Things I did not know about Hemingway. Because I don’t even remember ever studying him. But I don’t remember much of what I did study in my English classes because they all ran together.

And I’m going to begin another sentence with a conjunction.
Because I can.

Really?! I read him in high school and college. You should check him out!

But you can’t begin sentences with conjunctions! Because it’s simply not allowed!

;)

Indeed.

I thought that was an ode to Hemingway, once I realized you weren’t coincidentally married to an abusive war vet who moved to Cuba. I mean coincidences happen, but that’d be a bit much. Can definitely feel the sympathy coming through in this piece.

You should check out the longest running graphic novel Cerebus. Dave Sims had a period where he was obsessed with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and he built up this whole pseudo-fictional history of Hemingway and his wife in one of the latter volumes.

The coolest thing about Cerebus is not just the general weirdness, the awesome art, the intelligence, but it’s also how you can track Dave Sims’ belief system throughout the years.

The final few volumes is actually a deep dissertation on religion, and there’s a hilarious (I think Dave was seriously explaining his perspective through Cerebus) but well done interpretation of the Creation in terms of the male and female sides of God. But I digress. Great ficly there.