Subject: Re: the missing plaques
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 12:24:55 GMT
While all you macho men are bemoaning the way that Paris snubs Papa, can I
take the time to recommend a, ahem, Canadian book that nicely parallels A
MOVEABLE FEAST?
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.
(EH, by the way, is wonderfully commemorated in Havana--at two bars: La
Floridita (where the daiquiri was invented) and La Bodegita del Medio (not
far from the glorious old cathedral) where they make the best mojitos in the
world.
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...)
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?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cheers,
Paul
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