04-07-2011, 06:59 PM
Quote:"It's the worst hell," Hemingway said. "The goddamnedest hell. They've bugged everything. That's why we're using Duke's car. Mine's bugged. Everything's bugged. Can't use the phone. Mail intercepted."
Later that month he was committed for psychiatric care at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he received electric shock treatment. He attempted suicide several times before being released.
This is the early 1960s, when Behaviourism dominated shrink thinking and ECT was being used in an abusive, reckless and often criminal (MK ULTRA) fashion.
It's also an era when The Paranoia Scam was one of Their favourite games.
So, yes, make Hemingway paranoid, shock him with the electrodes and experimental drug concoctions in a white-walled prison, and watch Ernest decide to take the Path of Action. Self-erasure.
It's a plausible scenario.
Hemingway's psyche would have been a Prize, a Trophy, for the covert shrinks to mess with.
However, just as plausibly, Papa was plenty mad enough already and was capable of most anything.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war