Dead Drunk
If you had to suffer through “The Sun Also Rises” as part of your education, don’t worry, the author suffered more. “Hemingway — who wrote what he knew — suffered from kidney and liver problems, hypertension, cramps, diabetes, insomnia, bloody urine, and (worst of all) erectile dysfunction….The book’s characters drank more than a hundred and fifty types of alcohol on nearly eight hundred occasions, just like their creator before lunch.” Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Hemingway’s suicide , so if, like the author, you find you have “dark, broody, and mysterious [temptations]; [and] possess inexplicable desires and tempestuous temperaments,” don’t worry: “alcohol isn’t about expressing this torment. The whole point is burying it deeper.” Happy anniversary, Hemingway!
The Dole Blog 
NPR did a whole thing on EH this morning. I found it entertaining and ultimately sad. As a side note, I was reading about Ava Gardner last night and there’s a story about her spending time with Ernest. One day/night she swam nude in his pool and he immediately ordered (of his house staff) that the pool was never to be emptied.
P.s. I hold onto random bits of information such as this. My first car license plate 318tgu. Yet, I can’t remember what I did a month ago.
we remember what we want to remember.