Imagine you have the chance to sit, smoke, and talk (or argue) with anyone who's ever smoked a pipe. Who would it be and why? (Deceased humans only. Feel free to affix a top 3.)
With Whom Would you Light Up?
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I'd love to smoke with Mark Twain. I enjoy his humor.
I also would like to smoke with Ernest Hemingway. I really enjoy his books and would love to pick his mind.
I also would like to smoke with Ernest Hemingway. I really enjoy his books and would love to pick his mind.
I learned my lesson when my old college roommate was in charge of the local theater, that meeting famous musicians and such usually leads to me not liking them as much. I would think literary folks especially would come off very different from who we perceive them to be in their words.
The top one is William Faulkner and the second one is Asger Jorn. The bottom one is Hemingway trimming his mustache with scissors.
I figured that you were fishing for that one. That's why I included the others. Sure is a dead ringer for a young Earnest.
I'm not sure I'd want to meet him though. He was known for periods of uncomfortable mania, periods of deep depression, and heavy drinking; and, I'm not sure which one I'd rather be around.
No kidding, I've read some awful things about him.
As many times as he's been listed as a pipe smoker, I just have never seen a photograph. I've seen artists depictions of him smoking, but never a photo.
There were quite a few when I googled it. In most he was just holding a pipe though.
Some I saw were supposed to be a pipe but upon closer inspection it was the mouth of a bottle.
I'm going by what I've read. I haven't seen a photo either.
I think like Twain ol Ernest was just a smoker... He'd smoke any tobacco, cig, cigar, or pipe.
Supposedly Ernest Hemingway. It does kind of look like him smoking a cob, but I can't prove it's actually him.
Albert Einstein, Jeremy Brett and Hugh Hefner
Donald "Duck" Dunn if I could.
J.R.R.Tolkien
Mark Twain
My maternal grandfather
Mark Twain
My maternal grandfather
Although I greatly prefer smoking pipes with living humans, I suppose that having a pipe with my dead father would be the most memorable and meaningful experience I could ask for in this scenario.
Wanting to hear someone speak, as at a podium, and wanting to spend some time with someone are two different things. So much would depend on the chemistry. Would Einstein care to speak with someone who is not mathematical? Would Twain just do his podium routine anyway, and do all the talking?
Many of the famous pipe smokers were renown and some had probably ceased listening to others who hadn't earned their respect and trust. I have no interest in basking in the sunshine of some great person just for the privilege.
Hemingway might be a wonderful conversation or a complete asshole ... he readily did both. I guess if he liked me, it would go okay. I had a friend and mentor like him for a while, though it was a bit dangerous at times. This guy would have been a peril to Ernest himself. I'd have told Ernie, don't get boxing with this guy, trust me.
Many of the famous pipe smokers were renown and some had probably ceased listening to others who hadn't earned their respect and trust. I have no interest in basking in the sunshine of some great person just for the privilege.
Hemingway might be a wonderful conversation or a complete asshole ... he readily did both. I guess if he liked me, it would go okay. I had a friend and mentor like him for a while, though it was a bit dangerous at times. This guy would have been a peril to Ernest himself. I'd have told Ernie, don't get boxing with this guy, trust me.
Some folks from here. Just want to keep it real. If Albert Einstein wanted to join us, great, but it would all be relative.