“The true gen is believed to have been first used by members of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Before going on operations, aircrews were given general information—abbreviated to ‘gen’—about the weather and expected enemy opposition. Others say that gen is merely short for genuine. Whatever the case, ‘the true gen’ is used to distinguished accurate information from rumor and speculation. Ernest Hemingway picked up the expression and used it frequently.”
—from Denis Bryan’s collection of interviews on Hemingway, The True Gen.
What does it have to do with the blog?
I’ve adopted the term to help me nail down some trustworthy information in these shifty times of ours [editor’s note: a phrase written in 2011]. I started the blog to learn how to use WordPress and keep the rust off my writing skills. More recently, I’ve posted pieces written by my family and my content portfolio.
Who’s the guy in the canoe?
That’s me, Jameson Case, on a river in Michigan. It’s the Pine River in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, not the Fox River in the Upper Peninsula where Hemingway spent a lot of time before he joined the Red Cross. The stern paddler is onshore, running after me.
Fun fact: the Fox River was the actual setting for the short story “Big Two-Hearted River.”
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