A Farewell to Arms burial for Ernest Hemingway - Michael Palin for BBC

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! Hemingyway's "A Farewell to Arms" was a novel about World War I ??? I always thought it was a biography of the Venus DeMilo !!!

[elephantstone222]

does anybody know where i can get the whole of this documentary?

[Skullz1595]

Ernest Hemingway was a great man,he was my distant cousin,he was a great writer and many other things,but how he died is the horrible decision on his part.

[soloinpomona]

@Skullz1595 He died by his choice. Would you rather that he suffer dismally with numerous aflictions? He wan't to die on his feet and able. Not in some slow vegatative state. Don't be offended. You must be young right?

[JackWilsonVideos]

@soloinpomona I agree completely with you. Of all people, Ernest was the best candidate for suicide. I say this with my complete respect and passion for Hemingway, and by it i mean that it allowed him to maintain complete control and authority over himself, and like you said, die by his own choice. He would not have allowed anything other than his own authority to decide his fate. He made it himself. Unfortunately, he was already being influenced by his depression and other physical decline,

[JackWilsonVideos]

@soloinpomona but he recognized this and decided that he could either die while he still had some fraction of his former life and vigor or waste away into something that mocked his former stature. I think he made the right decision, even though it did unfortunately end one of the most brilliant careers in literary history.

[Probablyacowtbh]

*grabs a shovel*

[w8geek]

For the simple misery of sitting through some inane Vegas commercial to git to Michael Palin, I loath this. A sadness, really.

The rest of it is top notch, however.

[Slavik888100]

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[ECheGuevera]

Papa was not a God of Literature he was just a man who happened to have an incredible talent for writing. He was also a womanizer, an alcoholic and probably most importantly he suffered from Bipolar Disorder (also known as Manic Depression) which accounts for many things in his life. Bipolar Disorder is a disease that usual manifests itself in the patients early to mid 20's and consists of violent mood swings among other things. People with Bipolar are often either very artistic or intelligent

[pkneeno]

@ECheGuevera good comment. Too many people confuse accomplished people with 'perfect' people. Some very talented artists were or are miserable,personality -free human beings. You put it very succinctly.

[mld888]

i just love this man. great writer.

[postalsock]

Hemingway was a god of a writer and his spirit lives on through his work.

[neoren999]

I wouldnt think Hemingway would have liked being called a 'God of a writer';although I understand, completely, your meaning. He was The Master of Narraration and prose writing, it doesn't get better. His works really come alive when properly read aloud in a good speaking voice.

[neoren999]

Sometimes I cry when I think about Papa... When I read Papa Hemingway, I wept and wept at the end when his mind and all that talent was going, when The Dangerous Summer was getting out of scope...

[xensboy]

Interesting

[postalsock]

I doubt it. I'm sure it has decayed and become one with the Earth.

[osuvalpal]

A cycling tour!

lol.

[rainbowsandwar]

I wonder if anyone has found his book by now... probably.