Hemingway

 

Ernest Hemingway is most famous for his pioneering "Iceberg Theory" of writing—a minimalist, stripped-down prose style

—and his literary masterpieces, including 

The Old Man and the Sea, 

A Farewell to Arms, 

and For Whom the Bell Tolls. 

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

His legacy rests on a few core pillars of his life and career:

• Minimalist Prose (The Iceberg Theory): Hemingway is famous for his direct, economical, and understated writing style. He omitted excessive descriptions, believing the deeper meaning of a story should exist beneath the surface, implied rather than stated.
Masterpieces: His novels and short stories are staples of American literature, most notably:
• The Old Man and the Sea (1952): The Pulitzer Prize-winning novella about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic battle with a giant marlin.
• A Farewell to Arms (1929): A tragic love story set against the backdrop of World War I.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940): An epic novel following an American volunteer during the Spanish Civil War.
• The Sun Also Rises (1926): A defining novel of the "Lost Generation," capturing the disillusionment of post-WWI expatriates in Europe.
Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes: He received the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, cementing his status as one of the 20th century's most influential writers.
Larger-Than-Life Persona: Beyond his books, Hemingway is remembered for his adventurous, rugged lifestyle. He worked as a war correspondent, survived plane crashes, and was an avid deep-sea fisherman, big-game hunter, and bullfighting enthusiast








Hemingway survived a lifetime of injuries, including two consecutive plane crashes in Africa in 1954. These left him with untreated concussions, ruptured organs, and chronic, unrelenting pain. Modern medical historians also suspect he suffered from severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy


He suffered from intense paranoia, severe depression, and bipolar disorder. Treatments, including electroshock therapy at the Mayo Clinic, failed to restore his mental health or his ability to write


Hemingway defined himself by his writing. In his final years, losing his mental sharpness and the ability to put words on the page stripped him of his deepest purpose


Tragically, suicide was a recurring shadow in his family. Hemingway's father died by suicide in 1928, and he was deeply haunted by the possibility of sharing the same fate, a fear that was eventually realized when he took his own life on July 2, 1961, at his home in Ketchum, Idah

Hemingway

 

Died 1961 

Known for his short stories, Hemingway only wrote 9 novels

Sun Also Rises, the (1926)

Torrents of Spring, the (1926)

Farewell to Arms, a (1929)

To Have and Have Not (1937)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

Old Man and the Sea, the (1952)

Islands in the Stream (1970) - finished 1951 

Garden of Eden (1986) started 1946 - uncompleted in 1961 - released abridged in 1986 

Never particularly  out standing for dialogue, he wrote some of the best prose ever 

 

By the meteorological calendar, 

spring will always start on 1 March; 

ending on 31 May.

Blue Moon

 

• Blue Moon:
• May 31: The second full moon in May, making it a Blue Moon.




Types: There are two definitions: Monthly (the second full moon in a calendar month) and Seasonal (the third full moon in a season containing four full moons).
Frequency: They occur about every 2–3 years.
Upcoming Examples: The next monthly blue moon is expected on May 31, 2026, and the next seasonal blue moon occurs on May 20, 2027.
Why It's Not Blue: A blue moon looks like a normal full moon. A literal blue-coloured moon can happen, but only due to dust or smoke particles in the atmosphere, such as from a volcanic eruption.

 

Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods

 like slashing their wrist or taking an overdose of sleeping pills

 

See the curtains hanging in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light shining through the window
Lets me know everything's alright

 

the reason the tiger does not fear the hyena 

is because he is aware of his own strength

 

A scientist who studied monkeys on an island in Indonesia was able to teach a certain one to wash bananas in the river before eating them. Cleansed of sand and dirt, the food was more flavorful. The scientist who did this only because he was studying the learning capacity of monkeys did not imagine what would eventually happen. So he was surprised to see that the other monkeys on the island began to imitate the first one. "And then, one day, when a certain number of monkeys had learned to wash their bananas, the monkeys on all of the other islands in the archipelago began to do the same thing. What was most surprising, though, was that the other monkeys learned to do so without having had any contact with the island where the experiment had been conducted." He stopped. "Do you understand?" "No," I answered. "There are several similar scientific studies. The most common explanation is that when a certain number of people evolve, the entire human race begins to evolve. We don't know how many people are needed but we know that's how it works

 

There lies a green field between the scholar and the poet; 

should the scholar cross it he becomes a wise man; 

should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet

 

the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks

 than to the least of all the blades of grass

 

If the great-grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, would he not have stood in awe of himself?

 

Remembrance is a form of meeting

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom

 

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you. 

You're already familiar with the latter experience, 

allowing yourself to be swept along by fears, neuroses, insecurity, 

for all we have self-destructive tendencies

 

You drown not for falling into a river,

 but by staying submerged in it

 

 many people have stopped living. 

They do not become angry, nor cry out; 

they merely wait for time to pass. 

They did not accept the challenges of life,

 so life no longer challenges them. 

 react, face life, but do not stop living

 

 God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty.

 He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. 

He gave her the cup of happiness and said,

 “Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future,

 for happiness is naught but the moment.” 

And He also gave her a cup of sorrow and said, 

“Drink from this cup and you will understand the meaning of the fleeting instants of the joy of life, 

for sorrow ever abounds"

 

a field turned into a battleground; 

after the trees are uprooted

 and the grass is burned 

and the rocks are reddened with blood

 and the earth is planted with bones and skulls, 

it is calm and silent as if nothing has happened; 

for the spring and autumn come at their intervals 

and resume their work

 

Your soul is oftimes a battlefield,

 upon which your reason and your judgement 

wage war against your passion and your appetite

 

I long for eternity 

because there 

I shall meet my unwritten poems 

and my unpainted pictures

United States

 

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Pennsylvania 

Rhode Island

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Tennessee 

Texas

 Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington

 West Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming

Last Man Standing

 

Alexandra as Kristen looked as if she and Mandy were sisters She was actually younger than Molly when they filmed S1 - same thing happened in 8 Simple Rules - Amy, the actress playing the middle child, was a few years older than Kaley who was playing the oldest sister Alexandra Kristen looks like a teen mom - got pregnant in school and has a baby From S2 when Amanda played her it was explained that going forward they needed the character to no longer be a teen, a mom going into her 20s as the child started growing up and going to school - more "momsy" Whether this was the real reason for firing and replacing Alexandra has been debated with fans The thing with Amanda Kristen is she looked too different from S1 Kristen and also acted different - she seemed much older and nothing like their sister, an aunt or a completely different character When Molly decided not to return as Mandy when they moved networks in the seventh season, we had lived with her as Mandy for so many years it was difficult to accept anyone as a "new" Mandy Molly McC didn't do a bad job as such - with the blond hair she looked different, like it was our Mandy with a new look, and acted different, older, more "evolved", we just all missed "our" Mandy Having Eve only being a recurring "part time" character in the later shows due to Kaitlyn pursuing her other projects - and was the only one of the five actress playing the three sisters who went on to have real solo success as a leading lady in her own films and shows Amanda Fuller did nude scenes in her films - full erotic naked group sex in Red White Blue 2010, nude in Creature 2011, full frontal in Fashionista 2016, and that shower scene in Orange New Black , being the only one of the five girls to do nude scenes She played Kristen from 2012 - 2021 being the longest serving "full time" sister She played Brittany Murphy in the bio in 2014 She did Orange New Black 2018 - 2019 .

They say the nightingale pierces his bosom with a thorn when he sings his love song. 

So do we all. 

How else should we sing?

 

Seven centuries ago seven white doves rose from a deep valley flying to the snow-white summit of the mountain. 

One of the seven men who watched the flight said,

 "I see a black spot on the wing of the seventh dove."

Today the people in that valley tell of seven black doves who flew to the summit of the snowy mountain

 

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. 

That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind. 

It is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth or digs holes into darkness for safety, 

But a thing free, a spirit that envelops the earth and moves in the ether.

 If these be vague words, then seek not to clear them.

 Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things,

 but not their end

 

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. 

It was but yesterday we met in a dream. 

You have sung to me in my aloneness 

and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. ...

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, 

we shall speak again together 

and you shall sing to me a deeper song. 

And if our hands should meet in another dream 

we shall build another tower in the sky.

 

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live

 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. 

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give

 

Hypocrisy is your religion, and
Falsehood is your life, and
Nothingness is your ending; why,
Then, are you living? 

Is not Death the sole comfort of the
Miserables?

 

If you don't know what you want, 

you end up with a lot you don't

 

Your other self is always sorry for you. 

But your other self grows on sorrow, so all is well

 

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. 

But we won't. 

And we're slowly learning that fact. 

And we're very, very pissed off

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. 

They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed

 

For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them to morrow?

 

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. 

It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. 

Nothing is static,

 everything is evolving, 

everything is falling apart

 

Should you sit upon a cloud you would not see the boundary line between one country and another, 

nor the boundary stone between a farm and a farm.

It is a pity you cannot sit upon a cloud

Fight Club novel ending

 

Tyler plans to blow up a skyscraper using homemade bombs created by Project Mayhem; the target of the explosion is the nearby national museum. Tyler plans to die as a martyr during this event, taking the narrator's life as well. Realizing this, the narrator sets out to stop Tyler. 

The narrator makes his way to the roof of the building, where Tyler holds him at gunpoint. When Marla comes to the roof with one of the support groups, Tyler vanishes, as Tyler "was his hallucination, not hers".

With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. The bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives. Still alive and holding Tyler's gun, the narrator puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself.

 Some time later, he awakens in a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and imagines an argument with God over human nature.

The narrator is then approached by hospital employees who reveal themselves to be Project Mayhem members. They tell him their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to return.

 

1. You do not talk about fight club.

2. You do not talk about fight club.

3. When someone says stop, or taps out, or goes limp, the fight is over.

4. Only two guys to a fight.

5. One fight at a time.

6. They fight without shirts or shoes.

7. The fights go on as long as they have to.

8. If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight

 

a generation of spectators

 A culture of advertising defines society's "external signifiers of happiness", 

causing an unnecessary chase for material goods

 that replaces the more essential pursuit of spiritual happiness.

We're rooting for ball teams, but we're not getting in there to play

 

 Generation X as the first generation raised on television:

 this generation had "its value system largely dictated to it by advertising culture"

 and was told one could achieve "spiritual happiness through home furnishing"

 living in this fraudulent idea of happiness

 

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. 

There's nothing to kill anymore, 

there's nothing to fight, 

nothing to overcome, 

nothing to explore. 

 societal emasculation

 

If the prodigal son had never left home, 

the fatted calf would still be alive

 

There will be mistakes, 

and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself 

if one little part might go bad

 

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper

 

A lot of  people try to impress the world and buy too many things

 

The club is too loud to talk, 

so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention

 but completely cut off from participating with anyone else.

You're the corpse in an English murder mystery

 

pump the hand pump

until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. 

This way, when
someone goes to flush a toilet, the toilet tank will explode.

 At 150 psi, if
someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower
head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell.

 

You do the job you're trained to do.

 Pull a lever. 

Push a button. 

You don't understand any of it

, and then you just die

 

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, 

and show them courage by frightening them

 

The things you own end up owning you

 

Watching white moon face

The stars never feel anger

Blah, blah, blah, the end

 

Without just one nest

A bird can call the world home

Life is your career

 

This is our world now,

 and those ancient people are dead

 

There are bodies buried everywhere 

you just have to know where to look