Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Oh boy.

On December 19, 1953 Hemingway wrote in his wife Mary's journal (Why would he write it in her journal? They're one.):

New Names Department

Mary Peter Hemingway
Peter Mary Welsh-Hemingway
Pedro Maria Hemingway y Welsh
HRH Mary Peter Welsh-Hemingway
Lady Mary Welsh-Hemingway
Ernest Welsh-Hemingway
E. Kathrin Welsh
Kathrin Ernest Hemingway
E.K. Hemingway-Welsh
Ernest Cathrin Inez Hemingway y Welsh

They're one. Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms, Catherine Hill Bourne in The Garden of Eden. Various spellings of Catherine are four of the ten entries in the New Names Department, two for Ernest, two for Mary. Peter or the equivalent also gets four, twice as a new name for Mary, twice for Ernest. In Garden, Catherine Hill Bourne renames herself Peter and David Catherine when she does the dark magic.