Ernest Hemingway Biography: A Life of Love and Loss

During his early years the future macho man’s mother dressed and treated him as a girl and his own son Gregory, would become a transvestite. He was known as Papa Hemingway and yet he had a distant relationship with his three sons. In the midst of the glowing tributes that the world heaped upon him he sunk to terrible lows, causing turmoil as he racked up awards. And then finally, in an act of desperation, he took his own life.
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[@mikilynne4558]

"The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. I believe the last part." - Ernest Hemingway

[@enop2001]

I learned 2 things: 1. He was a brilliant jerk 2. His mom was the queen of roasting.🤣🤣🤣

[@lawrencelewis8105]

He said that his mother could take first prize in the annual festival of bitches. From what I have read about EH, she was a nasty piece of work.

[@andreeadobre3190]

There might be a connection between the two 😅

[@marijeta1110]

@Lawrence Lewis so it’s a family thing!

[@you-pt5jx]

You must have outstanding grades.

[@dynamicphotography_]

I studied Hemingway in college when I was young. 45 years old now, and it's shocking how much it has influenced me over the past couple of decades.

[@likeasambud9817]

how so?

[@avairal5936]

its good that you are alive

[@kelligarcia312]

@@avairal5936 😆🤣

[@musakaanalpar]

The mother that dressed him as a girl when he was a child is demanding him to man-up. Strange....

[@grant5603]

Kaan Alpar In those times it was commonplace for young boys to be dressed to look feminine. There are photos of Franklin Roosevelt dressed up as a girl when he was a young child.

[@gojumpintothelake]

Kaan Alpar just shut up

[@bronktug2446]

robin dewling what’s wrong with you?

[@mysterycrumble]

man down

[@gojumpintothelake]

@c ball still high are we

[@StaticImage]

I'm still pushing for a Simon Whistler Biographic.

[@StaticImage]

And yes, I am serious about this. I watch so many of your videos and see your face and hear your voice so much that it would be nice to get some information on the person behind it all.

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Who dat?

[@redwatch.]

On a dark and stormy night a loud burly alpha male was born...

[@greghooper16]

He was born July 21st

[@debrajones7344]

@@StaticImage You're not the first who's suggested it, Simon refuses. Period.

[@Sommertest]

10:45 “He walked out on his wife and son”... queue jaunty music

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[@carrieanderson132]

That's golden

[@SandfordSmythe]

In his old age, he wrote that he had wished he never met another woman after he met Hadly.

[@NatAnnSch]

So did the Buddha.

[@newblue2468]

@@jwk6343 💀 that's hilarious

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Early life 4:05 - Chapter 2 - War 8:15 - Chapter 3 - Europe 11:15 - Chapter 4 - Fisherman 16:05 - Chapter 5 - WWII 17:30 - Chapter 6 - Later life

[@paulsimmons5726]

What a terrific example of a man who literally made himself into his own vision of what he thought was best. It's a shame when time robs just enough of someone's talents for them to notice while leaving them to wonder what they need to do to climb back to their former glory. Unfortunately, hard drinking usually isn't the answer!

[@agenttwenty-six6133]

"What a guy!" - Randy Feltface

[@robertgamsby4776]

My subscription feed is turning into a Simon whistler feed

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Robert Gamsby My KZbin feed too

[@aryiastark4698]

My feed is doing the same thing. Lol

[@Christian-os3sh]

He's everywhere lmao, not that I'm complaining.

[@dand8530]

I love the way I can play a biographics vid and cook a meal while only listening. Your ability to tell a story with little or in my case no visuals is amazing! Simon you are the best my friend. The visuals are good too though

[@JEBavido]

Same here.

[@jackdooley8732]

I agree too . Perhaps Simon is the new History Channel.

[@DedMan516]

I listen while I am at work

[@jackdooley8732]

Yeah, Even Simon may be shut down .History will be shut down due to political correctness. Advertising is king and reality is nonexistent

[@Allthingstech3108]

You must be smart yourself,you have succinctly put what hundreds of people must have thought.

[@loopslytle]

I never tire of reading 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

[@swampivy12]

Reading it currently

[@9mmkahr]

I love when he adresses his hand as "hand"

[@gigglyme2001]

I got halfway though the book and got bored of the redundancy. I understood and appreciated the symbolisms but man, it was so boring!

[@justinecooper9575]

i highly recommend the audio book version read by the late Frank Muller.

[@dannydufault6255]

@@gigglyme2001 Have you enjoyed other Hemingway books?

[@jeffvance4610]

I am loving this new channel. The perfect balance of detailed facts and excellent story telling! Please keep it up!

[@juliedurden5237]

Great video! Am so pleased to see you doing biographies now, as they are my favorite genre, and your narrating style brings history to life and makes it even more interesting. I loved the period music also!

[@openmypackage]

John Steinbeck please.

[@timdunn1979]

Second this!!!

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Yes I would like a biographics in John Steinbeck

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Yes! Can't believe it's not here yet.

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not only does the channel have fantastic writer, great narrating, in depth research that go hand in hand with its imagery, but the editing is very well done, Great job, once again. Always engaging and interesting, keep up the great work!

[@jasonpayne9474]

I teach Hemingway to my high school juniors, and my biography video was damaged, so I used this one instead--excellent job! This goes a bit fast, but my students were able to take two pages full of notes. Thank you!

[@texas-raider]

Great video, only quibble is that in his suicide, he didn't use a hunting rifle, but rather a shotgun. Quite different. In fact, it was a W. & C. Scott & Son long-barreled, side-by-side pigeon gun. It was reportedly his favorite sporting shotgun and had been used in numerous completions and hunts all the way from East Africa to Cuba and, sadly, in Idaho. Anyway, nice video. If I may make a suggestion, Theodore Roosevelt would make an outstanding subject for a future bio. Thanks!

[@waltermorris2246]

Teddy truly mans man

[@briancrawford8751]

And he bought that shotgun from the original Abercrombie and Fitch, which was a high end sporting goods store that sold firearms and camping gear. They went bankrupt and the brand was later sold so that teenagers everywhere could wear the same cheap fifty sent t-shirts that sold for over twenty dollars.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

@@briancrawford8751 My father went to A & C in the 1950s and there was an exhibit of Hemingway's rifles and shotguns. It was on Madison Avenue as I recall. To any serious outdoorsman, A & C was the place you had to visit. Gary Cooper, Theodore Roosevelt, and others like Daryl F. Zanuck all went to A & C.

[@tacitus6384]

I like men being men, but I think his heightened levels of machismo may have been a compensatory mechanisms for what his mother did to him.

[@TheKh65]

What about his dad's behaviour?

[@bethjenkins4687]

Both parents were horrific in different ways, wow

[@Strongertogether47]

Doi....ya thunk?

[@newblue2468]

Machismo is the way insecure men compensate. I agree manly men are good but it's always interesting and insightful to see a learn from a man's weaknesses. We can all grow from them.

[@newblue2468]

@@thomasslate53 idk what you're asking me exactly but no one's perfect and a person's faults sometimes help us understand and grow from our own.

[@bobsteadman9728]

Simon, another great one. Damn, I'm glad you got the sound issues worked out on the music that plays between snippets. Your video on Patton music almost blew my computer speakers and my dog was none too happy either.

[@MirekHeikkila]

Yay another channel with Simon!! sweet! GJ and GL!

[@mikemerrill4073]

Love this channel, great job. Oh, and I love the music in this video, very fitting.

[@mikemartinez9101]

I enjoy your channel. Your take on interesting historical figures is short enough not be boring yet filled with enough facts to allow the watcher to get a real feel for the subject. Keep up the good work.

[@jamesschulziii9098]

I love the way you tell a story. You truly do justice to the legend of Hemingway and the late great Audie Murphy. Cheers sir.

[@maferogers8591]

Well researched life story of Ernest Hemingway...excellent presentation.

[@MistahBryan]

Beautifully done :)

[@Max-tr4wu]

Just discovered this channel, i freaking love it, Well done!!! Cant get enough

[@leoneli4206]

one of the most successful biographies I've ever seen. your attempts deserve more! thank u so much!!

[@homeofmyown]

Love anything you do so I subbed.

[@michaelleblanc7283]

An Navigator uncle of mine, Jim', was an RCAF 'Poster Boy' for a short time in late 1943 early 1944 when he was in training. The newsman covering him at the time was Hemingway. Hemingway eventually followed uncle Jim to England where he met Jim together with his crew. As a stunt, Hemingway was a 'passenger' on the crew's 1st combat bombing mission with 98 Sqdn RAF. Approaching the target their B-25 'Mitchell' bomber was hit & damaged by 'Ack-Ack'. When the flak then concentrated on the wounded aircraft, a 'scene' developed involving Hemingway. My uncle had a wonderful sense of humour and a very funny way of describing the incident when he'd re-tell his 'Hemingway story'. It involved one of the crew having to knock Hemingway out and then tie him up to keep him under control. Before my uncle died, I made of point of getting the 'real story' from him - just for the record. In essence he said, the story was the same . . . Hemingway did panic but in fact, after being given a ‘stern’ talking to by the captain of the bomber, he did settle down. A 1944 newspaper clipping in Jim's scrapbook entitled 'I WENT BOMBING A P-PLANE WOOD' by MICHAEL MOYNIHAN News Chronicle Special Correspondent (also flying the same mission) describes the incident . . . "In one of the six Mitchells, I later learned, another passenger-observer was flying - Ernest Hemmingway**, author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls." His plane was twice hit. But for a Spanish Civil War Veteran, the experience cannot have been alarming."

[@mattjohnston2]

Just came from your top ten video as per your request, and I'm glad I did. Great job on the video, you've earned my sub! Now I'm off to binge watch the rest :D

[@jedikrys]

Truly fantastic video! Thank you for this.

[@felixthecat3n2]

Please don't add the silly sound effects every time a new image is shown. Simon's honeyed tones are more than enough on their glorious own!

[@kimberleyreef4736]

Yes! I couldn't listen.....drove me nuts. Between the pointless music and the swishing sound effect.....beyond annoying!

[@rogerd.miller1095]

The best 20 minute biography of my favorite writer. I'm 72 years old and still influenced by Hemingway. My only regret is that he did not leave us more short stories. I consider those to be his greatest genre. Thank you. I re-read all of Hemingway at least every two years. It never grows old. Hemingway considered F. Scott Fitsgerald to be American's greatest living writer. He was wrong.

[@williamgoldman758]

Hemingway was the better story-teller, NOT writer. Fitzgerald was the better WRITER. I'll take the beauty of This Side of Paradise any day.

[@rogerd.miller1095]

@@williamgoldman758 I won't disagree that Fitzgerald was the better writer. Hemingway himself thought so. But I'll take story telling any day.

[@marknewton6984]

Big, Two-Hearted River!

[@MrsPatPape]

Fascinating. I love your work.

[@klartext08]

this may be your best channel. brilliant.

[@NelsonStJames]

I really like Hemingway's work as a writer, but it never ceases to amaze me how often we praise flamboyant individuals who manage to become famous in spite of behavior that we would vilify an average Joe Blow for.

[@Biographics]

We let people who are super talented get away with a lot.

[@JayDeeTatts]

Do Alan Turing! He was voted greatest person of the 20th century.

[@stevencrawtr1145]

This would be a brilliant biography

[@kari7403]

I agree. Both with OP and person above me. Alan Turing should be a household name. But sadly and surprisingly, few people know who he is. Had the movie about him not come out fairly recently, I imagine half as many people would know who he is. Video/s on him would reach a LOT of people, who would probably find it worth knowing. Our entire lives as we know them, in the US, would very possibly be gone, where it not for him. The US would probably function in a whole entirely different way, on so many levels.

[@archit1939]

Einstein,Gandhi: am I a joke to you

[@Celtic_Blade]

I think he ruined the world. Got to give him credit for his role on the war though.

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

@@Celtic_Blade how?

[@robynwaugh1446]

I learned more about Hemingway from your 20 minute video than I did from a six week unit in AP English. Very informative and presented in a way that actually kept my interest :)

[@StonedGhst]

Love your channel its definitely rekindled my inner history nerd

[@garretphegley8796]

10:52 that smile says "Damn I made a mistake."

[@marknewton6984]

Hemingway said, "If you are any good at all, it's always your fault!"

[@catman8670]

Like all people, he was a flawed human, unlike most, he was also a literary genius

[@Denise-ho7bb]

Well said! Simple and direct.

[@marknewton6984]

And his short stories are superb...

[@davesmith7432]

Wow, very informative. Thx!

[@robertclarkson6064]

Thank you! Great video.

[@mczenk5095]

Another great video.

[@devonboulden2496]

Hey, you left out the part about getting rolls of nickles at the bank. His win for "The Old Man And The Sea" was thought to have been for "For Whom The Bell Tolls" because it was snubbed for its violence. Hell, I'd be thrilled to write less than 30,000 words and get one of the most coveted prizes for a writer.

[@pedramhosseini2723]

very informative, keep doing the good work.

[@shokhanmohammedfatah3000]

This is amazing, detailed and informative. Although it is a little bit fast 🥰

[@lavagirl5522]

I grew up in Oak Park. Not very far from the Hemmingway family home, visited there as a child. Beautiful home.

[@tracylalonde5813]

@@adammoore251 That was funny

[@robertmaxwellbell9405]

He said of Oak Park (great suburb btw if you avoid Cicero) "the land of broad lawns and narrow minds"

[@marknewton6984]

I have been to his house in Key West Nice!

[@hazevthewolf178]

Simon & Friends: It's nice not to be too late to the party. I've watched your videos about Steve Jobs and Earnest Hemingway and all I can say, without excessive wordiness, is that this is a fascinating channel, really fascinating, actually. I subscribed the moment I landed here. I knew I wasn't going to be disappointed. *Edit* ~ I'm back after watching your video about Queen Elizabeth. Is Winston Churchill on your short list?

[@michaeljackson2752]

Your Bio channel has allowed me to explore another world of literature. Thank you!👍

[@scottw8086]

Such a big fan of your channel. Learned alot from your cast over the years thanks mate

[@supersash3157]

A wonderful video I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was hoping you would have delved a bit deeper in Hemingway's parental skills or lack thereof.

[@daTruChosen]

Me, too. Never knew that about him. Both his granddaughters; Mariel and Margaux, worshipped him, though.

[@uniquechannelnames]

Maybe not be important to anyone, but if anyone is confused on why books like "Old Man and the Sea" are incredible books and so beloved when they seem so stripped down and perhaps almost empty, here's a couple things. One is that Hemingway wrote like an "iceberg" in that the surface prose was terse, concise, not heavy on description . A lot of the meat of the story is what is implied, or what is between the lines. I think a great way to understand Hemingway, his philosophy, and getting some guidance on better seeing the underside of that iceberg, is to read "For Whom the Bell Tolls". It is a more descriptive book, with some dives into his perspective and philosophy on many subjects, something that doesn't happen in his other books. It will definitely help you "get" his other works. And also, it's one of my all-time favourite books by any author, definitely in the top 10. The scene in the town with the lines, some of the most powerful writing ever. Also the genius way he depicted the speaking of Spanish vs. English while still keeping it all English. It's an incredible read. I feel like you need at least a bit of some life, social, and philosophical (even just introspective thinking) experience to make out that iceberg of Hemingway. I don't intend that to sound like gatekeeping, feel free to read whatever you wish, it's just my experience with at least a couple of Hemingway's works (The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea being examples.. After reading The Sun Also Rises (my first Hemingway) at like 19, I thought... what the fucking hell. (Kinda SPOILERS ahead) That was so stripped down, the story is just this aimless meandering nothingness, the ending was about as anticlimactic as it can get... . Yeah the description of the bull fighting was cool I guess but... At the time I couldn't understand the love for it, and the whole context of the lost generation, post WW1 cynicism etc...

[@berrabilgin16]

Thank you soooo much✨✨

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

Subbed first video im ever seeing here but i see the other titles and like how he fits so much in so fast, i love bios but dont always care enough about people for an hour or two, this gives people a quick brush over in vast detail and if we wish we find longer bios.

[@leeabbott3983]

What song is that old type music or the tune you play through the transitions? I absolutely loved it! Love these videos! This one especially.

[@annadickins3868]

Look up jazz age or flapper music

[@jazzbo13]

The piece is called,I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight, by Ben Selvin's Orchestra. He also helped to develop MUZAK.

[@carolynclark4697]

very. informative video good job Simon! :)

[@risboturbide9396]

Great video. Merci beaucoup

[@nicholaskearney678]

Superb doco, presentation, amazing gift too share lives. Wowderful.

[@joevinski1]

Another amazing video I am addicted to this new channel so glad that you are making such top notch material please keep up the great work!!!!!

[@bclr6843]

My grandfather met and knew him. His opinion was that he couldn’t fight, he just threw a lot of sucker punches. Any real one on one fights or boxing matches he actually lost handedly

[@JulianKong]

Love your work. Love your work!!!!!!!

[@SupesMe]

Just got back from the Keys where EVERYTHING is Hemingway, wanted to know more. Thanks for posting

[@alexpressley5918]

i love your videos but that damned music between facts. that looping damned music. it now haunts me.

[@Biographics]

Boo!

[@m0zA2T]

@@Biographics I agree surely you can find another public domain jingle to denote the times of old

[@staceyrivers3297]

Agreed! At least change it up a little.

[@dannydufault6255]

Whatever do you mean? (Do doddleydo do dupedy do do dodoly dododly do dupedy do du doopidy dooodilly doooo....) Jk...I know what you mean.

[@RickReasonnz]

That was REALLY repetitive

[@timg3504]

I’ve been to his home in Havana and in Key West ! The boat is at his home in Havana. Great video.

[@marknewton6984]

Key West! Finca! Pilar! All great...

[@CausticCreations]

love ya vids doode. top job.

[@najmulahsan8364]

WOW!!!none does it better than Simon!!

[@ryanhayward2161]

Great video, my favourite author!!

[@Biographics]

One of my favorite authors as well. Have you seen the movie Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen? -Shell

[@ryanhayward2161]

Biographics No, I haven't. The description on IMDB interest me, though. I'll look into it. The 20's era authors are top on my list

[@Tyler_Smiler]

I basically took an entire class on the author's in "Midnight in Paris". It was about the Modernist writers in Paris in the 1920's. Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Rhys, and more!

[@ericflesher4912]

A wild story to do for this channel would be that of GG Allin.

[@gentillydanny]

I always enjoy your videos so much ... the music endlessly repeated, not so much.

[@wellrose17]

Great video thank you. Could you cover Herman Melville?

[@rekarious7996]

Could you do J.R.R. Tolkien next?

[@Biographics]

He is the top vote getter so far.

[@Dos_Caffeine]

Gotta love biographies on the lost generation writers.

[@Urban_Piggy]

Rekarious oh and Epictetus!

[@youtube2snoopy820]

Great show, couple details: 1) Hemingway's first book - In Our Time - was a small release, like 1,500 copies, wherein among other things he told stories - intimate, life shattering stories involving murder, incest, infidelity, etc - about the people from his hometown, he didn't change their names in the book; 2) Hemingway didn't just have one airplane accident while flying out of Africa, he had two. In a row. This was shortly after he had made certain sh1tlists for agreeing with communist cuba's leadership and , separately, reviling the US military for the way it treated veterans working on the Key Highway when a hurricane was coming, said so many US veterans had drowned in the hurricane (which he said had been 'forecasting its arrival to anyone who could read a barometer' and that nonetheless the soldiers had not been evacuated from their work camps at about 5 feet above sea level), that one could 'walk on their rotting bodies all the way from Miami to Key West' or its ilk. Then, surprise, his plane went down on takeoff. He survived that, got another plane, and THAT one crashed on takeoff too. The resulting head injuries affected him the rest of his life. 3) he did not die by hunting rifle. It was a shotgun.

[@WilliamJohnson-pw3cc]

Amazing job, excellent historisism

[@acemanz]

your stories are great, keep them coming, Keith Richards next!!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Simon this music is hilarious especially how your seamless it's weaved through out the Video !

[@pasha_che]

You can't deny Ernest has lived it to the fullest

[@marknewton6984]

I won't deny it. And that guy could write!

[@zaimpollozhani3293]

nice video, hey Simon you should make a video about Elizabeth Bathory biography .

[@benwil1715]

Simon,.....your delivery overshadows the music....i quite like the music..."see".....i feel like Al Capone strapped into a deepsea fishing chair.....drunk on the debauchery of life!!!!!!!.....thumbs ☝

[@Wahrscheinlichkeit]

Please do videos on Heisenberg, Bohr, Schrödinger , Gauss , Euler , Newton and Ramanujan

[@SoumitraVichare]

Please do a David Bowie ❤

[@Biographics]

We did a fun list about David Bowie on our sister site. www.toptenz.net/10-far-facts-david-bowie.php

[@SoumitraVichare]

Biographics you the MVP Simon ❤

[@generationrednex3217]

About 1/2 mile from my house is the Hemingway-Pfeiffer museum. He wrote part of a Farewell To Arms. I remember growing up and the old men telling us (sometimes unflattering) stories of him

[@deckheadtv]

Fascinating!

[@tomthebomb123]

A William S Burroughs video would be fantastic

[@chriswright8464]

The music reminds me of the Little Rascals.

[@hunterbrooks6359]

Great job! May I give a suggestion for a future biography? I nominate Ernest Shackleton. This would be awesome.

[@soumiabenrekia5796]

Great video. Only you haven't mentioned his Iceberg theory.

[@scottpeterson7500]

It’s interesting to compare and contrast Hemingway with Teddy Roosevelt, similarities but also huge differences.

[@silkaverage]

wow, For someone who bluffed,lied and cheated his way through life, I find myself having an enormous amount of respect for him and his achievements

[@justinedse8435]

And the fact remains, you couldn't carry Hemingway's jock strap.

[@WhitleyAKW]

I’ll be visiting Hemingway’s Key West home soon so I thought I’d get a head start and learn a little about his life beforehand. Very informative video.

[@marknewton6984]

Nice place. Also Sloppy Joe's.😮

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you .

[@johnnyappleseed3093]

Just to let you know Mr Whistler, _I_ was listening.

[@golith41]

who knew treating a boy who was born like a boy as a girl in his formative years would have psychological damning effects on him. Who could have foreseen this.

[@marknewton6984]

Many Victorian moms dressed their sons as girls Standard.

[@jamessuttie1261]

Loved the video. In high school, I read Old Man and the Sea. Was not a big fan. Perhaps I should read some of his other books.

[@JohnHuckerby101]

Hi Simon fantastic video and superb new channel, if possible could you do a video on Hugh Hafner?

[@charbuk]

is anyone else bothered by that annoying sound effect used for the transitions?

[@sMASHsound]

quite so. most of the episodes, the sound track does not suit, oft times takes away from the content it is in. who ever is responsible for those choices, needs to do a hemingway, their self

[@iDementoR]

Now when u mention it....

[@FerndaleMichiganUSA]

and jerky head motions

[@rudolphvalentino7181]

Yes because it shakes my concentration

[@lbj4993]

Ok, so when I look at the comment section, which is almost like a love-fest of this narrator, I know I'm a weirdo anomaly...I absolutely hate this guys narration, his delivery, his cadence, his infliction but most of all i hate looking at his bubble-head in pretty much every frame of his videos; oh and I hate the break-neck speech delivery, but fortunately that can be lowered to .75 in settings, which makes it tollerable, but I love information which keeps me coming back for more. Now I should mention that I can watch plays, narrations, as in Richard Burton or Peter O'toole going at it endlessly about whatever, and the joy of just listening to real voices and speach, almost no matter the subject, is to die for. However, looking and listening to this smug bubble-head drives me to drink. Cheers

[@one-of-us9939]

I had learned long ago he was a great man and writer and i knew he committed suicide. Now that I have learned about his memory loss, as a fellow writer... I understand why. Much love to Simon and crew.

[@one-of-us9939]

If y'all had a PayPal address I'd donate.

[@one-of-us9939]

❤

[@dansmithbyu1784]

Seems strange he underwent electroshock therapy when that is a known side effect...

[@DJDoener]

Are you sure it was well known back in the 60s?

[@sebastianyu5383]

Indeed. A writer losing his memory would be like an archer losing his arms, or a singer their voice

[@newblue2468]

I really liked this video. Men and people in general often struggle with who they are and who they want to be contrasting with who and what they want to be seen as.

[@Dsdcain]

Fantastic video, but you spelled Hemingway wrong in the title. Still liking the new bio channel. Keep them coming. *:-)* *Edit* Not wrong now. Still love the vids.