manoeuver (November 4th, 2021)
"""Drinks with Hemingway should be interesting.... """" Only if you are bigger than him, he use get drunk and beat up the small.
He had a problem, in not joining the army when America joined the World War. after seeing the wounded delivered to his ambulance a mile behind the line........knowing he was a coward, he admired bull fighters an others who had what he didn't.
He and Thurber didn't come back to the States until booze was again legal.
Mark Twain at least saw and fought in a battle, before declining to re-up after his three months were up, and going west.
A very intelligent man, being a Mississippi River Pilot, required a great memory and instant reflexes.
The third book with Tom and Huck didn't get written finished in the girl fell into the hands of the Indians.........so no happy end was possible.
I liked a Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; a great and perhaps the first fall back in time SF book.
BoBo, do you have a namesake you would like to meet? That is the point of this thread, not criticizing other's choices.
p.s.: Twain's "battle" was satirical. The best guess is that he served in a Confederate* militia for two weeks, quit and headed west.
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* Missouri is an anomaly in U.S. Civil War history. Although admitted to the Union with the "Missouri Compromise" (Missouri and Maine being admitted at the same time, Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state), Missouri never joined the confederacy. Missouri militias did sympathize with the Confederacy, but were more concerned with Lincoln's sending of Federal troops and General Nathaniel Lyon to St. Louis (out of concern that Missouri would join). That action prompted the creation of several militias, focused on driving Federal troops out of the State. Several battles resulted, two of the most famous being Wilson's Creek and Lexington (also called "the battle of the hemp bales").
Twain's service was likely with one of these Missouri militias, and saw no action.
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"A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."
Kafka for me.
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I was reading Hemingway when he was still alive. The truth about him was a long time in coming. Each thing did make an impression on me until I no longer cared for him as a person. There was nothing against the guy wanting to talk to Hemingway; just not in a bar.
Just like the 'truth' about Mark Twain's two week service, in back in the day before computers we were taught he did three months and seen a battle.
(Of course I have to check that out my self...........in I've seen ever so much BS passed off as truth in the internet that is not so. Some of it is ancient lies of self serving passed off as the truth; like why Santa Fe was passed up by the RR, other times one runs into modern BS that is pasted all over the internet in someone didn't check the research to start with.).....Yep, was taught the wrong info....he himself said he was there for a whole two weeks.
Back in the day though we were at the mercy of printers.....and teachers who believed the printed word.
One it seems has to check what is truth, what is still truth or what will be truth regularly or one is out of date as I was with Mark Twain.
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Detman101 (November 15th, 2021)
Would love to have dinner and a walk with Jules Verne. The JV pen is a tasteful tribute to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
And a chat with Mark Twain would be fascinating. Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight is as close as it gets.
Bob
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dneal (December 3rd, 2021)
Same here. Despite an adventurous and often risky life outdoors, I've never hit it off with maler-than-thou sportsman types, like Papa. Nor heavy drinkers of spirits. (Except for Jim Harrison.)
Wilde combines encyclopedic knowledge with a broad and fluid intelligence, an acute awareness of language, and a sharp wit. I'd hope I could keep my mouth shut (aside from sips of a good wine) and just feed him bits and pieces that would spark his imagination.
Then, I'd spend a few fevered hours in my room, making notes of things he said.
About Kerouac (not a pen or pencil guy), the story is that he got a roll of newsprint, hung it up, inserted the end in his typewriter, and blasted off.
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Lloyd (November 15th, 2021)
My number two would be Camus.
I don;t knoiw if there is a pen named for him, nor do I care, really.
Number three: Poe
Number 4: Shakespeare
Lloyd (November 15th, 2021)
And then there is Rumi Rumi Rumi
Lloyd (November 15th, 2021)
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