When Hemingway and Dos Passos-who was born on this day in 1896-went to Spain during the civil war, they were close friends, though it was an odd, uneasy match. She had put in a number of things with it, including the pistol with which his father had killed himself. I remember once when we were in Key West Ernest received a large unwieldy package from her. His father was very overbearing apparently. He was always competitive and critical, overly so, but in the early days you could kid him out of it. His treatment of people like Scott Fitzgerald-the great man talking down about his contemporaries. I’ve always felt that was as good a way as any.ĭo you think Hemingway’s descriptions of those times were accurate in A Moveable Feast?
He was always concerned with four-letter words. Was Hemingway as occupied with the four-letter word problem as he was later? Ernest was much less noisy then than he was in later life. He was crazy about Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel.” It affected him very much.
We didn’t make anything out of it-the reading-but Ernest at that time talked a lot about style. Ernest and I used to read the Bible to each other.
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