If Ryan Grim and Ali Watkins are correct that John Steinbeck was applauded at this year’s Spy Prom, the whole Intelligence Community may have to be reprogrammed. Those swashbucklers have been roaming the world making it safe for union busters for going on seventy-five years now, and they might as well have cheered Che Guevara. Far better that they stick to the script which, in honoring Ernest Hemingway, was problematic enough. After all, when Hemingway liberated the Ritz Carlton in Paris from the Nazis, he did it with a band of French Communists and an OSS officer.
But Hemingway never wrote about Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, the mysterious heroine/redeemer of The Grapes of Wrath.
Ernest Hemingway ambled into a Parisian hotel bar and ordered dozens of dry martinis. Rose of Sharon’s breast milk killed fascists.
The Intelligence Community doesn’t get that.
This is the most powerful thing written in the modern English language.
This is bullshit:
Shaken not stirred, I would assume.
Heh. Steinbeck would have been shocked that Salinas now has a lovely museum in his honor (his hometown didn’t like him much back in the day). He’d have been pretty puzzled by a spy soiree in his honor.
But Hemingway never wrote about Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, the mysterious heroine/redeemer of “The Grapes of Wrath.”
Ernest Hemingway ambled into a Parisian hotel bar and ordered dozens of dry martinis. Rose of Sharon’s breast milk killed fascists.
The Intelligence Community doesn’t get that.
Is it any wonder that the CIA has made a complete mess of pretty much everything it has ever done, or tried to do?
Hemingway supported the reds in Spain, and even wrote a book about it. Did you miss that?
No literate person missed that.