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Permalink Reply by Justin Cook on December 9, 2012 at 5:40pm

ok to get the ball rolling i'l say this 1 man easly can lift 50 pounds but 20 men can easily lift 1000 pounds.

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Permalink Reply by Buffalo Bill on December 10, 2012 at 10:32am

If it means something, it hurts.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Vanderheiden on December 10, 2012 at 12:03pm

Life will pound away, take it like a man.

This pain will pass.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on December 10, 2012 at 12:18pm

Quote kinda loses its luster once you find out how he died.  He ate a shotgun shell.

JB

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Permalink Reply by terry sperling on December 10, 2012 at 12:30pm

yeah ultimately he was a coward.

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Permalink Reply by Dan P. on December 10, 2012 at 1:26pm

First off, Hemingway would never have written anything that tactless. A google on that quote seems to show that it comes from Maynard Keenan of Tool.

Secondly, there was a lot more going on with Hemingway's suicide than simple cowardice. The man came from a family with a history of suicides, so he was always more understanding of the general idea than most. You can find his curiosity with the concept in some of his earliest stories. Also, his deteriorating health played a huge role. Hemingway was in two plane crashes in 1952 which left him in pain for the rest of his life, yet they did not directly cause his death as he didn't kill himself until 1961. However his health and mental state rapidly deteriorated during those years. This was due to a genetic disease called hemochromatosis, which results from an overload of iron in the blood. This disease commonly leads to diabetes, liver failure, heart failure and depression. The same genetic disease likely played a huge role in the suicides of his grandfather, father, sister, brother, and son. It wasn't simple cowardice that led to his death, but an undiagnosed and untreated (He was in fact diagnosed with the condition, but it was too late for treatment to do much good) disease which wreaked havoc on his physical and mental state.

This page has a bit of information about the disease and Hemingway's death, I'm fairly sure it was the first result on google. http://celticcurse.org/hemingways-death-and-hemochromatosis-awareness/

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Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on December 10, 2012 at 1:42pm

If it ain't his quote, it ain't his quote.  I figured the guy who posted it had done his research.  Doesn't really change my assessment of Hemingway either way.

 

I was already aware of his illness and the other suicides in his family.  Changes nothing. 

 

JB

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Permalink Reply by Oddball on December 10, 2012 at 2:41pm

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

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Permalink Reply by Rick Shelton on December 10, 2012 at 5:03pm

If you can't spell your point may tend to get obscurred by the trouble.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Cook on December 10, 2012 at 5:56pm

Im not one to belive in curses but if they exist the hemington family had one. The point of this post is to bring to life the creative and refecltive side in us because you never know what call will beckon the muse.

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