Re: not butter, guns

Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:48:49 +1000

Ed wrote:
> Jason -
> OH GOD did THAT one ring a bell.  I don't think I made the connection
> when I read the story.  I forgot ALL about Salinger meeting Hemingway
> in Europe for some reason- it this alleged, or was it witnessed; that
> Hemingway did something like that - took target practice at strays?

In the version I heard, it was actually that Hemingway shot a chicken
because he thought one of Salinger's stories was so good, but this stinks
just a little of legend-tweaking. You never know, though ...

Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com



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