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“At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.” — Rev. Eston Williams
HEMINGWAY IS ON PBS
A new Ken Burn’s documentary, Hemingway, is currently streaming on PBS. The name “Ken Burns” is all one needs to know concerning the quality, the depth, the exhaustive research that was conducted by the team which produced a complete eponymous exposé on the man many refer to as Papa Hemingway.
The following comes from the documentary, and it struck a cord deep within me because of its baseline truth: “All writers are narcissistic; that’s not the same as being a narcissist, as being a sociopath. But no one can sit in a room by themselves for twelve hours a day thinking about what they’re thinking and not be a little more self-focused than the normal person. [Writers] are definitely on the far end of the bell curve.”
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