Gary’s Comments (group member since Jul 26, 2009)

Gary’s comments from the The Importance of Reading Ernest group.

question? first impressions on story? is this the 2nd i finish reading the last word of the story, or are you looking or when i've read the first 3 or 4 pages, then make a comment or two before going on to finish it?

lol.

btw, brad, i never did get your ROSE FOR EMILY story you said you'd email me, buddy. did you forget? or did i not receive it for some reason???/
gary

thanks, arthur!!! i printed off the I LIKE AMERICANS poem, because it's not in my book. the rest of them on this site pretty much are. so, brad, i'll let you look at the website,and read the rest of the poems on there for yourself, since i've had to type those on here,and i picked the shorter ones to type first, on purpose. lol!

thanks arthur.

there's actually other dates on some of the poems, i.e. 1925, 1929, etc.

all it says is THE LIBRARY OF LIVING POETRY ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN PARIS, 1923. doesn't say who suppressed them. maybe the censors in the states?

shall i keep sharing,or had enough? there's more in this little booklet.

THE AGE DEMANDED

The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.

The age demanded that we flow
And hammered in the bung.

The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.

And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded.

NEO-THOMIST POEM

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want him for long.

exactly

good night!

ULTIMATELY

He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry-mouthed at first,
He drooled and slobbered in the end;
Truth dribbling his chin.

(more in the morning, i am so tired. ha! this is me, not hemingway!)

that's wild as hell. maybe you should write a story about that. shit, maybe i should write it!

ha! ok!

really? i'd like to read it. i really like A ROSE FOR EMILY. i want to read it to my bookclub sometime at our halloween party!

no, it's for real. i have the book in front of me.originally published in paris. i had heard about it,and then i saw it in THE KEYWEST BOOKSTORE ,which is a very well thought of used bookstore in old town of keywest.

lol! yeah, i read fight club,and saw the movie. i'll have to ask my son about hemingway. i don't remember that, offhand. that' s interesting, because you know a lot of men thought that was a very macho book,and since then chuck's come out of the closet himself.. my son got me started on chuck's books,and we saw him in person at a signing. he was awesome.

yes, i just read about GARDEN OF EDEN and the idea of that. guess i need to add another book to my hemingway collection, eh?

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?I...

http://www.genders.org/g39/g39_tanimo...

a couple of websites i saw. the 2nd one is a lot of reading and i skimmed it.interesting.

ok, i've not read THE GARDEN OF EDEN. is that a must read?

just gender studies in general, or a particular gender study on hemingway? do tell!

i haven't read valerie's book yet. it should be interesting. one of papa's great grandson's supposedly wrote a tell all book that tells a lot about gregory that one of the people who worked at the hemingway house in key west recommended, but i sure can't remember it's title now!!??

also, when you consider the history of papa's son gregory,and how gregory writes how his father hated him,and the way he acted. i just bought a copy of RUNNING WITH THE BULLS: MY LIFE WITH THE HEMINGWAYS, by valerie hemingway. she had been papa's secretary,and then she married gregory. gregory, from what i understand died in prison dressed a woman.

also, hemingway's upbringing and how his mother tried to make him look so feminine. not that makes a person gay or whatever, but for a long time hemingway stood it. if i tried to do that to my sons they would have freaked out. there's just all kinds of hints, even in papa's writing that makes you think he had something to hide. and all those women,and married 4 times. he just seemed so unsettled. so unhappy.