100px|Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport photo taken a year before the
publication of "Indian Camp"
"Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway
(pictured). The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's
literary magazine Transatlantic Review in Paris and republished by Boni
& Liveright in 1925 in the American edition of Hemingway's first volume
of short stories In Our Time. The first of Hemingway's stories to
feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams—a child in this
story—"Indian Camp" is told from his point-of-view. In the story, Nick
Adams' father, a country doctor, has been summoned to an Indian camp to
deliver a baby. At the camp, the father is forced to perform an
emergency caesarean section using a jack-knife, with Nick as his
assistant. Afterward, the woman's husband is discovered dead, having
fatally slit his throat during the operation. The story is important
because it shows the emergence of Hemingway's understated style and use
of counterpoint. An initiation story, "Indian Camp" includes themes
such as childbirth and fear of death, which permeate much of
Hemingway's subsequent work. When the story was published, the quality
of writing was noted and praised; scholars consider "Indian Camp" an
important story in the Hemingway canon. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1710:
Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal
gave the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Royal_%281710%29>
1773:
French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an
interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of
approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes
Venatici.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy>
1843:
B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually operating Jewish service
organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27nai_B%27rith>
1917:
An estimated 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima,
Portugal, witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun>
2010:
A live television audience of over 1 billion viewers watched as
33 miners were rescued following a cave-in at the San José Mine in the
Atacama Desert of Chile.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Copiap%C3%B3_mining_accident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
perfidious (adj):
Disloyal to that which one should be loyal to; showing or representing
perfidy
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In every civilization, however generally prosaic, however addicted to
the short-time point of view on human affairs, there are always certain
alien spirits who, while outwardly conforming to the requirements of
the civilization around them, still keep a disinterested regard for the
plain intelligible law of things, irrespective of any practical end.
They have an intellectual curiosity, sometimes touched with emotion,
concerning the august order of nature; they are impressed by the
contemplation of it, and like to know as much about it as they can,
even in circumstances where its operation is ever so manifestly
unfavourable to their best hopes and wishes.
--Albert Jay Nock
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