7/27/2023 0 Comments Devil in that box![]() 4 “The Killers” was to be the first of several Hemingway stories in a series of televised plays Hotchner was producing. Valerie writes “a tape recorder on anyone else would have been traitorous with Hotch it was a cause for amusement, the harmless ‘devil box.’ ” 3ĭearborn explains that Hotchner and Hemingway worked on updates to the television production of "The Killers" by exchanging “Mohawk tapes,” and although Hemingway was not comfortable with the machine, it was handy at a point when he was finding it difficult to write. The freckled “El Pecas” Hotchner was full of inside jokes and sometimes played the buffoon. 2 Cuadrilla member Valerie Hemingway believed Hotchner’s clown act allowed him to get away with possessing a tape recorder in the Hemingways’ presence. 1īoth Valerie Hemingway and Dearborn note that Hemingway had developed a phobia about publicity and specifically about being recorded. Before Hotchner’s travel from New York to Europe that summer, Hemingway had asked Hotchner to procure a few items for him, mindful of their size and weight and potential baggage fees to be incurred, including the “smallest practical” tape recorder. Readers of Valerie Hemingway and Mary Dearborn have seen references to this “devil box,” a tape recorder used between Hemingway and his friend and collaborator A.E. For his, Ernest Hemingway sometimes used a device he gave the otherworldly name “devil box.” Today’s writers may call upon artificial intelligence and other tools to enhance their craft.
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