“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia photo
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe, has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“Man is not made for defeat … The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”
– Ernest Hemingway on booze, writing, war and life.
Thoughts of Hemingway Along the way
The turn-by-turn guide to Route 66 http://www.historic66.com/description/ I was following got me thinking about Hemingway.
Old postcard advertising the Villa de Cubero
It mentioned the rumor that the author might have written parts of “The Old Man and the Sea” while staying at the Villa de Cubero in Cubero.
I’ve seen Hemingway’s homes in Key West, Florida and Sun Valley, Idaho, where I actually met one of his granddaughters, and have stood before a memorial in his honor that sits beside the Big Wood River, so of course I was interested in this New Mexico connection.
Actually, I usually visit any place along the way that involves known writers. As a writer myself, I’m fascinated picturing aspects of my wordsmith colleagues.
A 1999 photo of about the only thing still doing business in Cubero. — Flicker photo
Cubero is not quite a ghost town, I noted as I passed through without stopping. Not sure now why I didn’t. I think because I wasn’t sure which of the crumbling ruins was where Hemingway stayed and I had gotten a late start this day and wanted to get to Flagstaff by day’s end.
I only got to Gallup, however, before calling it a day. I do tend to dally in my travels.
Meanwhile, intrigued by the Hemingway connection to Route 66, I got online and discovered this 1999 blog http://www.dukecityfix.com/profiles/blogs/the-cubero-adventures about Hemingway’s Cubero adventure. I definitely would have stopped if I had read it first.
I also discovered that Lucille Ball had stayed at the Villa de Cubero when she and Desi split.
Sometimes it seems like such a small world we live in. Connections seem to be everywhere.
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