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09/04/10 1:47 AM

#107017 RE: ordinarydude #107011

He was a macho man who got lost in his booze etc, poor bugger .. on the freighter coming over here the first time i read .. think it was just called Hemingway .. in three parts it was .. early .. top whatever .. decline .. i shed a little tear over the demise, it was sad, the shotgun in the car to the side of the head .. i was somewhere about the equator and it was during the Cuban missile crisis .. i remember thinking c'mon nothing will come of it .. they'sll work it out .. there was the aside thought, it was safe in the middle of the ocean .. flying fish and all .. lol, porpoises jumping in a mirror sea are an amazing sight ..
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sortagreen

09/04/10 8:32 PM

#107068 RE: ordinarydude #107011

I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
- Nabokov