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[shoekitty]

@Oznell   One thing makes me smile and think when I go to an art museum....hemmingways thoughts about going hungry before viewing the works of Cezzane and othe impressionists. He said he knew they had to be starving,  so he felt he had to be hungry to see what they were thinking when they painted.  But then, lol lol.  He ends with he didn't think Cezzane was all that hungry or something like that lol. But his words made such an impression on me some 40 years later I always wait to eat before art of the early impressionists.  Of course my favorite was sweet Vincent. I almost imagine I could have been friends with him, if he didn't scare me away in one of his moods lol. 

[shoekitty]

once said that he liked to look at Cezanne's paintings when he was ravenously hungry. In his 1964 memoir of his Paris apprentice days, The Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes: 'I learned to understand Cezanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. .. 

[on the bay]

I was fascinated by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. I remember after reading The Great Gatsby I read  Zelda, a biography, (I think it was the one by Nancy Milford) and just wanted to read everything about them. 

 I read that some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings were actually written by Zelda or at the least using her words and only attributed to him.

They both had troubling lives and deaths too.

Hemingway and F.Scott were friends at some points but Zelda did not like Hemingway at all.

[bikerbabe]

I had a Hemingway phase in school. Followed by my Faulkner phase. Talk about polar opposite writing styles. 🤣

[Oznell]

Oh, yeah, @shoekitty ,  his pronouncements about so many things are so absolutely bang on.

The one about "the world breaks everyone, and afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places" ( hope I haven't mangled that too much) 

And so much that he wrote about the art of writing itself.  So sage and practical, born of hard work himself-- he worked so HARD at it....  

[Oznell]

Forgot, @on the bay ,  thanks for mentioning that, meant to say I read and re-read the 'Zelda' book too.  Everything about Scott and Zelda, Hemingway, and their close, close friends Gerald and Sara Murphy, was so fascinating.

Hemingway could be very harsh to Fitzgerald--  there always seemed to be that rivalry...  Sara and Gerald tried so hard to help both Scott and Zelda, and they in turn worshipped Sara and Gerald, and Scott put their characters in his work.  But the glamorous Murphys had such troubles of their own, with their two boys getting so sick...

That period in Paris must have been, for a moment in time, so exhilarating for the writers and artists who flocked there.

[monicakm]

@Oznell 

I love the clothes!  Thank you for more interesting posts.  Can't wait for more.

[cody2]

I saw A Farewell To Arms in my early teens. It has never left me. I can still feel the emotions it stirred in my young heart and mind. So sad. And, of course, Rock Hudson was one of my favorite film actors at that time. That puts me in mind of Giant. Again, with Rock, Elizabeth Taylor and my all time crush on an actor, James Dean. I watch it every time I find it on television.

[Kitty Galore]

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@Bookplate wrote:

In addition to his women, his wars and his writing, he also had a passion for cats, particularly the six-toed variety.

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@Bookplate   I found that out after we adopted a 6 toed cat .   Our veterinarian said" oh you have a Hemingway cat" !   I find it fascinating that he had many 6 toed cats and Still does on the grounds .  I have a friend who visited the nine and grounds and she said there were many 6 toed cats on the premises.   We plan to make a trip to visit her and her husband and that is one plus evon on places to go .   You are able to pet  the cats but not allowed to,pick them up.    He may have been a womenizer, an alcoholic and nit a very nice person ,  but he could not have  been all bad being an animal lover which I feel tells me a lot about a person..

[mildoo]

Scott Fitzgerald was awful to Zelda.  He hijacked her writing and she was just as if not more talented than he.   He was a slovenly drunk and poor Zelda suffered with mental illness.  A good movie about Scott and his affair with I think it was Virginia Graham.  Anyhow the movie starred Gregory Peck and I think Deborah Kerr.  "Beloved Infidel."

Made in the 50's,