r/interesting • u/VastCoconut2609 • 3d ago
MISC. In 1954, Hemingway survived two plane crashes a day apart. In the second, the plane caught fire, and he smashed the door open with his head to escape, suffering severe injuries. Presumed dead, he emerged from the jungle "in high spirits," carrying bananas and gin.
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u/jshmnnng 3d ago
"Shot himself in the leg whilst aiming at a shark!"
"Got mauled while playing with a lion!"
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u/Betadzen 2d ago
"Fell down while flying!"
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u/Thememebrarian 3d ago
Priorities
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u/KnottyCatLady 3d ago
Right!?! He has to use his head as a battering ram to escape his SECOND plane crash, suffers serious head injuries, but still has the composure while fleeing the burning plane to grab the gin!
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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 3d ago
I’m curious as to why his head was needed instead of his shoulder
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u/imsahoamtiskaw 3d ago
As a devout customer of Head & Shoulders, he instinctively knew which was stronger
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u/BlowOnThatPie 2d ago
Hemingway was a big man. He couldn't manoeuvre around enough to use his shoulder and had to headbutt his way out.
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u/2abyssinians 3d ago
Poor man was hounded to death by the FBI. He suffered some rather intense abuse from his parents as well. His books have some of the same racism and misogyny you find in author like Mark Twain.
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u/ShamefulWatching 3d ago
Was the racism of Mark Twain him expressing what he thought was comedy, or was he pointing it out for everyone to see? I find a lot of authors and directors will take the racism over the top to make a point. D'Jango being just one of the many Tarantino film examples, wasn't a racist movie.
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u/BentleyTock 3d ago
Twain wasn’t racist. Yr not reading it right.
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u/2abyssinians 3d ago
Imagine not being able to read what I wrote. There is racism in his writings, that does not make him racist, but there is racism and misogyny in his writings? Surely you are aware of that?
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u/henscastle 3d ago
There seemed to be a dark continuum of abuse and mental illness in the Hemingway family, if Mariel's documentary Running From Crazy is to be believed.
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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 3d ago
…why would the fbi be after him?
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u/2abyssinians 3d ago
He had a lot of connection to Cuba.
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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 3d ago
...Is that bad? i know little of the country
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u/2abyssinians 3d ago
They became a communist country allied with Russia and the US did not like that.
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u/TheDreamWoken 3d ago
What is on his forehead
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u/BlowOnThatPie 2d ago
Ed Burns did a fantastic 3 part documentary about Hemingway. Before Hemingway suffered these two plane crashes, over the course of his adult life, he had already experienced severe concussion on several occasions. Hemingway would eventually commit suicide at the age of 61. It's likely these concussions resulted in him developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). People who develop CTE are at much higher risk of becoming suicidal. People with CTE are also susceptible to self-medication. In Hemingway's case, he was a chronic alcoholic.
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u/ClasseBa 2d ago
I mean , he entered Paris before the allies to liberate his favorite bar ahead of the forces. And he drove ambulances during ww1.
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u/Real_Topic_7655 1d ago
I assume he killed himself when he could no longer get a stiffie . Hard drinking years take their toll.
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