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...best it is an expensive and cruel hoax. At worst it is dangerous." She rails against the phony cheerfulness of some visitors to desperately ill patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman who had refused to discuss her cancer...
Fifty-one-year-old Humes definitely has the look of a maverick. Chain-smoking as he explains his case in the kitchen of his modest residence, Humes's craggy face and grizzled beard call to mind the image of what a long-haired Ernest Hemingway in his later years might have looked like if he had been alive and become a flower child in the late '60's. Humes's biography reads like the resume of a dabbling jack-of-all-trades. After completing at Harvard an undergraduate education that began at MIT, Humes threw himself into literary pursuits...
...world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel...
...gambling on horses. But we called it racing.... to make it profitable was more than a full-time job and I had no time for that. But I justified it to myself because-I wrote it... Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast...
...helps a writing career. Look at Hemingway. Look at Dostoevski. Look...