Cuba opens in Washington a bar in honour of Ernest Hemingway

Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

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The Cuban Interests Section in the US capital has opened an invite-only bar in honour of the US writer Ernest Hemingway, who spent considerable time in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
At this moment I am on page 111 of my 1954 Jonathan Cape edition of 'The Old Man And The Sea'.

Many re-readings over the 50 years,
and it has change for me fundimentally from a story of derring-do,
to a profound statement on what it means to be a human in old age.

It is both uplifting of the spirit and incredibly sad in its inevitability.

My greatest read of all time,
and Hemingway's igniter of my personal 'lions on the beach at sunset' - the life-memories that I will take to my death-bed.

Yup, there is so much more to life than blog-postings and, were the weather better, 'my' beach is where I would be right now.
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ElaineB
Nicely put. I once tried to follow in Hemingway's ghostly footsteps around the bars of Havana but he was more than a match for me. : )

I might try to get an invite to the bar in DC the next time I am there.
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