In an 1938 article in Esquire magazine called "On the Blue water" Ernest Hemingway wrote about Hunting men.
hunting ARMED man… that is not what the gutless z did. actually never hunted just stalked and murdered .
I’d love the see the context of this quote. Hemingway was a war correspondent and my guess is he is taking about war here.
I’d love the see the context of this quote. Hemingway was a war correspondent and my guess is he is taking about war here.
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In his short story, “On the Blue Water,” Hemingway tells the story of two friends discussing interests in hunting. First published in 1936 in Esquire’s First Sports Reader, a hunting magazine, Hemingway’s story tells the tale of two friends discussing their favorite sorts of hunting. The story begins with a quote that is now one of Hemingway’s most well-known. “Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter,” Hemingway writes. The quote is initially ambiguous in its word choice, “hunting of man” leaves one unclear about whether it is man who is doing the hunting or being the prey. However, the quote is quickly forgotten as the story continues on to compare elephant hunting with the thrill of fishing, as the two friends aim to persuade each other as to which is better. The main speaker aims to convince his friend, Richard, that the sea is a dangerous and beautiful creature, and elephant hunting is nothing compared to the thrill of fishing. Hemingway then proceeds to go very into depth about the art of fishing, and breaks into a random story where he is finishing with his friends Carlos and Julio. The story then begins to sound a lot like Old Man and the Sea, and may in fact, have inspired the later novella. However, Richard seems to remain obsessed with elephant hunting, and fails to see the beauty in fishing.
