It sounds blunt, but what he meant was simple and deeply human. For Hemingway, fun wasn’t frivolous. It was engagement. Curiosity. The feeling of being fully alive and present in your own life. He believed joy was essential to living well. Not as escape, but as energy. The spark that keeps routine from turning into resignation. Fun was found in passion, in movement, in moments that remind us who we are beneath obligation and expectation. A full life, in his view, wasn’t about constant intensity,

Examine the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. #HemingwayPBS from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick begins Mon, April 5 at 8/7c. | PBS