We see the impossible narrator Hemingway’s own memoir about Paris competent invincible skilled in all things at age twenty-four living amongst a crowd of the famous most of whom he dislikes a saintly wife a perfect child in the Eden of Saint Germain and Montparnasse Then suddenly blasted out a world famous rocket coming off the booster of Europe out of heaven and into the blackness a world he never made from then on on love would be a function children a by-product life a long smooth bore barrel leading down to a loaded breech and a cocked hammer The memoir of a man who says See my life here’s my life pretty good fucking start huh even when it gets bad it’s better than anybody’s in this book it’s better than yours will ever be and this is the truth Except it isn’t the truth it’s a lie it’s the memoir of a man who knows he’s going to kill himself The impossible narrator never was and most of it is based on grievance most of it is a suicide note But you will read that book its lovely descriptions will draw you in its spiteful comedy will capture you its quiet authority will kill you too -- "Nobody Dies: An Inquiry" (c) 1995 GAVIN Tim Bray wrote: > > I suppose it may be remotely possible that there are others reading > this list who, like me, had never gotten around to Hemingway's "A > Moveable Feast." I just did, and it's an awfully good little book. > A couple of very intense portraits of EP, who used to play tennis with > EH. The fact that they had the highest regard for each others' work > kind of startles me. A picture of the two of them playing tennis > (EH says EP was good, but not who won) in Paris would have been a suitable > icon for 20th-cent EngLit in general, had anyone ever taken it. -T