La admiración por Pound era parte, también, del desprecio de Hemingway por la nueva cultura de la izquierda newyorkina, que Frank, en buena medida, personificaba. Las novelas de Hemingway o las de Scott Fittzgerald eran, como sabemos hoy, muy superiores a las de Frank, pero el odio que ambos sintieron por el autor de The Unwelcome Man era algo más que estético. Frank se tomaba demasiado en serio temas que, como los de España y la democracia, Hemingway y Fitzgerald se tomaban, la mayor parte del tiempo, en broma. Los odios entre intelectuales de una misma generación poseen esa textura, por momentos, irracional, parecida a la del odio entre hermanos.
The Soul of Spain
Ernest Hemingway
In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in Spain.
Does it rain in Spain?
Oh yes my dear on the contrary and there are no bull fights.
The dancers dance in long white pants
It isn't right to yence your aunts
Come Uncle, let's go home.
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.
Come let us fart in the home.
There is no art in a fart.
Still a fart may not be artless.
Let us fart an artless fart in the home.
Democracy.
Democracy.
Bill says democracy must go.
Go democracy.
Go
Go
Go
Bill's father would never knowingly sit down at table with a Democrat.
Now Bill says democracy must go.
Go on democracy.
Democracy is the shit.
Relativity is the shit.
Dictators are the shit.
Menken is the shit.
Waldo Frank is the shit.
The Broom is the shit.
Dada is the shit.
Dempsey is the shit.
This is not a complete list.
They say Ezra is the shit.
But Ezra is nice.
Come let us build a monument to Ezra.
Good a very nice monument.
You did that nicely
Can you do another?
Let me try and do one.
Let us all try and do one.
Let the little girl over there on the corner try and do one.
Come on little girl.
Do one for Ezra.
Good.
You have all been successful children.
Now let us clean the mess up.
The Dial does a monument to Proust.
We have done a monument to Ezra.
A monument is a monument.
After all it is the spirit of the thing that counts.
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