While riding in a car through Paris, Gil Pender seeks advice from Ernest Hemingway about his writing and his fear of mortality. Hemingway delivers a philosophical monologue on how true passion and love are the only defenses against the inevitability of death.
HEMINGWAY: The assignment was to take the hill. There were four of us. Five if you counted Vincente but he had lost his hand when a grenade went off and he couldn’t fight as he could when I first met him.
GIL: Weren’t you scared?
HEMINGWAY: Of what?
GIL: Getting killed.
HEMINGWAY: You’ll never write
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