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I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subje
by vxxzy 10y ago
I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subjected to electro-shock therapy. Wasn't it later proven that Hemmingway was followed and 'harrassed' by the FBI?
- M_Grey 10y agoLife is so complicated, and sometimes the line is even more blurry. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-health.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...
- aaron-lebo 10y agoThe mention seems to be related to his suicide. "Crazy" might not be the appropriate word, but his suicidal idealization (see For Whom the Bell Tolls) was detrimental. He also shot his legs up while fishing with a machine gun, so he clearly did crazy things... "Crazy" is a bad word. There's "crazy" and crazy. Hemingway was touched with unique ways of thinking, but he wasn't John Nash (with all due respect to Mr. Nash).
- sitkack 10y agoHe also had chronic backpain from multiple airplane crashes. Many people that suicide have chronic pain.
- 55555 10y agoProbably almost all of them, if we're including emotional pain.
- leggomylibro 10y agoHe did go hunting for U-boats in the English Channel with a shotgun and a dinghy in WWII. I guess that may or may not have been particularly abnormal in Britain at the time, though.