473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
The History of Literature
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The Randomness of War
I think Hemingway seemed to take a lot of comfort in that and so did his characters. He kind of captured the anti heroic quality of being blown up in war is that he Hemingway never in at least in his fiction he always recognized the kind of randomness to war. It's just random the way war works that you can get wounded when you wouldn't even seem to be at risk but that's that's part of it. I love that story because Ezra Pound said are you telling me you got so drunk you fell up through the skylight and yeah if you look at these pictures in especially in the late twenties early thirties he has a welt
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