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A band plays at the hotel top patio restaurant. This is the hotel that Hemingway is famous for staying in during his stay in Cuba.
On July 8, 1918 Hemingway was seriously wounded by mortar fire, at Fossalta di Piave, having just returned from the canteen bringing chocolate and cigarettes for the men at the front line. He was decorated with the Italian War Merit Cross, the Croce al Merito di Guerra (He was still only 18 at the time). He sustained severe shrapnel wounds to both legs, underwent an immediate operation at a distribution center, and spent five days at a field hospital before he was transferred for recuperation to the Red Cross hospital in Milan (He spent six months at the hospital). While recuperating he fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a Red Cross nurse seven years his senior. The events inspired him to write A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”
- Ernest Hemingway
I saw this walking cross-town on 41st street last night, as I got closer to the library.
After some googling, it seems that Gertrude Stein famously said this to Ernest Hemingway.
As for what it means, and what context she said it in?
I haven't the slightest idea.
I don't consider myself an accomplished drinker. In fact I am pretty much a light weight compared to my wife, or most of the British people I have met. But I do enjoy creating drinks. A few months ago I had an excellent rum cocktail called the "Old Cuban". At the time I had the drink I was reading Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Old Man and the Sea.
The novella tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who catches the fish of his life only to see most of it eaten by sharks before returning to shore.
I have had a lifelong fascination with Cuba. At one point I worked in the U.S. Senate for a senator on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He gave me several assignments dealing with Cuba and Radio Marti in particular. Radio Marti was a U.S. government funded news program that we broadcast into Cuba, aimed at providing uncensored information and promoting democracy on the island.
I decided the Keys deserve a drink inspired by Hemingway's main character in his classic book. Thus I present to you "The Santiago". So far I have made it for six people and they have loved it. Drinking more than two will probably do you in.