Here is the challenge:

Read the first three paragraphs of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast carefully, not as you would read a cup-cake recipe, but really read it---slowly and swim between the words, and the images they create. See if you can capture in your mind the feelings and sensations of the time, people and place described.

That is all you need to do, yet it is everything.

Miles

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Aha, interesting challenge...

Perhaps you would be so kind to post those 3 paragraphs to benefit the members.

I'm rather certain the copyright has expired, also, the posting is to a website for writers and readers and thusly would comply with fair use requirements with regards to being used for instructional purposes and potential reviews.

Take care and enjoy often...John

Dear John

I wouldn't want to make it that easy to solve the EH challenge, after all finding the book is a bit of 'treasure hunt' and besides, there is nothing like holding a book in your very own hands while reading it in a comfortable chair.

I will however share with you a little bit about the title:

A Moveable Feast

SKETCHES OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE IN PARIS IN THE TWENTIES

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

-Ernest Hemingway to a friend, 1950



Happy hunting and best of reading times to you,

Miles Cobbett

PS I found my first copy a couple of weeks ago on the Hemingway shelf at my local library, (this one I will have to return). On the jacket front: oil painting of Pont Neuf, Paris by Hildegard Rath, and on the back cover, a portrait of Hemingway painted by Henry Strater in the winter of 1922-23. This edition published in 1964 By Ernest Hemingway Ltd. and was first printed and published after he died.

The copy I found last week is a Scribner Classics Edition Copyright 1996,(Not quite as nice as the original) and I found it on the EH shelf at my local Barnes & Noble booksellers.

No takers eh?

Ok how about if we lessen the degree of difficulty?

Can anyone find the above mentioned book,( Moveable Feast) and read even the first paragraph?

Miles Challeger Cobbett AKA AlaskaMiles in these and other parts..

Post edited by: AlaskaMiles, at: 01/15/2008 07:56am

Hmmmm. Still no one in here with transportation and a library card eh?

Hmmmmph. Come on you blokes and blokies belly-up to the Hemingway bar and take a swig of his Moveable Feast.

Miles Cobbett AlaskMiles

Re: Reading Hemingway Sample Challenge: A Moveable Feast

Ok for all you IGPS addicts (IGPS = Instantaneous Gratification / PlayStation)

Since you haven't bothered to go to a library and rent the book, or to the bookstore to buy the book, and then be brave enough to tell us about it:

Here is the straight poop on my reading of the first paragraph...

Right off the bat, in the very first sentence of the very first paragraph of the very first chapter, ol' Hemmmy goes right after the weather:

"Then there was the bad weather."

To this he builds-on as he adds, "It would come in one day when the fall was over." He continues right along the same line, "We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contrescarpe." Now picking up with the image of fallen leaves he adds, "The leaves lay sodden in the rain and the wind drove the rain against the big green autobus at the terminal and the Cafe' des Amateurs was crowded and the windows misted over from the heat and the smoke inside." Now running with that image he adds, "It was a sad, evilly run cafe' where the drunkards of the quarter crowded together and I kept away from it because of the smell of the dirty bodies and the sour smell of drunkenness."

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Now that's all you get till ya put in more quarters...

Miles Cobbett AlaskaMiles

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