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Still reading Flynn. At this point he has:
Begun acting, to great success. One of his co-stars (a man named Bill Meade) falls from a horse and is impaled by the sword he flung away as a failed protective measure. Flynn mourns this man's death. Flynn is also almost run through with a sword by fellow actor Anthony Quinn. Flynn states he makes a vow never to spar on film with actors, preferring stuntmen, who rather know their craft better and do not ham dangerously for the cameras.
Gotten married to his first wife, a French woman who he says was both beautiful and amazingly talented in what he terms the "erotic arts."
Been hospitalized when this same wife hits him over the head with a champagne bottle when he is late for their first year anniversary (not of their wedding, but their courtship or whatever.) He punches her in the face, in his first act, he says, of any sort of violence against a woman. He feels guilty about it, or claims to.
Drunkenly bought a pet lion he named "Wellington."
Been to some place in Paris that his wife took him called Le Monocle. There his wife flirts with what Flynn terms a "bulldyke" woman who he also describes as "better dressed than any man." After being conned into being charged for 6 bottles of champagne (instead of six drinks, which is what he imagined he was buying) he is then beaten up by a bunch of apparently large women. He goes to a French jail where he is beaten up some more by the gendarmes.
In a fit of pique wanting to flee his wife and her jealous rages (he has cheated on her repeatedly, though with whom he does not say), fled to Spain to pretend to be a war correspondent during the very real Spanish Civil War. He writes of himself as: "A man who chose to go off to a bitter war instead of remaining with (his wife.)" His comrade is blown apart by a bomb.
More to come! Sorry I'm so incredibly slow reading this.
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