tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post3171600801464065768..comments2024-03-20T23:17:53.608+00:00Comments on K.R.A.S. The Ken Russell Appreciation Society "Fullfrontalnus Illuminatio Mea": Spanish Civil War Vets: Their Heroism Goes ForthAmanda and SuperAmanda™http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405128770699138128noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-44565276544874967392007-03-17T17:52:00.000+00:002007-03-17T17:52:00.000+00:00This is really interesting...frightening...depress...This is really interesting...frightening...depressing.<BR/>Thanks for enlightening me Amanda.<BR/><BR/>I need to get that bumpersticker:<BR/>"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."Suesjoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942282818148142438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-16807474594311414442007-03-14T22:35:00.000+00:002007-03-14T22:35:00.000+00:00Oliver Reed loved the horses, and used to fly over...Oliver Reed loved the horses, and used to fly over to my hometown in N. Ireland to watch the races. He would drink in a wee bar in the town. None of the regulars knew who he was. A terribly down-to-earth man, and quietly funny –none the TV or tabloid outbursts there- I liked him more. He appeared sad and, odd as it might seem, shy; he was just one of the funny punters. Unfortunately, too many in the media liked to exploit his demons.Ahvarahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020487813867165641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-57233238407171733832007-03-14T20:52:00.000+00:002007-03-14T20:52:00.000+00:00Here's the lo down on H being an ambulence driver....Here's the <A HREF="http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/ambulancedriver.htm" REL="nofollow">lo down</A> on H being an ambulence driver. Gawd I feel so out of school!<BR/><BR/>-ginabginabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05885737646572900998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-75558749588353583032007-03-14T18:11:00.001+00:002007-03-14T18:11:00.001+00:00and regarding EH macho image i agree it's a pat re...and regarding EH macho image i agree it's a pat response to his obvious complexity and I can't really add to the debate as I'm not a huge fan. Oliver Reed had a similar reputation but when I read his autobio I realized how much of it was not so simple.Amanda and SuperAmanda™https://www.blogger.com/profile/11405128770699138128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-57918788806462916262007-03-14T18:09:00.000+00:002007-03-14T18:09:00.000+00:00Well all Spanish Civil war experience aside, I wou...Well all Spanish Civil war experience aside, I would put EH as a better influence on the reader because he is light whereas, let's face it, Orwell is largely shadows and despair and who wants to be depressed? Orwell also ended up leaving some murkiness about where he actually stood politically but I'm not sure how much of that is revisionist gossip as Orwell in his own time was the sanest and fairest of leftists. Both men were eloquent giants and when I look at what the greatest writers of the 20th century accomplished in juxtaposition with low IQ crap like the Pussycat dolls and reality TV I wish I had been born in the 1920's or 30's.Amanda and SuperAmanda™https://www.blogger.com/profile/11405128770699138128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-25471314994104744192007-03-14T13:04:00.000+00:002007-03-14T13:04:00.000+00:00But Hemingway served in WWI. Terribly young. He's ...But Hemingway served in WWI. Terribly young. He's a favorite of mine (too). Horridly brief and exquisite.<BR/><BR/>I love Farewell, and more the true blunt version about Catherine in In Our Time. (I'm not familiar with Orwell's.) H is just raw honesty. Too many have written there's something masculine about a man who is honest. "On the Quai at Smyrna" which opens In Our Time is the purest narrative on an absolute lack of authority, on chaos in war. Astounding. <BR/><BR/>Thank you!ginabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05885737646572900998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-58913305182322594312007-03-14T07:12:00.000+00:002007-03-14T07:12:00.000+00:00It was WW Two, too.It was WW Two, too.Amanda and SuperAmanda™https://www.blogger.com/profile/11405128770699138128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-58270353697462973672007-03-14T07:07:00.000+00:002007-03-14T07:07:00.000+00:00He saw action in both wars and as legend has it he...He saw action in both wars and as legend has it helped Russ Meyer get apiece of his first 'action' via a French brothel.<BR/>(Yes Russ actully shot now legendary footage for the signal crops in Europe ;)<BR/>The Spanish Civil War became a huge deal to EH to where it caused him o end his marriage with his Catholic and therefore Franco leaning wife Pauline. Many feel he became an informant for the Leftists but there is no absolute veracity. Love him or hate him he lived an insanely literate and unique life. I'm not a huge fan because his macho image clashes with my arteest ways but what the hey, he's an immortal and Michael palin's favourite author.<BR/>IMHO< his fellow immortal, George Orwell, who wrote "A Homage to Catalonia" penned a book that I feel surpasses "A Farwell To Arms."<BR/><BR/>It's always a shattering read. Like Wigan Pier he is an eyewitness yet here he's fighting, shot in the neck and fighting with the anarchists as opposed to the International Birgades. He expresses his anger and paranoia at the end like Christopher Hitchens coming off a meth binge.Amanda and SuperAmanda™https://www.blogger.com/profile/11405128770699138128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15795304.post-45485264332832387932007-03-14T04:45:00.000+00:002007-03-14T04:45:00.000+00:00Maybe I'm not hip to it, but having visited Spain ...Maybe I'm not hip to it, but having visited Spain and by all means having read Hemingway, is this WWI? Did this happen <I>then</I>? Would answer a question I have always had and yet I could know, but there's so much to know. Hemingway served as an ambulence driver for the Italian army in WWI. Okay, so I broke with Spain but he by no means broke with Spain. <BR/><BR/>Then Lorca, the poet (?), first exhiled, was imprisoned and executed by Spain's facists. Gabriel Garcia Lorca.ginabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05885737646572900998noreply@blogger.com