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New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life
- fangSchwheeeee 9y ago:crickets:
- bredren 9y agoHow many centuries does it take for any given person's personal communications to become okay for open public study?
- ice109 9y agodo you think hemingway cares?
- nf05papsjfVbc 9y agoWhat we do with what Hemingway would have considered private has a bearing on how we treat our private matters now - for we may or may not like how the future treats them.
- hinkley 9y agoMariel (his granddaughter) might. Her kids probably don't.
- HarryHirsch 9y ago3 generations, usually, if you are a public figure. The conventions are established.
- pawn 9y agoI like that standard. You think, "Would I care if someone revealed personal info and wrote about one of my parents?" The answer is probably yes. "Would I care if someone wrote something about my grandpa?" The answer is probably still yes. "Would I care if someone wrote something bad about my great-grandpa?" The answer becomes more likely to be "eh, who cares"
- iamatworknow 9y agoCenturies? More like days or weeks. As deplorable as his comments were, Donald Sterling's personal communications were made public and the invasion of privacy was an afterthought.