Re: the missing plaques


Subject: Re: the missing plaques
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 12:56:28 GMT


On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:25:43PM +0000, Paul Kennedy wrote:

> Try THAT SUMMER IN PARIS, by Morley Callaghan--who knocked Hemingway out
> cold one day in a Parisian boxing ring, with Fitzgerald trying to keep time,
> but so stunned that he fogot to ring the bell, just outside the ropes.

A fine and greatly entertaining book, I must say! Yes, Morley has a
wonderful story to tell.

> There's also a gawd-awful condo development named "Hemingway Cove" (or some
> such drivel) in the suburbs, and, of course, the strange Hemingway museum
> where the Cubans let you look in the windows of the country house in which
> Hemingway worked. To go inside might make you into a capitalist, or an
> overly self-indulgent writer...)

My wife's grandfather was Hemingway's lawyer many decades ago.
Somehow (through means that I don't understand), he got possession of
EH's desk (which included, and I quote from my wife's grandmother, a
Bessie-Glass-in-the-making, "a dirty sweaty filthy old eye shade in
one of the drawers, that he used to wear while he worked"), and it was
in the household for years. Then they were moving, and decided they
didn't need the quite large desk. They were going to throw it out but
instead gave it to one of the neighbors. Efforts to track down that
crazy furniture have all failed in the years since I heard of it.
They knew Hemingway was a famour writer, but nobody had bothered to
read him.

I could not make this stuff up.

> OSR--Question, really: About eight months ago, a few fishes got all hot and
> bothered about "Smoke Gets in your Eyes", and whether it's necessary to know
> the tune (and/or the lyrics) to truly appreciate Jerome's achievement as a
> scene-setter. Where, exactly, do we find this tune mentioned?

Part of me wants to say it's in Ernie's piano bar, but I am not sure
of that. Where, oh, where is the concordance I yearn for? Tied up in
Oberland, that's where.

--tim

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