Hemingway, Lady, Cat and Booze

yeah it's so cool when an old fat guy can get a young hottie to hang out with him

Don't forget da dog!

^^ $$ + fame buys you love.

I knew who the guy was even before expanding the window to full screen. Any idea if that is in the Key West house? Looks like it.

BTW, if that is the Key West house, and the room I'm thinking of, there is a salwater swimming pool right outside the door on the right. There's also a penny sunk into the cement...guides claim that the pool cost $20K and wife #2, Pauline, had at the time commissioned it when he was away. $2K was a bleeding fortune back then (I think the house and 1 acre totaled something like $8K).

Papa was so pissed about the cost of the pool when he returned, so the story goes, that he tossed a penny into it or at Pauline, I forget which, and said she might as well have that, as that was their last cent.

$20K in Key West today will maybe get you a milkshake.

The view, BTW, from the opposite side if this is indeed the house and room I'm thinking of:

http://www.insideflorida.com/images/cities/hemingway_pool_office_920_medium.jpg 

Then again, many houses from the 1850's look alike to me.

^

I went through the house also, about 4 years ago...and don't remember any of that. LOL I just remember cats, a bunch of rooms, a pool, and view from the 2nd story balcony...was there a balcony? Maybe it was just a window. 😕

^There is a balcony on the second floor. Also a catwalk (no pun intended) that leads to his study which is either over a detached garage or carriage house, IIRC one story up from the main level of the house. It's over some sort of detached building (although yes, I doubt a garage was built in his lifetime, since the house was built in 1850 or 51, IIRC...just a few years before GM started their process of going bankrupt).

Figures. I can find eight billion pics of the house and cats, surrounding area, etc., but not of this room. Can someone reach in and push that door open? If I'm correct, that should be the kitchen on the other side.

As for timing, I believe 2005 was the last year we went to Key West, but saw the house on our second trip there, which I think was 2001. What can I say? OCD.

"Just about time to kill myself".

Hey honey,wanna see what this toolshed turns into at night? X

What is she saying to him????? "No way Im going down on you!!!!!"

#9 Well, thanks for that happy note (although, IIRC, he killed himself in Ketchum, Idaho, after a couple rounds of electic shock treatment at the Mayo clinic).

Something tells me Pac is a Hemingway fan!

I read his stuff 40 years ago when I was a kid, and thought he's o.k., a bit stark...

Re-read 'For whom the bell tolls', 'The sun also rises', and 'The old man and the sea' in the last 3 months and am finally in agreement with everybody else--Hemingway was a genius...

I had never put his work in place temporally. He pretty much created modern fiction prose style for the last, ooohhhh, 70 gaddam years or so...

A bit. Not my favorite writer, but in the top ten probably. BTW, when at the Hemingway House, Mrs. Pacman bought me some books on CD (or tape, I forget which...reminds me, where the hell did I put those after listening to them?) of Charleton Heston reading Hemingway works, including "The Old Man and the Sea". Bit of a different take to hear someone reading them aloud. I forget what else is in there...been quite a while since I last listened to them.

O.K., I gotta lol at myself on the Hemingway stuff.

Re-reading the Old Man and the Sea I feel like it is one of the finest pieces of brief fiction I've read, from several angles, mainly 'style'.

Otherwise, the joke/foolish Chief angle: So, I'm reading either the Sun also Rises or Whom the Bell Tolls, and brain is wandering a bit. I'm thinking, Damn, this is boring, everybody writes the same, I've read a hundred pieces of fiction just like this one--then I realized that this is the stuff that all the other writers were copying...lol at self.

This reminds me: My youngest is an amateur pencil artist, he's almost 20 now. We've always tried to expose him to as much a variety of art as we can via picture books, visits to museums, whatever.

When he was about 10, we visited the Norton/Simon museum in Pasadena (cal) which has some early Picasso pencil and ink stuff. The boy had only seen Picasso's abstract produce prior to this day. So, he spends a lot of time looking at several items then announces:

"He could draw when he wanted to..."

10 year olds!