i'm paul hendrickson and i'm the author of "hemmingway's boat" subtitled "everything he loved in life lost", 1934 to 1961. i was after some kind of ef case or interpretation of the man. but there have been a dozen biographies of hemingway. and really a heck of a lot more scholarly studies, critical studies. i wanted to do something different and one way or another i came on this metaphor that my anchor-- that might anchor the story. hemmingway's 38 foot motorized fishing vessel which he owned for 27 years, which were the last 27 years. and he lovingly possessed her, road her, fished her through three wives, the nobel prize and all his ruin. if you said hemmingway, the association to people who have read him somewhat might be these very simple decollar difficult kinds of sentences, and sentence rhythms. he invented a new kind of american speech. ut hemmingway by the '30s, by especially the mid '30s is beginning to experiment with the longer proceeds line. these sentences are growing much, much longer. and they're full of subordinate clauses. he got out of those dampened enclosures of e