we begin again and again...

B. Conrad and J. Creel, and E. Mathis’ project on Hemingway and the hope of mapping the textual landscape of his vision, particularly in The Sun Also Rises. What follows is an overview of the source material tentatively planned and outline of the vignettes that will be the terrains from which design inversely simulate:

Primary sources to the vignettes:

1. Hemingway, In our time: Hemingway’s Second Book. A Facsimile of the 1924 edition Which was Limited to 170 Copies.

It's important to note that the chapters themselves were first released and then, grafted onto the short stories. How might Heminway have created his short stories in light of these larger chapters, post-partum?

2. Hemingway, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. NewYork: Scribners, 1938. [This matches the Finca Vigia ed.]

3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition.

Within this canon, we will be relying on the Part I (1-369), chapters (also the vignettes) 1 through 18, in which, quite suprisingly, the final chapter consists from 181 to 369.

Secondary sources:

1. Cohen. Hemingway’s Laboratory: The Paris in our time

This captures the graphic process of the 18 short vignettes as chapters that are interspersed between Hemingway’s first 49 short stories, but do they receive the credit they deserve? (ix)- use the block text here (x).

The chapters acts a subjects of violence, often on a grand scale while the actual stories are more relational and dampen the larger chapter themes and I like Cohen’s assessment of the chapters as a series of explosions when removed from the stories. For instance, after the first reading of chapter one relates to Hemingway’s influences and how he gained much from his exposure to the Chicago and emigre scene. this might be more appropriate to reference this section or to enquire about the role of dedication markers in architecture.

2. Levias? (Amend this please). Radical reconstruction (Read this. John suggested it as the basis for a template).

3. Kingston, Michelle Hong. The Five Precepts of Peace.

4. Wegner, Phillip E. Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity.

An overview of the chapters and short stories are as follows:

Preface to the First Forty-nine (3-4):

“The short happy life of Francis Macomber” (5-28)
“The Capital of the world” (29-38)
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (39-56)
“Old Man at the Bridge” (57-8)
“Up in Michigan” (59-62)
“On the Quai at Smyrna” (63-4)

Chapter One: “Everybody was drunk.” (65):

“Indian Camp” (67-70)

Chapter Two: “Minarets stuck up in the rain...” (71):

“The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” (73-6)

Chapter Three: “We were in the garden at Mons.” (77):

“The End of Something” (79-82)

Chapter Four: “It was a frightfully hot day.” (83):

“The Three-day Blow” (85-93)

Chapter Five: “They shot the six cabinet ministers...” (95):


“The Battler” (97-104)

Chapter Six: “Nick sat against the wall...” (105):


“A Very Short Story” (107-8)

Chapter Seven: “While the bombardment was knocking...” (109):

“Soldier’s home” (111-6)

Chapter Eight: “At two o’clock...” (117):

“The Revolutionist” (119-20)

Chapter Nine: “The first matador got the horn...” (121):


“Mr. and Mrs. Elliot” (123-5)

Chapter Ten: “They whack-whacked the white house...” (126):

“Cat in the Rain” (129-31)

Chapter Eleven: “The crowd shouted all the time...” (133):

“Out of Season” (135-9)

Chapter Twelve: “If it happened right down close...” (141):

“Cross-Country Snow” (143-7)

Chapter Thirteen: “I heard the drums coming...” (149):

“My Old Man” (151-60)

Chapter Fourteen: “Maera lay still...” (161):

“Big Two-Hearted River: Part I” (163-9)

Chapter Fifteen: “They hanged Sam Cardinella...” (171):

“Big Two-Hearted River: Part II” (173-80)

Final Chapter / L’ENVOI: “The King was working...” (181):

The most dense collections of short stories follows the final chapter, but we need to reflect on how to critically select which stories are most useful to the task JC.

“The Undefeated”
“In Another Country”
“Hills Like White Elephants”
“The Killers”
“Che Ti Dice La Patria?”
“Fifty Grand”
“A Simple Enquiry”
“Ten Indians”
“A Canary for One”
“An Alpine Idyll”
“A Pursuit of Race”
“Today is Friday”
“Banal Story”
“Now I Lay Me”
“After the Storm”
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
“The Light of the World”
“God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”
“The Sea Change”
“A Way You’ll Never Be”
“The Mother of a Queen”
“One Reader Writes”
“Homage to Switzerland”
“A Day’s Wait”
“A Natural History of the Dead”
“Wine of Wyoming”
“The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”
“Fathers and Sons”