Posted on 05/20/2019 6:17:53 AM PDT by Twotone
Ernest Hemingway had just returned to London, after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when he ran into Roald Dahl, then a British Royal Air Force officer. Hemingway told Dahl he’d witnessed a soldier escaping a burning tank on Omaha beach. Dahl responded that Hemingway should include the scene in his next piece for Collier’s, the New York magazine he wrote for at the time.
“You don’t think I’d give them that, do you?” replied Hemingway. “I’m keeping it for a book.”
Collier’s, a glossy weekly with a circulation of 2.8 million, was known as a forum for stellar writing. It was perhaps the most prestigious magazine in America, rivaled only by The Saturday Evening Post. It had commissioned Hemingway to cover what are now some of the most famous events in history, including the western Allies’ invasion of France and the collapse of the Third Reich.
We might have remembered that reportage alongside the best of his fiction. But we don’t—because Hemingway’s stint at Collier’s was a disaster.
His editors in New York were unimpressed with the six articles he filed. They were heroic portrayals, as requested, but of himself as much as of the protagonists in the epic events he was covering. Though he’d proven himself a capable war correspondent in Spain, China, and elsewhere, he had grown to dislike journalism. The relationship with Collier’s was cursed from the outset, and by the end of the war it had descended into a spat over an expense claim for about $13,000—or $187,000 in today’s money.
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Genitive case exists in English, but is used to indicate possession or belonging. Its usage is similar in Latin and German.
I can’t say about Russian. But that would explain some things ...
I don’t know I find Hemingway a hot or miss writer. Some stuff was pretty good, some a mishmash of crap.
The most overrated piece he ever wrote was “The Old Man and the Sea”. The first time I read it I thought it had be written by some kid in High School. It just wasn’t that good yet he get a Pulitzer and a Nobel for it, go figure.
There was another story on him when he living there, he did not have a TV. So he would go over to his neighbors to watch. Believe it or not one of his favorite shows “Car 54 Where Are You”. That was a funny show.
You have to read all sf in the original Klingon to truly appreciate it.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL!
His house was a couple miles north on my same street. He graduated from Oak Park High, my alma mater....at that time rated the sixth-highest high school education-wise in the entire country.
His birth home is quite a popular tourist destination with tours showing visitors the furnishings and decor of the times.
The always-restless, adventure-seeking Hemingway couldn't wait to get out of this quiet, staid suburb that bored him to death. He DID get out right after graduation, vowing NEVER to return.
And he never DID return, except early-on for a family death.
His books made wonderful movies, always featuring the greatest stars of the wonderful Golden Age of Movies. I saw and loved them all...and I still watch for them to turn up on TV !
Leni
Cool.
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And how many words are English or English-ish just transliterared into Cyrillic.
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