1. You know @JFrankensteiner's thread documenting Orson Welles shit talking about everybody? Let me introduce you to Mr. Ernest Hemingway. Here's Hemingway on Faulkner.pic.twitter.com/PbDTFbsM3U
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3. Hemingway on F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Scott [Fitzgerald] was a rummy and a liar and dishonest about money with the in-bred talent of a dishonest and easily frightened angel."
4. Hemingway on Wyndham Lewis: "Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist."
9. So: Orson Welles loved to dunk on people & Hemingway loved to dunk on people. Yet they were friends. And Welles, when speaking of Hemingway, is full of admiration, empathy & forgiveness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyTi9v9QPxE …
How many people are reading this and thinking "Tom Wolfe? The guy in the white suit?"
It was a circle firing squad back then. They were all half drunk and a good insult was currency and a demonstration of wit. Wolfe referred to Calder as a nitwit with a silly circus (wrong on both accounts)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_Calder …
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