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somewhat OT, but ernest hemingway (or "serious constrictor paths" as pk dick would have it) and orwell met in paris right after the end of the war, when both we
by zabzonk 4y ago
somewhat OT, but ernest hemingway (or "serious constrictor paths" as pk dick would have it) and orwell met in paris right after the end of the war, when both were newspaper correspondents. i can't find the source, but the dialog went something like this:
orwell: knocks on hemingways door
hemingway: opens door - "who the hell are you?"
orwell: eric blair (real name)
hemingway: so f*cking what?
orwell: oh, i'm also george orwell
hemingway: why the f*ck didn't you say so! come in, and have some whiskey!
seems to have shown old ernest in a better light than i have often seen him.
- zabzonk 4y agoactually i think it was "serious constricting path" anyway, it is from "galactic pot healer" where people put words through something like google translate and then back again as a game. this was of course way, way back before the web or pcs. the book is both very funny and very sad.