Grandpa & Hemingway
reading hemingway's short stories now. great, great stuff. a clean, well-lighted place and the gambler, the nun, and the radio. it seems that rather than become an essayist or man of letters expounding his views, hemingway worked his theories into his fiction, but in a way that isn't obnoxious or obvious, but benefits from the dialectic you can include in a narrative, where different points of view collide.
sunday aurora and i went up to citrus heights to my grandparents, where we talked for a few hours and sipped tea. i taped my grandpa talking for 90 minutes and after the tape ran out he was still going strong, in fact, in mid-story. i'd like to get many tapes of him talking and recalling the past, his life of now 86 years. he is a man who fought fascism in world war II, who travelled the world by sea, who worked with great, deadly machines- in the boiler rooms of navy ships. he drank, he brawled, he saw the continents, he chased women, he was the child of immigrants and grew up in the depression; in short, he couldn't be more different than my own father, and this raconteur has been at the root of my own desire to tell stories, and to live a life worth telling stories about. i want to get as many stories as i can from him on tape so that his stories will outlive his body. eventually i'll use his larger-than-life stories in my stories, written down, and that's something i can do for him, because one thing he never was was a writer.
sunday aurora and i went up to citrus heights to my grandparents, where we talked for a few hours and sipped tea. i taped my grandpa talking for 90 minutes and after the tape ran out he was still going strong, in fact, in mid-story. i'd like to get many tapes of him talking and recalling the past, his life of now 86 years. he is a man who fought fascism in world war II, who travelled the world by sea, who worked with great, deadly machines- in the boiler rooms of navy ships. he drank, he brawled, he saw the continents, he chased women, he was the child of immigrants and grew up in the depression; in short, he couldn't be more different than my own father, and this raconteur has been at the root of my own desire to tell stories, and to live a life worth telling stories about. i want to get as many stories as i can from him on tape so that his stories will outlive his body. eventually i'll use his larger-than-life stories in my stories, written down, and that's something i can do for him, because one thing he never was was a writer.
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i was just thinking of your grandfather it is so wonderfull that you and aroura go out there. i watched limelight last night. yes, I thought of your grandfather and how I have tried to embody both tereza and calavero even though i sometimes forget why. I carried your grandfather's copy of limelight around, like hemingway, chapline created a world for me to dream in when i was confined to those assenine streets. Little did I know how important those stories would be.
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