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There is something so humanizing and sad about a ‘man’s man’ who wasn’t willing to sleep in the dark, and couldn’t bring himself to spend the night alone. Rest in peace Ernest

“In order to write about life first you must live it.” Incredible storytelling of a creative and tortured soul.

As Vonnegut said in God bless you Mr Rosewater: "Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves." Sadly, I think Hemingway is a prime example of this quote.

When I first read “A Farewell to Arms” I was struck by how “sensitive” it was and as a “sensitive” teenage boy I really enjoyed it. It’s always stuck with me that despite Hemingway portraying himself(and being portrayed) as someone hypermasculine his writing is actually very sensitive and emotional in ways you wouldn’t expect from someone portrayed as a “man’s man”

Dude how does this video not have any views? It deserves so much more, the quality is so high

Imagine being in a plane crash, immediately jumping on a second plane, which also crashes, then head butting your way out of the flaming wreckage. What a mad lad.

I know a lot of people can relate to Hemingway. But I can't say how much this means to me. I have schizophrenia, and have also been diagnosed bipolar. Regardless of diagnosis I am okay. Im alive. I quit drinking. I hate my mother too, but I also have come to accept her weaknesses as being separate from my own. I will never kill myself because I have studied philosophy, and logic, and quite frankly read and loved authors like Hemingway, and Salinger, and Fitzgerald. Ive fallen and picked myself up again so many times that I've learned to be okay with the falls. Concussions and alcohol and society have created a paradigm of creating schizophrenics, especially in big cities. I can't explain my whole mind to you, but I can tell you that I love you Horses and your videos are helping me with life. You are a special creator, on a level all your own. ❤

This video sounds like a eulegy of a loved one who's passed on. Beautifully respectful and loving, but also incredibly sad

This channel is like a hidden gem, a secret that only a few lucky people share. But I hope and I know that it's gonna get bigger, you deserve it!

It’s insane how much a man’s suffering could cause so many others joy inadvertently, life for life blood for blood. His books are nothing short of excellent and the life he lived can be so inspiring when looking past all the painful moments. I got to see his house in key west and his bar ❤

“There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide”. This is one of the most well done, under appreciated videos I have ever seen on UKposts. Your work is incredible. Thank you thank you.

What I love about Hemingway is he truly has an ability to put thoughts onto paper, totally unfiltered. That he doesn't explain things in a way that's overly complex, wordy, or otherwise difficult to sort through - similarly he doesn't explain things so simply that you're left rolling your eyes. Rather he shoots the gap tremendously and words everything in a manner that is both so profound but so simple you wonder "how didn't I think of that?" So much of what he writes is so unique in its description, but so familiar at the same time, like there's a constant sense of deja-vu lingering nearby

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is actually still in use today, however it is much safer and much more effective. Great video, subscribed.

I was long taught he was a troubled soul, but middle school didn’t delve into all his trauma. My goodness, never wanted to time travel so badly, just to deliver a hug. Old Man & the Sea is still a personal fav

A hard childhood, with very damaged parents, sent into one of the worst wars humans have ever waged, numerous injuries, and equally damaging habits. Incredible how such a human lived for so long and brought such delight to people he will never meet or know. His life and experiences crafted an individual so unique that we’ve not seen his like since, or, at the very least, have not been made aware of.

Its sad how such a great artists life was so tortured. At least he was able to take his love of literature as far as he did, and made so many people happy with his books.

An absolutely beautiful example of how to see the humanity in someone, the ability to recognize the suffering of others and how it has the potential to destroy them can make you one of the people who can save someone. Please never doubt the impact of uplifting words, and taking a view of compassion on someone, this video was something I really needed to see today, thank you 💙🇨🇦

Finding this channel has been the best thing UKposts has brought me in years. The in-depth look and admiration for video games perfectly blended with VERY good comedy is just pure gold. Congrats on another fantastic video!

This is one of the most magnificent biographies I've ever seen, it's the best I've ever seen on Hemingway. I have to rewatch again today after just seeing it last night. Your ability to tell the story, your illustrations and narration, are all top-quality. Please keep making videos, I think you're putting out some of the best content on youtube right now.

Just discovered your channel and I'm on a binge. Hemingway's life made me tear up, as someone who also suffers from bipolar disorder. I also get those moments where I truly appreciate life and some hours where I entertain my melancholy for a bit. Rip Ernest :(

In 2004 I started learning English by myself. I used to read short stories and what not. Hemingway was one of the most fun writers. His work helped me learn English in a fun way. I had no idea what his personal life was like until this video. Thank you so much for making it. RIP

I’m sure many others have beat me to it, but this channel is SO underrated. Your videos are so beautifully made and I genuinely get goosebumps sometimes, man. Super impressive stuff 🤝🏻

I’m in a rabbit hole of your videos. They’re terrific!

This is sooo good, man. I truly am impressed at the depth of the narrative and the aesthetics you chose to illustrate it with. Keep up the great work!

This video makes me reflect on how much I love my dad. He had a difficult father, and suffered a traumatic brain injury himself when we were in a car accident several years ago, but at every turn he has determined to try to better himself, rather than sink into the darkness. I am proud of him when I think about some of the trauma he must have grown up with that he broke the cycle of, never visiting the same on myself or my siblings, and how he is still with my mother, whom he met in school, married young, and to my knowledge has never cheated on. We may not have been a wealthy family, but you can not put a price on a stable and constantly loving and (mostly) supportive parental unit. I have known people deeply let down and betrayed by their fathers and/or mothers. I take the parenting role so seriously that I have never wanted to take on that responsibility, nor felt adequately equipped to. This video is a reminder that some people should never have kids, and I wish there was some sort of test (as the joke goes, you need a licence to drive, but anyone can become a parent!). Would it have robbed us of his unique writing? I suppose so, but is our entertainment worth the kind of suffering he and his siblings experienced from their malformed nature and nurture? We would never have known what we missed, anyhow.

You are my new favourite channel on youtube! The scripts are superbly written and well paced. The art and visuals are mesmerizing, fresh, and breathtakingly beautiful. The topics and themes are just perfect. Really excited and grateful for the content you've produced so far. Thank you for sharing your talents and stories with us. Will be looking forward for more to come

This is one of the best videos I've seen in the past few months. I was sobbing when I heard he would sit by his typewriter and cry. Congratulations sir. You truely have a talent for writing and also I love your slow and natural tone.

This channel is wonderful. Thank you.

I recently found your channel. And there are some of the most profound, empathetic, thoughtful and thought provoking videos I've ever witnessed here. Good job.

Like quite a few people, I just found your channel recently. A lot of great content here about a range of fascinating topics. I never knew Hemmingway's life was so tragic, although in truth, I'd never really looked into him much

This is one of those channels that seemingly comes out of nowhere and to which I instantly subscribe. I'm ready to run with the horses, wherever they take me.👍

Tragic and sad and yet inspiring. Get help, people! At times, I thought of my father as a Hemingway character. At times larger than life and in other times, just a man. Thanks for sharing.

As someone who was robbed of his childhood joys and choice of career in life, your videos are such a comfort. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I feel like I'm just alive for the sake of it, but the occasional humane touch makes the pain bearable at times.

One can only overcome the negative effects of the damage their parents have caused - by denying alcohol+drugs, and addressing the issues head-on.

This channel is becoming to be amongst some of my favorites.

Beautiful I am in tears, everything was brilliantly constructed.

I’ve followed Hemingway’s life for 20 years now and had no idea about most of this. The intensity, frequency and severity. Thank you for the video.

I just discovered this channel last night. Loving it.

Your channel should have way more viewership. Your story telling is fantastic

Horses, I have watched this video over ten times, and I must say, thank you. Not only for is presentation, but also for the humanity in which you use so eloquently to describe his life. It’s beautiful and haunting, and I appreciate you. Thank you for this

I've been increasingly more interested in Hemingway as a man, a personality and a legend as time goes by. I've watched the Jeff Daniels HBO documentary on him and I've gotten around to reading The Old Man and The Sea. I've got more Hemingway lined up to read. This video is really charming and I liked it a lot. Too many times a person is oversimplified. Not just the dead. The living too. I suppose it's easier to think of that person as a caricature or as one defined thing because then you won't have to waste mental space on them. The world isn't black and white. Loved the artwork throughout the video! By any chance is it yours? That's a great variety of it and I feel very inspired by it. Anyways, once again, great work. You've earned a new subscriber. I'm gonna do myself the favor of watching everything else you've done now. Cheers!

Professional video editor here! Taking a lot of notes on font choices and also storytelling. Your rise in subscribers is very deserved, your videos look extremely clean and are a pleasure to watch. Congratulations!

One Christmas Eve, I read Old Man and the Sea to my young son in my parent's library with a fire burning. We both enjoyed the book deeply. Thank you Ernest!

Falling in love with your videos, keep up the good work !

Just discovered this channel. I am astonished by the quality of the content and the editing. It's a shame that it doesn't get the audience it deserves. I hope he gets some shoutout from similar channels or some sort of ad to drag more subscribers. Thanks for the deication you put into this!

How the hell has this channel not blown up to over a million subs? Video quality is amazing. I can't wait to go back and watch your entire catalog. Thank you for making these and sharing them.

This guys is gonna blow up, you’re amazing and I love the content my dude

Your channel is extraordinary. I enjoyed this piece and all of the others i have seen, Bravo!

I’ll come back to this comment section one day when your channel blows up. I love the style you make your videos in. Please don’t stop man your break it coming.

This video is so well made I don't have much to say I just hope your channel gets more recognition.

One of my favourites videos on UKposts, you have real talent.

Hey man I love you’re content, you do an incredible job narrating and researching all of the in-depth details about each one of your topics! This one is an especially favorite of mine, beautiful visuals and awesome narrative!

Ur approach to a humanistic exploration & study on any given topic, plays with such raw and genuine emotion and empathy, that I truly find staggeringly impressive and beautiful. I find much of this kind of content is lost in the modern age, and ur spearheading of this method is worth every single piece of praise and love u are given. Wonderful work sir, wonderful work indeed!

A little correction at 12:16; the plane crash wasn't in Nairobi, but in former Murchison Falls NP in present Uganda.

This is one of the best listens… I come back to it about twice a month . Very well done , informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work.

Love your channel brother. High quality stuff. Watching it all.

I recently discovered your youtube channel through the, "how to survive on a desert island" video and have been binging all your videos since. I really hope you get all the views and subs you wholey deserve. keep up the amazing work!!!

this made me tear up. amazing work compiling all of this and putting the man to words forever immortalising his honesty behind the mask. kudos to whoever does the artwork for your channel, it makes it feel so alive.

Thank you for the time you put into this.

Genuinely the best essayist on this platform. Thank you 🙏

My father once told me Ernest Hemingway once wrote "If you have nothing worth dying for you have nothing worth living for." Hemingway of course committed suicide. I googled to fact check my father and that quote actually is from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Coincidently my father was a huge Jimmy Buffet fan and one of his songs is "I'd rather die while I'm living than live when I'm dead!" While MLK and Jimmy Buffet Quotes sound similar they both mean two very different things!

What a beautifully done video essay! The paintings , the edit, the pacing, the length, the music, the typography. Loved every aspect. Very tastefully done! Also, very intrigued by your channel name. Why Horses? Love from India

Dude, you created a masterpiece. Quite a few, actually. Thanks!

Great piece. Amazing how some people have to absolutely drag their soul through this world. And amazing how some of these people create transcendent beauty.

the amount of bad luck this guy suffered is insane, he must have had an ancestor that spited a witch that cursed them for several generations omg

Good story telling. I like the mixture of animation and real life photos. I have heard of Hemingway but have never read his work because of how you tell us of his life I now will read his work. Thank you very much.

Another great, and well organized story. Thank you Horses!

" The greater you shine the greater Shadow you cast. " Bless you

No doubt Hemingway suffered from CTE from all those head injuries. Many NFL Football players take their own lives because of CTE as it ruins your brains ability to Dopamine leaving them in a very depressive state. Combine that with his family history his ending is hardly surprising but very sad nonetheless.

I subscribed after the first video I saw from you! So amazing

I had no idea. Very moving and disturbing! Thanks for spurring me on to round out my knowledge of Papa's writings and his life.

I never comment, like ever. I have to say sir, your content is amazing. I can tell that your development leading this channel will really cultivate to top tier content. Thank you.

I have been going through you videos for the last couple of days and they are all very interesting. Thank you for making them!

The visuals, the music, the well told story of Hemingway's life. A truly beautiful video. Well done.

Thank you for this very insightful video giving us a glimpse into Hemingway the person behind the author, although the two are very much intertwined. I have 2 siblings that are going through their own mental health struggles, and of the little stories they tell of their 'episodes' I can see how painful those moments and sometimes life in general for them are. Earlier today I'd just watched a short video about Vincent Van Gogh which talked about this mental health struggles, and I recognised what he went through with what on of my sibling is currently going through. We live in the same house so we talk a lot but it's very difficult for me to understand what they're going through. We had a short convo this morning and I explained how whenever I hear anyone say they struggle to find their place in their world and question the purpose of their existence, that if they one day leave this world it would be as if they never existed. My reaction has always been why do you need to find a significance? Why do you need to be known? It was a short but deep conversation, and though I understand the words and it's meaning it still doesn't compute for me. For me, my life is like an onion with me at the center, then comes my family, then friends, then acquaintances, I was shown this circle of relationship in school decades ago and it stuck with me. My world is just me and those around me, not the earth or it's 8 billion inhabitance. I had wrote a lot more in my first post by YT didn't save it and I can't wrote it again. I just want to send a message to those on hear that please know you are 'normal' just like everyone else, that your existence does matter to those around you and that if you were ever to make any rash decisions the hurt would remain with them until the day they pass. It's unfortunate that some of us find living more difficult than others and it's okay to feel that way. Please seek the help you need or talk to your companions, friends or family. My love to all of you.

Another absolute brilliant video! I recently happenstanced your channel and I absolutely love it.

Man your editing style is so fresh and artistic. I'm truly happy for coming across your channel.

Well done. All humans are more complicated than we often want to give credit for. I appreciate your desire to see the full person in a way that doesn’t excuse but shows compassion. I’ve actually just started A Farewell to Arms and was surprised to find a rhythm to some of the writing that sounds like poetry.

Sounds like that man could've needed a hug

It's so easy to edit out all the bad in Hemingway, especially after having read so much of his work. A lot has been written and said about him. You did a good job in filling in some of the holes. Thanks, man.

subscribed! i love the music and visuals (artist? did you make those?) used. super interesting. top quality, glad i found you and happy i decided to watch, will definitely binge the rest. also, ect is still used to this day for treatment-resistant mental illnesses, in less brutal form, but they still have to induce a seizure. it's not as bad as the movies depicts. usually you're asleep for most of it. but holy shit it must have been horrific with all the brain trauma and lack of anesthesia.

This video has me in tears. Absolutely love your work! ❤

One of the greatest videos I’ve ever watched thank you

I'm suffering form depression and my life KINDA a little comes close to Hemingway level suffering, I always found comfort in reading his work but I Never truly understood why, after watching this video I understood. Your editing style is top notch ✓✓

Words cannot express how much empathy i feel for him

Thank you so much. This video was incredible.

your story telling is so poignant. grateful to have found your channel, thank you again for sharing!!

I think it's a bit of a stretch for the New York Times to say that Hemingway was the most significant author since Shakespeare. They'd have to leave out a lot of Russian masters like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin, as well as George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and quite a number of others, all of whom I think are comparable or better than Hemingway. But Hemingway is a great American writer and this video is a fascinating look into his life, including particularly his struggles. It makes him feel more human.

Another amazing video! Well done on so many levels

your chanel rocks man, thank you for your hard work

I love your content man. And I love this specific video's type of content

Great video! And the 'manic mood swings' is on point. George Plimpton wrote of the time he visited Hemingway a few years before the suicide. A drunken Hemingway demanded they box and Plimpton had no choice but to agree (or else Hemingway would've beat the shit out of him anyway) while frantically thinking how to get out of it. They squared off, and Hemingway hit Plimpton with a jab then socked him with a left. Plimpton immediately asked "How'd you do that?" A confused Hemingway stopped and said "What?" Plimpton said: "I didn't see that left coming; how'd you set up for that?" And, SNAP, right away Hemingway changed from aggressive boxer to patient teacher and spent the rest of the evening teaching Plimpton how to throw punch combinations. Indeed, we should always look deeper than the labels.

Such a tortured man. A terribly poetic life of someone who none of us want to live as, but can relate to in some aspect

The quality of content on here is AMAZING my favorite channel on UKposts

Hey man, just wanted to say your channel has some phenomenal content. Feels like old school UKposts in the best possible way!

your content is incredible, please keep doing what you're doing also, could you include the track names as well in the description when you list the musicians you used in the video?

Every one of your videos is a thought-provoking masterpiece

Glad to have come upon this. So good

Amazing video and great music choice. Very sad but somehow the way you tell the story makes the listener really listen even with all the emotions that it generates. I met his daughter in 2014 at the Waldorf-Astoria in Chicago. Very tall .