in london and after they ran into each other, talk about fan mail, bruce goac that he had just met ngquote, patriarch cal, with his physique, much like god, as painted by michelangelo. here's a ernest as he's getting ready to go to europe. he's grown this beard by the way because of irritation from the sun during the war patrols on pilar. so ernest eventually shaves his beard. and goes to europe. he is there as a war correspondent. he is driving around the battlefie battlefield, looking for excitement. ernest gets a jeep from the army and he gets a private. and that's the -- you know, that sort of task force hemingway. and he's going around looking for good stories. the big story in august of 1944 is going to be the liberation of paris. everybody can feel it building. nobody knows exactly how it's going to unfold. or where the stepping off point is going to be for paris. ernest is -- he's doing a pretty good job as sort of a journalist tactical recon guy and he guesses it's probably over here, going to be in this general direction. west of paris. and that's what -- that's the region that h