[HN Gopher] Now I Lay Me (1927)
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Now I Lay Me (1927)
Author : NaOH
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-07-25 18:39 UTC (4 days ago)
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| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Hemingway was convinced that people were following around and
| other people convinced him he was paranoid.
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| Turns out Hemingway was right. The FBI was falling on because of
| his Cuban ties
| pinkmuffinere wrote:
| Full disclosure: I haven't read TFA.
|
| Is it remarkable that Hemingway was convinced? I can understand
| if I was a 'mundane' person and thought somebody was spying on
| me, I could be convinced that I was paranoid. But if I have
| ties to one of the obvious enemies of the US, I think it would
| be very hard to convince me that I _wasn't_ being spied on
| because the motive seems obvious. Do we know why Hemingway was
| able to be convinced?
| skmurphy wrote:
| In his letter to his friend Guy Hickok Hemingway described an
| out-of-body or near-death experience triggered by the close
| explosion of a mortar shell that killed a soldier next to him:
| "There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the
| front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out
| of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket
| by one corner. It flew around and then came back and went in
| again and I wasn't dead anymore."
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| sources
| https://greatwar.nl/hemingway/hemingway.html
| https://www.ehemingway.com/biography Letter to Hickok
| does not appear to be available online. But his "Natural History
| of the Dead" is at https://short-
| stories.co/@ernesthemingway/a-natural-history-of-the-
| dead-0gpz4rgjln7d
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