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Had a single man play about him ..I had Henry Fonda help I belive it got an award in Europe 😊 I knew his granddaughters..Hung out with during college and in NYC modeling..😮😊
I visited his home in the Keys long ago. I didnt know much of this even after the tour. I was too busy petting all the cats. Honestly I can still remember that home, the second floor. The grounds to the building. He sounds like me in some regards.
There is something so humanizing and sad about a ‘man’s man’ who wasn’t willing to sleep in the dark, and couldn’t bring himself to spend the night alone. Rest in peace Ernest
The horrors inside his beautiful mind were too much for him. Tragically he was destined for his particular demise it seems, it's a wonder he got that far on in his years.
@@kylewinkler9925 Yeah, and devoted and sincere study of a subject can replace a good bit of personal experience. We could maybe say that having known the pains of life creates that mindset, but that is just a theory. There is a cynical aspect to how so often people who are successful in a very troubled society are the ones who have joined the suffering greatly, so to speak. I don't find that very inspiring, since it is a status quo bolstering activity.
As Vonnegut said in God bless you Mr Rosewater: "Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves." Sadly, I think Hemingway is a prime example of this quote.
I recently found there to be truth in those words. My friend’s dad committed suicide just a week ago, and I learned shortly afterwards that his father before him had also committed suicide at the very exact same age. The effect it has on each generation cannot be underestimated, and I will be sure to check in and be available for my friend continually through the years to come.
@@chandlerholloway3900Likewise. My father committed suicide when I was 6, and so did his father. I think a lot about how I probably won't want to live past 40..
I know a lot of people can relate to Hemingway. But I can't say how much this means to me. I have schizophrenia, and have also been diagnosed bipolar. Regardless of diagnosis I am okay. Im alive. I quit drinking. I hate my mother too, but I also have come to accept her weaknesses as being separate from my own. I will never kill myself because I have studied philosophy, and logic, and quite frankly read and loved authors like Hemingway, and Salinger, and Fitzgerald. Ive fallen and picked myself up again so many times that I've learned to be okay with the falls. Concussions and alcohol and society have created a paradigm of creating schizophrenics, especially in big cities. I can't explain my whole mind to you, but I can tell you that I love you Horses and your videos are helping me with life. You are a special creator, on a level all your own. ❤
I don't know what ails me, or if anything does as I've not wanted to find out. Though, I can relate to your comment. I was abandoned and left for dead by my biological mother in post-Soviet Russia, then adopted by an extremely religious couple from the US who chose to unsuccessfully homeschool me. My mother was angry, anxious, and controlling to a paranoid degree, so I grew to despise her. She didn't school me. I grew up socially isolated for many years and learned nothing but how to read and I chose to read about history. I became quite good at baseball, however, and was able to guest play for a top high school in my state. I had to fudge my high school "transcript" to get into community college where I educated myself and then transferred to a university where I drank too much, womanized heavily, became proficient at billiards, dropped out, came back, and earned my degree in philosophy. Though I'm a chaotic, insomniatic mess of swirling, meandering thoughts, I've found peace in life. I've really thought hard about suicide and death but could never seem to give up on life because it just seems too damn interesting to be an island of consciousness in the void. I've made my peace with nihilism through striving. I'm enlisting in the military soon to set off on my next adventure with the Army Rangers. May our paths cross one day.
Dude, I don't have schizophrenia, but bipolar. I love and hate my mother, but know whenever she leaves it will be the hardest thing in the world to me. I've hospitalized and had to quit drinking and other drugs many times. I've had severe concussions and injuries from tough sports and outdoor pursuits. The nightmares never truly leave you. I think with age and the wear on my mind and body, I just know I don't want to lose the control and ever be unproductive or get locked up again. I feel much the same about suicide and on life. I've been accused of trying, but I never agreed... I just wanted darkness and peace, to not feel sad/manic or overwhelmed, but never to be as selfish as to want to die. Thanks for your comment and to Horses, I think I know why I've always loved his writing while having mixed feelings about him... but of all people, knowing this should allow us to be a bit more compassionate and empathetic to everyone... because most people, we don't know their full story.
When I first read “A Farewell to Arms” I was struck by how “sensitive” it was and as a “sensitive” teenage boy I really enjoyed it. It’s always stuck with me that despite Hemingway portraying himself(and being portrayed) as someone hypermasculine his writing is actually very sensitive and emotional in ways you wouldn’t expect from someone portrayed as a “man’s man”
There is no contradiction between manliness and sensitivity. You can argue that it made him more sensitive beacause true manliness is concerned with the relationship of the individual and the universe
Imagine being in a plane crash, immediately jumping on a second plane, which also crashes, then head butting your way out of the flaming wreckage. What a mad lad.
@alteredbeast7145 Ok, but for serious, I really disliked the term madlad being used to describe him in a very sobering video about his life, and wanted to show how it sounded to me
It’s insane how much a man’s suffering could cause so many others joy inadvertently, life for life blood for blood. His books are nothing short of excellent and the life he lived can be so inspiring when looking past all the painful moments. I got to see his house in key west and his bar ❤
“There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide”. This is one of the most well done, under appreciated videos I have ever seen on RU-vid. Your work is incredible. Thank you thank you.
This question actually shoes the primitivity of our „philosophy“. While the rishis (seers) in Vedanta, the Upanishads, discovered Brahman, reincarnation and the Self in deep meditation. Of course one could swipe away all this as primitive or imaginary - BUT knowing there is the nondual Brahman and each and every souls grows back into him like a tree over many births (reincarnations) suicide get‘s quite contra productive: More karma (unfinished tasks in live left) and you reincarnate anyway. To me this kind of western philosophy is so blind compared to the findings of rishis.
If one doesn't have enough agency over ones own life to decide, without being judged or stopped, when it's time to let the curtain fall; then, what are we? It affects everyone around you in a bad way, but ultimately it's the most personal and solitary decision man can make in this existence.
What I love about Hemingway is he truly has an ability to put thoughts onto paper, totally unfiltered. That he doesn't explain things in a way that's overly complex, wordy, or otherwise difficult to sort through - similarly he doesn't explain things so simply that you're left rolling your eyes. Rather he shoots the gap tremendously and words everything in a manner that is both so profound but so simple you wonder "how didn't I think of that?" So much of what he writes is so unique in its description, but so familiar at the same time, like there's a constant sense of deja-vu lingering nearby
An absolutely beautiful example of how to see the humanity in someone, the ability to recognize the suffering of others and how it has the potential to destroy them can make you one of the people who can save someone. Please never doubt the impact of uplifting words, and taking a view of compassion on someone, this video was something I really needed to see today, thank you 💙🇨🇦
This is one of the most magnificent biographies I've ever seen, it's the best I've ever seen on Hemingway. I have to rewatch again today after just seeing it last night. Your ability to tell the story, your illustrations and narration, are all top-quality. Please keep making videos, I think you're putting out some of the best content on youtube right now.
This video makes me reflect on how much I love my dad. He had a difficult father, and suffered a traumatic brain injury himself when we were in a car accident several years ago, but at every turn he has determined to try to better himself, rather than sink into the darkness. I am proud of him when I think about some of the trauma he must have grown up with that he broke the cycle of, never visiting the same on myself or my siblings, and how he is still with my mother, whom he met in school, married young, and to my knowledge has never cheated on. We may not have been a wealthy family, but you can not put a price on a stable and constantly loving and (mostly) supportive parental unit. I have known people deeply let down and betrayed by their fathers and/or mothers. I take the parenting role so seriously that I have never wanted to take on that responsibility, nor felt adequately equipped to. This video is a reminder that some people should never have kids, and I wish there was some sort of test (as the joke goes, you need a licence to drive, but anyone can become a parent!). Would it have robbed us of his unique writing? I suppose so, but is our entertainment worth the kind of suffering he and his siblings experienced from their malformed nature and nurture? We would never have known what we missed, anyhow.
This is one of the best videos I've seen in the past few months. I was sobbing when I heard he would sit by his typewriter and cry. Congratulations sir. You truely have a talent for writing and also I love your slow and natural tone.
I recently found your channel. And there are some of the most profound, empathetic, thoughtful and thought provoking videos I've ever witnessed here. Good job.
Horses, I have watched this video over ten times, and I must say, thank you. Not only for is presentation, but also for the humanity in which you use so eloquently to describe his life. It’s beautiful and haunting, and I appreciate you. Thank you for this
Just discovered your channel and I'm on a binge. Hemingway's life made me tear up, as someone who also suffers from bipolar disorder. I also get those moments where I truly appreciate life and some hours where I entertain my melancholy for a bit. Rip Ernest :(
As someone who was robbed of his childhood joys and choice of career in life, your videos are such a comfort. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I feel like I'm just alive for the sake of it, but the occasional humane touch makes the pain bearable at times.
A hard childhood, with very damaged parents, sent into one of the worst wars humans have ever waged, numerous injuries, and equally damaging habits. Incredible how such a human lived for so long and brought such delight to people he will never meet or know. His life and experiences crafted an individual so unique that we’ve not seen his like since, or, at the very least, have not been made aware of.
I’m sure many others have beat me to it, but this channel is SO underrated. Your videos are so beautifully made and I genuinely get goosebumps sometimes, man. Super impressive stuff 🤝🏻
Tragic and sad and yet inspiring. Get help, people! At times, I thought of my father as a Hemingway character. At times larger than life and in other times, just a man. Thanks for sharing.
In 2004 I started learning English by myself. I used to read short stories and what not. Hemingway was one of the most fun writers. His work helped me learn English in a fun way. I had no idea what his personal life was like until this video. Thank you so much for making it. RIP
How the hell has this channel not blown up to over a million subs? Video quality is amazing. I can't wait to go back and watch your entire catalog. Thank you for making these and sharing them.
Just give the author his props and accept that it’s a niche interest. Internalize things that you see and stop the “omg other people need to see this “ mentality because it’s very shallow. Sorry in advance
This is one of those channels that seemingly comes out of nowhere and to which I instantly subscribe. I'm ready to run with the horses, wherever they take me.👍
this made me tear up. amazing work compiling all of this and putting the man to words forever immortalising his honesty behind the mask. kudos to whoever does the artwork for your channel, it makes it feel so alive.
Finding this channel has been the best thing RU-vid has brought me in years. The in-depth look and admiration for video games perfectly blended with VERY good comedy is just pure gold. Congrats on another fantastic video!
The mental health care provided today is drastically different than at that period. In fact what passed for treating mental health illness in those times would be considered barbaric human rights violations these days. The mentally ill were basically human guinea pigs in the early days of mental health care and basically declared subhumans without agency to become fodder for all manor of experimental treatments. So Hemingway is probably very lucky they were unable to diagnose or "treat" any of his issues.
Well done. All humans are more complicated than we often want to give credit for. I appreciate your desire to see the full person in a way that doesn’t excuse but shows compassion. I’ve actually just started A Farewell to Arms and was surprised to find a rhythm to some of the writing that sounds like poetry.
I've been increasingly more interested in Hemingway as a man, a personality and a legend as time goes by. I've watched the Jeff Daniels HBO documentary on him and I've gotten around to reading The Old Man and The Sea. I've got more Hemingway lined up to read. This video is really charming and I liked it a lot. Too many times a person is oversimplified. Not just the dead. The living too. I suppose it's easier to think of that person as a caricature or as one defined thing because then you won't have to waste mental space on them. The world isn't black and white. Loved the artwork throughout the video! By any chance is it yours? That's a great variety of it and I feel very inspired by it. Anyways, once again, great work. You've earned a new subscriber. I'm gonna do myself the favor of watching everything else you've done now. Cheers!
His life is wild! His literature is kinda tame compared to it. These days, he'd be a Crocodile Dundee, or one of those narcissistic vloggers who get cancelled eventually. I'm glad he lived in a time where decency was still the norm and so he had to resort to writing, hunting, and drinking to cope. That sounds sad, but I prefer someone who has actually something worthwhile to share with humanity than those losers travelling the world with a camera, pretending its Disneyland, adding nothing of value that will be forgotten in less than five years just for the sake of personal greed.
Misperception of public personas can often be their own fault for presenting a mask publicly, out of fear. Some might even complain that their audience misjudged them, after they raked in sweet profit from only showing parts of themselves that are conductive to the career.
Like quite a few people, I just found your channel recently. A lot of great content here about a range of fascinating topics. I never knew Hemmingway's life was so tragic, although in truth, I'd never really looked into him much
You are my new favourite channel on youtube! The scripts are superbly written and well paced. The art and visuals are mesmerizing, fresh, and breathtakingly beautiful. The topics and themes are just perfect. Really excited and grateful for the content you've produced so far. Thank you for sharing your talents and stories with us. Will be looking forward for more to come
Hey man I love you’re content, you do an incredible job narrating and researching all of the in-depth details about each one of your topics! This one is an especially favorite of mine, beautiful visuals and awesome narrative!
My father once told me Ernest Hemingway once wrote "If you have nothing worth dying for you have nothing worth living for." Hemingway of course committed suicide. I googled to fact check my father and that quote actually is from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Coincidently my father was a huge Jimmy Buffet fan and one of his songs is "I'd rather die while I'm living than live when I'm dead!" While MLK and Jimmy Buffet Quotes sound similar they both mean two very different things!
Good story telling. I like the mixture of animation and real life photos. I have heard of Hemingway but have never read his work because of how you tell us of his life I now will read his work. Thank you very much.
Great piece. Amazing how some people have to absolutely drag their soul through this world. And amazing how some of these people create transcendent beauty.
I never comment, like ever. I have to say sir, your content is amazing. I can tell that your development leading this channel will really cultivate to top tier content. Thank you.
Ur approach to a humanistic exploration & study on any given topic, plays with such raw and genuine emotion and empathy, that I truly find staggeringly impressive and beautiful. I find much of this kind of content is lost in the modern age, and ur spearheading of this method is worth every single piece of praise and love u are given. Wonderful work sir, wonderful work indeed!
Its sad how such a great artists life was so tortured. At least he was able to take his love of literature as far as he did, and made so many people happy with his books.
Thank you for this very insightful video giving us a glimpse into Hemingway the person behind the author, although the two are very much intertwined. I have 2 siblings that are going through their own mental health struggles, and of the little stories they tell of their 'episodes' I can see how painful those moments and sometimes life in general for them are. Earlier today I'd just watched a short video about Vincent Van Gogh which talked about this mental health struggles, and I recognised what he went through with what on of my sibling is currently going through. We live in the same house so we talk a lot but it's very difficult for me to understand what they're going through. We had a short convo this morning and I explained how whenever I hear anyone say they struggle to find their place in their world and question the purpose of their existence, that if they one day leave this world it would be as if they never existed. My reaction has always been why do you need to find a significance? Why do you need to be known? It was a short but deep conversation, and though I understand the words and it's meaning it still doesn't compute for me. For me, my life is like an onion with me at the center, then comes my family, then friends, then acquaintances, I was shown this circle of relationship in school decades ago and it stuck with me. My world is just me and those around me, not the earth or it's 8 billion inhabitance. I had wrote a lot more in my first post by YT didn't save it and I can't wrote it again. I just want to send a message to those on hear that please know you are 'normal' just like everyone else, that your existence does matter to those around you and that if you were ever to make any rash decisions the hurt would remain with them until the day they pass. It's unfortunate that some of us find living more difficult than others and it's okay to feel that way. Please seek the help you need or talk to your companions, friends or family. My love to all of you.
I’ll come back to this comment section one day when your channel blows up. I love the style you make your videos in. Please don’t stop man your break it coming.
Professional video editor here! Taking a lot of notes on font choices and also storytelling. Your rise in subscribers is very deserved, your videos look extremely clean and are a pleasure to watch. Congratulations!
I was long taught he was a troubled soul, but middle school didn’t delve into all his trauma. My goodness, never wanted to time travel so badly, just to deliver a hug. Old Man & the Sea is still a personal fav
No doubt Hemingway suffered from CTE from all those head injuries. Many NFL Football players take their own lives because of CTE as it ruins your brains ability to Dopamine leaving them in a very depressive state. Combine that with his family history his ending is hardly surprising but very sad nonetheless.
Thank you for sharing this information about one of my literary heroes. I “discovered” Hemingway as a teenager in my HS library, starting with “The Nick Adams Stories” and “The Old Man And The Sea”. I found these to be so completely relatable.
Thank you for making this video! I knew nothing about Hemingway and this was amazingly informative, not to mention relatable. Being bipolar and working in the creative field, I can relate to his experience of going through short periods of prolific output (and adventures!) in between long stretches of NO JUICE. While I appreciate having the creativity and the works produced, it's hard to justify the price I've had to pay. Great youtube content unfortunately doesn't seem to top up my juice, however it does serve to enrich my life while requiring next to no effort of my own. Instead of crying in front of my keyboard I get to fill my brain with cliff notes on every subject in video format! Many thanks for that. I presume most youtubers of the genre wouldn't bother doing a video on him because they'd sound ridiculous saying "un-alive" so many times... Props for dedicating to your content over monetization.
It's so easy to edit out all the bad in Hemingway, especially after having read so much of his work. A lot has been written and said about him. You did a good job in filling in some of the holes. Thanks, man.
I recently discovered your youtube channel through the, "how to survive on a desert island" video and have been binging all your videos since. I really hope you get all the views and subs you wholey deserve. keep up the amazing work!!!
Just discovered this channel. I am astonished by the quality of the content and the editing. It's a shame that it doesn't get the audience it deserves. I hope he gets some shoutout from similar channels or some sort of ad to drag more subscribers. Thanks for the deication you put into this!
What a beautifully done video essay! The paintings , the edit, the pacing, the length, the music, the typography. Loved every aspect. Very tastefully done! Also, very intrigued by your channel name. Why Horses? Love from India
I'm suffering form depression and my life KINDA a little comes close to Hemingway level suffering, I always found comfort in reading his work but I Never truly understood why, after watching this video I understood. Your editing style is top notch ✓✓
I think it's a bit of a stretch for the New York Times to say that Hemingway was the most significant author since Shakespeare. They'd have to leave out a lot of Russian masters like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin, as well as George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and quite a number of others, all of whom I think are comparable or better than Hemingway. But Hemingway is a great American writer and this video is a fascinating look into his life, including particularly his struggles. It makes him feel more human.
One Christmas Eve, I read Old Man and the Sea to my young son in my parent's library with a fire burning. We both enjoyed the book deeply. Thank you Ernest!
Wow! So glad i daw this, just skimmed, need to rewatch for work. Hemingway spent some time at a hospital where i live, by all accounts, including his own, he was very happy during his time here, even tho he was injured while traveling & had no significant history here. The museum i work at is hosting a historical program on that hospital next week so i cant wait to ask some more questions. Mr Hemingway is likely the most famous person to spend the night in my town, and certainly the most famous patient of our hospitals. But, esp when he was in Montana, I think he felt much more "at home" & at ease with himself. I dont care for his writing style myself, but even as our state's biggest city, billings is known as a bit of a podunk cow town. Having one of the most influential American writers say that our home was beautiful (we arent in the mountains here, we're prairie people) and our community was good & our people were kind & our medical personnel were skilled, that continues to mean something to us. He used his celebrity status to lift us up, he certainly could have mocked our country ways, but instead he shared his cultural power with us, who often feel forgotten by the rest of the US, and we continue to brag about his experience here, 70ish years later...
Great video! And the 'manic mood swings' is on point. George Plimpton wrote of the time he visited Hemingway a few years before the suicide. A drunken Hemingway demanded they box and Plimpton had no choice but to agree (or else Hemingway would've beat the shit out of him anyway) while frantically thinking how to get out of it. They squared off, and Hemingway hit Plimpton with a jab then socked him with a left. Plimpton immediately asked "How'd you do that?" A confused Hemingway stopped and said "What?" Plimpton said: "I didn't see that left coming; how'd you set up for that?" And, SNAP, right away Hemingway changed from aggressive boxer to patient teacher and spent the rest of the evening teaching Plimpton how to throw punch combinations. Indeed, we should always look deeper than the labels.
subscribed! i love the music and visuals (artist? did you make those?) used. super interesting. top quality, glad i found you and happy i decided to watch, will definitely binge the rest. also, ect is still used to this day for treatment-resistant mental illnesses, in less brutal form, but they still have to induce a seizure. it's not as bad as the movies depicts. usually you're asleep for most of it. but holy shit it must have been horrific with all the brain trauma and lack of anesthesia.
Since the day my brother took his own life, I avoided this video as much as I could. Another video by Horses called "Oh Death" was also suggested to me by the algorithm and I avoided it at all cost. Up to the point of clicking the "don't recommend this to me". Yesterday was the anniversary of my brother's passing, and I never really understood why someone so talented, an artist, who would always crack jokes and make us laugh, would eventually take his own life. We never saw the depression in him. It was so well hidden. Yesterday I started asking myself why some people just want to die. The video "Oh Death" came to mind. I clicked it and this came the next. It never answered my question as to why my brother decided to end things at his own terms. But for some reason, I found peace. Thank you, Horses.
I've been to Hemingway's former residence in Cuba. It is full of the things he left behind when he returned to the US after the revolution there. It feels frozen in time. Well-made video. There's no doubt his parents, head trauma and bad genetics lead to a toxic and tragic end.
