Thread re #Hemingway.
On the one hand, it’s possible I’m the only person to have realised that when Hemingway writes in “A Moveable Feast” that “there was no choice at all. There was only the choice of streets to take you back fastest”, he then gives (slightly) WRONG DIRECTIONS.
On the one hand, it’s possible I’m the only person to have realised that when Hemingway writes in “A Moveable Feast” that “there was no choice at all. There was only the choice of streets to take you back fastest”, he then gives (slightly) WRONG DIRECTIONS.
OTOH, it is of course far more likely that tens of thousands of scholars have identified this point already & this is old hat.
But what might Papa be telling us with this obscure bit of (slight) Parisian misdirection?
But what might Papa be telling us with this obscure bit of (slight) Parisian misdirection?
At what false certainty, naturally skipped over by millions of readers in love with the prose, might he be pointing to? One remembers that he - and his wife - edited these stories long after first written.
Or might he even have made a (slight) mistake?
Or might he even have made a (slight) mistake?
The enthusiasm for his Parisian subject sending him tripping down (slightly) false memory lanes?
I don’t know. I like to think he got it right in his youth and went back and cocked it up a bit to say something about false memory. But who knows. /fin
I don’t know. I like to think he got it right in his youth and went back and cocked it up a bit to say something about false memory. But who knows. /fin
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