Death

We walk along the outside porch. Below, the Big Wood River rollicks through tall cottonwood trees, their yellow leaves dropping off and cascading to the dense litter below. A hint of snow from the distant mountains peeks through. Monster homes are scattered along the other side of the bank. This isn’t the view Hemingway...
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Back before Hunter S. Thompson entered his Gonzo period, he wrote a thoughtful piece for the National Observer (May 25, 1964) titled “What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum?” (Find it in The Great Shark Hunt.) He writes: Anybody who considers himself a wrtier or even a serious reader cannot help but wonder just what it...
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Hemingway remembers it as the year of avalanches. Down and out Paris, with young Bumby in tow, he and Hadley fled the city for Schruns, in Austria's Vorarlberg. They lived in a $2 a day pension, playing poker by night, skiing by day. It was here where Hemingway crafted The Sun Also Rises. The suspicious...
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Before Hemingway committed suicide, skiing was on his mind.
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I put down A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition and am left a sense of regret by Hemingway that I don't remember from the previous version. Is it how I remember it, or is it the changes Sean Hemingway made?
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These words may be the greatest clue into why Hemingway killed himself three months later.
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