Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Before the rich had come we had already been infiltrated by another rich using the oldest trick probably that there is. This is when an unmarried young woman becomes the temporary best friend of another young woman who is married, comes to live with the husband and wife, and then unknowingly, innocently, and unrelentingly sets out to marry the husband. When the husband is a writer and doing difficult work on a book so that he is occupied much of the time and is not a good companion or partner to his wife for a big part of the day, the arrangement has advantages until you know how it works out. The husband has two attractive girls around when he has finished work. One is new and strange and if he has luck he gets to love them both. Then the one who is relentless wins.
It sounds very silly. But to really love two women at the same time, truly love them, is the most destructive and terrible thing that can happen to a man when the unmarried one decides to marry. The wife does not know about it and trusts the husband. They have been through really difficult times and share those times and have loved each other and she finally trusts the husband truly and completely. The new one says you cannot really love her if you love your wife too. She does not say that at the start. That comes later when the murder’s done. That comes when you lie to everyone all around and all you know is that you truly love two women. There is all that time when you do things that are impossible and when you are with one you love her and with the other you love her and together you love them both. You break all promises and you do everything you knew that you could never do nor want to do. The one who is relentless wins.
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Education of Mr. Bumby”
Ernest Hemingway, about Ford Madox Ford, “The Acrid Smell of Lies”

