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Thread ID: 92316	2008-08-06 01:33:00	Ernest Hemingway...Ever Heard Of Him?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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695189	2008-08-06 01:33:00	In Key West Florida in what was likely about 1948 or 1949, my sister, mother and I lived next door to Papa Hemingway . I think it was 26 Chrissis Street, but I may be wrong . . after all, I was only 2 or 3 at the time He'd sit me on his lap and tell me stories that were full of imagination and characters . . . after all, he was a great character-writer and had a minimalist way of talking about them in very few words . Sometimes, he'd walk me across the street to a neighborhood small goods store that sold candy and Cuban clear-colored Coke and liquors and fruits and such . I'd get a package of Barnum's Animal Crackers, in the shapes of lions and tigers and elephants and he'd sometimes use them as props for the stories he told me about Africa and Big Game Huntiing in the deepest, darkest parts of the continent . I found a neat site that has a LOT of Papa's stuff on it . . . if you're interested at all: (Warning! The following article(s) have 'way more than 30 words!) LINK ( . menshealth . com/cda/article . do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy . wisdom&category=life . lessons&conitem=d5dbf5f5b1629010VgnVCM100000cfe793cd____" target="_blank">www . menshealth . com)	SurferJoe46 (51)
695190	2008-08-06 02:52:00	From that page Hemingway is driving with a few buddies on a road near Luxembourg in 1944 when he hears the ripping sound of aircraft fire. He yells, "Jump!" and his friends fly out of the car just as it's strafed down the middle by a machine gun. While they huddle in a ditch, Hemingway uncorks his canteen to distribute premixed martinis. He was the man, no doubt.	Biggles (121)
695191	2008-08-06 03:10:00	that's some awesome memories to keep! i just loved the 'old man and the sea' when i was a kid. i was born in miami (hialeah) and my folks used to drive with me and my sis down to the keys and of course we always had the Barnum's Animal Crackers. so although i never met the man i have some vaguely similar memories as you! and thanks for reminding me of them...nice.	tingle (6539)
695192	2008-08-06 03:43:00	Some Amercians seem to think he was a great writer, but....<scruggs>	SolMiester (139)
695193	2008-08-06 05:32:00	He certainly had a good life,fished here in NZ as well as elsewhere. Spencer Tracy played the main part in The old man and the sea.	Cicero (40)
695194	2008-08-06 08:01:00	Great writer. For Whom the Bell Tolls. A Farewell to Arms Snows of Kilamanjaro etc From time to time I read them again and they're just as good. And he was writing from experience because he did lots of those things.	TideMan (4279)
695195	2008-08-06 09:32:00	Yeh, think i,ve heard of him. Wasn't he in a play or movie or something "Being Ernest" ?	Robinz (9362)
695196	2008-08-06 22:59:00	Yeh, think i,ve heard of him. Wasn't he in a play or movie or something "Being Ernest" ? Heard of him? Yes. He was a "writer" who wrote tales of exaggerated BS and topped himself when he eventually realised the fact that his books were crap and nobody cared about him? I pretty sure thats the guy we're talking about.... correct me if i'm wrong....	Veale (536)
695197	2008-08-07 00:01:00	Heard of him? Yes. He was a "writer" who wrote tales of exaggerated BS and topped himself when he eventually realised the fact that his books were crap and nobody cared about him? I pretty sure thats the guy we're talking about.... correct me if i'm wrong.... Consider yourself corrected.	Thebananamonkey (7741)
695198	2008-08-07 00:33:00	Heard of him? Yes. He was a "writer" who wrote tales of exaggerated BS and topped himself when he eventually realised the fact that his books were crap and nobody cared about him? I pretty sure thats the guy we're talking about.... correct me if i'm wrong.... To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today	Safari (3993)
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