05/08-1927
– Breaking News: Are Ernest Hemingway and wife Pauline Marie Pfeiffer having an abortion in Spain?
Ernest
Hemingway was spotted in Spain with his wife Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, whom our sources believe is pregnant.
The couple
was sitting at a train station café, where Pfeiffer was seen with a baby bump
and a troubled look on her face. The couple was discussing going to a clinic
where Pfeiffer could have an operation in which air would be let into Pfeiffer,
which would to quote Hemingway make it “all perfectly natural”.
This
kind of operation is how an abortion is performed normally. Our sources believe
they are going to have the abortion because the baby is a “white elephant”
meaning it is unwanted. This is underlined by Hemingway saying to Pfeiffer that
it (‘it’ being the baby) is “the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only
thing that made us unhappy”, and that by getting the abortion they would be “just
like we were before”.
Thus,
making it likely that an abortion is in the near future for the couple.
By
Willy Williamson, The New York Times.
Sounds more like a tabloid journalist than one working for the venerable NYT!
ReplyDeleteThe idea is funny, and a good example of a text 'inspired by' the original story - and not quite close enough to said to be 'based on' it.
A tiny bit of nitpicking: Pauline was a Catholic and abortion was a big no-no for her. In fact she brought Hem back to the US when she got pregnant with the first of their two sons...