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Nov 29, 2017dissymissylessy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
i'm heartbroken every time i read of hadley losing all those stories, at the railway station. what was her unconscious resentment? was alice b. toklas a hypnotist? if so, how did she get her claws into hadley? was ernie so unwise as to allow her access to his wife and young mother? maybe we will never know, for sure. think of the loss to literature of the lost stories. funny that hem could see the raptor in zelda, yet not in alice b. toklas. funny, odd, ironic, etc. etc. . there were many important artist/ literary personages to meet in paris in those days; hemingway seems to have met those he should. i once asked kay boyle if she had known hem then: she replied, 'we saw them from afar, across the plaza'. then she shrugged, as if it didn't matter. as maybe it did not. asked john beecher (who had chronic obstructive lung disease) the same thing: he ended the interview. he was an important poet and labor writer. even writers have their damn stratifications. an interesting insight in this book of reminiscences by ernest hemingway: f scott fitzgerald had been having marital difficulties with zelda. so he asked his friend ernie about penis size (zelda had capped on him for his diminutiveness). ernie took him to the paisian museum, where he showed him a statue of a male nude. to reassure him, he told scott that it all depended on the angle from which the male member is viewed. i would add, that zelda being from the south, that perhaps she had become used to the southern cock.