"...Decades later, in response to a Freedom of Information petition, the F.B.I. released its Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar Hoover had placed Ernest under surveillance because he was suspicious of Ernest’s activities in Cuba. Over the following years, agents filed reports on him and tapped his phones. The surveillance continued all through his confinement at St. Mary’s Hospital. It is likely that the phone outside his room was tapped after all.
In the years since, I have tried to reconcile Ernest’s fear of the F.B.I., which I regretfully misjudged, with the reality of the F.B.I. file. I now believe he truly sensed the surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide..."
So... what is A. E. Hotchner's next move? What is ours?
What is the United States of America?
We need to analyze this as we move forward, if we are to move forward.
We kill our Presidents, we elect actors to the throne, we elect oil barons and their sons. We denigrate the good and worship the liars, the greedy, the evil.
We fall for it all; all the lies and misdirection. We fall for the promise of becoming rich in America without working for it... all we have to do is screw our neighbor.
One of our greatest writers, a titan of 20th century American culture taken down by the illegal, paranoid, closeted homosexual fantasies of America's greatest cocksocker.
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