Re: _George_: the magazine

Tony Jones (LHL0047@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU)
Thu, 21 Dec 1995 11:19:04 CST

Thanks for the kind words re: my paper topic. I never really
thought about EH & diet but you're exactly right, and this point is
esp. relevant when the autobiographical thrust of EH's fiction is
considered. I think there's an X-Ray of EH's peptic ulcer above the
bar in some Key West drinkery. I also think "Deconstructing Hemingway's
Diet" would make a pretty good dissertation topic, at least for someone
with a, er, um, stronger stomach than I have. ;)
Tony
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>Well, Fran, at least your paper sounds interesting. Mine was
>called "All You Need Is Love: The Search for Love as Grail Quest in
>_The Sun Also Rises_". I used Jung and Joseph Campbell as theoretical
>backdrops rather than any of the post-structuralists. The class was
>Special Topics: The Wasteland Myth in Modern Fiction. Great class,
>miserable paper, I got an A anyway. Tony
>

Pretty interesting topic, dude. Hemingway's problem was his utterly
appaling diet.

For instance if you read the one about the nurse, etc, where she dies in
the end.

All through the book they are like drinking constantly and eating total rubbish.

Then it's like, she dies in childbirth. (GEE -- surprise)

And he's always unhappy (GEE - surprise)

So it's like supposedly there are all these some of philoiopshical,
literate, fateful, religious, 'condition of man' 'reasons' if you like for
their suffering in the book.

But in reality it's just that he had such a shithouse diet and drinking pattern.

What a loser.

Talk about a book with the wrong ending.

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