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For my English project, the Short (short, short, short, short) story by Ernest Hemingway:
"For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn."
I decided to go back and change the background image. I re-shot the grass in my yard using Aperture priority, at F/25. I didn't really like the variation in focus of the background in the other version. Please feel free to comment/make suggestions. Thank you!!
This was Hemingway's home from 1931 to 1939. It is a private, for-profit landmark and tourist attraction now populated by six and seven-toed cats that guides claim are descendants of Hemingway's cats. The author's second son, Patrick, who lived in the house, stated in a 1994 interview in the Miami Herald's "Tropic" that his father had peacocks in Key West, but no cats; he owned cats in Cuba. In a 1972 L.A. Times interview, Hemingway's widow Mary denounced the sale of "Hemingway cats" by the owners of the house as "An outright lie. Rank exploitation of Ernest's name." The house no longer sells cats, but does continue a selective breeding program for them.
It was in this house that he did some of his best work, including the final draft to "A Farewell to Arms," and the short story classics "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."
Source: Wikipedia
Key West Museum of Art & History
Key West, Florida
Famous and influential residents of Key West: poets, novelists, journalists, playwright, writers, authors, historians.
Auf dem Sockel ein Gedicht, das Hemingway für seinen Freund Gene Van Guilder geschrieben hatte, der bei einem Jagdunfall ums Leben gekommen war: "Best of all he loved the fall / The leaves yellow on cottonwoods / Leaves floating on trout streams / And above the hills / the high blue windless skies / … Now he will be a part of them forever"
Courtesy of a mutated predecessor, quite a few of Hemingway's cats are polydactyl (many-toed). The original cat was a gift to Hemingway from a friend of his - she bred, and those litters bred. The Hemingway house aims to hold about sixty, with the numbers controlled through spaying.
The house was built by Asa Tift, a marine architect (and Confederate mariner), in 1851. In 1931 Hemingway purchased it and lived here with his second wife, Pauline, and their two sons until 1939.
Here, Hemingway completed the final draft of "A Farewell to Arms," as well as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Hemingway's wife was fond of elaborate light fixtures and there were tons of them throughout the house. For someone in love with sources of light, it was a picture taking field day.
"It was a quick walk to Lipp's and every place I passed that my stomach noticed as quickly as my eyes or my nose made the walk an added pleasure. There were few people in the brasserie and when I sat down on the bench against the wall with the mirror in back and a table in front and the waiter asked if I wanted a beer I asked for a distingue, the big glass mug that held a liter..."
A Moveable Feast, of course.
After our tour of the Hemingway Home and Museum on Key West, we stopped in the gift shop for a quick peek. Several of the property's famous polydactyl cats realized that the air-conditioned shop was the best place for a nap. This particular kitty was huge, and it's not all fur -- I could feel the expanse of her belly when I petted her. I'm not sure if she'd been overindulging in the many bowls of cat food strategically placed along the grounds, or if she was pregnant with kittens. In any case, she was shy but sweet.
A Shakespeare Sunday salute to novelist, playwright, biographer, and philanthropist A.E. Hotchner, who passed February 15 at the remarkable age of 102! He was pals with Hemingway, and wrote a memoir of their friendship after Ernesto's suicide, and with neighbor and close friend Paul Newman created Newman's Own salad dressings etc., and the charity that it funds (he wrote about Newman, too).
I met Hotchner at the 1999 Hemingway Centennial Celebration at Boston's JFK Presidential Library. Decent enough guy. His novel, King of the Hill is worth a read.
Here I am at the Paseo De Hemingway where the bulls "run" concludes. Ernest Hemingway made Pamplona's San Fermin Festival famous. Summer 2001.