“It was dangerous to keep my heart on the line with Ernest, but what real choice did I have?… It was like being born over each night, the same process again and again, finding myself, losing myself, finding myself again.”
–extract from The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, Virago Press, 2011
Hemingway was a big fan of Venice, writing in 1948 in a letter to Bernard Berenson, “I’m an old Veneto’s fanatic”. In September of that year, Hemingway and his fourth wife returned to Italy to visit his wartime haunts; the photo above of Hemingway inspecting fish at the Rialto Fish Market is from that visit.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 5 June 2015
Sounds like Hemingway was a hard person to befriend. I agree with Laura on the writing, it does seem very lovely.
Happy weekend!
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Certainly hard to be his wife!
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Lovely writing:)
My 56 – http://fuonlyknew.com/2015/06/05/the-friday-56-64-hexed/
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