The Importance of being Ernest

[jack_babalon]

Back in LJ-LJ Land. Had some personal issues to deal with and a script that desperately needed my attention before I began the third draft of 'Unity'.

Meanwhile let us take a moment to recall "Hemingways private war with Adolf Hitler": A little known fact but when Papa Hemingway got wind of Der Führer's scathing review of For Whom The Bell Tolls (going so far as to say - "Ehhhhh... he's no Faulkner"), Hemingway immediately went on a seven day drinking binge (an unusually short drinking binge according to official biographers), took in a few bull fights, then wrote a heated letter to Hitler challenging him to a fist fight outside the Parisian Cafe of his choice. The terms were simple - The Queensbury Rules would apply, Panzers and Big Game Rifles were off limits and if Hemingway lost the fight he would shave off his bushy Patriarch Beard while if Hitler lost the Führer would have to shave off his infamous 'Hitler-Moustache'. Hitler refused naturally and then went so far as to call Hemingway a hack, stated his preference for the works of Ayn Rand and basically told old Papa Hemingway if he didn't like it then he could come down to Berlin to 'do something'.

That day found Hemingway volunteering to storm Normandy with his old drinking buddies Captain America and...


... okay, okay... well to be honest the article really gets into Hemingway's time onboard the Pilar which was running anti-submarine operations just off the coast of Cuba as well as his time as a war correspondent which saw him observing D-Day from a LCVP landing craft.

I guess I just liked the idea of a drunken Hemingway bitch-smacking Hitler around like he was some forgotten Golden Age superhero.