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Ernest Hemingway: Out Too Far w/ Aaron Gwyn

Art of Darkness

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Hemmingway's Letter to a Russian Translator

The sport fishing was not a larp and this is from live outdoors.com once he caught a marlin that was estimated to have been over a thousand pounds before sharks reached it. He learned the hard way that by shooting the sharks he released blood into the water and attracted more sharks so they took most of the marlin's body. The shark problems didn't just extend to tuna on one occasion while attempting to boat a shark he shot himself in the leg after an accident with right machine guns which you could buy from a sporting goods store before 1934. There's a fascinating letter that hemmingway writes to his russian translator in the 30s where he says as a writer my hand will

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