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...last Hemingway is Papa running off at the mouth, unzipping his ego in public, and writing manic sentences...
...left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported so well and so movingly from Spain that two of his newspaper pieces later appeared virtually intact as short stories...
...trek down from the summit be gan with his all-knowing China stories for the newspaper PM and continued with his World War II pieces in Collier's magazine. He, not events, became his subject. He reported how Hemingway landed on D-day in an LCV(P), and told the commander how to find Fox Green beach. He told how Hemingway forged ahead of the Allied armies with a group of guerrillas. It was Hemingway who liberated Paris and a fair sampling of French wine cellars...
...control, Hemingway became a parody of himself. Military parlance, scrambled syntax, bravado posturing descended on his magazine pieces like an awful curse. Look bought "The Christ mas Gift," Hemingway's 1954 account of near death in two plane crashes in Africa. What Look published was a mawkish self-portrait of the Hemingway hero emerging from the jungle with two bunches of bananas, four bottles of Carlsberg beer and a jug of Grand MacNish. At 54, he was ready to take the count...
Thirty years after his moveable Parisian feast, Hemingway remembered that Gertrude Stein had told him to "get out of journalism and write . . . the one would use up the juice that I needed for the other. She was quite right and that was the best advice she gave me." But he did not take it. Instead, he became a gossip columnist, with himself as sole celebrity...