January 30, 2012
I have uploaded a lot of stoolball videos to youtube, and whenever I watch them, certain videos are recommended to me
by youtube's all-knowing interbrains. This is one of those videos:
December 27, 2011
I'm currently reading The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway. Almost immediately as I delved into
this volume, I was struck by the number of fatalities. Here's my tally so far:
Title
Fatalities
The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
1 (Francis Macomber, shot by wife)
The Capital of the World
1 (Paco, killed by Enrique while play bull-fighting)
The Snows of Kilamanjaro
1 (Harry, gangrene, leg)
On the Quai at Smyrna
1 (War story about a woman dying and immediately going into rigor mortis)
Indian Camp
1 (An Indian, cut his own throat)
Chapter III fragment
4 (Germans shot climbing over a garden wall - many more implied)
Chapter V fragment
6 (Cabinet ministers shot by firing squad)
Chapter VI fragment
4 (Nick, Rinaldi, two Austrians killed in a battle, more Austrians implied dead)
Chapter VIII fragment
2 (Two Hungarians, shot by Boyle)
Chapter IX fragment
0* (1 implied killed by bull horns through the belly)
My Old Man
1 (His old man Butler, and Gilford the horse)
Chapter XIV fragment
1 (Maera, killed by a bull)
Chapter XV fragment
1 (Sam Cardinella, hanged)
In Another Country
1 (The Major's wife)
The Killers
0* (Though it's implied that Ole Anderson is doomed to an assassin's bullet)
No fatalities:
Old Man at the Bridge,
Up in Michigan,
Chapter I fragment,
Chapter II fragment,
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife,
The End of Something,
Chapter IV fragment,
The Three-Day Blow,
The Battler,
A Very Short Story,
Chapter VII fragment,
Soldier's Home,
The Revolutionist,
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot,
Chapter X fragment,
Cat in the Rain,
Chapter XI fragment,
Out of Season,
Chapter XII fragment,
Cross-Country Snow,
Chapter XIII fragment,
Big Two-Hearted River pt. 1,
Big Two-Hearted River pt. 2,
L'envoi fragment,
The Undefeated,
Hills Like White Elephants.
That's 42 stories and fragments so far, and 27 certainly dead people -- I don't count people
who are merely implied to have been killed. That's a rate of one death every story and a half.
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