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The author surmises that the few sexually depraved pieces Hemingway wrote in his life were informed by his time in New York, before being shipped off to Italy as an ambulance driver in the war. "...Hemingway's New York was always to be the special hell of perversion and depravity."

Hemingway....insisted on reading Robert Browning aloud while drinking from a handy bottle of 'dago red.'When Brumback woke up, lying on the floor with a pillow under his head, if was four o'clock;Hemingway was still droning on.The next day Hemingway managed to get through his work as if nothing had happened.Brumback concluded; 'Sometimes I think that's the outstanding characteristic of genius - boundless energy.'