I'm re-reading Hemingway in October,
before November, and it's anyone's guess
what is coming for us in November.
Hemingway is good medicine during these times
and A Moveable Feast remains one of his strongest books.
The date on my book says 1972 and it's been with me
since that date in hardcover. As a teenager I loved the smaller
paperback edition which has since gone somewhere else, or is in
another building in the one, two and over three libraries we
have going on here. Last night I re-read "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
If it's been awhile since you read the short story, go back,
you'll be glad you did. The same with A Moveable Feast.
There are those humorous and revealing wonderful pages
with Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald together.
I’m now on Hemingway’s non-fiction (By-Line)
and he doesn’t let anyone off the hook.
As soon as he arrived in Paris
he had his eyes roaming and talking.
Ever the hunter and fisherman, which makes
his writing so smoothly balanced and declarative,
different from everyone.
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