Word: hemingways
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Hunting for natural gas in Hemingway country...
Regardless of the frustrations that accompany being stuck in traffic between Palmer Dixon and Hemingway, or missing practice with one team so that he can attend a pre-season match with the other. Fish admits he has "a compelling, no, a consuming interest in finding out about everything related to both sports...
NONFICTION: Ernest Hemingway...
...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
...their gossip, rambling prejudice, loutish sentiments and sloppy spelling, these letters were written with an eagerness to communicate directly and forcefully. They still do, the old Hemingway magic now working on an audience the author never meant to include. Even the last letters, preoccupied with business details and high blood pressure, are full of information and curiosity. Getting the latest dope always meant human contact, not a pharmaceutical connection...