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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Farewell To Arms
“I went to the beach and ate ice cream and had good fun!”
A quote from Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell To Arms’?? No, it was me in second grade, but it could have been such is the styling of Hemingway’s writing. I counted 42 (ands) on the first page and a half. A story written from events in his life as I re-read this book I figured out when and how drunk Hemingway was in regard to content written. He must have been sober when he wrote…..
‘……I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers and the numbers of regiments and the dates.’
Then in between these passages of brilliance, you would get a conversation between him and Catherine that made me want to hurl the book as far as possible…
“Why?” I was sleepy. Outside the rain was falling steadily.
“I don’t know, darling. I’ve always been afraid of the rain.”
“I like it.”
“I like to walk in it. But it’s very hard on loving.”
“I’ll love you always.”
“I‘ll love you in the rain and in the snow and in the hail and — what else is there?”
“I don’t know. I guess I’m sleepy.”
“Go to sleep, darling, and I’ll love you no matter how it is.”
…… and on and on and on they go. (Mimic bang head on the counter).
“I went to the beach and ate ice cream and had good fun!”
A quote from Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell To Arms’?? No, it was me in second grade, but it could have been such is the styling of Hemingway’s writing. I counted 42 (ands) on the first page and a half. A story written from events in his life as I re-read this book I figured out when and how drunk Hemingway was in regard to content written. He must have been sober when he wrote…..
‘……I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers and the numbers of regiments and the dates.’
Then in between these passages of brilliance, you would get a conversation between him and Catherine that made me want to hurl the book as far as possible…
“Why?” I was sleepy. Outside the rain was falling steadily.
“I don’t know, darling. I’ve always been afraid of the rain.”
“I like it.”
“I like to walk in it. But it’s very hard on loving.”
“I’ll love you always.”
“I‘ll love you in the rain and in the snow and in the hail and — what else is there?”
“I don’t know. I guess I’m sleepy.”
“Go to sleep, darling, and I’ll love you no matter how it is.”
…… and on and on and on they go. (Mimic bang head on the counter).