To be honest that quote made me feel kind of bad for him: it sounds like someone boasting in order to repair their self-respect after losing a fight. Did you manage to impress upon the tramps your willingness to kill so that they left you alone, Ernest Hemingway? Did you really?
At any rate, I think it explains something about his later attitude toward homosexuality and manly toughness generally that he spend a certain portion of his youth fending off the advances of tramps.
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Date: 2020-12-01 04:43 pm (UTC)At any rate, I think it explains something about his later attitude toward homosexuality and manly toughness generally that he spend a certain portion of his youth fending off the advances of tramps.