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Post by Hand of Glory on Jul 16, 2021 8:52:36 GMT -5
Does anyone know of Hemingway actually
smoked a pipe? I’ve read conflicting things on this but nothing with substance.
Allegedly Hemingway denounced tobacco. But writes about it several times, he’s a couple photos with pipe in mouth, spent much time at cafes where smoking would have been common, and served in a war where tobacco was given out to soldiers. So i’m torn on what to believe. Does anyone have any greater insight?
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jul 16, 2021 10:19:37 GMT -5
Thought it was cigars.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2021 11:07:51 GMT -5
I've investigated it years ago and the answer was no. In the one picture that was supposed to be proof he was holding something in his hand, but I blew it up and enhanced it and whatever it was, it wasn't a pipe. According to several sources he was a non-smoker.
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Post by Hand of Glory on Jul 16, 2021 11:08:05 GMT -5
I’ve never seen a photo of Hemingway with a cigar. Arturo Fuentes had a line named after him though. |
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Post by Hand of Glory on Jul 16, 2021 11:09:22 GMT -5
I've investigated it years ago and the answer was no. In the one picture that was supposed to be proof he was holding something in his hand, but I blew it up and enhanced it and whatever it was, it wasn't a pipe. According to several sources he was a non-smoker. So there’s two photos of him where he is definitely holding a pipe. One in a clench the other on his hand. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2021 11:12:44 GMT -5
Regardless of any pictures, he didn't smoke.
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 16, 2021 11:48:20 GMT -5
Curiosity drove me to duckduckgo. Image section. Where there are many hundreds of pictures of him_ with rifles, pistols, shotguns, Thompsons, every kind of liquor bottle imaginable (some held to his lips), typewriters, cars, jeeps, pencils, pens, notebooks, dead animals, and the list goes on. But only one that “might” be a pipe, held in a way that he seems to be hiding it in his fist. No real way to tell WHAT it is. SInce pipe-smoking celebrities are almost ALWAYS photographed with their pipes I am inclined to think that he was not a pipe smoker.
[Just as a follow-up I looked at Faulkner pictures. Twelve images in the first two rows, in which eight of them show him with his pipes.]
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Post by darktater on Jul 16, 2021 11:51:45 GMT -5
I've read a couple of biographies that mentioned nothing about pipe smoking.
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Post by Hand of Glory on Jul 16, 2021 12:36:24 GMT -5
Regardless of any pictures, he didn't smoke. This is what I figured. I had heard the photo of him clenching the pipe was more just for fun. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 14:58:11 GMT -5
I don't know about tobacco but he didn't denounce booze.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 16, 2021 20:36:57 GMT -5
A few months back it seems PBS had a documentary on Hemingway, I get the impression from the article that it was a Ken Burns production. That would have been a good one to watch. Sounds like a family with a pretty dark side. www.distractify.com/p/hemingway-family-deaths |
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Post by darktater on Jul 16, 2021 20:42:18 GMT -5
A few months back it seems PBS had a documentary on Hemingway, I get the impression from the article that it was a Ken Burns production. That would have been a good one to watch. Sounds like a family with a pretty dark side. www.distractify.com/p/hemingway-family-deathsthe last biography I read was kind of brutally honest. As a life long Hemingway fan, part of me didn't want to keep reading, but as a adult with a lot of mileage it certainly was enlightening. |
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Post by urbino on Jul 16, 2021 20:43:41 GMT -5
He was not a nice man.
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Post by darktater on Jul 16, 2021 20:47:18 GMT -5
very true, interesting what the lense of experience and time will do to our perception. I'm not a fan of the man anymore, understanding some of what troubled him, but some of his work is still outstanding. |
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Post by urbino on Jul 16, 2021 21:03:08 GMT -5
Oh, he could write. His style wasn't really my cuppa, but he could write.
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Post by qmechanics on Jul 17, 2021 2:05:39 GMT -5
I can attest to Hemingway's polydactyl cat by the offspring...😊 They have the run of his place in Key West..
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Post by chasingembers on Jul 17, 2021 2:16:01 GMT -5
I've investigated it years ago and the answer was no. In the one picture that was supposed to be proof he was holding something in his hand, but I blew it up and enhanced it and whatever it was, it wasn't a pipe. According to several sources he was a non-smoker. So there’s two photos of him where he is definitely holding a pipe. One in a clench the other on his hand. Many confuse this photo with Hemingway when it's William Faulkner.  |
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Post by qmechanics on Jul 17, 2021 2:53:58 GMT -5
Not to be confused with
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 17, 2021 7:07:17 GMT -5
Many? I don’t see how ANYbody could confuse that pic with Hemingway.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 17, 2021 7:53:00 GMT -5
 Watching the documentary, had taped it, he lied about his war record, but he did serve and was wounded severely, called his Dad a coward for committing sucide, and at 61 he ate his shotgun. Big ego, I have 2 more episodes to go.
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Post by taiguy66 on Jul 17, 2021 9:49:55 GMT -5
Watching the documentary, had taped it, he lied about his war record, but he did serve and was wounded severely, called his Dad a coward for committing sucide, and at 61 he ate his shotgun. Big ego, I have 2 more episodes to go. I believe your comment above says it all Brad. |
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Post by Hand of Glory on Jul 17, 2021 10:00:35 GMT -5
So there’s two photos of him where he is definitely holding a pipe. One in a clench the other on his hand. Many confuse this photo with Hemingway when it's William Faulkner. I am one of those many people unfortunately, thanks for the clarity!! |
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Post by trailboss on Jul 17, 2021 10:54:10 GMT -5
I never knew who that was, saw a few guys use it as their avatars over the years.
Thanks!
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Post by trailboss on Jul 17, 2021 10:56:24 GMT -5
Watching the documentary, had taped it, he lied about his war record, but he did serve and was wounded severely, called his Dad a coward for committing sucide, and at 61 he ate his shotgun. Big ego, I have 2 more episodes to go. Thanks, Brad. The A/C guy worked in the attic yesterday somehow cut my internet. Suppose to get it fixed, I will see if the series is available for download. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 17, 2021 12:11:23 GMT -5
Working on the second part of a 3 part documentary, good and bad, flawed man, but we are all flawed, give him some leeway, his inexcusable failure to not mention the loyalist torturing of people because his heart was for the loyalist, is an insight he was not a moral man., but then who am I to judge, I wasn’t there or in his situation, he’s still a fraud as I traverse the documentary, but I have to confess I ordered For Whom The Bell Tolls in hardcover from Amazon. Very good, hope you can get it Charlie!
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Post by instymp on Jul 17, 2021 18:01:51 GMT -5
Working on the second part of a 3 part documentary, good and bad, flawed man, but we are all flawed, give him some leeway, his inexcusable failure to not mention the loyalist torturing of people because his heart was for the loyalist, is an insight he was not a moral man., but then who am I to judge, I wasn’t there or in his situation, he’s still a fraud as I traverse the documentary, but I have to confess I ordered For Whom The Bell Tolls in hardcover from Amazon. Very good, hope you can get it Charlie! If you think the series was good, would appreciate where the series is, but I have seen a couple documentaries about him and didn't think to highly of him. Thought the movies created from his books were better than the books themselves that I have read. But maybe that was because I saw the movie first before reading?
But what do I know.
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 17, 2021 18:26:13 GMT -5
Working on the second part of a 3 part documentary, good and bad, flawed man, but we are all flawed, give him some leeway, his inexcusable failure to not mention the loyalist torturing of people because his heart was for the loyalist, is an insight he was not a moral man., but then who am I to judge, I wasn’t there or in his situation, he’s still a fraud as I traverse the documentary, but I have to confess I ordered For Whom The Bell Tolls in hardcover from Amazon. Very good, hope you can get it Charlie! If you think the series was good, would appreciate where the series is, but I have seen a couple documentaries about him and didn't think to highly of him. Thought the movies created from his books were better than the books themselves that I have read. But maybe that was because I saw the movie first before reading?
But what do I know.
Obviously you know what you like. And the more you know about Hemingway the man the harder it is to like him, whatever you think of his works. But all artists are flawed, some more deeply than others. He is in a downturn now, and has been for quite a while. Doesn't help that he is seen as a role model for "toxic masculinity." If literary pendulae can be relied upon, he will be back— in about 50 years. |
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Post by jpberg on Jul 17, 2021 18:32:35 GMT -5
very true, interesting what the lense of experience and time will do to our perception. I'm not a fan of the man anymore, understanding some of what troubled him, but some of his work is still outstanding. Yes. If we need our artistic heroes to pass a morals test, well, there go the artistic heroes. |
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Post by darktater on Jul 17, 2021 18:49:29 GMT -5
very true, interesting what the lense of experience and time will do to our perception. I'm not a fan of the man anymore, understanding some of what troubled him, but some of his work is still outstanding. Yes. If we need our artistic heroes to pass a morals test, well, there go the artistic heroes. very well put! I appreciate a great deal of his work, which is separate from the person he was. Spending some time with his biography, I understand some the issues that perhaps enhanced some of his character flaws. |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Jul 17, 2021 18:50:31 GMT -5
very true, interesting what the lense of experience and time will do to our perception. I'm not a fan of the man anymore, understanding some of what troubled him, but some of his work is still outstanding. Yes. If we need our artistic heroes to pass a morals test, well, there go the artistic heroes. Kind of like presidents! |
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Watching the documentary, had taped it, he lied about his war record, but he did serve and was wounded severely, called his Dad a coward for committing sucide, and at 61 he ate his shotgun. Big ego, I have 2 more episodes to go.
