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So was Hemingway

Please, if you do not mind, tell me please what you know of Hemingway?

I am curious.

[ExGeeEye]

I don't know about RedMonqey, but I know that accounts exist of Hemingway's indulgence in alcohol and tobacco; apparently he was unacquainted with moderation, other than in the economy of his prose. Such accounts, put forward as they were by his friends and admirers, need not be summarily dismissed as scurrilous.

It is common knowledge that he effected his own dispatch with a shotgun. I suppose one should at least try to document upper cranial disturbance resulting from this action before claiming that he did "blow the top of [his] head off"; however, the known result renders such morbid investigation moot, and to deny that Papa sought anything less (say, to reduce a stoppage in his sinuses) would be to impugn his intelligence beyond credulity.