WE COULD HAVE BEGUN AGAIN." 1606 01:30:02,866 --> 01:30:05,900 INSTEAD, IN SEPTEMBER, SHE SCRIBBLED OUT 1607 01:30:05,900 --> 01:30:08,433 A SORT OF CONTRACT IN PENCIL. 1608 01:30:08,433 --> 01:30:13,133 ERNEST AND PAULINE WOULD HAVE TO SPEND 100 DAYS APART, 1609 01:30:13,133 --> 01:30:16,566 AND AFTERWARDS IF THEY STILL WANTED ONE ANOTHER, 1610 01:30:16,566 --> 01:30:19,600 SHE WOULD GRANT HIM A DIVORCE. 1611 01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:24,166 ERNEST AND PAULINE AGREED TO ABIDE BY HER TERMS. 1612 01:30:24,166 --> 01:30:27,500 HE MOVED TO A FRIEND'S APARTMENT. 1613 01:30:27,500 --> 01:30:30,833 PAULINE SAILED FOR HOME. 1614 01:30:30,833 --> 01:30:33,500 HER MOTHER WAS INITIALLY APPALLED. 1615 01:30:33,500 --> 01:30:36,633 HER DAUGHTER HAD BROKEN UP HEMINGWAY'S MARRIAGE. 1616 01:30:36,633 --> 01:30:38,766 ERNEST WAS NOT A CATHOLIC. 1617 01:30:38,766 --> 01:30:42,433 A CHILD WAS INVOLVED. 1618 01:30:42,433 --> 01:30:46,600 ALONE IN PARIS, DEPRESSION AGAIN GRIPPED HEMINGWAY, 1619 01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:48,633 THIS TIME TINGED WITH GUILT 1620 01:30:48,633 --> 01:30:51,833 ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING TO HADLEY. 1621 01:30:51,833 --> 01:30:55,600 HE DRANK TOO MUCH, PICKED FIGHTS, COULDN'T SLEEP, 1622 01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:59,600 SOMEHOW CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS THE VICTIM. 1623 01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:06,866 ONLY TWO MONTHS LATER, ON NOVEMBER 16, 1926, 1624 01:31:06,866 --> 01:31:09,633 HADLEY WROTE ERNEST THAT IF HE AND PAULINE 1625 01:31:09,633 --> 01:31:11,900 REALLY WANTED TO BE TOGETHER 1626 01:31:11,900 --> 01:31:15,533 SHE WOULD NO LONGER STAND IN THE WAY. 1627 01:31:15,533 --> 01:31:17,933 THEY WERE FREE TO MARRY. 1628 01:31:21,533 --> 01:31:22,966 WOMAN, AS RICHARDSON: THE ENTIRE PROBLEM BELONGS 1629 01:31:22,966 --> 01:31:25,466 TO YOU TWO. 1630 01:31:25,466 --> 01:31:29,666 I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR FUTURE WELFARE. 1631 01:31:29,666 --> 01:31:32,466 I TOOK YOU ORIGINALLY FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE 1632 01:31:32,466 --> 01:31:36,200 AND MEANT IT! 1633 01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:39,500 BUT IN THE CASE OF YOUR MARRYING SOMEONE ELSE, 1634 01:31:39,500 --> 01:31:43,666 I CAN STAND BY MY VOW ONLY AS AN OUTSIDE FRIEND. 1635 01:31:46,700 --> 01:31:49,933 COME TO SEE BUMBY AS MUCH AS YOU WANT-- 1636 01:31:49,933 --> 01:31:52,766 HE IS YOURS AS MUCH AS MINE-- 1637 01:31:52,766 --> 01:31:54,700 AND TAKE HIM OUT SOMETIMES IF YOU FEEL LIKE 1638 01:31:54,700 --> 01:31:56,500 THAT KIND OF THING-- 1639 01:31:56,500 --> 01:31:59,700 SO THAT HE WILL KNOW YOU ARE HIS REAL PAPA. 1640 01:32:02,766 --> 01:32:07,166 NARRATOR: HADLEY AND BUMBY SOON SAILED FOR THE UNITED STATES. 1641 01:32:07,166 --> 01:32:13,933 ERNEST STAYED IN PARIS. PAULINE JOINED HIM. 1642 01:32:13,933 --> 01:32:16,566 MEANWHILE, SCRIBNER'S HAD FINALLY PUBLISHED 1643 01:32:16,566 --> 01:32:18,933 "THE SUN ALSO RISES." 1644 01:32:18,933 --> 01:32:21,933 EDMUND WILSON DECLARED IT THE BEST NOVEL WRITTEN 1645 01:32:21,933 --> 01:32:24,933 BY ANYONE OF HEMINGWAY'S GENERATION. 1646 01:32:24,933 --> 01:32:28,133 A REVIEWER FOR "THE ATLANTIC" SAID THAT HEMINGWAY 1647 01:32:28,133 --> 01:32:31,866 "WRITES AS IF HE HAD NEVER READ ANYBODY'S WRITING, 1648 01:32:31,866 --> 01:32:35,900 AS IF HE HAD FASHIONED THE ART OF WRITING HIMSELF." 1649 01:32:35,900 --> 01:32:38,600 THE BOOK SOLD WELL. 1650 01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:45,566 ITS AUTHOR INSISTED THAT ALL THE ROYALTIES GO TO HADLEY. 1651 01:32:45,566 --> 01:32:48,966 ON MAY 10, 1927, ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1652 01:32:48,966 --> 01:32:52,966 AND PAULINE PFEIFFER WERE MARRIED IN PARIS. 1653 01:32:52,966 --> 01:32:56,900 THERE WERE TWO CEREMONIES, ONE AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE 1654 01:32:56,900 --> 01:33:00,266 AND A SECOND AT A CATHOLIC CHURCH. 1655 01:33:00,266 --> 01:33:03,300 THE PFEIFFER FAMILY HAD COME AROUND TO APPROVING PAULINE'S 1656 01:33:03,300 --> 01:33:05,766 DECISION TO MARRY HEMINGWAY. 1657 01:33:05,766 --> 01:33:09,433 HE NOW CLAIMED HE'D SECRETLY ALWAYS BEEN A CATHOLIC 1658 01:33:09,433 --> 01:33:12,500 BECAUSE A PRIEST HAD GIVEN HIM EXTREME UNCTION 1659 01:33:12,500 --> 01:33:14,766 AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED. 1660 01:33:14,766 --> 01:33:18,833 SINCE HIS FIRST MARRIAGE HAD TAKEN PLACE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, 1661 01:33:18,833 --> 01:33:21,633 THE CHURCH DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT. 1662 01:33:21,633 --> 01:33:24,633 HADLEY HAD NEVER REALLY BEEN HIS WIFE, 1663 01:33:24,633 --> 01:33:29,033 AND, BY EXTENSION, BUMBY WAS ILLEGITIMATE. 1664 01:33:31,166 --> 01:33:33,666 NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY HOPED TO LIVE THE SAME KIND OF LIFE 1665 01:33:33,666 --> 01:33:36,833 WITH PAULINE THAT HE HAD LED WITH HADLEY-- 1666 01:33:36,833 --> 01:33:40,333 PARIS CAFÉS, BULLFIGHTS, SKIING-- 1667 01:33:40,333 --> 01:33:44,833 AND DREAMED OF HAVING ONE LITERARY SUCCESS AFTER ANOTHER, 1668 01:33:44,833 --> 01:33:49,266 BUT THINGS DIDN'T GO QUITE AS PLANNED. 1669 01:33:49,266 --> 01:33:52,333 HE STARTED A NOVEL ABOUT A FATHER AND SON, 1670 01:33:52,333 --> 01:33:55,000 ONLY TO ABANDON IT. 1671 01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:59,100 A NEW BOOK OF 14 SHORT STORIES, "MEN WITHOUT WOMEN," 1672 01:33:59,100 --> 01:34:01,466 DID NOT SELL AS WELL AS HE LIKED, 1673 01:34:01,466 --> 01:34:03,900 AND THERE WERE MIXED REVIEWS. 1674 01:34:03,900 --> 01:34:06,966 SOME READERS WERE PUT OFF BY ITS THEMES, 1675 01:34:06,966 --> 01:34:12,666 INCLUDING HOMOSEXUALITY, INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE. 1676 01:34:12,666 --> 01:34:15,366 AS ALWAYS, HEMINGWAY TRIED TO MAKE HIS CHARACTERS 1677 01:34:15,366 --> 01:34:19,000 SPEAK PRECISELY AS HIS CONTEMPORARIES SPOKE, 1678 01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,366 INCLUDING THEIR USE OF RACIAL EPITHETS. 1679 01:34:24,633 --> 01:34:27,266 DUDLEY: WHY USE THE N-WORD MULTIPLE TIMES? 1680 01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,000 HEMINGWAY KNOWS THAT IT'S PROBABLY ONE 1681 01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:33,933 OF THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORDS HE COULD HAVE USED, 1682 01:34:33,933 --> 01:34:36,200 EVEN AT THIS TIME. 1683 01:34:36,200 --> 01:34:37,933 COULD YOU MAKE A CASE FOR HEMINGWAY 1684 01:34:37,933 --> 01:34:41,600 BEING PREJUDICIAL IN HIS LIFE, IN HIS WRITING? 1685 01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:44,400 ABSOLUTELY, YOU COULD, BUT, AT THE SAME TIME, 1686 01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,600 YOU COULD PEEL BACK THE LAYERS, AND YOU CAN GET A SENSE 1687 01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:51,766 OF A MAN TRYING TO CONVEY A SENSE OF HIS TIME. 1688 01:34:51,766 --> 01:34:54,533 CUSHMAN: THAT'S NOT AN EXCUSE FOR HIM. 1689 01:34:54,533 --> 01:34:58,433 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN DRY CLEAN HEMINGWAY 1690 01:34:58,433 --> 01:35:03,333 INTO SOMEBODY WHO FITS INTO WHAT WE NOW CONSIDER 1691 01:35:03,333 --> 01:35:07,300 SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE MUCH OF THE TIME. 1692 01:35:07,300 --> 01:35:10,233 NARRATOR: "MEN WITHOUT WOMEN" ALSO INCLUDED A STORY 1693 01:35:10,233 --> 01:35:16,433 THAT IS AMONG HIS MASTERPIECES "HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS." 1694 01:35:16,433 --> 01:35:20,466 IN IT, A COUPLE WAITING IN A SMALL SPANISH TRAIN STATION 1695 01:35:20,466 --> 01:35:24,433 DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT THE WOMAN WILL HAVE AN ABORTION 1696 01:35:24,433 --> 01:35:27,833 WITHOUT EVER MENTIONING THE WORD. 1697 01:35:27,833 --> 01:35:30,733 EDNA O'BRIEN: WHAT'S NOT SAID IS SO WONDERFUL. 1698 01:35:30,733 --> 01:35:35,900 SOMEHOW, THE WHOLE RELATIONSHIP, WHICH WILL BE FOREVER SHADOWED, 1699 01:35:35,900 --> 01:35:38,733 IF NOT TO SAY DESTROYED, BY THIS, 1700 01:35:38,733 --> 01:35:42,300 YOU GET A PICTURE OF IT 1701 01:35:42,300 --> 01:35:46,033 WITHOUT HIM SPELLING OUT THE WORDS. 1702 01:35:46,033 --> 01:35:47,900 YOU SEE, THAT'S WHAT HE DID. 1703 01:35:47,900 --> 01:35:50,933 THAT EVASION THAT HE MASTERED 1704 01:35:50,933 --> 01:35:54,766 AND THAT CONTROL THAT HE MASTERED 1705 01:35:54,766 --> 01:36:00,266 IS ONE OF HIS SIGNATURE STROKES OF GENIUS. 1706 01:36:00,266 --> 01:36:01,933 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: "IT'S REALLY AN AWFULLY 1707 01:36:01,933 --> 01:36:04,866 SIMPLE OPERATION, JIG," THE MAN SAID. 1708 01:36:04,866 --> 01:36:07,700 "IT'S NOT REALLY AN OPERATION AT ALL." 1709 01:36:07,700 --> 01:36:11,933 THE GIRL LOOKED AT THE GROUND THE TABLE LEGS RESTED ON. 1710 01:36:11,933 --> 01:36:14,266 "I KNOW YOU WOULDN'T MIND IT, JIG. 1711 01:36:14,266 --> 01:36:16,100 "IT'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING. 1712 01:36:16,100 --> 01:36:19,333 IT'S JUST TO LET THE AIR IN." 1713 01:36:19,333 --> 01:36:21,466 THE GIRL DID NOT SAY ANYTHING. 1714 01:36:21,466 --> 01:36:23,500 "I'LL GO WITH YOU, AND I'LL STAY WITH YOU 1715 01:36:23,500 --> 01:36:25,000 "ALL THE TIME. 1716 01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:26,533 "THEY JUST LET THE AIR IN, 1717 01:36:26,533 --> 01:36:28,833 AND THEN IT'S ALL PERFECTLY NATURAL." 1718 01:36:28,833 --> 01:36:31,633 "THEN WHAT WILL WE DO AFTERWARD?" 1719 01:36:31,633 --> 01:36:33,133 "WE'LL BE FINE AFTERWARD. 1720 01:36:33,133 --> 01:36:35,300 JUST LIKE WE WERE BEFORE." 1721 01:36:35,300 --> 01:36:37,833 "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO?" 1722 01:36:37,833 --> 01:36:40,900 "THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT BOTHERS US. 1723 01:36:40,900 --> 01:36:44,166 IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'S MADE US UNHAPPY." 1724 01:36:46,366 --> 01:36:49,333 MANDEL: HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS. 1725 01:36:49,333 --> 01:36:52,000 HE WANTS ONE THING, IT'S "GET RID OF THIS THING," 1726 01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:53,733 BUT HE CAN'T TELL HER THAT. 1727 01:36:53,733 --> 01:36:57,866 SO HE SAYS, "I ONLY WANT WHAT YOU WANT." 1728 01:36:57,866 --> 01:37:00,366 HE SAYS, "I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU SAY. 1729 01:37:00,366 --> 01:37:02,633 DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO DO," 1730 01:37:02,633 --> 01:37:06,800 BUT HE'S PUSHING AND PUSHING AND PUSHING AND PUSHING. 1731 01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:10,133 IT IS PAINFUL TO WATCH THIS GOING ON. 1732 01:37:10,133 --> 01:37:13,700 IT IS RECOGNIZABLE FOR MOST WOMEN 1733 01:37:13,700 --> 01:37:16,200 TO--EVEN IF IT'S NOT THE SITUATION-- 1734 01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:22,133 THE PUSHING, THE INSISTENCE, THE MASCULINE ASSERTION, 1735 01:37:22,133 --> 01:37:26,566 AND THEN, SHE FINALLY SAYS-- AND THIS IS, I THINK, 1736 01:37:26,566 --> 01:37:30,433 ONE OF GREAT UNDERSTATED SENTENCES-- 1737 01:37:30,433 --> 01:37:39,433 SHE SAYS TO HIM, "WOULD YOU PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 1738 01:37:39,433 --> 01:37:45,900 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP TALKING?" 1739 01:37:47,566 --> 01:37:50,700 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S GOING TO DECIDE. 1740 01:37:50,700 --> 01:37:53,900 SHE'S--MAYBE TO KEEP THE RELATIONSHIP, 1741 01:37:53,900 --> 01:37:55,900 SHE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS, 1742 01:37:55,900 --> 01:37:59,100 BUT IF SHE DOES THAT, THE RELATIONSHIP IS OVER. 1743 01:37:59,100 --> 01:38:04,466 MAYBE SHE WILL KEEP IT AND JUST BE WITH HERSELF AND THE BABY. 1744 01:38:04,466 --> 01:38:06,766 MAYBE SHE WILL GET RID OF THE BABY 1745 01:38:06,766 --> 01:38:08,500 AND CARRY ON HER LIFE. 1746 01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:12,166 WHATEVER SHE DOES, HER LIFE WILL BE DIFFERENT. 1747 01:38:12,166 --> 01:38:14,066 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: HE DRANK AN ANIS AT THE BAR 1748 01:38:14,066 --> 01:38:16,466 AND LOOKED AT THE PEOPLE. 1749 01:38:16,466 --> 01:38:19,633 THEY WERE ALL WAITING REASONABLY FOR THE TRAIN. 1750 01:38:22,233 --> 01:38:25,433 HE WENT OUT THROUGH THE BEAD CURTAIN. 1751 01:38:25,433 --> 01:38:29,300 SHE WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE AND SMILED AT HIM. 1752 01:38:29,300 --> 01:38:32,433 "DO YOU FEEL BETTER?" HE ASKED. 1753 01:38:32,433 --> 01:38:34,466 "I FEEL FINE," SHE SAID. 1754 01:38:34,466 --> 01:38:36,633 "THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME. 1755 01:38:36,633 --> 01:38:38,700 I FEEL FINE." 1756 01:38:45,433 --> 01:38:47,200 NARRATOR: IN MARCH OF 1928, 1757 01:38:47,200 --> 01:38:50,933 HEMINGWAY AND PAULINE LEFT FRANCE. 1758 01:38:50,933 --> 01:38:53,300 SHE WAS PREGNANT NOW, AND THEY WANTED TO HAVE 1759 01:38:53,300 --> 01:38:55,933 THEIR BABY IN THE UNITED STATES. 1760 01:38:55,933 --> 01:38:57,500 HEMINGWAY WAS RECOVERING 1761 01:38:57,500 --> 01:39:00,500 FROM A SECOND SERIOUS HEAD INJURY CAUSED 1762 01:39:00,500 --> 01:39:04,100 WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY PULLED A SKYLIGHT DOWN ON HIS HEAD, 1763 01:39:04,100 --> 01:39:06,933 LEAVING A PERMANENT SCAR, 1764 01:39:06,933 --> 01:39:08,933 BUT HE HAD BEGUN A NEW NOVEL, 1765 01:39:08,933 --> 01:39:12,333 A STORY ABOUT A WOUNDED SOLDIER WHO FALLS IN LOVE 1766 01:39:12,333 --> 01:39:15,500 WITH THE NURSE WHO CARES FOR HIM. 1767 01:39:15,500 --> 01:39:19,000 THE HEMINGWAYS RENTED A HOUSE IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1768 01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,166 WHERE ERNEST ENJOYED OCEAN FISHING 1769 01:39:21,166 --> 01:39:23,033 FOR THE FIRST TIME. 1770 01:39:25,433 --> 01:39:27,600 THEY THEN MOVED TO PAULINE'S PARENTS' HOME 1771 01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:31,333 IN PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS, AS THE BABY'S ARRIVAL NEARED, 1772 01:39:31,333 --> 01:39:37,000 AND SPENT A MONTH IN KANSAS CITY WHERE, ON JUNE 28, 1928, 1773 01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:40,466 PATRICK HEMINGWAY WAS BORN BY CAESARIAN SECTION 1774 01:39:40,466 --> 01:39:43,233 AFTER A DIFFICULT LABOR. 1775 01:39:43,233 --> 01:39:48,133 THEY RETURNED TO ARKANSAS TOGETHER, 1776 01:39:48,133 --> 01:39:51,466 BUT THEN HEMINGWAY HEADED WEST ALONE, 1777 01:39:51,466 --> 01:39:54,866 WRITING AS HE WENT, WORKING AND REWORKING 1778 01:39:54,866 --> 01:39:57,833 THE BOOK THAT NOW CONSUMED HIM. 1779 01:39:57,833 --> 01:40:01,766 IT WOULD BE CALLED "A FAREWELL TO ARMS." 1780 01:40:03,900 --> 01:40:06,066 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I REMEMBER LIVING IN THE BOOK 1781 01:40:06,066 --> 01:40:09,666 AND MAKING UP WHAT HAPPENED IN IT EVERY DAY. 1782 01:40:09,666 --> 01:40:11,400 MAKING THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE 1783 01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:13,866 AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED, 1784 01:40:13,866 --> 01:40:17,566 I WAS HAPPIER THAN I HAD EVER BEEN. 1785 01:40:17,566 --> 01:40:20,466 EACH DAY I READ THE BOOK THROUGH FROM THE BEGINNING 1786 01:40:20,466 --> 01:40:23,300 TO THE POINT WHERE I WENT ON WRITING, 1787 01:40:23,300 --> 01:40:26,833 AND EACH DAY I STOPPED WHEN I WAS STILL GOING GOOD 1788 01:40:26,833 --> 01:40:29,166 AND WHEN I KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT. 1789 01:40:33,700 --> 01:40:36,733 IN THE LATE SUMMER OF THAT YEAR, WE LIVED IN A HOUSE 1790 01:40:36,733 --> 01:40:39,133 IN A VILLAGE THAT LOOKED ACROSS THE RIVER 1791 01:40:39,133 --> 01:40:42,466 AND THE PLAIN TO THE MOUNTAINS. 1792 01:40:42,466 --> 01:40:45,866 IN THE BED OF THE RIVER, THERE WERE PEBBLES AND BOULDERS, 1793 01:40:45,866 --> 01:40:48,233 DRY AND WHITE IN THE SUN, 1794 01:40:48,233 --> 01:40:50,733 AND THE WATER WAS CLEAR AND SWIFTLY MOVING 1795 01:40:50,733 --> 01:40:53,600 AND BLUE IN THE CHANNELS. 1796 01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:56,766 TROOPS WENT BY THE HOUSE AND DOWN THE ROAD... 1797 01:40:56,766 --> 01:40:58,433 MAN AND EDNA O'BRIEN: AND THE DUST THEY RAISED 1798 01:40:58,433 --> 01:41:00,933 POWDERED THE LEAVES OF THE TREES. 1799 01:41:00,933 --> 01:41:02,666 THE TRUNKS OF THE TREES, TOO... 1800 01:41:02,666 --> 01:41:04,433 EDNA O'BRIEN: "WERE DUSTY, 1801 01:41:04,433 --> 01:41:07,066 "AND THE LEAVES FELL EARLY THAT YEAR, 1802 01:41:07,066 --> 01:41:10,133 "AND WE SAW THE TROOPS MARCHING ALONG THE ROAD 1803 01:41:10,133 --> 01:41:13,166 "AND THE DUST RISING AND LEAVES, 1804 01:41:13,166 --> 01:41:15,566 "STIRRED BY THE BREEZE, FALLING 1805 01:41:15,566 --> 01:41:16,966 "AND THE SOLDIERS MARCHING 1806 01:41:16,966 --> 01:41:21,233 "AND AFTERWARDS THE ROAD BARE 1807 01:41:21,233 --> 01:41:27,433 AND WHITE EXCEPT FOR THE LEAVES." 1808 01:41:27,433 --> 01:41:30,133 CUSHMAN: I READ THAT PARAGRAPH, AND I WANT TO CRY. 1809 01:41:30,133 --> 01:41:33,000 IT'S INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL. 1810 01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:37,766 HE BROKE EVERY RULE, ALL THE REPETITION. 1811 01:41:37,766 --> 01:41:43,166 IN 4 SENTENCES, THE WORD "AND" 15 TIMES. 1812 01:41:43,166 --> 01:41:48,366 WHAT'S GOING ON IS JUST AN UNFORGETTABLE DISPLAY 1813 01:41:48,366 --> 01:41:51,533 OF RHYTHMIC MASTERY. 1814 01:41:51,533 --> 01:41:56,533 THERE'S A KIND--ALMOST A KIND OF HYPNOSIS, AN INCANTATION 1815 01:41:56,533 --> 01:41:59,733 THAT I THINK IS ABOUT THE FRAME OF MIND 1816 01:41:59,733 --> 01:42:02,366 THAT YOU'RE GOING INTO THE WAR WITH. 1817 01:42:02,366 --> 01:42:06,300 [BACH'S "CELLO SUITE NO. 4, PRELUDE" PLAYING] 1818 01:42:09,433 --> 01:42:12,266 EDNA O'BRIEN: BY RELISTENING TO BACH 1819 01:42:12,266 --> 01:42:14,766 AND BY RECOGNIZING THE REPETITION 1820 01:42:14,766 --> 01:42:18,600 OF PARTICULAR NOTES IN BACH, 1821 01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:23,633 THAT THAT WAS INSPIRATION FOR WRITING "A FAREWELL TO ARMS." 1822 01:42:25,700 --> 01:42:29,333 NARRATOR: UNLIKE "THE SUN ALSO RISES," 1823 01:42:29,333 --> 01:42:33,100 "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" WAS EXPLICITLY ABOUT THE GREAT WAR. 1824 01:42:33,100 --> 01:42:36,100 ITS PROTAGONIST LIEUTENANT FREDERIC HENRY 1825 01:42:36,100 --> 01:42:40,633 IS AN AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER ATTACHED TO THE ITALIAN ARMY, 1826 01:42:40,633 --> 01:42:43,666 WHO IS WOUNDED AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH A NURSE 1827 01:42:43,666 --> 01:42:46,966 NAMED CATHERINE BARKLEY, WHO IS MOURNING A LOVER 1828 01:42:46,966 --> 01:42:50,333 KILLED IN THE WAR. 1829 01:42:50,333 --> 01:42:53,900 DRAWN FROM HIS OWN EXPERIENCES, THE STORIES HE HEARD, 1830 01:42:53,900 --> 01:42:57,366 AND HIS OWN DOGGED RESEARCH, THE BOOK'S DISILLUSIONMENT 1831 01:42:57,366 --> 01:43:00,933 WITH THE WAR WOULD SPEAK TO-- AND FOR-- 1832 01:43:00,933 --> 01:43:03,100 THOSE WHO HAD LIVED THROUGH IT. 1833 01:43:07,866 --> 01:43:09,566 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I WAS ALWAYS EMBARRASSED 1834 01:43:09,566 --> 01:43:14,266 BY THE WORDS SACRED, GLORIOUS, AND SACRIFICE 1835 01:43:14,266 --> 01:43:17,000 AND THE EXPRESSION IN VAIN. 1836 01:43:19,366 --> 01:43:21,700 WE HAD HEARD THEM, SOMETIMES STANDING 1837 01:43:21,700 --> 01:43:23,866 IN THE RAIN ALMOST OUT OF EARSHOT, 1838 01:43:23,866 --> 01:43:26,866 SO THAT ONLY THE SHOUTED WORDS CAME THROUGH, 1839 01:43:26,866 --> 01:43:29,200 AND HAD READ THEM ON PROCLAMATIONS 1840 01:43:29,200 --> 01:43:31,066 THAT WERE SLAPPED UP BY BILLPOSTERS 1841 01:43:31,066 --> 01:43:35,133 OVER OTHER PROCLAMATIONS, NOW FOR A LONG TIME... 1842 01:43:37,266 --> 01:43:39,533 AND I HAD SEEN NOTHING SACRED, 1843 01:43:39,533 --> 01:43:42,933 AND THE THINGS THAT WERE GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY, 1844 01:43:42,933 --> 01:43:45,533 AND THE SACRIFICES WERE LIKE THE STOCKYARDS 1845 01:43:45,533 --> 01:43:47,933 AT CHICAGO IF NOTHING WAS DONE 1846 01:43:47,933 --> 01:43:50,900 WITH THE MEAT EXCEPT TO BURY IT. 1847 01:43:50,900 --> 01:43:54,566 THERE WERE MANY WORDS THAT YOU COULD NOT STAND TO HEAR, 1848 01:43:54,566 --> 01:43:58,466 AND FINALLY ONLY THE NAMES OF PLACES HAD DIGNITY. 1849 01:44:00,266 --> 01:44:04,233 CERTAIN NUMBERS WERE THE SAME WAY AND CERTAIN DATES, 1850 01:44:04,233 --> 01:44:07,133 AND THESE WITH THE NAMES OF THE PLACES WERE 1851 01:44:07,133 --> 01:44:11,100 ALL YOU COULD SAY AND HAVE THEM MEAN ANYTHING. 1852 01:44:13,433 --> 01:44:16,833 WOLFF: I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE UP TO THAT POINT 1853 01:44:16,833 --> 01:44:20,833 WHO HAD SAID THAT THAT WELL 1854 01:44:20,833 --> 01:44:25,966 BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEEM TO STOP USING THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE 1855 01:44:25,966 --> 01:44:27,933 ABOUT WAR, 1856 01:44:27,933 --> 01:44:32,966 AND IT IS OUR DUTY ALWAYS TO PUNCTURE IT, 1857 01:44:32,966 --> 01:44:37,766 BUT NO ONE HAS EVER DONE IT THIS ELOQUENTLY. 1858 01:44:37,766 --> 01:44:42,000 THE ACCUMULATING WEIGHT OF THOSE SENTENCES 1859 01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:45,633 AND THE EMOTION, THE DISGUST, 1860 01:44:45,633 --> 01:44:50,333 AND ALSO THE REVERENCE FOR WHAT HAS BEEN, IN FACT, DONE, 1861 01:44:50,333 --> 01:44:52,300 THE DIGNITY OF THOSE PLACES 1862 01:44:52,300 --> 01:44:55,166 THAT GATHER IN THOSE SENTENCES AS THEY GO ON, 1863 01:44:55,166 --> 01:44:59,000 IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL. 1864 01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,933 NARRATOR: IN THE NOVEL, LIEUTENANT HENRY DESERTS 1865 01:45:01,933 --> 01:45:06,100 AND FLEES TO NEUTRAL SWITZERLAND WITH CATHERINE BARKLEY. 1866 01:45:06,100 --> 01:45:08,366 THEY HOPE TO MARRY AND BUILD A LIFE TOGETHER 1867 01:45:08,366 --> 01:45:10,900 ONCE THE WAR IS OVER. 1868 01:45:10,900 --> 01:45:14,366 SHE IS PREGNANT, BUT SOMETHING GOES 1869 01:45:14,366 --> 01:45:17,500 TERRIBLY WRONG IN THE DELIVERY ROOM. 1870 01:45:17,500 --> 01:45:20,166 DOCTORS PERFORM A CAESARIAN. 1871 01:45:20,166 --> 01:45:22,866 THE BABY IS STILLBORN. 1872 01:45:22,866 --> 01:45:26,133 CATHERINE'S LIFE EBBS AWAY. 1873 01:45:28,500 --> 01:45:31,200 HEMINGWAY AGONIZED OVER THE ENDING, 1874 01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:34,600 WRITING 47 VERSIONS OF THE FINAL PAGES 1875 01:45:34,600 --> 01:45:37,366 BEFORE HE WAS SATISFIED. 1876 01:45:37,366 --> 01:45:57,966 ♪ 1877 01:45:57,966 --> 01:46:00,900 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM. 1878 01:46:00,900 --> 01:46:04,366 "YOU CAN'T COME IN NOW," ONE OF THE NURSES SAID. 1879 01:46:04,366 --> 01:46:07,300 "YES I CAN," I SAID. 1880 01:46:07,300 --> 01:46:10,033 "YOU CAN'T COME IN YET." 1881 01:46:10,033 --> 01:46:11,566 "YOU GET OUT," I SAID. 1882 01:46:11,566 --> 01:46:15,600 "THE OTHER ONE TOO." 1883 01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:18,400 BUT AFTER I HAD GOT THEM OUT AND SHUT THE DOOR 1884 01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:23,100 AND TURNED OFF THE LIGHT, IT WASN'T ANY GOOD. 1885 01:46:23,100 --> 01:46:26,133 IT WAS LIKE SAYING GOODBYE TO A STATUE. 1886 01:46:26,133 --> 01:46:28,900 [RAIN FALLING, THUNDER] 1887 01:46:28,900 --> 01:46:33,200 AFTER A WHILE, I WENT OUT AND LEFT THE HOSPITAL 1888 01:46:33,200 --> 01:46:36,800 AND WALKED BACK TO THE HOTEL IN THE RAIN. 1889 01:46:40,700 --> 01:46:42,933 EDNA O'BRIEN: PARTS OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" 1890 01:46:42,933 --> 01:46:45,733 COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY A WOMAN. 1891 01:46:45,733 --> 01:46:48,600 NOW, I REGARD THAT AS A COMPLIMENT. 1892 01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:51,233 HEMINGWAY MIGHT REGARD IT AS AN INSULT, 1893 01:46:51,233 --> 01:46:56,800 BUT I DON'T BECAUSE IT IS THE ANDROGYNY 1894 01:46:56,800 --> 01:47:01,800 IN A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT ALLOWS THEM, EVEN IF BRIEFLY, 1895 01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:04,533 NOT UTTERLY, TO BE ABLE TO PUT THEMSELVES 1896 01:47:04,533 --> 01:47:08,400 INSIDE THE SKIN OF THE OPPOSITE THING. 1897 01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:11,666 IN MANY WAYS, I THINK IT'S HIS GREATEST NOVEL. 1898 01:47:11,666 --> 01:47:15,033 I DO. IT'S THE TRUEST. 1899 01:47:15,033 --> 01:47:17,866 IT'S ALSO HEARTBREAKING. 1900 01:47:17,866 --> 01:47:22,333 I REMEMBER CRYING AND CRYING AND CRYING. 1901 01:47:22,333 --> 01:47:26,466 HE GETS THE--ALL THE--THE "BOY" STUFF, 1902 01:47:26,466 --> 01:47:27,833 THE "MAN" STUFF. 1903 01:47:27,833 --> 01:47:29,900 HE GETS THE HORROR OF THE WAR, 1904 01:47:29,900 --> 01:47:33,000 BUT WHEN PEOPLE PUT THAT BOOK DOWN, 1905 01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:35,166 WHAT DO THEY REMEMBER? 1906 01:47:35,166 --> 01:47:38,500 THEY REMEMBER A WOMAN DYING IN CHILDBIRTH. 1907 01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:42,366 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: IF PEOPLE BRING SO MUCH COURAGE 1908 01:47:42,366 --> 01:47:45,333 TO THIS WORLD, THE WORLD HAS TO KILL THEM 1909 01:47:45,333 --> 01:47:47,066 TO BREAK THEM, 1910 01:47:47,066 --> 01:47:51,333 SO OF COURSE IT KILLS THEM. 1911 01:47:51,333 --> 01:47:54,200 THE WORLD BREAKS EVERYONE, AND AFTERWARD, 1912 01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:58,533 MANY ARE STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES, 1913 01:47:58,533 --> 01:48:02,833 BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK IT KILLS. 1914 01:48:02,833 --> 01:48:05,600 IT KILLS THE VERY GOOD AND THE VERY GENTLE 1915 01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:09,666 AND THE VERY BRAVE IMPARTIALLY. 1916 01:48:09,666 --> 01:48:12,066 IF YOU ARE NONE OF THESE, YOU CAN BE SURE 1917 01:48:12,066 --> 01:48:14,266 IT WILL KILL YOU, TOO, 1918 01:48:14,266 --> 01:48:16,800 BUT THERE WILL BE NO SPECIAL HURRY. 1919 01:48:23,333 --> 01:48:25,833 NARRATOR: IN THE LATE FALL OF 1928, 1920 01:48:25,833 --> 01:48:30,400 HEMINGWAY'S FATHER'S LIFE WAS SPIRALING SLOWLY DOWNWARD. 1921 01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:34,866 THE ANXIETY THAT HAD ALWAYS HAUNTED HIM INTENSIFIED. 1922 01:48:34,866 --> 01:48:37,766 HIS PERIODS OF DEPRESSION LENGTHENED. 1923 01:48:37,766 --> 01:48:40,733 HE SEEMED SUSPICIOUS OF EVERYONE AROUND HIM 1924 01:48:40,733 --> 01:48:43,900 AND UNABLE TO SHAKE A SENSE OF DREAD. 1925 01:48:46,366 --> 01:48:50,166 ON DECEMBER 6, ED HEMINGWAY CAME HOME AT NOON, 1926 01:48:50,166 --> 01:48:53,000 BURNED SOME PERSONAL PAPERS IN THE BASEMENT, 1927 01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,400 TOLD HIS WIFE HE THOUGHT HE'D LIE DOWN BEFORE LUNCH, 1928 01:48:56,400 --> 01:49:00,500 AND CLIMBED THE STAIRS TO HIS BEDROOM. 1929 01:49:00,500 --> 01:49:06,533 THEN HE SHOT HIMSELF WITH HIS FATHER'S CIVIL WAR REVOLVER. 1930 01:49:08,466 --> 01:49:10,666 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: MY FATHER WAS A COWARD. 1931 01:49:10,666 --> 01:49:13,700 HE SHOT HIMSELF WITHOUT NECESSITY. 1932 01:49:13,700 --> 01:49:16,000 AT LEAST I THOUGHT SO. 1933 01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:20,366 I HAD GONE THROUGH IT MYSELF UNTIL I FIGURED IT IN MY HEAD. 1934 01:49:20,366 --> 01:49:22,766 I KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE A COWARD 1935 01:49:22,766 --> 01:49:26,200 AND WHAT IT WAS TO CEASE BEING A COWARD. 1936 01:49:28,300 --> 01:49:31,766 NARRATOR: ERNEST PROMISED TO PAY HIS MOTHER A MONTHLY STIPEND, 1937 01:49:31,766 --> 01:49:33,666 BUT HE WOULD PRIVATELY BLAME HER 1938 01:49:33,666 --> 01:49:37,866 FOR DRIVING HIS FATHER TO SUICIDE. 1939 01:49:37,866 --> 01:49:39,266 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I HATED MY MOTHER 1940 01:49:39,266 --> 01:49:41,133 AS SOON AS I KNEW THE SCORE 1941 01:49:41,133 --> 01:49:43,200 AND LOVED MY FATHER UNTIL HE EMBARRASSED ME 1942 01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,366 WITH HIS COWARDICE. 1943 01:49:45,366 --> 01:49:49,166 MY MOTHER IS AN ALL-TIME, ALL-AMERICAN BITCH, 1944 01:49:49,166 --> 01:49:51,700 AND SHE WOULD MAKE A PACK MULE SHOOT HIMSELF, 1945 01:49:51,700 --> 01:49:55,300 LET ALONE POOR BLOODY FATHER. 1946 01:49:55,300 --> 01:49:58,500 HENDRICKSON: I THINK HEMINGWAY, AMONG HIS MANY, MANY FEARS, 1947 01:49:58,500 --> 01:50:02,033 WAS TERRIFIED "WILL THAT HAPPEN TO ME? 1948 01:50:02,033 --> 01:50:05,066 WILL I BECOME MY FATHER?" 1949 01:50:05,066 --> 01:50:11,633 IN THIS CHRISTIAN, MIDWESTERN, SUBURBAN ILLINOIS FAMILY 1950 01:50:11,633 --> 01:50:16,133 OF A UNIT OF 8, OF 2 PARENTS 1951 01:50:16,133 --> 01:50:18,633 AND 6 CHILDREN-- 1952 01:50:18,633 --> 01:50:24,233 4, AT LEAST 4 DESTROYED THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN HAND, 1953 01:50:24,233 --> 01:50:26,366 4 OUT OF THE 8. 1954 01:50:31,233 --> 01:50:35,100 NARRATOR: IN SEPTEMBER OF 1929, "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" 1955 01:50:35,100 --> 01:50:37,433 WAS PUBLISHED. 1956 01:50:37,433 --> 01:50:42,233 THE REACTION WAS EVERYTHING HEMINGWAY HAD HOPED FOR. 1957 01:50:42,233 --> 01:50:47,000 "SCRIBNER'S" MAGAZINE HAD PAID $16,000 TO SERIALIZE IT-- 1958 01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:51,100 MORE THAN IT HAD EVER PAID ANYONE BEFORE-- 1959 01:50:51,100 --> 01:50:53,966 AND WHEN THE JUNE ISSUE WAS BANNED IN BOSTON 1960 01:50:53,966 --> 01:50:57,800 BECAUSE SOME PASSAGES WERE THOUGHT TOO "SALACIOUS," 1961 01:50:57,800 --> 01:51:00,933 IT ONLY BOOSTED SALES. 1962 01:51:00,933 --> 01:51:04,966 "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" CLIMBED ONTO THE BEST-SELLER LISTS 1963 01:51:04,966 --> 01:51:08,733 AND STAYED THERE WEEK AFTER WEEK. 1964 01:51:08,733 --> 01:51:15,100 PARAMOUNT PICTURES PAID ANOTHER $24,000 FOR THE MOVIE RIGHTS. 1965 01:51:15,100 --> 01:51:17,833 BY THE AGE OF 30, ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1966 01:51:17,833 --> 01:51:21,533 HAD SURVIVED HIS WAR WOUNDS, HAD MARRIED TWO WOMEN, 1967 01:51:21,533 --> 01:51:23,900 AND FATHERED TWO SONS, 1968 01:51:23,900 --> 01:51:27,533 HAD BURIED HIS FATHER, PUBLISHED 5 BOOKS 1969 01:51:27,533 --> 01:51:33,233 AND WAS NOW THE MOST FAMOUS WRITER IN THE UNITED STATES. 1970 01:51:33,233 --> 01:51:36,200 HIS FRIEND, THE NOVELIST JOHN DOS PASSOS, 1971 01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:38,333 WROTE TO CONGRATULATE HIM. 1972 01:51:38,333 --> 01:51:41,066 "DEAR HEM," HE SAID, "DO YOU REALIZE THAT 1973 01:51:41,066 --> 01:51:44,966 YOU'RE NOW THE KING OF THE FICTION RACKET?" 1974 01:51:48,900 --> 01:51:51,666 MAN, AS HEMINGWAY: I AM VERY PREJUDICED AGAINST SUICIDE 1975 01:51:51,666 --> 01:51:54,900 BECAUSE SOMEHOW I WOULD NOT LIKE TO EVEN RUN A CHANCE 1976 01:51:54,900 --> 01:51:56,933 OF HAVING TO SPEND THE REST OF THE TIME 1977 01:51:56,933 --> 01:52:00,433 WITH A LOT OF THE SORT OF PEOPLE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE. 1978 01:52:00,433 --> 01:52:02,600 ALTHOUGH OF COURSE THAT DOESN'T HOLD TRUE 1979 01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:05,000 BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME SWELL ONES. 1980 01:52:06,833 --> 01:52:09,266 THE REAL REASON FOR NOT COMMITTING SUICIDE 1981 01:52:09,266 --> 01:52:12,100 IS BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KNOW HOW SWELL LIFE GETS AGAIN 1982 01:52:12,100 --> 01:52:14,200 AFTER THE HELL IS OVER. 1983 01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:18,400 SO YOU HAVE TO RESOLVE IN ADVANCE TO LAST OUT THE TIME 1984 01:52:18,400 --> 01:52:20,900 WHEN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT. 1985 01:52:20,900 --> 01:52:24,300 ♪ 1986 01:52:27,566 --> 01:52:32,966 ♪ 1987 01:52:55,700 --> 01:53:04,133 ♪ 1988 01:53:24,566 --> 01:53:29,666 ♪ 1989 01:53:33,500 --> 01:53:35,900 ANNOUNCER: NEXT TIME ON "HEMINGWAY"... 1990 01:53:35,900 --> 01:53:37,666 AMANDA VAILL: IN ORDER TO HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO WRITE, 1991 01:53:37,666 --> 01:53:39,500 HE HAD TO HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO LIVE. 1992 01:53:39,500 --> 01:53:41,100 ANNOUNCER: ATOP THE LITERARY WORLD, 1993 01:53:41,100 --> 01:53:43,433 HEMINGWAY SEEKS 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