Monday, 4 May 2015

What is Time? Place?


     "In the morning I walked down the Boulevard to the Rue Soufflot for coffee and brioche. It was a fine morning. The horse-chesnut trees in the Luxembourg gardens were in bloom. There was the pleasant early-morning feeling of a hot day. I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette."

     It's miraculously disorienting to peer through Hemingway's mind's eye, far removed in time & place, via our son's book, stamped on the inside first page with: "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach Whitman Foundation, Kilometer Zero Paris."

     
 
Hemingway at the Henry House, Halifax

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