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Genuine laughter - laugh out loud laughter at her “audition” with R.L. Poole 😂

“Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned I had given up some youth for knowledge…”

This is my first Hemingway book. I do enjoy the way he writes, especially when he’s not fond of someone. I’m at the part where he’s traveling with Fitzgerald in Lyon and he seems to regret this decision.
However overall this book seems more like a glorified gossip column; Hughes write about others has well, and it felt less removed - maybe because it was more biographical?

Just found another typo at the end of chapter 7, p. 102; “It was also effectively one of the last, since the scene was already being set for the creation of work that would soon be being designated surrealist.”

This is so odd!! But still a very good and interesting read.

I’m enjoying the insights and the personal profiles, along with the BTS of the neighborhood itself. But something that I am finding very jarring is the bizarre or complete lack of grammar in some sections. Some sentences they way they are structured make little to no sense at all.

“He took the old man over to the window threw open the shutters and an explosion of midday heat and light instantaneously through the room and to an effulgent dazzle as though some inopportunate and unduly luminous angel had missguidedly picked that place for an epiphany”

“…rank and malodorous, it was recognizable to neither of them as anything leguminous. ‘It is very papilionaceous is it not?’”

Great writing.

"God hath taught me how to die..."

"Who cares for his cause of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace- they drag us away from ..love, friendship- they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain a dog up to his kennel. "

In the first year after the Russians entered into the German-Austrian war, they lost nearly 8 million men; and I just did the math.. That's a soldier ever 3.5 seconds every minute of every day for 365 days