Out of Season may refer to:
"Out of Season" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1923 in Paris in the privately printed book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. It was included in his next collection of stories, In Our Time, published in New York in 1925 by Boni & Liveright. Set in Italy, the story is about an expatriate American husband and wife who spend the day fishing, with a local guide. Critical attention focuses chiefly on its autobiographical elements and on Hemingway's claim that it was his first attempt at using the "theory of omission" (iceberg theory).
In 1922, Hemingway moved to Paris as international correspondent for The Toronto Star. He met Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, and he was quickly "trading boxing and tennis lessons for Pound's advice on writing". Pound's friendship extended to promoting the young author, placing six of Hemingway's poems in Poetry Magazine.
Six months later the "great suitcase debacle" occurred, when on her way to meet Ernest in Lausanne, Hadley's suitcase was stolen at Gare de Lyon train station. All of his manuscripts, including duplicates were lost. Hemingway was furious but Pound told him he had only lost "the time it will ... take you to rewrite the parts you can remember ... If the middle, i.e., FORM, of the story is right then one ought to be able to reassemble it from memory ... If the thing wobbles and won't reform ... then it never wd. have been right."
Out of Season is a studio album by Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons and former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb (under the pseudonym Rustin Man). It was released on 28 October 2002 in the United Kingdom and on 7 October 2003 in the United States. Out of Season is largely a folk album with jazz leanings, with Gibbons and Webb drawing more directly on the influences of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Nick Drake, at which Portishead's work in trip hop only hinted. Out of Season also features contributions from Gibbons' fellow Portishead bandmate Adrian Utley and Webb's former bandmate Lee Harris. The first track of the album, "Mysteries", appears on the original soundtrack of the French movie Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls) and in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting from 2008. The album achieved a silver certification from the BPI.
All songs written by Beth Gibbons and Paul Webb, except where noted otherwise.
Coloured birds singing
September's on it's way
Wind is so kind and tender
And lulls me gently
Sun has already wished us
A wonderful goodnight
And my spirit is flying
Right over your head
Then suddenly, I move my sight
And in the same moment you turn
I'm looking at you
Mesmerized by your eyes
No way, time passing by
(I can't do this you will see me)
Time slowing down
She's coming by
Bringing along with her
Shadows of defiance
Thoughts turn to words
Words move on thoughts
Delicate synergies
Made of love and beauty
Minutes are days
Clocks stop their beats
And your soul
Drags me away from here
The pressure's overwhelming
An evil thought's arising
Bitch of soaring feelings
You should be aware of me
Now that we're sitting
And the universe's above
Stars seem to scan inside us
And let it be
Like we've dreamed of
When time stopped by us
And told us to feel the
Love, this is true
You're fading out
Clever performer of
Wonderful deceptions
Love, please be sure
I'll stare at the world
With new eyes
Whispering their anger
This was a tale and it's done
Ending is far over countries and seas
It has just begun to give a dream