tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28085999.post7228709380539532118..comments2024-03-26T05:04:01.131-06:00Comments on Gravetapping: No Comment: "Overhead"Ben Bouldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16024782701164448300noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28085999.post-52296194050485239552016-05-11T17:41:43.226-06:002016-05-11T17:41:43.226-06:00Thanks Matt. I've never read the Norman Mailer...Thanks Matt. I've never read the Norman Mailer piece. I particularly liked the following quote: <br /><br />"Not if it went down that way. When we do not wish to live, we execute ourselves. If we are ill and yet want to go on, we must put up the ante. If we lose, it does not mean we wished to die."<br /><br />Such a masculine thought, and one I think Hemingway would have approved of.Ben Bouldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024782701164448300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28085999.post-43994744945198908662016-05-11T15:30:56.068-06:002016-05-11T15:30:56.068-06:00Here it is. I just had to scroll down a tad: http:...Here it is. I just had to scroll down a tad: <i><a href="http://pangrammaticon.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-of-ernest-hemingway.html" rel="nofollow">http://pangrammaticon.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-of-ernest-hemingway.html</a></i> Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28085999.post-39134151155599288892016-05-11T15:26:34.180-06:002016-05-11T15:26:34.180-06:00Here's a good piece by Norman Mailer on what h...Here's a good piece by Norman Mailer on what he suggested was Hemingway's suicidal temperament: <i><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1963/02/01/punching-papa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1963/02/01/punching-papa/</a></i> <br /><br />In another piece, I believe included in <i>Advertisements for Myself</i>, Mailer suggested Hemingway sat with the shotgun at his head morning after morning, easing the trigger back just far enuf before the hammers would fall, pulling it back a little further each morning--pushing the existential envelope--until...Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.com